December, 2024
David O'Byrne: International Desk
David O'Byrne is a former fanzine writer and indie band manager, turned full time freelance journalist, travel writer and occasional fiction author based in Istanbul.
His journalism has been published in or by newspapers, magazines, agencies and web sites all over the English speaking world. He has reported live for a host of English language broadcasters including BBC, RTE, CBC and France 24, and wrote and researched a large part of the Time Out guide to Istanbul.
On the rare occasions he isn't working he listens to a diverse range of inspiring music by the likes of Hermeto Pascoal, Fela Kuti, Newen Afrobeat, Blurt and John Coltrane and the mighty Fall and watches movies by directors such as Juzo Itami, Satyajit Ray and Jafer Panahi.
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David O'Byrne tries to find out - So Lonely In Heaven
Alan Rider listens to the Legendary Pink Dots latest long player and realises that you can never be truly lonely when you have The Dots for company - Outsideleft Week in Music's young year winning streak
We're hearing from... Millicent Chapanda, Japanese Breakfast, The Liminanas, Great Grandpa, Elijah Minnelli, Tobacco City, The Legendary Pink Dots, SPELLLING, Glaomer, Zzzahara, XIXA, The Yets, Venamoris, Light of Eternity, Sara Jean Stevens, Gumshoes, Jean Claude Vannier et son orchestre de mandolines, Dub Syndicate, Black Flower, S.Y.P.H, Squid, Movieland, Derya Yildrim & Grup Simsek, Derision Cult, Asian Glow, The Vapors, Overt Enemy, Everything is Recorded, Jacobites, New Order, The Flying Luttenbachers and Speedball Baby - Uncommon Measures: Gwerful Mechain
Acclaimed poet Fran Lock is our guest for this adventure in Uncommon Measures - Memoirs of a Rural Punk
Martin Devenney feels he was an outsider in rural Norwich as much as a punk, but he just loved dressing up. - Outsideleft Week in Music The Very Nearly Last Week in Music
We're hearing from... Sleater-Kinney, Musketeers featuring Solange, Saint Tropez Orchestra, The Legendary Pink Dots, Patrick MacNee and Honor Blackman, Salvator Dragatto, We Are Bodies, Yani Martinelli, Iggy Pop, Blood Incantation, Sam Gluck, Enemy Inside, Montague Armstrong, Cameron Winter, Horsegirl, Jamila Woods, Brûlez les meubles & The National - Pete Williams at the Outsideleft Night Out
The Outsideleft Night Out returns at the 1000 Trades on the Park, Bearwood, with Pete Williams, DJ's Woodenhand and Prehistoric Man - The end of LTB? - One door closes, another opens
Coventry's unique arts and performance space closes it's doors for good in the New Year, but there is new hope on the horizon. - Oh Wow, Oh Wow, Oh Wow
The last party at the LTB Showrooms - Things Can Only Get Better?
Alan Rider wonders, is it inevitable that things always seem to get shittier over time?
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