The good news is Van Morrison is back to form with this new release. Belfast's temperamental son was utterly prolific throughout the 90's turning out an album every other year and if last year's collaboration with Linda Gail (`You Win Again') didn't quite come off, fans won't be disappointed this time. Van's vocals are everything you expect them to be. The opening of `Talk Is … [Read more...] about Music: Down The Road by Van Morrison
Van Morrison
Music: From a Whisper to a Scream
"Sometimes it is a spiritual experience, but most of the time it's not...You have to work very hard to get that. But that's okay. There's no free lunch, y'know?" – Van Morrison Leave it to Van Morrison to lend a bit of welcome perspective at the end of From a Whisper to a Scream, a three-hour history of Irish pop music, originally produced for RTE, now available on video. … [Read more...] about Music: From a Whisper to a Scream
The Greatest Irish Rock Albums of the Last Millennium!!!
By Tom Dunphy
April / May 2000
Gotcha. There was a craze afoot at the end of the last century -- gosh, doesn't that sound strange, especially since it was a mere couple of months ago -- to list things. It seemed like everything -- books, films, plays, albums, inventions, historical events -- got categorized, ranked, compared, collated, crunched, and spat out... The very notion of a "greatest Irish rock … [Read more...] about The Greatest Irish Rock Albums of the Last Millennium!!!