I wouldn’t normally be one to be too negative about things that try to bring arts, culture and music of Northern Ireland to the forefront of traditional media, such as television, but sometimes it just doesn’t work. Who am I kidding, in N.I. most ideas like this don’t work. Then again it is the BBC [...]

Tomorrow Belfast band Mary’s Great Idea will be on the new Irish language chat and music show from BBC Northern Ireland called Imeall Geal, which translates as ‘Bright Edge’. Last Sunday they performed in front of a live studio audience in Newry’s Sean Hollywood Art Centre along with Dublin band Director. The idea being that [...]

A photograph of mine has been printed in today’s copy of The Ticket, the entertainment section of The Irish Times!

Thanks to the help of my good friend, Andy, I have a nice new website for you to marvel at, with an updated portfolio. Check it out at www.philokanephotography.com Stay tuned for more updates over the next few weeks.

Last week I was asked to recommend a local band, and believe me it is never an easy question. I love my music and I love my local music. There is just so much good music about this land that I have to think very hard before coming up with an answer. But there can [...]

It first started about this time last year. Though it didn’t last too long thankfully, shortly into the new year the problem subsided, temporarily it would seem. But it has begun again. It has even led to one of my house-mates commenting that I “watch a lot of T.V”. I wasn’t sure how to respond. [...]

Andrew Baron has responded to the “misleading” Market Watch article saying: “Rocketboom will always remain free and easily available to obtain. That’s our #1 foundational principle of being and I don’t ever foresee needing to change that.”” Its not true at all. Rocketboom will remain freely available. The point I was making is that we [...]

Saturday was the last day of ‘the show‘ with Ze Frank. Today I watched it for the first time in a few weeks. [damn just lost all I had written so have to start again...] I found Ze and his Show almost a year ago, and every few weeks I watch the shows I have [...]

Wrapped in a beautiful brown envelope when I arrived home this evening was my copy of the Observer Music Monthly and Observer Music Magazine. But even better than that two sheets of money off vouchers for the Guardian and Observer. Two whole weeks of the Guardian for 30p (60p off on Sat) and 90p off [...]

I just noticed that Charlie Brooker’s great Mac Hating article has the very ads that he hates at the top side of the page. I had never noticed this because I use Firefox’s Adblock plugin, but Gavin pointed it out and so I got a nice little screenshot of it. I do think the ads [...]