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He is also busy on the live circuit, with an appearance alongside Johnny Marr – a hero and, it turned out, an avid Blindboy Podcast listener – the highlights of a sold-out tour of the United Kingdom. All of this makes the phenomenon of Blindboy difficult to pin down. That New York Times profile ran the headline “An Outsider Takes On Ireland, From Inside a Plastic Bag.” Legendary Director Spike Lee to Appear on The Blindboy Podcast". hotpress.com. Hot Press. 15 August 2018 . Retrieved 15 June 2020. David Chambers, known by his professional pseudonym Blindboy Boatclub, is an Irish satirist, musician, podcaster, author, and TV presenter.

Hailed as a visionary new short story collection, Topographia Hibernica, unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature and colonisation while touching on an array of topics, from the comic to the macabre. Plenty, it turns out. If there is a perception that he is gate-crashing the rarefied word of letters with his energy and persona, that’s fine with him. Instead, he is bracing himself for the response to his third collection of stories. His debut collection, The Gospel According to Blindboy, was a popular success and drew a wildly mixed critical response: he admits that a review in The Irish Times scarred him a little and that he learned from the experience. It is about biodiversity collapse. My book is about decolonising. Every story contains animals. I’m trying to explore humanity through that Costello’s] was the type of place that was a sh**hole but what you had in there is genuine atmosphere and culture that can never be bought or replacedBlindboy thinks Ireland can change the world". rte.ie. RTÉ. 2 November 2019 . Retrieved 15 June 2020. a b c "Blindboy: 'Being recognisable is absolute hell' ". irishtimes.com. Irish Times . Retrieved 14 June 2020. He thinks people should be used to the name and plastic bag after over a decade has passed, and they shouldn’t try to find his identity. of the best podcasts to listen to right now". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 18 April 2020 . Retrieved 15 June 2020.

Experience The Blindboy Podcast LIVE with polymath, author, screenwriter, songwriter, musician, producer and academic Blindboy to mark to release of his highly anticipated book, Topographia Hibernica. Described as a “cultural phenomenon” by The New York Times; The Blindboy Podcast is an award-winning, storytelling podcast in the Irish tradition of the Seanchaí which seamlessly intertwines history, fiction, cultural critique and politics into a relaxing form the creator calls “The podcast hug”. Seven years have slipped by since then and Blindboy says he is “no longer in tune” with the mood among the young Irish. He’s reached that iffy in-between land of the late 30s and finds it hard, sometimes, to read what is happening on the streets. Blindboy – Podcast Tour". thelist.ie. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020 . Retrieved 14 June 2020. It used to be illegal in the 1600s in Ireland to kill a white butterfly,” says Blindboy Boatclub at one stage over our rambling, rainy-afternoon conversation in his native city.With a surprise special guest at every show, these meditative evenings will seek to replicate a private conversation in a public space through the language of theatre. In equal parts spontaneously endearing and refreshingly engaging, undoubtably there will be something for everyone to enjoy. Do not miss it! I want to go to the middle aisle of Aldi and look for lovely outdoor gear and not have someone beside me going, ‘I saw you on The Late Late Show there last night’.” Blindboy's 'character' I never use ‘em outside because it is dangerous. But I forgot about it. Like, you hear f**king nothing. And a bus went by so close to me that I felt the warmth of it on my nose. It was terrifying. But I was really glad it happened, because I immediately reflected on the impermanence of everything. It would have killed me stone dead. And it was like being injected with beautiful adrenaline. I was glad it didn’t happen. I said, never again with the noise cancellers because that was f**king dumb. And I ate my sandwich like it was the last sandwich you could ever eat.” Blindboy Boatclub reveals why he wears that plastic bag on his head". independent.ie. Independent News & Media. 27 November 2017 . Retrieved 15 June 2020.

He’s a big believer in therapy and told his listeners late last year that he was returning to visit a psychotherapist, as the tools he had acquired over the years were no longer working for him. In a way, his life is a contradiction: he yearns for quiet anonymity and likes nothing better than to wander the streets for hours, headphones on and mind fizzing. But his strongest urge – to create – means wrestling with a public profile and the word that makes him squirm, “fame”. Other stories, such as "St Augustine's Suntan", a dark look at the (literally) crumbling Catholic church in Ireland and the strange sense of guilt that permeates every Irish Catholic. As you read these stories, you begin to see the threads that connect the themes of this book. Masculinity and its role in the mental health crisis this country experiences, the slow death of our nations enviroment, the post Celtic Tiger greed that covers our emerald green island with a plastic smiling leprechaun - Blindboy sees all the problems in Ireland today and it seems he's the only one who understands them on a deeper level.These are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible; stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion. As a fan of Blindboy and his podcast, it’s surprising to find such scarcity of dialogue in his story collection. He is, after all, a master conversationalist; be it reaching the seriousness, depth and knowledge of the pinched-bottomed puce-faced arts programme contributor, or veering into madcap musing, akin to a drunk realising he has dropped a boiled sweet from his mouth while leaning over his dying granny. No matter, let’s see how this plays out, we might discover something. The Poitin Maker comments on Irish folklore and its uses historically to cope with life's hardships. An anxious moonshiner blames the death of his family on the fairies and is terrified his living child will be stolen and turned into a changeling.

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