(flyer via Unarocks)

This sounds pretty osm. Luggala is a really beautiful part of the world. Good comments over on Jim Carroll’s blog, although the poor old Jimmy Cake come into some stick… but nuggets like this are gold:

‘Kraftwerk - they used to spend weeks cycling around Ireland, believe it or not. Theres a whole album of unreleased tunes in the Kling Klang vaults about the glories of cycling around the Glen of Aherlow on a sunny day.’

riiiight.

Update: just bought me tix. Kraftwerk’s only European gig this year — looking forward to this!

The name of the night, btw, strikes me as a little morbid; here’s the scoop from the POD site:

Guinness heir Gareth Brown resides at Luggala. Founder of Claddagh Records record label in 1959 which recorded many of the classic traditional music albums of the last five decades, he also discovered The Chieftains, the first band to make Irish traditional music popular around the world. Slightly more compelling is the story behind Gareth’s brother, Tara Brown. Socialite and enthusiast of London Counterculture [sic], Tara was a good friend of the Beatles. Paul McCartney met Tara for the first time in the same club where he would eventually meet Linda. In 1966 at the age of 21, and rumoured to be on mind expanding drugs at the time, Tara drove his sports car at high speed through red lights in South Kensington, smashing into a van and killing himself. It was this that inspired John Lennon to write the lines “I heard the news today oh boy” and “he blew his mind out in a car” from the Beatles song ‘A Day in the Life’. Tara Brown is buried at Luggala.

Been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto 4, listening to The Journey’s robot DJ and her humanity-hating comments:

GTA4 Soundtrack - The Journey sampler

“It’s all an illusion. You’ll be dead soon.
And turn into dust. Enjoy your day.”

“Time is growing faster. Increasing. You want it to slow down.
Blink. You missed it.”

“You are listening to The Journey. A computerised look at mankind.
From inside the motherlode. Things do not look good.”

“I am your DJ. Are you hallucinating? Probably.
It’s OK to hope it’s all a dream.”

“What does this all mean?
Who knows. You’re too stupid to understand.
The Journey.”

Love it. All set, aptly, to Koyaanisqatsi’s:

Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe

I understand he’s playing Dundalk tonight, anyone going?

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