Ken Sweeney
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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.
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My
@radionova100
doc on Scotland’s Trashcan Sinatras among the shortlist for
@IMRORadioAwards
Best luck everybody!
@TheTrashcans
@IrlCGEdinburgh
@scotgovireland
#IMRO24
listen to doc here
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‘The Irishman’ is too bleedin’ long for one night (see time codes below for perfect mini series - by Alexandra Dunefors)
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Prefab Sprout released album Steve McQueen 35 years ago today
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The third time’s a charm, Name a classic third album by a band?
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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
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland on their tour in 1953
#StanandOllie
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Guitar owned by
@NiallOfficial
sells for €4,000 to aid Cystic Fibrosis at Julian Benson C F Foundation Ball
#NiallHoran
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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
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Ian Curtis on a night out with fellow staff from Macclesfield Unemployment Office. Clearly, a much loved colleague.
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@hughie_maughan
I was refused from every Dublin nightclub before Big Brother as a Traveller
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Spice Girls on opening date of world tour in Croke Park, Dublin
#SpiceWorld2019
#SpiceWorld
#SpiceWorldTourUK
#SpiceGirls
#SpiceGirlsForever
#Spicegirlsdublin
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Opening .
@iamNATHANCARTER
sings
@remhq
‘Everybody Hurts’ at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland during concert for Pope Francis
#REM
#NathanCarter
#PopeFrancisInIreland
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R.E.M. sent out this fact sheet to fans in 1983 after 1st album. Love how they plug rival bands - via Scott Roberts
@m_millsey
#REM
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35 years ago this week The Blue Nile released their debut album A Walk Across the Rooftops. Here’s their story
#TheBlueNile
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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
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My
@RTERadio1
music doc ‘R.E.M Out Of Athens’ honoured with a silver award at the New York Festival’s International Radio Awards in New York last night.
@REMHQ
#REM
#NYFRadioAwards
#NewYorkFestivals
#NYFRadio2018
@visitAthensGA
listen here
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There is A Light That Never Goes Out
@Johnny_Marr
@EPfestival
tonight
#TheSmiths
#electricpicnic
#Ireland
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BBC4 are showing a new TV Doc about Microdisney on March 15th by director / producer Julie Perkins
@johncreedon
@josefoshea
via (Microdisney facebookgroup)
#SingersHampsteadHome
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36 years ago on this date April 30th 1984, The Blue Nile released their debut album “A Walk Across The Rooftops”.
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Listen to message sent by
@NiallOfficial
at auction of his guitar at
@judgejulesoffic
C F Foundation Ball, in of aid Cystic Fibrosis, at the Clayton Hotel Dublin. Guitar raised €4,000
#NiallHoran
#Jbff
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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
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The Blue Nile released their debut album ‘A Walk Across The Rooftops’ on this day (April 30) in 1984. Hear more about the making of it in this radio doc
#TheBlueNile
#InSearchOfTheBlueNile
#AWalkAcrossTheRooftops
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Happy Birthday Robert Forster. 62 today. Who else could start a song?
“I'm ten feet under water,standing in a sunken canoe,looking up at the waterlilies, they’re green and violet blue”
@forsternet
@gobetweensnet
#robertforster
#thegobetweens
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Collon Animal Sanctuary closing down with six dogs, some cats and 2 goats etc looking for a new home..
@NewsMurray
@GavBecton
@GavinDuffy
@colinodonoghue1
@LMFMRADIO
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Andy Fletcher had the best visiting rockstar in Dublin pic. 1983.
#andrewFletcher
#depecheMode
#andyfletcher
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Motörhead often had to fend off rival acts intent on stealing their beer.
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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
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#video
Love this story from
@skyenda
about interviewing
#jackcharlton
when he was a schoolboy on work experience for his local paper in Wexford
#RIPJack
#COYBIG
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Thrilled to win Showbiz Journalist at
#journoawards16
@newsbrandsirl
thanks
#D
#colleagues
#contacts
& see attached
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The videos I’m seeing of Paul Buchanan (The Blue Nile) performing last night at Celtic Connections in Glasgow are mind blowing Video : Dave Walker
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Oh those two cops in Early Doors…
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Watch the promo for my brand new radio doc on The Go-Betweens - which airs on
@radionova100
tonight at 9pm
@gobetweensnet
@Forsternet
@foggynotions
#TheGoBetweens
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I’ve been back over to Scotland …If you heard my doc on The Blue Nile. You’ll know what coming ..
#music
#stories
. Airs
@radionova100
this Sunday at 9pm.
