Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


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Beware the Jacket!

Stephen Gately's jacket2
While researching my review of Boyzone’s comeback single (yes, sometimes I do research!), I came across this rather rather odd Wiki-fact about the late Stephen Gately:

On one visit to a hospital he met a child who fell in love with his jacket—Gately allowed her to have it; she was dead within the hour.

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COME DANCING (1983)

THIS IS FUNNY


It’s actually sad the extent to which I can relate to this song… The shittiness of my car, moreover, only seems to make my car a more attractive target to those joyless, pedantic drones that enforce the laws I’m, technically, supposed to obey. Read the rest of this entry »

STIR IT UP (1973)


Featuring the definitive Wailers line-up of Bob Marley, Bunny Livingstone and (an impeccably cool) Peter Tosh.