Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band. He doesn’t want to sing or anything: he wants to create and manage one. But he lives in the backblocks of Dublin. How is he going to manage that? All he has is his knowledge of music, a glib tongue, and two friends, Outspan and Dean, who want … Continue reading A Cultural Phenomenon Ian Likes: The Commitments
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An Album Ian Likes: Sunshine On Leith by The Proclaimers
Craig and Charlie Reid are identical twins. Their music can best be described as “idiosyncratic”, which is a word often used to describe artists who have a distinctive sound that is difficult to pigeonhole. Their 1988 album Sunshine On Leith (their second) was successful in ways that not many people were able to qualify… so … Continue reading An Album Ian Likes: Sunshine On Leith by The Proclaimers
A Book Ian Likes: Espedair Street by Iain Banks
Daniel Weir was going to end it all. As the songwriter for one of the most successful bands in rock history, he feels that his recent life has been meaningless and useless, and that the world would be better off without him. So he decides to tell the story of what happened to make him … Continue reading A Book Ian Likes: Espedair Street by Iain Banks
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