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Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
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Get That Monster Off The Stage http://www.metafilter.com/168373/Get-That-Monster-Off-The-Stage The story of Finbarr Donnelly and his bands Nun Attax, Five Go Down To the Sea? and Beethoven. Part One
Part Two
Finbarr Donnelly was born in Belfast in 1962. Escaping the Troubles his family moved to Cork City when he was 12. By the late-70s he had formed Nun Attax, a punk band, who played their first gig on Valentine's night 1979 in a community hall in Mayfield, on the Northside of Cork City.
Nun Attax are synonymous with the Downtown Kampus at Cork's Arcadia Ballroom, the lynchpin of the city's post-punk music scene, where they shared the stage with U2, The Virgin Prunes, UB40, Micro Disney and a host of other local bands. Their live performances were unforgettable, incendiary events an example of which can be heard on the Kaught at the Kampus EP released by Reekus Records in 1981 [reissued in 2015]. In the early-80s the band changed its name to Five Go Down To the Sea? and recorded the Knot A Fish EP 7'' for Kabuki Records. Soon after the band left recession-ridden Cork for London... | 4:33a |
"Relief! Dread. Satisfaction. Emptiness. Excitement." http://www.metafilter.com/168374/Relief-Dread-Satisfaction-Emptiness-Excitement Pushing The Edges Of Play: Lessons Learned From Making 100 Games In Five Years [Indie Games] "Developer James Earl Cox has recently completed his 100 Games in 5 Years, having wrapped up development of his taxing, rewarding journey with a cute game about a kitten in a blanket that likes to meow about things. Games about the horrors of war. Games about the horrors of getting caught watching porn. Games about racing fishmen, the well-mannered homeless, cows, sacred snails. Games about silliness, life, despair, world issues, and anything and everything in between. Cox's work has explored many, many different themes, as well as the scope of the developer's sense of purpose and humor. Now, at the end of the adventure, Cox is left to reflect on what's he gained from this undertaking, finding he's learned a great deal from working with so many different genres, ideas, and stories." | 12:19p |
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