Category: An Irishman walks into a blog

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  March 22, 2019

  Six Morrissey B-sides

    Football. If you had to choose only one sport to represent the working class, surely it would be the beautiful game. I played myself. I was pretty good – not good enough to go pro, but decent enough to win a top-goalscorer award and play at the top level as a kid. A striker,…

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  March 15, 2019

  Six Morrissey Cover Songs

  Cover albums: a waste of time, or a rare treat for fans? Really, it can be hit and miss (arguably it’s mostly miss). But take Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Kicking Against the Pricks, or Metallica’s Garage, Inc., and you’ll find that there is evidence of successful cover albums hitting the shelves of our…

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  March 5, 2019

  Six Morrissey Lyrics

  My first full-time job was in a toy store. I was just out of school and was yet to go to college, because I had no idea what I wanted to do. And a full-time gig with a weekly wage sounded good to a working-class boy like me, who just wanted a few quid to…
• February 19, 2019

  Thoughts on the Work of Book Cover Designer Chip Kidd

  When I was a kid my brother would regularly draw football (soccer) kits: jersey, shorts, socks — the works. With him being older, I would usually copy whatever it was he was doing (including asking for the same Valencia CF home jersey one Christmas, which understandably infuriated him – “We’re not twins, dickhead!”). So, I…

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  May 6, 2018

  Review of my feature film ‘A Day Like Today’

    The Dublin Inquirer’s glowing review of the feature film I wrote ‘A Day Like Today’ – something to come back to every now and then 😉 “Walsh, screenwriter Shane Coules and the entire cast and crew of the production have made something very special.” https://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/03/23/a-day-like-today-reviewed/ Anyway, the bar calls. I’m of . . .

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  April 5, 2018

  Six Actors Who Always Die In Films

  It’s in the title, boyo.