First Dublin Mingle kicked off last Saturday Oct 1st. It was great to meet up with some of the Wordies and a great night was had. Plenty of alcohol consumed and great conversation and craic.

Some of the culprits are pictured below.

From the left and my apologies if I've screwed up on the names.
(If I have please let me know and I will correct)!

Vent My Spleen, DrJ, Eamonn O Donnell, Monsignor_Bonehead(at the back), Pat Carty with the Guinness, Steven C, Springer Bell.

Thanks to Steven C for making it down from Belfast and Eamonn O'Donnell for making it in from Newbridge.

Thanks to everyone who brought DVD's and CD's. Some great stuff brought to the pile.

Steven C is promising a Belfast outing in the near future so I'm looking forward to that.

Best one of the night was Pat Carty finding out that DrJ was his first cousin. Nom de Plume's and all that!!!

And yes DrJ is a real doctor so get your ailments on the Blog and I'm sure he'll sort you out.

Hopefully we can do it again in a few months and add some faces and bring across some of you UK types on a mini tourist trip!

This Saturday we kick off. Finally.

The venue is McDaids on Harry Street this Saturday 1st of October.

Again for those outside Dublin its across from Bruxelles , to the left of the Phil Lynott statute if you are walking across from Grafton Street. To the left of the Westbury Hotel.

To date we have the following confirmations,

Ivan
Steven C
Kay Lester
garyt
Pat Carty
Shells
Dr J
Doubleyoubee
avni5
Vent My Spleen
Ger The Boptist
Eamonn O Donnell
Springer Bell

So anyone else wanting stick their names to the list go for it.

A few of us are bringing some CD's DVD Books etc.
Definitely not obligatory however.

I have the upstairs in McDaids sorted and they'll leave it to us until we figure our how much seating etc. we need.

They are also letting us use their docking equipment so bring an Ipod if you fancy fancy passing on the fruits of your musical education.

I told them we'd be arriving around 7 so get in early if you can.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the hell we all look like.

See you all there.

Mentioned on the "What's The Greatest Film Nobody's Ever Heard Of?" thread and watched again by me last night the feel good film of feel good films is

Watch it sometime when you feel shit. I promise you, when its over you won't feel so shit any more!

If you have been paying attention, the Dublin Mingle is going to be held in McDaids on Harry Street on Saturday 1st of October.

For those outside Dublin its across from Bruxelles , to the left of the Phil Lynott statute if you are walking across from Grafton Street.

I'm off on holidays next week so it would be great if you are turning up if you could stick your name to the thread so I can let the pub know how much space we need to take up.

We have upstairs secured or as much as we need anyway + player for ipod etc.

Details below of the pub.

http://www.dublinks.com/dublin-pubs-bars/mcdaids.php

http://www.dublinpubscene.com/thepubs/mcdaids.html

As previously posted, if you need any help, get in touch.

Anyone coming from UK I'll do some spadework on accommodation for you if required.

Anyone wanting to have a theme feel free. Anyone wanting to stick in their tuppensworth please feel free to get stuck in.

When it comes to this stuff I'm a bit of a Virgin!

They don't usually get a mention around here, so here they are absolutely killing Holding On To The Black Metal from their new LP.

Its brilliant.

As some Wordies are travelling from UK and possibly further afield I just want to keep everyone in the loop.

The venue we have chosen is McDaids because it is in the centre of the city, close to food, is a good boozer (I go there fairly frequently) has a bit of history and has an upstairs which can hold up to 60 heads.

I have done a walkabout and most of the good pubs are unwilling for obvious reasons to confirm a big space on a Saturday night. McDaids position is the same.

This still shouldn't be a problem if the upstairs is claimed early enough.

So, if everyone is happy to go for it we should kick of early (which should be OK because it's a Saturday), and I think will also suit any visitors.

The question is, how many are going to turn up? I'm figuring on about 20. Maybe too optimistic or maybe not optimistic enough.

Also in the next week or so I'll get something together for inexpensive accommodation. For anyone wondering how much a bed in a reasonable hotel costs, you can get a room in a 4* Hotel in Dublin for less than €80. And with special deals etc., probably less. Changed times indeed. (Mind you that is providing nothing else is on that weekend & so far nothing major has been announced.)

So keep the confirmations coming in and hopefully this will be one hell of a night. I'm thirsty already.

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/ireland-things-to-see-and-do/listings/...

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g186605-d189062-Reviews-McD...

I watched this back on BBC 1 back in January 2005. It was a Biography/Documentary which covered Jeremy Bowen's time as a War Correspondent and was tied into his book 'War Stories' which came out at the same time.

I thought it was a very moving piece but for some reason it has disappeared of the face of the earth (probably for political reasons) and unfortunately I wasn't able to copy it at the time.

If anyone could direct me towards a copy I would greatly appreciate it.

Right Wordies, Cliques etc.

After a brief consultation period it has been decided that the 1st International Mingle is to be held in Dublin on the 1st of October at a venue yet to be decided.(We have to have a further consultation!)

So....Irish Section mark your diaries and all those who expressed an interest in travelling to Dublin to mark the occasion start putting money in your piggy banks.

So can we have a hands up who's interested (apart from the organising committee) and who can bake as apparently that is the way of these things.

Fun and chat will almost certainly be provided. Who knows there maybe someone good playing in the city that evening. (Or maybe not)

Hope that almost 3 months notice is enough for all you busy people.

Anyone need help with accommodation or in fact anything get in touch.
You know how.

All The Best!

Top Of the Pops 1976.

Guess which side Sir is dressing? The answer is quite apparent in about 28 seconds.

I hadn't seen these before, but since this comes from my dad's home town I found it quite moving.

Gary Glitter's I'm The Leader Of The Gang is eventually pulled by the AQA - the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance from the GCSE listening list.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7719540.stm

I have to confess attending one of Mr Glitter's Christmas Gigs in Wembley back in 1995 and it was a jolly good night out along with the rather brilliant support band T.Rextasy. However, although I'm not a fan of ban and burn the books, I would baulk at giving the saddo any support, financial or otherwise in his present guise.

I'd love to know how the esteemed AQA deemed it appropriate that Mr Gadds output would be considered material for students studying their GCSE. It would also be very interesting to see how they managed to come to that particular decision. Of course no one will explain or apologise. Unbelievable and crass. It truly beggers belief.

Does it really take a campaign from the esteemed writers of The Sun, (they naturally are claiming credit) to get them to revise their decision. It's just another case of World gone mad.

The herd are stampeding. 10,000 complaints and counting. I finally listened to to the tape this morning.

Yes they were out of order (although the way it was reported made it seem to be nasty and vindictive, and while it maybe nasty it was certainly not vindictive) and the initial apology was a little pathetic.

Personally in the last few years I've gone off J Ross and the constant love affair he has with his ego. Russell Brand is over the top and certainly not as funny as he was or as he likes to think he is. His love affair with his di*k just gets a little bit boring after awhile. He certainly doesn't strike me as a malicious human being. Hare Krishna!

My warning signals start going off when Prime Ministers and Leaders of the Opposition and their cohort of MP's get involved.

Something to take the shitstorm they've created in the economy off the front pages perhaps.

Is it just me or do you get the scent of publicity stunt in the air? As I said I don't condone the antics of the pair, just lets say you probably never heard of Georgina Baillie and the Satanic Sluts before now. I could of course be wrong but I find when the herd are running loose, sometimes its worth stopping to see what exactly is driving them.

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