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Bodo
May-03-2026, 21:20 GMT
South Africa
  | I have no email adress from scaaty... please post yours here and I will delete yours later ..or hers..or whatever
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mog
May-04-2026, 16:22 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Thanks Bodo!
I wonder if Scaaty can use my X account to DM me: @MarcOlivierGir1
I do not really use that account, but it could be handy here.
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mog
May-11-2026, 19:53 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Ok...seems like the X option has not been explored.
Scaaty: my seat will be E 44.
I am a greying middle-aged guy with some hair loss.
Maybe a drink after the show then?
Talking about drinks, I will be slip slindin' away in Temple Bat at this time next week. Ha! ha! |
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Scaaty
May-11-2026, 23:39 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Sorry Mog, the post containing my email seems to have disappeared. We will be in Block B26/49 & 50. |
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mog
May-19-2026, 16:41 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I am now in Dublin!
Well, it is cold, cloudy and rainy.
I am on the other side of ´the point’, on Clontarf.
I will probably walk to the show tomorrow. |
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Bodo
May-19-2026, 18:57 GMT
Netherlands
 | I haven't been to Ireland for so many years. Think 2011 was the last time. |
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Scaaty
May-19-2026, 21:19 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| If I remember correctly Bodo, it was a cold, wet early summer then too! Hopefully we’ll get to meet tomorrow Mog! |
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mog
May-20-2026, 00:11 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Is the show at 6:30 pm scaaty?
I thought it was doors opening at 6:30… |
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Bodo
May-20-2026, 06:33 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Very good memory... But I believe Ireland is always rainy and wet and cold :-) |
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Scaaty
May-20-2026, 18:19 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Paul is on at 8 - doors open 6.30! Rumour has John Sheehan last of the Dubliners is joining him - plays the fiddle!
Not at all Bodo the last few summers have been very warm!! |
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Scaaty
May-20-2026, 18:19 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Paul is on at 8 - doors open 6.30! Rumour has John Sheehan last of the Dubliners is joining him - plays the fiddle!
Not at all Bodo the last few summers have been very warm!! |
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Bodo
May-20-2026, 21:22 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Dubliners? Wow. I think 30 years back the story was that togehter they are 300 year sold..or something.
How old is John Sheehan? |
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Scaaty
May-21-2026, 13:04 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| John Sheehan is in his mid 80s - he was the youngest and was never as fond of the gargle as the others were. However he wasn’t there - I think the rumour was disinformation! But we did get the wonderful Martin Hayes and his fiddle for the Boxer!! Made up for Paul’s slip of saying London instead of Dublin!! |
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Scaaty
May-21-2026, 13:05 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Review from the Irish Paul Simon in Dublin review: An emotionally flooring, intimate performance
Like a great conductor, Simon steers his incredible band around songs that speak to his layered career
Paul Simon performing in London. Photograph: Jake Edwards
Paul Simon performing in London. Photograph: Jake Edwards
Siobhán Kane
Thu May 21 2026 - 08:49
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2 MIN READ
Paul Simon
3Arena
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“I guess there can only be two halves,” Paul Simon wryly remarks at the beginning of what seems more like an intimate happening than a concert. Folding in work that speaks to the 84-year-old’s layered career and sensibility, the first part of his “quiet celebration” is 2023’s Seven Psalms, the idea of which came to him in a dream. It resembles a long exploration of prayer, a search for “God’s abundance”, as he sings on Your Forgiveness.
The Lord is the anchor of that record, a piece Simon returns to as a kind of ostinato, imploring us to realise that “nothing dies of too much love”. It is met in serene spirit by Love is a Braid and its “pleasant sorrows”, and there is a careful referencing of the blues in each song.
Trail of Volcanoes is beautifully arranged, with a polyrhythmic spree towards the end and Sacred Harp tells us a story about exile and belonging, with Simon inhabiting every line. On Wait he is joined by Edie Brickell, to remind us that these are “the ghost songs” he “owned”.
More “ghost songs” arrive in the second half, with Simon lifting us with Graceland, and Slip Slidin’ Away and its “thorny crown”. He talks of the early days of making his way in music, sketching out “guitar figures” for us, and years fall away as he deftly picks on the guitar.
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It is a perfect preface for The Late Great Johnny Ace, a highlight of the show, about the rhythm and blues artist who accidentally shot himself. The lyrics are a cartography of the slippery nature of time, or collapsing of time, as he weaves in two other “Johnnies” – Lennon and Kennedy. Like a great conductor, he steers his incredible band around references with ease, from classical to folk to doo wop.
René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War transports, and Rewrite reminds us of Simon’s ability to reappraise, rearrange and rediscover. There are stories about an intense ayahuasca trip, which inspired the floaty Spirit Voices, and Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard remains dazzlingly playful.
Simon tells us that if he had to pick a top 10, Darling Lorraine would be in it, as he takes us through its cunning heartbreak. The lovely jazz inflection on 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover is loosened by a swampiness on the keys, and by the time Martin Hayes comes out to play fiddle on The Boxer it feels like we have been in a fever dream. Simon stands back admiringly, giving Hayes space to add his own coda to the piece, with one tradition meeting another, and that collapsing of time again.
As Simon stays on stage alone for Sound of Silence, he brings us back to the beginning, with his song of people “talking without speaking” and praying “to the neon god they made” all too apposite. It is emotionally flooring, bearing true witness, as most great art does. |
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Scaaty
May-21-2026, 13:08 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Mog & I managed to meet-up for a quick chat after the show, but unfortunately last buses were calling so it was all too brief! |
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