In this episode you’ll hear about how a bully gave The Orange his nickname, and how he embraced it at university, when he was warrior-tall, with a ginger crown and a love of mushrooms. And you’ll learn how the music ended for him.
In this episode you’ll hear about how a bully gave The Orange his nickname, and how he grew into it and embraced it at university, when he was warrior-tall and strong as a heifer, with a ginger crown and a love of ecstasy and mushrooms. And you’ll learn how he dropped out and hit the road, and how the music ended for him.
This is the fourth episode in my six-episode podcast memoir about five teenagers who gathered at a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork during mushroom season in 1993 – a Curehead, a couple of ravers, a punk and a mod. I’m the only one left on this Earth in 2018. I will delve into each of the four dead friends’ lives, and each of their deaths, in turn – before ending with a demon-haunted climax in Gatsby’s “niteclub”.
You can find the other episodes here.
Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”
Filmmaker Sarah Share’s “The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry” tells the story of the Mississippi-born musician, who is now living in Ireland.
