CALLING ALL PAOLO NUTS
He also joked that he decided to get married after learning Alan Carr is getting divorced.
McErlane said: “You kept that
AHEAD of his sold-out dates in Dublin, Limerick & Belfast next week, and following the success of his Number 1 album Last Night In The Bittersweet, Paolo Nutini has announced news of huge outdoor Irish shows next summer.
Nutini will play Musgrave Park, Cork on Wednesday, June 14, Malahide Castle, Dublin on Friday, June 16 and Belsonic, Belfast on Saturday, June 17.
Three of his four albums to date have hit Number1 in Ireland.
The latest effort — Last Night In The Bittersweet — is a 70-minute epic that spans the distance from classic rock to post-punk to hypnotic Krautrock, in the process proving its value as Nutini’s deepest, most varied, most accomplished, and ultimately most
Graham invited 100 guests to the wedding at Bantry House, west Cork, on Saturday, July 9, when a local rector blessed his wedding, The Irish Examiner revealed.
Drag
Guests included Lulu who sang, Irish dancing group Cairde who performed and Mayo drag queen Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill, who played a DJ set.
The happy couple then spent Sunday at Graham’s Ahakista home where marquees had been erected. rewarding set so far.
The insistent Motorik rhythms of Lose It bring shades of early ‘70s German bands like Can and
Neu!, and are a product of
Paolo (inset right) writing increasingly on his bass guitar.
Timeless
At the other end of the spectrum, Through The Echoes is a timeless classic in the lineage of
Ben E. King and
Otis Redding, with Nutini’s vocal delivery reminding us why he got snapped up by Atlantic in the first place.
The album opens with Afterneath which samples Patricia Arquette’s memorable speech in the final scenes of True Romance, the 1993 cult classic written by Quentin Tarantino.
Elsewhere, Acid Eyes is the kind of love song that’s hopeful but mournful, one that sticks in your mind, shapes your mood and won’t let go, whereas Petrified In Love has the cheerful spikiness of Squeeze.
Tickets for Nutini’s Dublin and Cork shows are €59.90, and will go on sale from this Friday, August 19 via Ticketmaster.