Theo Ioannou

God created alcohol to keep the Irish from taking over the world. Journalist, DJ, proud snob, bilingual. Won't follow tits & vanities. Not fishing 4 followers.

[U2 @U2]

Apparently, we have a thing for balconies… A few songs, a Friday on Grafton Street, and Dublin doing what Dublin does best. Now that was a birthday party!

[Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles @BeatlesPraise]

"There were bands that I loved, and songwriters that I loved, like Ray Davies and Townshend — lots of people. But you know, when it’s all said and done, there was the Beatles and then there was everybody else. I don't think anyone ever put anything together as incredible as those guys. They were the band of all bands.

"I don’t think that the phenomenon of a band like the Beatles can ever be repeated. I just don’t think that you can get someone like John Lennon, someone like Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, you know, that kind of talent in one band. When you listen to the music and listen to all the parts, and you listen to the way the records sound, you think: 'there’s something else going on.' It creates something else . . . I think it has to do with how long they played together, the fact that they sang and played like — well, like brothers — but also there was just something divine about it, you know? I mean I’m not a religious person, but there was something.

"And I think that’s the thing that won’t be repeated. You know, you can get different people together and play those same songs and replicate everything and it’ll just sound nothing like them. That’s the remarkable thing."
--#ColinHay

#MenAtWork #Songwriter #ARIAHallOfFame #Actor #Beatles #TheBeatles #Influence #Unicorn #GOAT

Sources: SiriusXM, 2018, 2021; NBC San Diego, 2011

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Trump's evil mentor.

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

In 1975, Los Angeles, Danny DeVito walked into a casting room full of six-foot actors and asked, “So… which one of you is playing the tall guy?”

They laughed — until he walked out with the role they all wanted.

The producers of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest had nearly cast every patient in the ward, except one: the unpredictable, sharp-witted Martini. DeVito entered the room with a New Jersey accent, a worn jacket, and a confidence that made the character feel alive before he’d even read a line.
When director Milos Forman asked him why he wanted the part, DeVito tapped the script and said,

“Because he thinks faster than the room. People just miss it.”

He booked the role for $350 a week, surrounded by taller, more classically trained actors — yet the camera kept drifting toward him. Forman let him improvise freely.

In one take, DeVito silently slid his chair closer to Jack Nicholson, inch by inch. Nicholson broke character laughing. Forman kept it in the film.

Then came Taxi.

Network executives doubted viewers would accept a five-foot actor as a major presence in a primetime comedy.
DeVito walked into the table read, slammed the script shut, and growled,
“Who wrote this dispatcher? I love him.”
The room exploded with laughter.

He walked out with a deal for $15,000 an episode.

By season two, he had a Golden Globe, winning audiences with scenes that weren’t even written for him.

His defining moment arrived in 1989 with Batman Returns.

Warner Bros wanted a traditional villain. Tim Burton wanted DeVito.
When they met, Burton placed a sketch of the Penguin on the table.

DeVito traced the long pointed nose with his finger and said:

“He’s angry because the world never gave him a chance to be ordinary.”
Burton nodded.

“Then you are him.”

DeVito endured three hours of makeup every day and insisted on performing the sewer scenes himself. The film earned over $260 million in the U.S. alone.

Danny DeVito became living proof that:
• Presence matters more than height.
• Skill matters more than type.
• And the industry’s rules don’t survive someone determined enough to break them
He once said,
“If they shut a door, I climb through the window.”

That’s the story of his career a man who never fit the mold,so he changed the shape of the mold instead.

[Dexys Midnight Runners @DexysOfficial]

I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of ‘Come On Eileen,’ am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our song to make his entrance for his party conference. Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage’s politics.

@ByDonkeys .

[Eric Idle @EricIdle]

Very sad to see the passing of Tim Curry, our first King Arthur.
A fine man, singer, actor, host and gardener. He will be missed.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

An earthly angel. Dolly Parton. Thankyou for your life and example.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

🤣🤣🤣

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

Just heard that Glen Hansard has died. Travel on well, Buddy. You made your dreams come true. I'm so sorry that he leaves his wife and 3-year-old child.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

This is the exact moment Andrew Tate's life fell apart.

[Laird of the Extremists. #ScottishIndependence @Lairdysnr]

Yup.

Fuck Thatcher.

[Vork7 @RRmdrid7]

Por suerte la gente se va dando cuenta de quien es Leo Messi

Carta blanca

[Pádraig Belton @PadraigBelton]

What do the World Cup and Second World War have in common?

When it finished, the losers flew to Argentina.

I know I should be better than this but on reflection I’m not.

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

Booing Donald Trump is the closest thing to a national anthem for the world.