so I’m finally BACK from my peregrinations round Ireland.
Nothing I like better than bringing back some foreign music. But Irish radio in the countryside SUCKS ASS. BIG TIME. My friend Claire recalled that last time she was there, all she heard was Chris DeBurgh, over and over. And now it’s superformatted, playing the SAME 10 songs, over and over, and over and over. . . .as our car of four careened around the roadways, piling up massive left-hand side of the road miles from Galway to Dublin and down the south, the SAME 10 crappy songs played, over and over. . . ARGGH.
what I did find in Ireland was some fine bhangra on the AAG cable TV channel (all asian something or other). My bro Dave and I watched this incessantly, at all hours of the day and night, to the dismay of our spouses–mainly cuz it wasn’t in English. What was cool to me was seeing more Pakistan rather than Hindi-based or Punjabi material – tho’ Punjabi still rules! This was my fave:
Abrar Ul Haq: “Islamabad”
palimpsest nyc 