Jay Wilson

Found this article from The New Yorker about the move in pop music away from the swing groove of hip-hop to a more European style of dance music – a more straight beat. Jen and I were just last night listening to the Jay-Z track featuring Rihanna mentioned in the article, “Run This Town”. Sas...

I’m just back from my Friday ‘Magic of Music‘ school. It’s the mid-term break next week and all the kids had dressed up for Halloween. There are twelve classes in the infant school and this morning they all gathered in the assembly hall. Some of the costumes were fantastic! A few ...

Tommy Tiernan did a Hotpress Q&A at Electric Picnic – watch it here on the Hotpress website. That may be enough to make you wonder what the fuss is about. Fuss that has surfaced two weeks after the event. ...

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I found this site via @laputean on Twitter. It’s by a Dutch guy called Paul van Coeverden and, being entirely based in Flash, doesn’t need a lot of computer power. He...

Barry Rycraft (bass), Satya Darcy (drums) and Jay Wilson (piano) - photo by Mildred Hernandez Posted in what I'm up to

My jazz trio is doing its second gig tonight at Anseo on Camden Street in Dublin. We’ve been thinking of a name and have paused for a little while on ‘Rothko Smile’, inspired by the famous painter. His ...

A fascinating video (about fifteen minutes long) of psychologist Alison Gopnik talking about how babies are the best learning machines in the universe...

This gig happened at the end of April this year in one of Dublin’s best-known venues, Whelan’s on Wexford Street. Close enough to our place that I could wheel my Nord Stage to the gig – handy! We h...

I spent a good (as in a lot and also as in enjoyable) part of yesterday setting a list of proper nouns to music in the grand tradition of Tom Lehrer and Yakko from Animaniacs. Posted in funny funny funny, lyrics and lines I especially admire, what I'm up to

Late night but it’s hard to actually sleep in so I got up to bring Jen to her photography course. Listened to ‘Falling to pieces’ by The Script on the radio on the way back – good song. Break...