Scene and Heard

MUSIC NEWS:

Given that Karl Hyde’s musical pedigree stretches back even further than his heyday with Underworld in the 1990s, it’d be fair to call him a veteran of the electronic music scene. Compared to his new studio buddy Brian Eno, however, Hyde is a fresh-faced newbie. The duo have announced they’ll be releasing an album in May entitled Someday World, which also features Coldplay drummer Will Champion and Roxy Music saxophonist Andy Mackay.

Attendees at Bob Dylan’s gigs in Dublin and Cork during the summer will probably be complaining about his lack of engagement with the audience. Have a look at the footage of a chatty Dylan from 1980, currently up on Rolling Stone magazine’s website, and it’s a toss of a coin as to which Bob we’d prefer to get. He intros a version of ‘Solid Rock’ with a seven-minute sermon on the impending arrival of the Anti-Christ and how that nasty beast will be defeated by God. Would a simple, “Hello Cork, thanks for coming to see me” be too much to ask?