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Irish Times
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Rory Gallagher to be honoured with naming ceremony at Cork Airport
Liverpool has John Lennon Airport, Belfast has George Best Airport and now Cork is about to honour one its most famous sons, rock and blues legend Rory Gallagher by naming the main entrance route to Cork Airport in his honour. Taoiseach Micheál Martin will officially name Rory Gallagher Avenue at a ceremony at Cork Airport on Saturday. In attendance will be Rory's brother Donal and other family members as well as lord mayor of Cork Dan Boyle, a musician and fan of the late virtuoso guitarist. Gallagher was born in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, and grew up in Cork. It was while on Leeside that he began his music career, playing first with showbands such as The Fontana and The Impact before forming Taste with fellow Cork musicians Eric Kitteringham and Norman Damery. But it was with the second incarnation of Taste, with Richard McCracken on bass and John Wilson on drums, that Gallagher toured the United States with Eric Clapton and Blind Faith before putting in a storming performance at the Isle of Wight Festival in front of an estimated 600,000-plus fans in 1970. READ MORE Dissolving the blues-rock trio in late 1970, Gallagher went on to have a highly successful solo career, selling millions of albums, being voted guitarist of the year by Melody Maker readers in 1972 and earning the respect of such legends as Muddy Waters and Clapton. [ Statue of Rory Gallagher unveiled in Belfast to honour musician's connection to the city Opens in new window ] Gallagher died on June 14th, 1995, aged 47, from complications following a liver transplant. To mark the 30th anniversary of his death, Cork City Council, Cork City Libraries and Gallagher's estate are holding a series of commemorative events this weekend, Cork Rocks for Rory. Cllr Dan Boyle said the commemorative events would include photographic and original memorabilia exhibitions at Cork City Hall, Central Library and Public Museum and a citywide walking trail commemorating the life and legacy of the musician. 'Rory Gallagher has been Cork's finest cultural export across the world. As we mark the 30th anniversary of his passing, we must celebrate his genius.' Gallagher's nephew Eoin Gallagher said: 'The Gallagher family are honoured and proud to endorse this initiative led by the lord mayor of Cork, Dan Boyle, and Cork City Council. 'The interest in Rory's music and life has only continued to grow and grow, here in Ireland and throughout the world. We are delighted to support these simultaneous exhibitions and the establishment of the permanent 'Rory Gallagher's Stompin' Ground' Cork City Walking Trail.'
Zawya
19-05-2025
- Business
- Zawya
EY negligently missed huge fraud at collapsed UAE hospital operator, $3bln UK trial hears
EY failed to spot a major fraud by main shareholders of UAE hospital operator NMC Health in what lawyers for the firm's administrators described as disgraceful auditing, at the start of a roughly $3 billion London trial on Monday. The administrators of NMC – a FTSE 100 company when it collapsed in 2020 after disclosing more than $4 billion in hidden debt – are suing over audits from 2012 to 2018, when EY gave an unqualified opinion that NMC's accounts were accurate. The company's administrators Alvarez & Marsal say EY, one of the world's "Big Four" auditors and formerly known as Ernst & Young, was negligent in failing to get proper access to NMC's books, missing billions in unreported borrowing. EY, however, denies the negligence allegation and argues that it was NMC's own senior personnel who perpetrated the fraud and manipulated its accounts, hiding the fraud from EY. The 12-week trial at the High Court which began on Monday is the latest lawsuit brought against a major auditor and comes after recent criticism of EY specifically over work for travel firm Thomas Cook and German payments company Wirecard. NMC Health PLC listed in London in 2012 and joined the FTSE 100 in 2017, before short-seller Muddy Waters questioned its financials in December 2019 sending NMC's shares tumbling by almost a third in a day. NMC's administrators were seeking up to 2.7 billion pounds from EY in damages for losses, largely relating to undisclosed guarantees, but court filings for the trial put the figure at around 2 billion pounds plus interest. Their lawyer Simon Salzedo said EY's audits over seven years were among the "most fundamentally flawed examples of big-firm auditing that have disgraced a courtroom in this jurisdiction". Salzedo accepted that auditors giving a wrong opinion did not amount to negligence, but said: "Two wrong opinions looks very much like carelessness and to give seven in a row is rather harder to explain away." But EY's lawyers argued in court filings the auditing firm was "itself a principal target and victim of the fraud" committed by NMC staff for the benefit of its principal shareholders. NMC's case was based on expecting an auditor "to do the impossible by uncovering a pervasive and collusive fraud being practised and covered up in effect by the directors and management", EY's lawyers said. NMC has separately brought litigation against its founder BR Shetty, who denies any wrongdoing, and others in London, the UAE and the United States. (Reporting by Sam Tobin Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
