“Surfing in Ireland?!? SURFING in IRELAND? Are you sure?!?” It's rocky, rough, cold and wet! Well, honestly… people DO surf in Ireland and I have to confess, it is one of the most consistent surfing areas in Europe and it has some seriously good waves! There's something I have to explain first. Surfers are a […]
Steerage’s recently released e.p smash them all to bits has received critical acclaim from a number of quarters (Three Monkeys Online included). Fearing the worst, after all a band without a singer must surely have little to say for themselves, Andrew Lawless was pleasantly surprised when he caught up with the band for Three Monkeys […]
(Editor’s note – this email interview was conducted before news broke that long time Therapy? member, Martin McCarrick was leaving the band) Recently, while browsing through the web-site for famous Amsterdam club The Paradiso, I stumbled upon a live broadcast of Therapy? I watched intrigued, as it’s been some years since I’d seen anything from […]
Lacuna Coil have, in recent years, become that rarest of rare things – an internationally succesful Italian band. Their debut, and second albums were received with glowing reviews by music magazines across Europe, including in the UK and Ireland. They have toured extensively, with bands of the stature of Anthrax and Type-o-negative. They are about […]
For those of you familiar with the Coen brothers movie “The Big Lebowski”, you’ll remember the old-timer who does the voiceover that introduces Jeff Bridges character – the Dude – with the immortal phrase “sometimes there’s a man – I won’t say a hero, because what is a hero – but sometimes there’s a man […]
William Dalrymple is a hard man to pin down, as befits an award winning travel/history writer who has written about the Middle East, Asia and in particular India. A couple of tentative interview arrangements are scuppered through travel plans – but when we finally manage to get hold of him, the conversation is well worth […]
((Editor’s note: This article was written, before the referendum, and before May 1st – as such it deals with the history of Cyprus, rather than the current developments. Three Monkeys Online intends to publish a further article on the politics of current day Cyprus) The referendum on the reunification plan for Cyprus held on the […]
At a push, if one had to suggest one book, and one book alone, on South America – that would cover History, Politics, Culture and Society, and yet be a startlingly good read, with a dose of botany thrown in for good measure, there can only be one recommendation – One River by Wade Davis. […]