I'm afraid I'm guilty of having diverted the discussion "off topic," as the webmaster puts it. To bring things back round: I bought tickets to the Thursday show at Roseland. A what-the-hell moment of self-indulgence. My companion in debauchery and I will be making the cross-country journey...

Thanks for the best wishes, Mark. When the film director and I visited Beara (mid-Oct, 2005) we stayed in Castletownbere. O Murphy's B&B, on the main street, next to the harbor. Felt very much at home, but especially the Saturday night we wandered into McCarthy's (hadn't read the island-wide pub...

Hello, Philip...Saw two shows during the SF Fillmore run in October. Outstanding. Last time was early 90, the Palladium, NYC. Have been listening to the band for a hundred years...Here's why I write now: I'm the co-writer and associate producer of a dramatic documentary film about Butte, Montana, on...