I don’t do many posts in first person, but these are exceptional circumstances indeed! I’ve been lucky enough to be short-listed as best blog in the ‘Arts and Culture’ category by the Blog Awards Ireland. It’s great to see all the hard work paying off and it’s motivating me to no end! Now though, comes…
Social media groups are all well and good, but if my blog is a piece of chalk in a room full of whiteboards then I won’t get much benefit from them.
“We recorded all the music on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart for over a decade but because their credit scroll runs at the speed of light I don’t think anyone besides the people reading this know it.”
I spoke to They Might Be Giants guitarist John Flansburgh about what he’s learned in his time on the road, his own musical taste, the band’s Dial-a-song innovation, and how it affected their latest album ‘Glean’.
TMBG have been together now for 33 years and this year have paid tribute to their roots; Dial-A-Song is back, but adapted to 2015 technology. One song a week, posted on youtube. An exhausting activity – Glean is a compilation of it’s best results.
They came to prominence in the noughties, with Damien Rice leaving the band, but leading to no lack of success for them: They released hits such as ‘Rocky took a lover’, ‘Flame’ and ‘Blue Lights On The Runway’ and are often been compared to bands like Talking Heads.
Crackplot 