Being a Girl You’ve seen the film: a man looks behind an office filing cabinet to find a portal into another man’s consciousness – someone who turns out to be a famous actor. The intruder r...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/inhabiting-the-narrative-housekeeping-and-the-hounds-of-love/
Here’s the first installment of what’s going to be a regular feature on TMO, where we introduce you to tracks/albums/artists that we’re listening to at the Monkeys’ HQ at the moment. Ther...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/the-monkeys-playlist-15032012/
TMO favourites The Futureheads have been working on an accapella album, Rant, which will be released on April 2nd 2012. The band from Sutherland, already well known for their adventurous song str...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/the-futureheads-sneek-a-preview-of-rant/
An astounding series of peaks across North-West Spain are reified in folklore as instantly recognisable landmarks nefarious conquistadors and regular Joes all fixed upon as they finally saile...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/los-picos-de-europa-anabel-santiago/
Words launch other words, and names have a way of establishing themselves as footholds – nothing could be truer than with the name Jesus, which – thanks to the centuries of teaching, tradit...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/top-seven-songs-namechecking-jesus/
April is the cruellest month – always has been, and always will be, just like tuesdays never come out right; but there is hope at the end of the tunnel, glimpsed briefly through the showers. In...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/beautiful-world-colin-hay/
Wailing “God Bless America…” is not the selling point on which you can convince someone of a song’s cathartic merits, even if this song magnifies in grace over one of the most astounding ...
Serafino Murru passed away in 1994. It would be difficult though to accept the terminal shockwaves of this roughly sketched street balladeer after the scraping acoustic spears of Lo Scudetto In...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/lo-scudetto-in-sardegna-serafino-murru/
“Jesus” And that’s the way the song starts, leaving a man-god hanging as an insistent but quiet guitar chisels rythmically in the background. All the more potent for the Scottish accent blu...
https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/heads-roll-off-frightened-rabbit/
Though it’s officially springtime, celebrating the sunshine I find myself paradoxically listeing to Paddy Casey’s Ancient Sorrow (rather than the more appropriate Sunnyside of the Street by t...