Two drawn shirts from last autumn in Belfast — one drawn in Linen Hall Library’s cafe, the other Clements on Botanic Avenue.  Thanks to Julia and Johanna’s Miriam for the shirt bases; the drawing was with a black fabric marker, set with heat.  They are up for sale on Etsy now, with some sadness.

Mairead and I were coffeeing on Botanic Avenue this past June in South Belfast, and a man asked if he could join our table on the street. He turned out to be Joby Fox, a member of the 80s-90s Northern Irish band Energy Orchard, and they had shot the music video for their single “Sailor Town” in where else? Braddock, Pennsylvania.

So we recorded an impromptu reminiscence session right there at Clements, Mairead on audio, me on video. And “Sailor Town”, you can see it woven into the interview, or in its completeness here. You can see Joby in his 1990 version, in the thumbnail gallery above or on the right in the video. And his website is here.

I drew these squares of fabric (cut up sheets from a skip in the Holylands, thank you students) on the Rail and Sail over to Ciaran and back.  Thank you Ciaran!  And to the taxi driver in the three hour taxi from Glasgow to Stranraer, as funded by the National Rail.  So thanks to them and the person who instigated the Tuesday 9:30 am Bomb Scare at Euston that set a wild day of dysfunctional transportation into action!