Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
Arts journalist all over the place but always open for offers.
Weddings, parties, anything.
And Bongo Jazz, a specialty.
Weddings, parties, anything.
And Bongo Jazz, a specialty.
What Paul Did Next.
Reviewed Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run by Paul McCartney for the Irish Independent.
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Reviewed Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run by Paul McCartney for the Irish Independent.
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What the McCartneys sent in the post after a Wings concert got a bad review
Dealing with failure is one thing but handling success is likely another matter altogether. Just imagine for a minute that at 27 you’ve already created a peerless body of musical work that literally c...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
What Paul Did Next.
Reviewed Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run by Paul McCartney for the Irish Independent.
@independent.ie @paulmccartney147.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Reviewed Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run by Paul McCartney for the Irish Independent.
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Reviewed the 40th Anniversary Edition of Rum, Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues for Classic Rock Magazine (not on the web).
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November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reviewed the 40th Anniversary Edition of Rum, Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues for Classic Rock Magazine (not on the web).
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@thepogues.bsky.social @warnermusic.bsky.social
Reviewed The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie for The Sunday Independent.
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reviewed The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie for The Sunday Independent.
Interviewed Tim Wheeler out of Ash for @independent.ie
Tim Wheeler on early fame: ‘I got hammered during the gig. The next day we were doing MTV interviews but I woke up in my own vomit. Management were really upset’
Anyone with any sense joins a band as a teenager and dreams big. Once reality lashes out a few kicks, the majority get on with their lives but that’s not how it panned out for Downpatrick native Tim W...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Interviewed Tim Wheeler out of Ash for @independent.ie
Good-humoured and Arse-kicking: reviewed the deluxe edition of Who Are You from The Who for @classicrockmag.bsky.social
This deluxe makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
"How all deluxe releases should be done"
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October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Good-humoured and Arse-kicking: reviewed the deluxe edition of Who Are You from The Who for @classicrockmag.bsky.social
"A burgeoning superstar unsure of everything apart from the music."
Reviewed Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere for @classicrockmag.bsky.social
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Reviewed Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere for @classicrockmag.bsky.social
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Jeremy Allen White shines in Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere
The review of the film of the book about the making of Bruce Springsteen's bleak masterpiece, Nebraska
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October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"A burgeoning superstar unsure of everything apart from the music."
Reviewed Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere for @classicrockmag.bsky.social
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Reviewed Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere for @classicrockmag.bsky.social
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Go get the Sunday Indo!
October 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Go get the Sunday Indo!
He knows how to tell a story. I reviewed Truly by Lionel Richie for @irishtimes.com
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Truly by Lionel Ritchie: A cut above the usual music memoir
Highly enjoyable read doesn’t shy away from discussing racism, money or personal struggles
www.irishtimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
He knows how to tell a story. I reviewed Truly by Lionel Richie for @irishtimes.com
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From tectonic tremolo rumbles to a librarian’s dream of a hush. Went to see the great Richard Hawley at 3Olympia Theatre for the Irish Examiner.
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Richard Hawley review: Songs of magnificence at the Olympia in Dublin
Richard Hawley revisited his classic Coles Corner album for a fine gig in Dublin
www.irishexaminer.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
From tectonic tremolo rumbles to a librarian’s dream of a hush. Went to see the great Richard Hawley at 3Olympia Theatre for the Irish Examiner.
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@richardhawley.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social
Reviewed Softly As I Leave You by Priscilla Presley in today’s Irish Independent
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Priscilla Presley recalls her complicated love for Elvis in a tale of heartbreak and survival
Much like the one that surrounds The Beatles, the Elvis Presley book industry shows no sign of abatement. This year alone has seen, amongst others, Preston Lauterbach’s excellent examination of the mu...
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September 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reviewed Softly As I Leave You by Priscilla Presley in today’s Irish Independent
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Down the back of the new issue (with free Motörhead sticker!) of Classic Rock Magazine waxing about Ron Sexsmith, Buckingham/Nicks, Tom Petty, and Queens of the Stone Age.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Down the back of the new issue (with free Motörhead sticker!) of Classic Rock Magazine waxing about Ron Sexsmith, Buckingham/Nicks, Tom Petty, and Queens of the Stone Age.
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@ronsexsmith.bsky.social @qotsa-official.bsky.social @classicrockmag.bsky.social
Wrote about the €13,000 copy of Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn for The Sunday Times.
Abridged, of course.
Not on website.
Abridged, of course.
Not on website.
September 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wrote about the €13,000 copy of Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn for The Sunday Times.
Abridged, of course.
Not on website.
Abridged, of course.
Not on website.
Listen back to me waxing about Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run at 50 with the lovely Ciara King on RTÉ's Arena.
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Born To Run at 50
Pat Carty on Bruce Springsteen's legendary album Born To Run, which turns 50.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Listen back to me waxing about Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run at 50 with the lovely Ciara King on RTÉ's Arena.
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@brucespringsteen.net @sonymusicofficial.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
Celebrating Van Morrison at 80 in The Sunday Independent.