RNZ News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Music with Kirsten Zemke
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Kirsten brings us some "swamp rock" - a genre that emerged in the American South, particularly Louisiana and Mississippi in the early 70s. Muddy Waters Photo: Wiki commons
Wall Street Journal
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘International Jazz Day in Morocco' Review: PBS's Musical Melange
We get a glimpse of what we think we're going to get from 'International Jazz Day in Morocco' when a Tangier musician appears, cradles a three-stringed, round-necked guembri in his lap, and plays a blues solo he might have copied from a Muddy Waters record. His one-woman audience is an appreciative Dee Dee Bridgewater, the estimable American vocalist. So as intros go, it is international, arguably connected to jazz, and is definitely Morocco. Whether the enthusiastic Jeremy Irons was the right guy to host the show is a question—he's hardly the jazz ambassador that someone like, say, Christian McBride is. And opening act Shemekia Copeland, a rather generic blues belter (and daughter of Johnny), immediately takes the show in a genre-specific direction. Likewise, Melody Gardot, who is best described as a chanteuse. Which may be French, but isn't vaguely African.
Indian Express
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
These Sennheiser headphones could be great therapy for stress
It is only recently that I started realising that my appreciation of music has always been linked to my mental state. From my teens when I began discovering music to now, when I need to find time to sit and appreciate a song, a lot has changed. But, the fact remains that great audio quality always makes you pause whatever you are doing to enjoy the moment. The Sennheiser HD505 headphones are exactly the kind of headphones that make you forget daily stress and focus on the composition streaming into your ears. The HD505 has a familiar Sennheiser over-the-ear design with a synthetic leather headband and metal mesh earcup covers with bronze-finish accents that give it a very premium look. The HD505 is surprisingly light and very comfortable to wear for long hours. The cups completely immerse your ears and don't warm up much, even in Delhi summers. The 6-foot cable is long enough to connect from the source of your choice and comes with a 6.3mm adapter for those using music systems. The dual-tone finish makes the headphone look premium. (Image credit: Nandagopal Rajan/The Indian Express) Whenever I am testing audiophile headphones, the first song I listen to is always the one that leaves a lasting impact. I started the Sennheiser HD505 journey with a FLAC version of Brothers in Arms by Club For Five. I could not have chosen something better. This cappella group from Finland has vocals at such a level that most headphones will struggle to make it palatable. But the HD505 managed the baritone so well, along with heartbeat-like thumbing in the middle. The HD505 has a custom 120-ohm transducer housed in an open earcup that gives all music a natural feel. It is with a composition like NTO's Petite that you get to experience the full range of this headphone's capabilities, from a punchy bass to rich details. This is the sort of music that can take you into a trance, and the HD505 gradually fades into the background, letting the music embalm you with its mystical capabilities. With something more vocal like With My Home in the Delta, the soulful voice of Muddy Waters is the centre of attention, though you don't miss any details, not the guitars or the regular drum beats. Each strum is as if someone is tugging on your heart… it is not every day you listen to songs with such intent. I had heard enough… I knew I had to listen to Leonard Cohen to seal my appreciation of the HD505. A live performance of his famous Blue Raincoat took me to the cold New York streets with music playing on the sidewalks, ushered into a surreal world far from my reality as only Cohen's voice and words can. This is that kind of headphone… one that does not need noise cancellation to shut out the noise of your life. A premium headphone for audiophiles. (Image credit: Nandagopal Rajan/ The Indian Express) At Rs 27,990, the Sennheiser HD505 might not be for everyone. But I would consider this among the best headphones at the moment for audiophiles who love their songs to be rendered without overpowering technology. I found my time with the Sennheiser HD505 both destressing and therapeutic… as long as I knew what songs to play. This therapy is strongly recommended.
