Settled back in Ireland and starting to look for work. Keep me in mind for interesting things.
I’ll be reaching out with CVs this week, but thought I’d get my name out to the hivemind.
#jobsearch #creativejobs #remotework #arttech
Just dug out my first pedal from 1991: the DOD FX-55B Supra Distortion. Bought for £40 in what we called the pissy shop, to differentiate it from the other less piss-smelling music shops around Capel Street at the time. Beside it, for the same price, was what I only later realised was a Roland TR-606 drum machine. It felt cheap and fragile and the DOD felt much more substantial to me. It felt like £40 to a cash-strapped 16-year-old. Things could have gone in a very different direction…
I wanted broad, primary colours in my sound and the DOD didn’t disappoint. It may have even changed my personality. I never saw any reason to ever play through it at any setting less than full distortion.
Over the years I fell out of love with its intense fuzziness but, listening to it again now, I’m back in love with its saturation and the on-the-edge relationship it creates between guitar and amp. It always sounded best when the battery was slightly low.
#fx55bsupradistortion
#distortionpedal
#supradistortion
Back in Sweden for a few days. After a very, very impressive gig by @deus_band in Stockholm last night, I’m on the train up to #Upmeje until Wednesday. Sunny and crispy.
Listen to an excerpt from 25.5 Hours on Whiddy Island, a new audio essay broadcasting Thursday 26 March on @dublindigitalradio at 18:00
A collaboration between Rachel Donnelly (@racklette ) and Eavan Aiken (@_irrealis_mood_ ), commissioned by @cpwestcorkislands as part of their Ocean and Environment initiative.
Featuring the voices of: Rachel Donnelly, Tony Fry, Robert Collins (@rob_makes_things ), James Gibson, Shane Finan, Aisling Phelan (@aisling_phelan ) and Viva Dean (@vivadean ).
This audio essay is a response to the first AGON gathering which took place on Whiddy in summer 2025, exploring ideas around the design of digital infrastructures, agency, the right to repair, civic spaces and speculative futures. Whiddy’s complex history framed these discussions - the site of a strategic military base for the British in the early 1800s, and in the 1970s the site of a tragedy when an oil tanker exploded and cost 50 lives. The still-active oil refinery lies sunk into the land on the west end of the island and has experienced several changes in multinational ownership in recent years, while the military batteries lie abandoned.
AGON was hosted by Robert Collins and Paul O’Neil and featured contributions from Shane Finan and Loes Damhof, Seán Finnan, Cliona Harmey, Micheál O’Connell and Aisling Phelan.
With thanks to the West Cork Islands Creative Places Partnership.
