‘And ever onwards…’ was set up in the first months of 2010 as a place to archive the ridiculous articles I was writing for my college paper. I’m studying journalism in college so I thought that these things were very important. Turns out that the paper would print anything, so don’t go looking. Then I stopped writing for the college paper. Grew slightly older, drank more, and started listening to music that didn’t come from the two for €12 rack in HMV. Bitterness and loathing increased, and the blog started to reflect this. I slowly learned how to feature music and adopted a style guide. Then I spent six months of placement writing for various regional newspapers in the west of Ireland. Grew more bitter and developed a mild pathological hatred towards local politicians, PR people and spelling mistakes. Have been posting things that I will regret in less than two years time ever since.
Currently based in Barcelona. Music, politics, media, culture and half-arsed cynicism. Enjoy.
Other voices on the blog:
“One of the hardest things for traditional media journalists has been to adopt a ‘natural blogging voice’. I think that this is an issue that will gradually disappear as new young journalists who have already taken blogging to heart enter the profession. Liam Corcoran, for example, has a very spiky voice on ‘And ever onwards to prudery’, where he has blogged about music and local politics…It comes across as a very natural use of online media.”
- Information Architect for The Guardian, Martin Belam – www.currybet.net
“The writing can be sarcastic, but always stellar.”
- onlineschooling.net
“Better than being face down in an ould ditch anyways I suppose.”
I’m sitting on the roof of my house with a shotgun and a six pack of beer. The newscaster said the enemy’s supposedly among us as stinkbombs explode and i think to myself oh fuck…
Sterling work. Maith thú Lime.