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Cork s Greatest Records: Bass Odyssey, breakbeats, and the night I slept in LL Cool J s bed
The latest in our B-Side The Leeside series looks at the drum and bass outfit who made an impact in the late 1990s with such tracks as Remote Control Soul
Bass Odyssey: Alan O Keeffe, Chris O’Driscoll and Graham Finn.
Thu, 11 Mar, 2021 - 12:30
Ed Power
One morning in the summer of 1999, Graham Finn woke up in the childhood bedroom of rapper LL Cool J, in Queens, New York. A question flashed through his mind: how did I get here?
“LL Cool J had kept the house he grew up in,” says Cork-born Finn from his home in Green County in Upstate New York. “There was a studio in the basement. If he was working with an artist he would put them up there for the week. I slept in his childhood bed. It was very surreal.”
Pa Laide, CEO of Cara Credit Union, and Donal Scannell, CEO of Clanmaurice Credit Union, speak to Jerry ahead of next week’s virtual AGMs in which members of both credit unions will vote on whether the two organisations should merge.
The CEOs of Cara and Clanmaurice Credit Unions have defended holding online AGMs despite claims it will exclude members who don’t have digital access. Members will vote on a merger of the two credit unions at their upcoming virtual AGMs – Cara Credit Union on February 22nd, and Clanmaurice on the 23rd. One member who […]
I’d been trying really hard for so long to connect with audiences, and then suddenly it happened in Ireland, David says. Photo: Derrick Santini
Skellig, of course, is a reference to Skellig Michael, the much-mythologised pyramid-shaped island off the coast of Kerry that recently found global fame thanks to its use in one of the
Star Wars films. Gray has not yet set foot upon the island a home for hermit monks for centuries but he intends to, one day.
“When all this [the pandemic] is over,” he says, “I’d hope to be able to go there, but I know it’s not the easiest place to get to.