Only #tayto would come up with these limited edition beauties. Banshee Bones! #onlyinireland #ireland #crisps #snacks #banshees

In JUST ONE MONTH I'll be launching my #ecofantasy #novel #CityOfDancingGargoyles from SFWP

Here's where I'll be on the West Coast, East Coast, and online

And of course you can always preorder at http://www.taracampbell.com

About (guessing) 12-18 months ago, I first heard a #song from #Siouxsie and the #Banshees. I wasn't impressed. A couple of weeks ago, I heard another and loved it. Now I'm listening to them. Damn. I missed out as a kid. #music

Listen to Garbage's cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees' Cities in Dust
#music #Banshees #Garbagerockband #rockmusic
@Long_live_rock_n_roll @historyofpunkrock
https://youtu.be/uTACd9I67AY

Been working on song texts for beginning singers and have spent the day looking up a lot of #folklore, including #plantlore, #deer, #banshees, #birds, #shape-changers, and more. Now I've got a text about a banshee who's not really a banshee. Got a favorite bit of folklore?

Well, neither of my #Irish #Oscars favorites, The #Banshees of #Inisherin or #TheQuietGirl, won on Sunday night, but if you also saw and loved them, then see my article below for a comparative interpretation of the two.

This was a very personal piece for me, as indeed was the experience of watching The Quiet Girl especially. Blessed be all those who become a nurturing daddy to children they did not father:
https://www.popmatters.com/quiet-girl-banshees-inisherin-incel

Watching The #Banshees of Inisherin for a second time, after seeing #TheQuietGirl (An Cailín Ciúin), I was struck by certain tragic parallels between the protagonist of the latter and Dominic, the policeman's son (played by #BarryKeoghan), from the former.

I wrote up my thoughts in the following essay, an appeal to bring nurture where needed:
https://www.popmatters.com/quiet-girl-banshees-inisherin-incel

#MartinMcDonagh #ColmBairéad #ColinFarrell #BrendanGleeson #KerryCondon #CatherineClinch #Cinema #Oscars #Ireland @TG4TV

#MastoDaoine
#Banshees

The Banshees of Inisherin gave the two main actors lots of great scenes together, but I didn’t much care for it. However, I couldn’t say why, exactly, except that it was heavy handed and rather vacuous at the same time. This bothered me. I was worried I might have missed something, so I was happy to read this piece in Slate. It not only confirmed my initial reaction, but also helped me understand what about the film had made me feel that way.

https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/martin-mcdonagh-irish-banshees-inisherin-blarney.html

I’ve been after McGeoch’s, Severin’s and Budgie’s sigs for years (having just recently gotten hold of Siouxsie’s sig). So, to find all four of the Classic Banshees lineups’ sigs on a white label test pressing of ‘Fireworks’.. how could I say no? .. and at a very reasonable price too. #siouxsie #banshees #punk

Finally got around to watching #Banshees last night and I thought it was great. Brilliant cast - Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon were both superb and Colin Farrell really inhabited his character from the first scene before he even opened his mouth. It doesn't really represent an Ireland that ever existed in any real way, and is a bit hokey, but once you get over that, it's a very entertaining couple of hours and well deserving of the accolades it is getting.

Tis a wonderful year for Irish #film, with at least two contributions that offer up the occasion for truly rich #emotional #experiences. The first for me was The #Banshees of Inisherin, mused on already here:
https://mastodon.social/@WorldImagining/109526132684140602

The other, now nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the #Oscars is this heart-breakingly beautiful Irish language film, An Cailín Ciúin, #TheQuietGirl. A very sincere 'go raibh maith agaimh' to all involved in creating it.

Been waiting on The Banshees of Inisherin since before it was shot - and the anticipation was worth it. An instant classic.

At least a best picture nom for McDonagh, and probably a win for Barry Keoghan as best supporting actor. Other nominations/wins too I’m sure. Farrell as best actor wouldn’t be a poor choice. Wish there’d been a role for Chris O’Dowd in it.
#film #oscars #gleeson #farrell #mcdonagh #ireland #irish #movies #banshees #inisherin

https://youtu.be/fGBgTh1oqBA

10 best covers of The Velvet Underground https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/best-velvet-underground-covers-bowie-nirvana-joy-division/

What about Siouxsie's/Cale's "Venus in Furs":
https://youtu.be/glR2s9okz-s

(Of course the Banshees' base/keyboard player was Steven SEVERIN - wonder where that name came from??? )

Any other ideas for the list?