Chemical Brothers I agree with (some bloody great stuff), The Original Techno’s: Depeche mode, Kraftwerk, Frankie,(ZTT) Yello, I remember a demonstration of a “Fairlight” waaay back in the mid eighties during my stint at electronics in UL.

I Had a looooooong discussion with Honor Heffernan in the Stables the first year it was open, Me drunk as a skunk and her just off the booze I think,
I have great Memories of another mad day long session with the “Century Steel band” we drank with them for hours after the set, after we helped them load and unload the gear, myself and Bombjack (known as Because of his propensity to do damage to himself and others with homemade explosives).

The Ska Crowd were great, The Beat, Specials (AKA),Madness (Who then went kinda commercially but still okay), Bad manners used to drink regularly in a pub in Dingle belonging to an old Beauty called “Mary-Bob” if I remember rightly, a beautiful old gentlewoman who was in her late seventies back in the Late Eighties/Early nineties. “Buster” Bloodvessel used to religiously send her a christmas card every year, she had them all stored in a scrapbook that she took down from behind the bar to show us late one night. The bar was in her front living room, a bit like Mary Howards or Irene Neilons in Bruff (Is that still open?) I heard a few years ago that Mary Bob had passed on, an awful loss, places like that were rare even that time….. Only met her five or six times over a few years but a really beautiful lady. I even got to chat up Sinéad O’ Connor there one night waaaay back just at the beginning of her mad rise to popularity, before the loony soup took complete hold….. Another really nice girl, Eyes like swimming pools, even if I had to talk my way around (Well walk through, me being big and bauld and drunk enough not to givashite) the three or four bouncer type blokes, and her early stuff was great.

It’s amazing how ones mind can link Ska music to things like that. Like I Said, Mad Tastes, “Everything but the Boy(Bands)” me…..

Jaysus Bock, ure bringing a silver tear to me golden eyes, sooooo sorry for the soliloquy.

Emmylou! Especially those ’70’s albums with her hot band, featuring Ricky Skaggs.

And yes also to much of the rest. Belle & Sebastian, Yo La Tengo, Steve Earle–though the older I get the more I ‘get’ Bruce Springsteen, whom I used to regard as over-rated.

Medbh: Poor Joe. Sadly missed.

James: That’s good. Very good. WZ is a huge loss.

I have a bunch of other stuff i listen to but most played this week seems to be The White Stripes, and I’m revisiting Annie Lennox - I’d forgotten how phenomenal she is.

I hate HATE jazz. I like the stuff everybody likes ‘course, but I can’t stand all that ska and wank that is apparantly true or hard-core jazz. I’ve never bought a Springsteen album either. He’s OK but I just never seemed to care that much about him.

Tanita Tikaram only released 3 albums that I know of but I love her. She had some amazing production on her songs too. They put a clarinet in at odd moments and it breaks my heart with the beauty of it. Gorgeous.

Still though, when all’s said and done, it would be Lenny I took to the desert island with me.

MacDara: Keep us informed

Conan: Daughters don’t listen to anything the old man has to say until they’re ready

Badgerdaddy: Dear God

S&C: I would have put them in the list if I thought of it, but I’d be up all night.