“Junior fell into our lives at the start of 2020. Like, literally fell into the Guinness yard.”
Junior fell into our lives at the start of 2020. Like, literally fell into the Guinness yard (which is technically our back garden) while I was working from home at the start of the pandemic.
She was a tiny cub who got separated from her mother and fell 50 feet from an adjacent yard, resulting in what we suspected was a broken rear leg or hip. Feeling sorry for her we would throw in scraps of food, thinking she would probably disappear.
But she decided to make the James’s Gate keg yard her home. Three years later, she still comes every night (on the dot of 7:30). She likes chicken, tofu, and Linda McCartney veggie sausages. She hates prawns, chips or potatoes.
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“That there’s some acknowledgement of dark things on the edge of the frame, in the moments between the smiles, makes Ross Whitaker’s film” worth a watch.
The eponymous debut album from the band Throwing Shapes is due for release on 7 September.
When Murky Anyango started to record what would eventually become her debut album, she wanted it to be a solo endeavour in every respect.
Embracing “Grimy aesthetics, edgy soundscapes, songs that are short for a scrolling economy, a general sense of living on the internet”.
