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Eoghan Lyng


Interviews



My Bloody Valentine bassist Deb Googe and classically-trained pianist Cara Tivey talk about their unusual friendship and joint album, ‘The Golden Thread’.




Clive Langer
Garfunkel and Garfunkel Jr.
Chris Spedding

Producer Clive Langer talks to Eoghan Lyng about his band project The Clang Group, their forthcoming second album 'New Clang' and his production work with Elvis Costello, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Morrissey and The Teardop Explodes.
Eoghan Lyng speaks to Art Grafunkel and his son Art Garfunkel Jr, about their new joint album 'Father and Son'
Top session guitarist Chris Spedding talks to Eoghan Lyng about working with The Sex Pistols, Paul McCartney, Roxy Music and The Wombles., and his band Sharks' recent film documentary, 'Not a Rock-Doc: A Shark's Tail'.




Adrian Gurvitz
Dana Gillespie
Annie Hogan
Anthony Phillips

60's guitar legend Adrian Gurvitz talks to Eoghan Lyng about his new album 'Blood,, Sweat & Years' and working with Ginger Baker in Baker-Gurvitz Army.
Irish singer-songwriter Dana Gillespie talks to Eoghan Lyng about her new album 'First Love' and her friiendship with George Harrison.
Multi-talented musician, songwriter and producer Annie Hogan has a wide-ranging chat about her new album with Eoghan Lyng
Founder member of Genesis, guitarist Anthony Phillips chats to Eoghan Lyng about his long, eclectic solo career and recent reissue of 1970s works.


Red Eye Pariah
Steve Hackett
Sharks
Robert Davi

Rising Northern Irish band Red Eye Pariah talk to Eoghan Lyng about their unusual influences, touring and eventual plans for an album.
Prog guitar legend Steve Hackett talks to Eoghan Lyng about his new album ‘The Circus and the Nightwhale’ and his years with Genesis,
Sharks’ frontman and 70’s punk influence Steve ‘Snips’ Parsons talks to Eoghan Lyng about their new film documentary, ‘Not A Rock Doc (A Shark’s Tale)’.
Actor Robert Davi speaks to Eoghan Lyng about his other career as a singer and playing a Bond villain in ‘Licence to Kill’.


Jeff Moller
Tim Arnold
Michael Lindsay Hogg
Demian Dorelli

American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Moller talks to Eoghan Lyng about his classic rock-inspired debut album, ‘Sigh Baby’.
Acclaimed solo artist Tim Arnold talks to Eoghan Lyng about his recent diagnosis of autism, and his new album 'Super Connected', which seven years in the making, reflects critically on technology.
Eoghan Lyng talks to filmmaker and director Michael Lindsay-Hogg about his work on The Beatles' 'Let It Be', 'Brideshead Rvisited' and The Rolling Stones' 'Rock and Roll Circus'.
Eoghan Lyng chats to Nick Drake-influenced pianist Demian Dorelli about his critically acclaimed new album, 'My Window'.


Profiles



With a new box set ‘Car Crash Supergroup – The Island Years 1973-1974’ being released on Cherry Red, Eoghan Lyng looks back at the early career of seminal cult act Sharks




Laura Nyro
Beach Boys
Nige Tassell
Nico

With the release of a new box set that collects together all ten of her albums plus extras, Eoghan Lyng assesses the career of still under-rated American singer-songwriter Laura Nyro.
Eoghan Lyng says about new film documentary 'The Beach Boys', “older fans might get a kick from the nostalgia,” but the documentary “will appeal to newcomers,” too.
Acclaimed music writer Nige Tassell turns his attention to folk – soul alchemists Dexy’s Midnight Runners in an impressive biography. Eoghan Lyng reviews
Eoghan Lyng examines the late 60's/early 70's career of Nico and the recent reissue of her two albums. 'The Marble Index' and 'Desertshore'.


Live Reviews


Liam Gallagher and John Squire - Olympia Theatre, Dublin, 16/3/2024

Liam Gallagher and John Squire
Eoghan Lyng enjoys a brief but versatile set from Liam Gallagher and John Squire at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin.



Squid

Eoghan Lyng enjoys Squid’s unusual brand of prog at Vicar Street in Dublin.


Favourite Albums




George Harrison
Andrew Gold
T. Rex

In our Re:View section in which we look back at albums from the past, Eoghan Lyng looks at George Harrison's third album 'Living in the Material World', which has just been released in a repackaged 50th anniversary boxset
Eoghan Lyng examines classic singer-songwriter Andrew Gold’s recently reissued 1997 psychedelic album, ‘The Fraternal Order Of The All - Greetings From Planet Love’,
In our 'Re:View' section, Eoghan Lyng examines a new four CD box set which assesses T. Rex and Marc Bolan's work in the prolific year of 1973.


Features




In ‘Raging Pages’ guest reviewer Eoghan Lyng enjoys The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder Luke Haines’ satirical overview of pop in his first book in a decade, ‘Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll'.
In 'Raging Pages' guest reviewer Eoghan Lyng contends that author Dafydd Rees ‘apes the lexicon of the era’ when focusing on the Beatles history in his new book ' The Beatles 1963: A Year in the Life'.



Boomtown Rats
Beatles
Clash

Eoghan Lyng selects ten favourites from Dublin pioneers The Boomtown Rats, moving from punk into New Wave, Eighties pop and the recent comeback album
In 'The Image That Made You Weep', in which our writers write of the personal impact of a photo or image on them, Eoghan Lyng writes of a photo taken at Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach's wedding in 1981.
Eoghan Lyng selects tracks by punk legends The Clash for this month’s edition of 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love...' Following the band’s progress, the cuts chart the outfit’s progress from London upstarts to their incorporation of many of the musical trends that came to define the 1980s.


Reviews



Ringo Starr
Keeley

Country-influenced new album from Ringo Starr which proves to be his most satisfying album since the 1970s.
Remarkable debut album and concept record from Dublin singer-songwriter Keeley, which is about 18-year old German student Inga-Maria Hauser who was murdered in Ireland in 1988





















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