Tag: Northern Ireland
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RTJ4 Drops Early
Good news in dark times, Run The Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike) have released their fourth Run The Jewels album early as a download. It’s free, but I strongly suggest you click ‘Add to Cart’ and then donate to the Mass Defence Program given all the mass arrests and horrifying police brutality in the US…
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Susie Blue
Heard about Susie Blue from Northern Ireland via the BBC’s Gay Britannia season, where I heard the BBC Radio Belfast’s show about the queer music scene there called after their song, People Like Us. The focus is on Northern Ireland not just because of the (homophobic, transphobic) DUP but also SOAK, but I think Susie…
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Strong and unstable
I wish this was pure comedy but it’s not, it’s true…and people keep voting these fuckers in. I guess France is a relief, although I think Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the better candidate along with Poutou. But here we seem to be stuck with May Day, repeating ‘strong and stable’ until it sticks while hiding from…
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Brexit at Stiffany’s
What can I say? I Went To Glasto with Kirk and All I Got Was A Post-EU Neo-Fascist Mess of a Country. Should’ve got a t-shirt. (Actually on theme I wore my two cowboys Westwood-copy on Saturday, sadly it doesn’t stand up to mud well o.O) Not wanted to post here (I did on my…
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Irish marriage equality
It’s strange, Ireland seems so ahead in many ways, like Scotland. But like Scotland it lags in the marriage equality front – in fact Scotland now has same-sex marriage but Ireland is still debating it, with a vote on May 22nd. Now that Northern Ireland has rejected same-sex marriage for the fourth time, I do…