Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


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Email to my editor. 2003:

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FROM: Eoin Butler
SENT: 09 October 2003 10:37am
TO: [email protected]

Hey Sam,

Possible feature idea. (I have a shit job. They don’t monitor my work very closely here.)

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Berlin (1973)


Not only the title track from Reed’s best solo album – check out The Kids, one of the most heartbreaking songs you’ll ever hear – but also the name of the city I’ll be in by the time any of you suckers read this.

There’s a really freaky/disturbing fact about the latter track after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Record Store Day – April 17 2010

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And slowly answered Arthur from the barge:
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

– Morte d’Arthur (Tennyson) Read the rest of this entry »

New Age (1970)

AFTER HOURS (1969)

CONEY ISLAND BABY (1975)


“Just remember that the city is a funny place / Something like a circus or a sewer…”