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Boyd, Brian
Columnist and musi writer for the Irish Times
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Trade instead of protest at festivals
The Oxegen Festival to be held this coming weekend in Punchestown, Ireland, is regularly voted Europe's top music festival by visitors, above all on account of its perfect catering. There was a time when music festivals were venues for radical social and political protest, but nowadays they have degenerated into consumer events, the Irish Times writes: "Somewhere between the veggie burgers/Rizla papers/Anarchist's Cookbook stall and today's corporate sponsorship stages and VIP enclosures, something has been lost in festival world. The wristband-only bar for the chosen at Oxegen over the weekend will no doubt be indistinguishable from the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel after an international rugby match. Coverage will be more about what the WAGs and models wore than of any countercultural threat to the established order."
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A Polish-Irish soap opera
The columnist Brian Boyd comments on a 'hilarious hit for RTÉ television' [Irish national television] that develops an idea tried and tested on You Tube. "The show is called Soupy Norman and uses the popular [Polish] soap opera 'First Love'. ... Murphy and Doherty [Irish comedians] somehow got their hands on First Love and decided it would be the ideal vehicle with which to create a new comedy show. All they've done is removed the audio from the Polish soap and replaced it with Irish actors dubbing it into English. ... The programme is already been talked about among Ireland's sizeable Polish community. The www.vaveeva.com site - which is for foreign people living in Ireland - has given Soupy Norman a healthy plug and stated: 'You can not miss it.' Both Murphy and Doherty are anxious that it is taken up by the Polish community here who can enjoy it both as a nostalgic look at one of their country's most popular soaps and also as a new Irish comedy. ... This could be the beginning of a beautiful Polish-Irish soap opera exchange" relationship."
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