My latest album, Bunker Emissions has just been released. It is available via Bandcamp in digital form only.
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Monday, May 02, 2022
Book of drawings
Room Temperature is very proud to announce its first printed publication in the form of a 36 page book of recent drawings, Imaginary Geographies in a limited edition of 50 only. This is a collection of 10 drawings made between 2019 and 2021. The book contains a 4,000 word essay, Metallic Blue Turned Red With Rust (only available in printed form) and 20 archive photos of Dublin in the 90s.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Everybody Hears The Hum At 3am
I recently wrote an essay for A Sound Map Of Dunloaghaire, Everybody Hears The Hum At 3am - Sound Marks, Memory Prompts and Possible Futures, reflecting on the sonic landmarks and associated memories of my younger days.
Monday, June 21, 2021
New album
My latest album, Plate Spinning, has just been released. It is available via Bandcamp in digital form, and in a very limited physical edition of 25 only.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Dirty Blue Cheeseburger
Like the other tributes, some unintentionally uncanny moments: after The Fall's Mark E. Smith says "Friday.." early in the piece, I realised that the Associates song just before it was called Tell Me Easter's On Friday... The Fall track is called Gramme Friday. Various melodies from different songs coalescing in surprisingly tuneful ways.. especially when a moment of Joy Division's 24 Hours is superimposed with The Fall's Kicker Conspiracy - Hooky's bass harmonising with Hanley's ! Hugo Burnham's muscular, inventive drumming on Gang Of Four's Cheeseburger accompanied by Captain Beefheart's Dirty Blue Gene is another favourite among too many to mention.
Porno Bass
Mary's Operation
Vegas El Bandito
Quiet Pillage
Last Words
A Certain Ratio:
Abracadubra
Waterline
Associates:
Kitchen Person
Tell Me Easter's On Friday
The Associate
Au Pairs:
Set Up
Pretty Boys
Headache For Michelle
Love Song
Unfinished Business
Black Uhuru:
Shine Eye Gal
Buzzcocks:
No Reply
Nothing Left
Captain Beefheart:
Dirty Blue Gene
Best Batch Yet
Run Paint Run Run
Sue Egypt
Hot Head
Sheriff Of Hong Kong
Cabaret Voltaire:
Silent Command
A Thousand Ways
Red Mask
Touch Of Evil
Jazz The Glass
Landslide
Clash:
Janie Jones
Career Opportunities
DNA:
Lying On The Sofa Of Life
32123
Dome:
Cruel When Complete
Breathsteps
The Red Tent
Ian Dury:
Sweet Gene Vincent
Blackmail Man
If I Was With A Woman
My Old Man
Reasons To Be Cheerful
Clevor Trever
What A Waste
Inbetweenies
Blockheads
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Eyeless In Gaza:
Three Kittens
Dreaming At Rain
Before You Go
The Fall:
Frightened
Gramme Friday
Music Scene
Live At The Witch Trials
Two Steps Back
US 80s-90s
Kicker Conspiracy
Flying Lizards:
Another Story
Cirrus
Gang Of Four:
Cheeseburger
Not Great Men
If I Could Keep It For Myself
Glass
Ether
Paralyzed
Anthrax
Joy Division:
The Only Mistake
Atrocity Exhibition
Wilderness
Day Of The Lords
New Dawn Fades
Autosuggestion
Isolation
24 Hours
Disorder
Ludus:
The Escape Artist
Unveil
Box
Sightseeing
Magazine:
The Light Pours Out Of Me
My Tulpa
Feed The Enemy
Cut-Out Shapes
The Thin Air
Stuck
Because You're Frightened
Pere Ubu:
The Modern Dance
Life Stinks
Heart Of Darkness
Over My Head
Sentimental Journey
Non-Alignment Pact
PiL:
Theme
Bad Baby
Annalisa
The Suit
Pop Group:
Trap
There Are No Spectators
Don't Call Me Pain
Don't Sell Your Dreams
Thief Of Fire
Blind Faith
Amnesty Report
She Is Beyond Good And Evil
How Much Longer
Rip, Rig & Panic:
Need (De School You)
Those Eskimo Women Speak Frankly
Slits:
Newtown
Ping Pong Affair
Instant Hit
Shoplifting
Steel Pulse:
Handsworth Revolution
Stephen Mallinder:
Temperature Drop
Talking Heads:
Warning Sign
I Zimbra
Drugs
Stay Hungry
Television:
Marquee Moon
This Heat:
Triumph
Music Like Escaping Gas
Independence
24 Track Loop
Paper Hats
A New Kind Of Water
Ultravox:
Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead
Distant Smile
Virgin Prunes:
Sandpaper Lullaby
Abigail
Sad World
No Birds To Fly
Wire:
12XU
Former Airline
Once Is Enough
Mercy
Reuters
Too Late
Friday, February 05, 2021
Dirt Behind The Daydream
It's 5.45pm, so time to reveal the fruits of my recent labours. 5.45 was the time Andy Gill once mentioned the 'red spot in the egg' which confused me (I've never seen any red spot Andy, watcha tawkin' abaht ?). I've done another tribute piece, even though I'd kind of decided I wasn't going to do any more after spending two and a half months on the Bowie one last year. However, this one's not about any band or singers but rather an entire clutch of bands and singers in my attempt to capture the spirit of post-punk and the excitement of first hearing it as a teenager. I've built a plunderphonic pot-pourri of forensically scalpeled song segments, sliced and diced and overlaid in surprising new configurations, moving swiftly via various tempo matches and shifts and uncanny harmonies with disparate melodies. It's post-punk pinball, bouncing manically between multiple points along the '77 - '81 timeline.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Deeper into the archive
Digitized slide film photos of a performance in Dunlaoghaire School of Art & Design (DLSAD, now IADT) courtyard, 12.5.86, with fellow students, Ian Conroy, Sean Kelleghan and Ken Hardy. A somewhat shambolic affair despite a few rehearsals of a sort in the basement of the derelict remains of the yet-to-be-developed 'old building' as we used to call it (a former training centre for Christian Novitiates). Rain came down at one point but didn't didn't stop play. There is a recording but it's not great quality due to wind and rain on the mic, and not particularly great playing as I remember it.
Photos by Sheila Gorman