An update from a sickly Aquanaut

I caught Covid

Jul 16, 2022

So unfortunately there is no newsletter this week. I was feeling pretty low on energy for about a week and I finally tested positive on Tuesday for Covid. I would usually be a few posts ahead in order to avoid situations like this, but alas not this time.

Instead, here are some suggested posts from earlier in the blog.

Discover how my love for heavy music started!
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The Summer of 1987
I discovered music in 1987. I was ten years old. My Dad used to work overseas, so my Mom would generally have me for the whole summer. Starting in 87 we began to visit her side of the family in Bray, Co. Wicklow. Bray is a seaside town slightly down the coast from Dublin in Ireland. It has a quaint Promenade in the style of UK cities like Blackpool, …
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2 years ago · 2 likes · Richard Neary
My introduction to drone metal legends SUNN O)))
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SUNN O)))
It’s July 2017. I’m in the Button Factory in Dublin. The venue is pretty much full, both upstairs and downstairs. The room is filled by clouds of dry ice and a deep vibration that is coming from everywhere. Nobody in the crowd is jumping around or moshing. Many people have earplugs. We are all facing what we hope is the band. Sometimes through the smok…
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2 years ago · 1 like · Richard Neary
The first post in my epic 8 part deep dive into The Crow and Judgement Night soundtracks.
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Judgement Night vs The Crow - Round 1
In my next series of blog posts I’m going to take a deep dive into two movie Soundtracks that defined the mid-nineties. Neither of these movies are Singles (which will get a mention when/if I decide to do a Seattle blog post at some later stage). However, the…
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2 years ago · 1 like · 2 comments · Richard Neary
Motörhead
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Motörhead
One morning during the school holidays, sometime in the late 80’s, my cousin woke me up by BLARING this at full blast…
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2 years ago · 2 likes · Richard Neary

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