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Smackhead - 24 Hours (Jez Kerr)
Love, Loathe, Love You - Babaganouj
Pretty Pagan - Sickboy
I Want Answers - The Girobabies
Hot And Cold - Ex Hex
Silver Spring - Speedy Ortiz
Watch You Change - Drowners
Honey - Claws and Organs
Love Letters - Corners
Dig It Out - Natalie McCool
Deep End - Chicks Who Love Guns
Little Boat - Honeyfeet
Unrecognizable Blues - Designer Mutts
Talking - Project Jurassic
Put Em In The Air - Illy
Deadfoot - Coach
Poem:
Having To Live in the Country
by Patrick Kavanagh
Back once again in wild, wet Monaghan
Exiled from thought and feeling,
A mean brutality reigns:
It is really a horrible position to be in
And I equate myself with Dante
And all who have lived outside civilization.
It isn't a question of place but of people;
Wordsworth and Coleridge lived apart from the common man,
Their friends called on them regularly.
Swift is in a somewhat different category
He was a genuine exile and his heavy heart
Weighed him down in Dublin.
Yet even he had compensations for in the Deanery
He received many interesting friends
And it was the eighteenth century.
I suppose that having to live
Among men whose rages
Are for small wet hills full of stones
When one man buys a patch and pays a high price for it
That is not the end of his paying.
"Go home and have another bastard" shout the children,
Cousin of the underbidder, to the young wife of the purchaser.
The first child was born after six months of marriage,
Desperate people, desperate animals.
What must happen the poor priest
Somewhat educated who has to believe that these people have souls
As bright as a poet's - though I don't, mind, speak for myself.
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