Features Aunts, Uncles, funerals, weddings, and mysticism. Read it here - shorturl.at/YNtsJ
Features Aunts, Uncles, funerals, weddings, and mysticism. Read it here - shorturl.at/YNtsJ
August 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Celebrating Van Morrison at 80 in The Sunday Independent.
Features Aunts, Uncles, funerals, weddings, and mysticism. Read it here - shorturl.at/YNtsJ
Features Aunts, Uncles, funerals, weddings, and mysticism. Read it here - shorturl.at/YNtsJ
"One of the greatest rock’n’roll bands in the world cutting loose like sailors on a weekend pass and a set that was lean as a holy man in a desert."
Went to Queens Of The Stone Age in Kilmainham for @irishtimes.com
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Went to Queens Of The Stone Age in Kilmainham for @irishtimes.com
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Queens of the Stone Age in Dublin: Kilmainham erupts with cathartic glee during this ferocious gig
Josh Homme was having a great time, diving over the barricade and wading through the crowd
www.irishtimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"One of the greatest rock’n’roll bands in the world cutting loose like sailors on a weekend pass and a set that was lean as a holy man in a desert."
Went to Queens Of The Stone Age in Kilmainham for @irishtimes.com
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Went to Queens Of The Stone Age in Kilmainham for @irishtimes.com
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I'll be discussing the new Billy Joel documentary with @rickoshea.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena this evening. It's pretty good, even if you're not his biggest fan.
August 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'll be discussing the new Billy Joel documentary with @rickoshea.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena this evening. It's pretty good, even if you're not his biggest fan.
"There's a ticket for you, Carty."
Well, sure, I might as well so...
Well, sure, I might as well so...
August 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"There's a ticket for you, Carty."
Well, sure, I might as well so...
Well, sure, I might as well so...
August 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Letters page @independent.ie Thanks John, obviously a man of taste and discernment. Read the article he’s referring to here - shorturl.at/rZxac
August 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Letters page @independent.ie Thanks John, obviously a man of taste and discernment. Read the article he’s referring to here - shorturl.at/rZxac
As colourful and fascinating as the city it captures. I reviewed The Gods Of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots by Jonathan Mahler for the Irish Independent.
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‘Even his enemies admired his chutzpah’: How Trump became a God of New York in the 1980s
The back cover of this history of New York calls it “a real-life Bonfire of the Vanities”. Tom Wolfe’s bestselling 1987 novel about a bond trader who comes a cropper in a very serious way is also refe...
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August 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As colourful and fascinating as the city it captures. I reviewed The Gods Of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots by Jonathan Mahler for the Irish Independent.
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@jonathanmahler.bsky.social @independent.ie
Dodgy Fs and Questionable Question Marks. I reviewed The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime that Fooled The World by Joseph Hone for The Sunday Independent
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How a book forger fooled the literary world until his audacious ruse was rumbled
Controversy in the book world, like the debate around the veracity of The Salt Path, is nothing new. Excerpts from Konrad Kujau’s faked Hitler Diaries were published through various outlets in the 198...
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August 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Dodgy Fs and Questionable Question Marks. I reviewed The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime that Fooled The World by Joseph Hone for The Sunday Independent
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Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? My 'opinion piece' (it says here) in The Sunday Independent uncovers the hitherto unknown connections between Oasis, Lad, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, ponytails, U2's 'brother', Fungie, and a lot more...
Warning: contains video of me.
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Warning: contains video of me.
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Pat Carty on the New Lad: ‘Wherever they ended up, the Oasis reunion was like a bat signal, calling them out of the shadows for one last adventure, one last moment of belonging’
Whatever happened to the likely lads? If you’re old enough to remember the 1990s, then I’m afraid at this point you are officially getting on a bit. It’s now 31 years since Oasis released their debut ...
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August 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? My 'opinion piece' (it says here) in The Sunday Independent uncovers the hitherto unknown connections between Oasis, Lad, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, ponytails, U2's 'brother', Fungie, and a lot more...
Warning: contains video of me.
@independent.ie
Warning: contains video of me.
@independent.ie
Seán Rocks was a lovely man - intelligent, warm, & funny. Every time on Arena with him was a pleasure, sparring with his wit & charm on air, and having a laugh when the light went off. My deepest condolences to his family and friends, a number I’m proud to count myself amongst.
July 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Seán Rocks was a lovely man - intelligent, warm, & funny. Every time on Arena with him was a pleasure, sparring with his wit & charm on air, and having a laugh when the light went off. My deepest condolences to his family and friends, a number I’m proud to count myself amongst.
Groovier Than A New Set of Tires: Went to see a mighty despite the rain Leon Bridges at Iveagh Gardens for The Irish Examiner.
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Leon Bridges review: Soul power of Texan star shines through at rain-soaked Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
The weather gods may not have been on his side, but Leon Bridges still delivered in Dublin
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July 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Groovier Than A New Set of Tires: Went to see a mighty despite the rain Leon Bridges at Iveagh Gardens for The Irish Examiner.
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