@TheTrashcans
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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
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The Blue Nile - Easter Parade
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Newspaper stand today in Ireland. Pic by
@Garethchaney
#gaybyrneRIP
#GayByrne
#LateLate
#LateLateShow
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You can listen back to
@radionova100
'The Go-Betweens and the Irish Writers' here
@gobetweensnet
@forsternet
#TheGoBetweens
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Remembering Go-Betweens songwriter Grant McLennan who died on this day (May 6, 2006) at his home in Brisbane. Australia
#BachelorKisses
#CattleandCane
#DustyInHere
#FindingYou
#GrantMcLennan
#TheGoBetweens
#RIPGrantMcLennan
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I’ve been waiting all my life for this.
@DavidHasselhoff
covering Echo and The Bunnymen
@Bunnymen
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Touched a nerve in previous tweet about punters talking at gigs. Feel free to hand this out to offenders
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Listen to 'The Go-Betweens and The Irish Writers' my music doc from
@radionova100
on soundcloud link attached. This cool promo by
@kieranmccarthy
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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
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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
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Listen here to my new radio doc on The Trashcan Sinatras from
@radionova100
Please RT
#TrashcanSinatras
#WhatAStory
@TheTrashcans
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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
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'Your Ex-Lover is Dead' turns 15: exploring the brilliance behind Stars' biggest hit
@youarestars
#Stars
#YourExLoverIsDead
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Really nice gesture from
@1rorycowan
to lend out an expensive Gibson guitar- once owned by
@NiallOfficial
to young bands for showcase gigs or important recording sessions. Spread the word
@judgejulesoffic
@hotpress
#NiallHoran
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That transition between An Cat Dubh and Into The Heart - Review of U2 ‘Boy’ - October 4 1980 via
@SoundsClips
#U2
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Paul Buchanan lights up Celtic Connections with outstanding performance
@GlasgowWorldUK
@DeclanRMcC
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“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
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The President meets U2 tonight after first
@3ArenaDublin
show - via Paul Allen
#U2
#U2eiTour
#U2SongsofExperience
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.
@NiallOfficial
and leading golfers to tee up at the JP McManus Pro-Am Field at Adare
Manor, Co. Limerick on July 6th - 7th 2020.
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“Drowning in The Blue Nile
He sent me "Downtown Lights," sings
#TaylorSwift
on new album.
#TorturedPoetsDepartment
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“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
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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.
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“All the rainy pavements lead to you." Fantastic evocative interview with Paul Buchanan on
#TheBlueNile
Hats - being voted Scotland’s Favourite album - by
@MarianneBungo
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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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40 years ago today REM were formed. Here’s my one hour doc ‘REM Out Of Athens’ for
@RTERadio1
recorded in Georgia in 2017
@remhq
@VisitAthensGA
#REM40
#REM
#StipeBuckMillsBerry
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Spice Girls on opening date of world tour in Croke Park, Dublin
#SpiceWorld2019
#SpiceWorld
#SpiceWorldTourUK
#SpiceGirls
#SpiceGirlsForever
#Spice
#ImWorking
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Brendan O’Connor playing a blinder drawing attention to the lack of services & therapies for special needs kids in Ireland
#latelate
#LateLateShow
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‘A genuinely touching reminder of how much he is admired” - Review Paul Buchanan
#CelticConnections
@LeadbetterHT
@heraldscotland
(via Marie Ruddy - Blue Nile fan Facebook)
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SINGER Dickie Rock has threatened to give Johnny Logan "a f***ing box" after the Eurovision winner claimed the showband star lived in a "fantasy world
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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
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@iamNATHANCARTER
sings
@remhq
‘Everybody Hurts’ at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland during concert for Pope Francis
#REM
#NathanCarter
#PopeFrancisInIreland
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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
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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)
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Crowds gather to say farewell to the last Tram through Dublin City centre in 1949
#LuasCrossCity
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He killed three men last week wearing that jumper. Best episode of
#KIN
yet airing this Sunday
#CharlieCox
#MattMurdock
#Daredevil
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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.
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@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”
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Dublin journalist George Byrne passed away three years ago today. One of his favourite bands, The Blue Nile, dedicated this
@RTERadio1
music doc to him.
@ShamrockRovers
#GeorgeByrne
#Ringo
#AhLads
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@planetjedward
go boys to Men with new video
@IrishSunShowbiz
@IrishSunOnline
http://t.co/7TTR65u0aN
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Try this for ‘Deep Listening’ Side one
"Over the Hillside" – 5:03
"The Downtown Lights" – 6:26
"Let's Go Out Tonight" – 5:12
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Any day can be improved by a picture of Seamus Heaney hanging out with Julian Cope
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