Paddy Kehoe

Multimedia Journalist

Paddy Kehoe has been working in journalism for 27 years. A former teacher, he began his career with In Dublin and Magill magazines, and he wrote theatre reviews for the Sunday Tribune and film reviews for Irish Stage & Screen magazine.

Elvin Jones greets the crowd at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland in 2002, two years before his death at the age of 76.

Album review: Elvin Jones - Mr Jones

Mr Jones is a lively, at times symphonic experience on which the esteemed drummer is joined by a host of accomplished sidemen to create a rich musical experience.

Music Reviews • 15 Jul 20

Six people walk into a lift and mayhem ensues

The bleakly humorous Lift is an elevating experience

Smart and hard-edged and set in centre-city Dublin, Lift elicits to full effect the black humour involved when six people get stuck in a lift on a Friday evening, as pub-time beckons.

Film Reviews • 14 Jul 20

John Martyn and Danny Thompson play Dublin's Gaiety Theatre in 1987 (pic John Cooney)

Reviewed: Small Hours: John Martyn by Graeme Thomson

Graeme Thomson's largely sympathetic biography of the troubled but gifted musician John Martyn is a very impressive stab at interpreting the life of a shifting, mercurial persona.

Culture • 22 Jul 20

Vox Clamantis: a haunting, radiant quality which harks back centuries

Cyrillus Kreek The Suspended Harp of Babel

The many devotees of the music of Arvo Pärt should logically be interested in the music of fellow Estonian Cyrillus Kreek who was a meticulous researcher, composer and song and hymn-gatherer in his native Estonia.

Music Reviews • 01 Jul 20

Alfred Hayes (1911-1985): celebrated, English-born screenwriter, novelist and poet

Reviewed: The End of Me by Alfred Hayes

There is a touch of Albert Camus and existentialist gloom about Alfred Hayes' wistful, candid tale of despair, desire and manipulation played out in late 1960s New York.

Book Review • 26 Jun 20

Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times - a recommended summer read

Ten books to read this Summer

Paddy Kehoe has ten tips for summer reading to see you well-armed before you go browsing the display areas and find you are. well, just spoiled for choice. Happy reading..

Books • 23 Jun 20

Pianist Jon Balke: "sometimes just vague textures, sometimes solid..."

Album review: Jon Balke Discourses

The Norwegian musician, Jon Balke, born 1955, returns with a series of piano exercises, some of them improvised and ranging from the astringent to the wistful, while tempered with his own 'sound-processing.'

Music Reviews • 11 Jun 20

Art Taylor: delight is indeed the business in hand

Album review: Art Taylor AT's Delight

First issued in 1960, and now reissued on vinyl, AT's Delight features at least three stellar presences of the period, pianist Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, bass and Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax, along with drummer-leader Art Taylor.

Music Reviews • 09 Jun 20

Graciliano Ramos: his literary legacy is still a big deal in his native Brazil

Reviewed: São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos

Almost seventy years after his death, the works of Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) are hugely popular in his native Brazil and São Bernardo shows an intuitive understanding of rural society in the country's North-East in the 1930s, based on life experience.

Books • 06 Jun 20

The camp at Auschwitz: Jack Fairweather's book details the remarkable infiltration by Witold Pilecki

New books mark the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat

May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in 1945. Two recent works of particular relevance for the before and after, Jack Fairweather's The Volunteer and Philippe Sands' The Ratline are worthy of attention.

Books • 23 May 20