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Little Revolutions
''Little Revolutions'' is a 2009 compilation album by Duke Special, collecting 18 rarities, including b-sides, covers and live recordings. It is available on its own or as part of the '' 5 Nights at the Empire Belfast Box Set''. Track listing #" Ain't Got No" (Live on the Ray D'Arcy Show, Today FM) #"Our Love Goes Deeper (single version)" #" I Feel for You" #"Quiet Revolutionaries" #"I Think I am Losing You" #"Feet in the Sky" #"Deep" (with Emily Loizeau) #"No Cover Up" #"Glimmer Girl" #" Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes" #"Love is Connection" #"Maps" (Live at the Empire Music Hall, Belfast) #"Tainted Love" (with Neil Hannon, live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast) #"Low" (Live at the Empire Music Hall, Belfast) #" Stumble and Fall" #" Lucky" (Nous Radio Session) #"I Know There's an Answer" #"From Clare to Here "From Clare to Here" is a ballad about Irish emigration written by Ralph McTell. It has also been recorded by The Furey Brothers & Davey Arthur on the 1977 album ''Emigra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Special
Duke Special (born Peter Wilson; 4 January 1971) is a songwriter and performer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A piano-based songwriter with a romantic style and a warm, distinctly accented voice, he was previously known for his distinctive long dreadlocks, eyeliner and outfits he describes as "hobo chic". Nowadays, he performs mostly out of makeup and desires to be more like his true self. His live performances have a theatrical style inspired by Vaudeville and music hall, and often incorporate 78s played on an old-fashioned gramophone, or sound effects from a transistor radio. He is most often accompanied by percussionist "Temperance Society" Chip Bailey, who plays cheese graters and egg whisks, a Stumpf fiddle and a Shruti box, as well as the more typical drums and cymbals. Other musicians who perform with Wilson from time to time include Paul Pilot (guitar), Réa Curran (trumpet, backing vocals, accordion), Ben Castle (clarinet, saxophone), Ben Hales (bass guitar), G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Song)
"Maps" is a song by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their debut full-length album, ''Fever to Tell'' (2003). The song is about the relationship between Liars frontman Angus Andrew and Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O. It was released 2003, and the band performed the song at that year's MTV Movie Awards. The music video received extensive play on MTV. It reached number nine on ''Billboard''s Alternative Songs chart and was included in the popular video game ''Rock Band''. Track listing Music video The video shows the band playing in an audition in a high school gymnasium, with different light filters changing the color of the room. Karen O's crying in the video was not staged. She explains: "They were real tears. My boyfriend at the time (Angus Andrew) was supposed to come to the shoot – he was three hours late and I was just about to leave for tour. I didn't think he was even going to come and this was the song that was written for him. He eventually showed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Clare To Here
"From Clare to Here" is a ballad about Irish emigration written by Ralph McTell. It has also been recorded by The Furey Brothers & Davey Arthur on the 1977 album ''Emigrant''; by Nanci Griffith and Pete Cummins on the 1993 album '' Other Voices, Other Rooms''; as a b-side by Duke Special on the 2006 single '' Last Night I Nearly Died''; and by Ben Glover on his 2016 album ''The Emigrant''. McTell's original version appears on his 1976 album '' Right Side Up''. In the sleevenotes of the remaster, he wryly describes it as his "second most covered song". Background In 1963, McTell was working on a building site, and it is of this time that he wrote, in the mid-1970s, "From Clare to Here". "There was an Irish gang on the site, and the ''craic ''Craic'' ( ) or ''crack'' is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland. It is often used with the definite article – ''the'' craic – as in the expression "What's the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Know There's An Answer
"I Know There's an Answer" (alternately known as "Hang On to Your Ego") is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album ''Pet Sounds''. Written by Brian Wilson, Terry Sachen, and Mike Love, the song was inspired by Wilson's experience with the drug LSD and his struggle with ego death. Musically, it is distinguished for its colorful arrangement, unorthodox structure, and bass harmonica solo. The instrumentation also includes guitars, tack piano, banjo, clarinets, flutes, electric keyboards, and timpani. Wilson, Love, and Al Jardine trade the lead vocal, for which the melody spans two octaves. Wilson and Sachen wrote lyrics to the song that criticized people who abuse LSD as a form of escapism. After Love voiced objections to its drug references, Wilson allowed him to revise the message to be about finding meaning within oneself. Although the references to "ego" were eliminated, the key line "they trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night" rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky (Radiohead Song)
"Lucky" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, first released on ''The Help Album'', a 1995 charity compilation organised by the charity War Child. "Lucky" was recorded in five hours with the producer Nigel Godrich. Radiohead included it on their third studio album, '' OK Computer'' (1997), and released it as a single in France in December 1997. Recording In 1995, Radiohead were on tour, promoting their second album, '' The Bends''. During soundchecks for shows in Japan, guitarist Ed O'Brien produced a high-pitched sound by strumming above the guitar nut. The band developed the sound into a song, "Lucky", which became part of the set list. Around this time, the producer Brian Eno asked Radiohead to contribute a song to ''The Help Album'', a charity compilation organised by the charity War Child. The album was to be recorded in a single day, 4 September 1995, and rush-released that week. Radiohead recorded "Lucky" in five hours with engineer Nigel Godrich, who had ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stumble And Fall
