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Green Lung are the headliner by the look of things.

I would agree that High On Fire are the bigger/better band - and for me are the main draw on that bill.

Really looking forward to this now - Earthless, The Sword, GNOD, Ufomammut, Warning and most especially - by a mile - YOB.

Probably end up bursting into floods of tears during "Marrow".

Again.

This is rapidly coming up and I am looking forward to it - if more for the supports than the main band.

The last Abigail Williams album is very good. Not gone on everything before that - a bit of a mixed bag.

Is the main lad, and I had to look his name up, Ken Bergeron travelling to Ireland alone and playing with local Irish lads as his backing band?

I only ask this because, having lunch with a few people earlier, one lad said to me that a buddy of his was playing with a metal band in The Pav and showed me the poster for this gig. I assumed he meant Soothsayer or Body Drinkers but he said that he thinks the fella that he knows is playing (guitar....?) in the main band from America.

Seems plausible as it appears that the band is Bergeron's project. Thar being said, this lad isn't into metal and wouldn't be going to this gig so he might have it all wrong or I might have completely misunderstood.

Donald Gibb(Jackson from Blood Sport).

Gone to the great Kumite in the sky.

I wouldn't mind seeing Michael Rother (Neu!) live.
Has anyone seen him? He played Dublin last year, but I didn't bother.

I must check out his other group - Harmonia

I went to see him over in the Islington Assembly Rooms, London last year on that tour - it was cheaper to go/stay there that Dublin incredibly.

He did a nice mix of stuff from across all of his career and his band are lethal. 

The Neurosis one, as mentioned, is a stormer. As is Carcass' "Surgical Steel".

Sleep - "The Sciences"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Beyond"
St. Vitus - "Lillie F65"
Alice In Chains - "Black Gives Way To Blue"

Non-Metal;

Suede - "Bloodsports"
Pulp - "More"
Wire - "Send"

Ordered this from Southern Lord thinking that I'd wear it - never did.

Then I thought that I'd fit it to a guitar strap - never did.

Only 50 pieces made.

https://www.adverts.ie/other-music-instruments-equipment/sunn-o-copper-belt-buckle-only-50-made/40129993

Happy to take a few quid off for any of the MW faithful. 

Saw him in Dublin soon after Endtroducing..... was released.
No mad recollection of it, but if memory serves me right he was great

He played Cork 2 years ago, & was great again.
Very appreciative for a people coming out to see him.

Would love to see Cut Chemist in action.

Cut Chemist played the Cruiscín in Cork years ago. 2005 or so.

It was a great night - from what I recall of it.

New album is due, first track is decent.

No other Irish dates announced.


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Stuck on The Long Goodbye on a whim last night, great stuff. Gould must have shredded his lungs in that role with the amount of chainsmoking he did. Sterling Hayden in top form too, and even a small (glorified extra) role for Schwarzenegger!

Elliot Gould was one of the coolest fuckers on the planet in the 1970s. Up there with Nicholson, DeNiro, Pacino, Caan, Beatty and Hackman.

He made shit of his career by being impossible to work with.

If you enjoyed "The Long Goodbye" then I really recommend another Gould movie called "Busting".

Was considering this but accomodation for the two nights is manky, I can't justify dropping ~€500 for the two nights, on top of all the usual expenses. Serious line up over the weekend though.

Same, I considered driving up and down both days too but it'd drag all the fun out of it.

This is great, it is one of the most honed 1-hour specials that I have seen in a fair while.

His timing is absolutely perfect.

Playing Dublin in October too. 

Abigail Williams - "A Void Within Existence"

Never listened to a note of these guys (or guy???) before the Cork show was announced. Bought a ticket on the strength of the support bands (Soothsayer/Body Drinkers) and the fact that it was a gig in Cork.

Gave this album a whirl at the weekend - it is rather good.

New album by Stuck - "Optimizer"



https://stuckchi.bandcamp.com/album/optimizer

New album by Iguana Death Cult - "Guns Out"



https://iguanadeathcult.bandcamp.com/

Both are cracking - particularily the IDC. I don't think the Stuck record reaches the dizzy heights of their last one, "Freak Frequency" but it is still very, very good and I have only given it a few spins so far. The IDC record offer far more immediate gratification. 

Warning announced as the final band for the Saturday line-up.

YOB on the main stage followed by Warning on the smaller stage. Unreal.