Showbiz Editor Irish Sun. Docs and drama. PPI Gold and Silver at New York Radio Festivals. RTE/BBC6/RadioNova/ABCBrisbane Email: kensweeney
@gmail
.com. Up early.
With so many sad intense portraits how about a happy one ? Ian Curtis on a night out with fellow staff from Macclesfield Unemployment Office. Clearly, a much loved colleague.
#IanCurtis
41 years gone today
Still in shock after winning the Showbiz Journalist of The Year award for the third time which I’ve won with the help & support of talented colleagues
@IrishSunOnline
and my wife D. Momentarily went 2 ring my dear mum who passed away last year. Thank you
#journoawards2020
Happy Birthday to Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile “Don’t worry! We’re too old to run away” Paul told a Glasgow taxi driver as we got out briefly to record a soundbite for this
There's a box set from The Blue Nile on the way in 2019 and singer Paul Buchanan's second solo album is out later this year, (his management confirms) with a re-mastered version of BN album High.. Great times making this radio doc on
#TheBlueNile
If RTE wanted to sum up what makes them unique and worthy of our support with one programme. They just did it with this doc
#incredible
#TheFuneralDirector
Plea from a frustrated US Polygram exec trying flog The Jam to the yanks in 1981. I love this guy. (Snapped at Somerset House Jam exhibition few years back) thanks
@djmarkkavanagh
for reminding me this.
#GoingUnderground40
Here’s the ticket for the 1st time I saw
#REM
(at the SFX, Dublin 1984) Found out later members Something Happens, A House & The Stars of Heaven all attended. So indie version of the GPO in 1916. Anyone else there ?
#REM40
#TalkAboutThePassion
Hearing ‘A House’ reforming to play a ‘reimagining’ of classic album ‘I Am The Greatest’ at the National Concert Hall on June 30. (Date not yet announced) ‘Reimagining’ as not all original members involved.
@tomhappens
#HereComesTheGoodTimes
#EndlessArt
Such sad news about Cathal Coughlan. I was a teenage Microdisney fan. Recall a Dublin show back in 80’s and then driving down to Tralee to see them again. A gentleman.
#CathalCoughlan
“The Blue Nile’s 1989 single “The Downtown Lights” rose from 3,000 streams from Apr. 12-15 to over 48,000 streams from Apr. 19-22 — a whopping 1,400% increase from one four-day tracking period to the next. – (New Taylor Swift Album Boosts Streams
“Cherry Red Records have acquired legendary producer Joe Meek’s ‘Tea Chest Tapes’ – a near mythical collection of almost 2,000 reels that contain a vast amount of the Telstar producer’s work, contents will gradually become available to music fans and collectors”
@CherryRedGroup
Today would been Kirsty MacColl's 60th birthday. Treasured memories one NYE when she invited myself & pals back to her home in Ealing, and staying up all night chatting to her. After which she presented me with these.
“All the rainy pavements lead to you." Fantastic evocative interview with Paul Buchanan on
#TheBlueNile
Hats - being voted Scotland’s Favourite album - by
@MarianneBungo
Marvelling at how all the DJ’s across Irish radio timed
#putemunderpressure
to exactly 1230. Making small talk and getting ad breaks out of the way. These guys and girls are some operators. Made tuning through the airwaves spectacular.
#JackCharlton
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In London for a preview of BBC
#Microdisney
doc. Followed by Q&A with band & doc team. A moving tribute to the group and the late Cathal Coughlan - Airs this Friday at 10pm on BBC4. A great week for Cork. (Pic credit
@Birmingham_81
@MicrodisneyF
RIP the wonderful
#JohnReynolds
a talented innovator who made gigs and festivals a better experience for music fans in Ireland. And what a fan himself. Who else would put the Blue Nile on the main stage at The Electric Picnic?
#RIPJohnReynolds
I love this guy.
Plea from a frustrated Polygram exec trying flog The Jam to the yanks in 1981. (Snapped at Somerset House Jam exhibition few years back)
To mark George Byrne’s passing six years ago. A pic from a family christening. Turning up with a lovely present. Later when it got boring - a little crowd gathered around George as he told stories in the bar below. Years later distant family still ask me about that guy.
@eddiemarsan
I hope he sees you in this film Eddie
#StillLife
#outstanding
“Eddie Marsan is a revelation in this unpretentious British film about a council worker who delivers posthumous dignity to those who die alone”