“Junior fell into our lives at the start of 2020. Like, literally fell into the Guinness yard.”
Junior fell into our lives at the start of 2020. Like, literally fell into the Guinness yard (which is technically our back garden) while I was working from home at the start of the pandemic.
She was a tiny cub who got separated from her mother and fell 50 feet from an adjacent yard, resulting in what we suspected was a broken rear leg or hip. Feeling sorry for her we would throw in scraps of food, thinking she would probably disappear.
But she decided to make the James’s Gate keg yard her home. Three years later, she still comes every night (on the dot of 7:30). She likes chicken, tofu, and Linda McCartney veggie sausages. She hates prawns, chips or potatoes.
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Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”
Filmmaker Sarah Share’s “The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry” tells the story of the Mississippi-born musician, who is now living in Ireland.