"Stumble and Fall" is a song by English indie rock band Razorlight, included as the ninth track on their 2004 debut studio album, '' Up All Night''. It was released as a single on 26 January 2004, reaching number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. Track listings UK CD1 # "Stumble and Fall" # "For Georgia" (at the Hammersmith Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. ... Working Mens Club) UK CD2 # "Stumble and Fall" # "Control" # "Rip It Up" (Toerag demo) UK 7-inch single :A. "Stumble and Fall" :B. "We All Get Up" Charts References 2004 singles 2004 songs Razorlight songs Songs written by Björn Ågren Songs written by Johnny Borrell Vertigo Records singles {{2000s-rock-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulster Hall
The Ulster Hall is a concert hall and grade A listed building in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Situated on Bedford Street in Belfast city centre, the hall hosts concerts, classical recitals, craft fairs and political party conferences. History Built in 1859 and opened in 1862, the hall's purpose was to provide the expanding city of Belfast with a multi-purpose venue of sufficient size. It was designed by William J. Barre (also responsible for the Albert Clock) for the Ulster Hall Company. On its opening night on 12 May 1862, the hall was described by the local press as: stand ngunexcelled, and all but unrivalled, as an edifice for the production of musical works. ... the hall is a great and unmingled success, and the public, no less than the proprietors, may feel the utmost gratification at a result at once so pleasant and so rare.(''The Belfast News Letter'', 1862) a music hall fit for the production of any composition, and for the reception of any artist, however e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Hannon
Edward Neil Anthony Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter. He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy, and is the band's sole constant member. Hannon wrote the theme tunes for the television sitcoms ''Father Ted'' and '' The IT Crowd''. Early life and education Hannon was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the son of Brian Hannon, a Church of Ireland minister in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe and later Bishop of Clogher. He spent some of his youth in Fivemiletown before moving with his family to Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh, in 1982. While there, he attended Portora Royal School. Hannon enjoyed synthesizer-based music as a youngster; he has identified the Human League and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) as "the first music that really excited im. In the late 1980s he developed a fondness of the electric guitar, becoming an "indie kid". Career Hannon is founder and mainstay of The Divine Comedy, a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tainted Love
"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. It attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synthpop duo Soft Cell in 1981 and has since been covered by numerous groups and artists. Gloria Jones versions (1964; released 1965) (second recording 1976) American artist Gloria Jones made the first recording of "Tainted Love" in 1964; the song was written and produced by Ed Cobb and arranged by Lincoln Mayorga. It was the B-side of her 1965 single "My Bad Boy's Comin' Home", which was a commercial flop, failing to chart in either the US or the UK. According to Nick Talevski, before Jones recorded the song, Cobb had offered it to the Standells, whom he managed and produced, but they rejected it. The Standells say that the song was never offered to them, and that they were not signed to Cobb's company Greengrass Productions until 1966, some two years after Jones's r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
"Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" is a popular old song, the lyrics of which are the poem "To Celia" by the English playwright Ben Jonson, first published in 1616. Lyrics After this song had been popular for almost two centuries, scholars began to discern that its imagery and rhetoric were largely lifted from classical sources - particularly one of the erotic ''Epistles'' of Philostratus the Athenian (c. 170 – 250 AD). This borrowing is discussed by George Burke Johnston in his ''Poems of Ben Jonson'' (1960), who points out that "the poem is not a translation, but a synthesis of scattered passages. Although only one conceit is not borrowed from Philostratus, the piece is a unified poem, and its glory is Jonson's. It has remained alive and popular for over three hundred years, and it is safe to say that no other work by Jonson is so well known." Besides Philostratus, a couple of other classical precedents have also been identified. This literary background helps restore the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Never Thought This Day Would Come
''I Never Thought This Day Would Come'' is the third album by Duke Special, which was released in Ireland by the label Universal Music Ireland on 17 October 2008, and released on soft release in the UK on 20 October 2008. The album wareviewedby The Irish Times, and a free preview of the album is available fro"The Ticket" The Irish Times' weekly entertainment supplement. Track listing #"Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck" – 3:43 (Duke Special and Paul Pilot)Writing creditsAlbum listing on Duke Special's website Retrieved 18 December 2008 #" Sweet Sweet Kisses" – 3:03 (Duke Special and Paul Pilot) #"Those Proverbs We Made in the Winter Must End" – 2:59 (Duke Special & Bernard Butler) #"Diggin' An Early Grave" - 3:17 (Duke Special & Phil Wilkinson) #"I Never Thought This Day Would Come" – 3:17 (Duke Special & Phil Wilkinson) #"Why Does Anybody Love?" – 3:22 (Duke Special and Paul Pilot) #"Flesh And Blood Dance" – 4:02 (Duke Special & Ben Hales) #"If I Don't Feel It" – 3:29 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Loizeau
Emily Loizeau (born 7 February 1975) is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled ''L'autre bout du monde'' (The Other Side of the World). Biography Loizeau was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France. Her father, Pierre Loizeau, was French, and her mother, Eliza Hutchinson, was British. Her maternal grandparents were actress Peggy Ashcroft and barrister Jeremy Hutchinson. ''The Times'', 30 November 1991, accessed 14 May 2016 Around 1980, when she was five years old, Loizeau began to learn piano. After studying classical music for many years, she turned to studying philosophy and then theatre in London, then worked assisting composer and stage manager |
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