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Irish Independent
a day ago
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- Irish Independent
Eamon Carr: ‘Sinéad O'Connor took a handful of crisps and crunched them very loudly into the mic'
The journalist talks about his new book looking back on the cultural titans he interviewed, including a sad Rudolf Nureyev and the 'weird homoerotic charge' when they met Eamon Carr has lived the equivalent of 10 lifetimes, and he's got a multitude of stories for every one of them. That means that there's no such thing as a 'brief' catch-up with the Kells native, who is perhaps best-known as the founding member and drummer of Celtic rock icons Horslips. However, he is also known as a poet, having founded experimental spoken word beat group Tara Telephone in the 1960s; a playwright; an art historian; a sportswriter; a copywriter in an ad agency (where he first crossed paths with some of his future Horslips bandmates) and as an entertainment journalist. It is the latter profession that's the reason for our meeting today. Carr's new book Pure Gold charts both his journey from reluctant interviewer to seasoned journalist over 35 years, as well as the 'memorable conversations with extraordinary people' that are collected in the tome. It is a hugely entertaining read, packed with not only those aforementioned memorable conversations, but also with Carr's memories of them woven around each tale.
South China Morning Post
24-03-2025
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- South China Morning Post
Mariinsky Ballet's Maria Khoreva dazzles in Rudolf Nureyev tribute at Hong Kong festival
More than 30 years after his untimely death in 1993, Rudolf Nureyev's name has lost none of its magic. Nureyev & Friends – A Ballet Gala Tribute revisits a project Nureyev himself created in which a group of dancers would tour with a programme of short pieces, presenting top-notch ballet around the world. Advertisement The repertoire consisted of works drawn from Nureyev's career. It ranged from the familiar, with some of ballet's most famous pas de deux, to lesser-known pieces and featured some of Nureyev's own choreography, making for an interestingly eclectic programme. Fittingly, the performers included dancers from the three companies with which Nureyev was most closely associated: the Paris Opera Ballet, Britain's Royal Ballet and what is now St Petersburg's Mariinsky Ballet – Leningrad's Kirov Ballet when Nureyev was there. After its initial revival in Vienna in 2024, this first Asian edition had as artistic adviser Paris Opera Ballet 'Étoile' Charles Jude, a protégé of Nureyev who danced in those original tours; the artistic director was former Royal Ballet principal David Makhateli; and the project manager was Hong Kong's own Lam Chun-wing , the first Chinese dancer to join the Paris Opera Ballet. Mathieu Ganio, formerly of Paris Opera Ballet, and one of the troupe's star ballerinas, Dorothée Gilbert, dance the duet from Act IV of Swan Lake as part of Nureyev & Friends – a Ballet Gala Tribute. Photo: Tony Luk, courtesy of the Hong Kong Arts Festival Galas are, inevitably, a lucky dip – some of the dancing was sublime, some good; if some was disappointing, the high points made up for it.
