Author: Tadhg Cooke

  • Find The Conversation

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    At the risk of contributing to your information overload, I wanted to share some things I’m reading, watching and listening to at the moment.  Inspiration is drawn from many sources, and even if something doesn’t inspire anything directly, a bit of knowledge can’t hurt.  Okay, it can hurt a lot.  Still… go for it! Austerity…

  • I Like Your Manifesto, Put It To The Testo!

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    “I like your manifesto, put it to the testo” – The Sultans of Ping F.C. For a long time, this blog was merely a repository for gig notices, occasional newsletters and photos from foreign lands.  I want more.  From now on it will be my diary.  Fairly unfiltered and concerned with everything and anything that…

  • Xmas in Xberg – Christmas in Berlin

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    It’s Christmas in Berlin.  I’m writing from a small café in Xberg, as the rebels call it when they’re sure they are amongst friends.  The regime has ears everywhere, or so it seems to the besieged people here.  No one is prepared to take a chance. Berlin having tumbled from the Weimar Republic’s crippling debt…

  • 25 Things

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    I found this hidden on my facebook page, and decided to dust off the cobwebs and repost it here.  This was written in January 2009, back in the days when you didn’t have to pay The Facebook Corporation when you wanted to share thoughts online with your friends.  It was the result of the only…

  • Tadhg to Tiger over on Friendface

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    Greetings dear readers… This is just a short note to notify of a slight change to our internet presence. Facebook, despite appeals from all quarters, refuses to allow page names to be changed. This means that our Tadhg Cooke page cannot become “Tiger Cooke”. Slightly annoying, and not very consistent – in an age when…

  • Goodbye 2011

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    Dear 2011, It’s been emotional. I said goodbye to some dear friends and close family. You bade farewell to some vicious dictators. What does it all mean? Does it need to mean anything? Well, some meaning would probably help, and would certainly aid our bid to get “2011 – The Movie” picked up by Hollywood,…

  • Pre-Chrimbolic Shows in Derry, Belfast & Dublin

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    Greetings! We seem to be having some issues with our mailing list settings – some of you recently received mails that are months late.  Everything should be correct now, but we’re still battling the spam filters of the world.  It seems that as soon as you start to put images into emails the spam filters…

  • Deutschland 2011 – Dülmen/Münsterland Festival/Bielefeld

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    German Tour rolling along nicely. Many contacts made. Many songs brewed. Bye-bye Münster! Hamburg next…

  • Kidnapped

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    “Your True North” was partially inspired by the thrilling Robert Louis Stevenson story Kidnapped, which I loved as a little nipper. All the images of Georgian life and cities, and their modern equivalents, were flicking through my slide projector. Any visitor to Dublin will know its extensive Georgian and Victorian architecture – well, that was…

  • Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part III

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    Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. OLOMOUC In the morning we wake, and drive to Wien. Bratislava and Wien are surprisingly close together, so we’ve decided to drop our rental car back to Vienna before hopping on the train to Olomouc, to the…