Aidan Kelly Photography

09/07/2026

The heat does strange things. I thought of Jackie's army during Italia 90. 3 stripes and the money lost. The friends gained. Out in the suburbs the light shines and shows. Strayed alley cats.

Remember those half container shops that only sold white mice, chipsticks and coke. Old Mac Donald on an Ice cream vans speaker. A single poxy siren. An itchy dog barks at the black yoga pants.

Tallaghtfornia. The sunset browns down and the sons and daughters have daughters and sons now, screaming to get out of their prams to be Balaclava Scooters.

Slabs of Satzenbrau from the shed. Someone starts singing to escape the anxiety of housing and the sadness of the shadows that make sounds we don't understand. Who delivered the Prawn crackers.

24/06/2026

100 years ago

by Aidan Kelly and DMC

20/06/2026

I am extremely grateful to be a small part of this lovely bit of magical history by the heads at Disco Pogo

Can't wait to see it cover to cover.

Fail we May, Sail we must.
Limited print in the shop via bio x

24/05/2026

Really lovely chats and laughing with thank you @333.fest.d6 & The fancy

And a lovely snap by Fitzy

05/05/2026

It's going to be a mix of Emotions I'm nearly sure of that. There's a good chance I'll see Brendan and his show for his book and that will set me off.

Never mind some of you Sounders will be there, throwing some questions. I know will be ready for it too.

We'll go back to stories that made us laugh and hopefully help in trying to find out somewhere new to go.

Thank you @333.fest.d6 & them beauts

11/04/2026

In the middle of everything today some legend had brought a lawnmower. It made no sense but yet felt apt. Amongst the sandwiches wrapped in foil, sons with their fathers, Mother's and Sisters showing support, there were numerous John Deere tractors, trucks as long as O'Connells legacy, Monsters I'd remembered seeing in Arkansas. Stretching all the way up to the Ambassador.

So many of them...There was my flag, I'd sang to it on the Hill, for my own fathers memory, he'd have been there weeping with the Farmers and Truckers, fighting for scraps at the table. Not on the list of those invited. Just like the days he stood outside Liberty Hall.

Remember when I said that she doesn't love us anymore? Well there she is now in the form of a white collar coalition of sadness, can't talk right now, up to it's eyes. The sadness though faded away fairly quickly in the sunshine when some biker connected his Bluetooth to a speaker and the wind carried an Uileann air across the bridge like a hymn in church.

I know where I stand.

01/04/2026

Djing with Moloko in the Olympia. The Sycamore and the ceiling to the stars. Eden on Sundays. Phat Farm. Northern Exposure Double Vinyl. Triple A and Golden Maverick. Dermot Dorans storytelling.

Leaving wristbands on for ages.
The Lamb chop you got with the breakfast in Drum bar GPO. The night before. The Jetfoil on the Quays and the Fire Brigade coming through the wall. CK one. Flares.
Slate Mag Photos.

Dublin Vinyl. What would Scully do?
ThisIsPOPbaby at Electric Picnic.
Progressive Bubbles. Maybe not Speed Garage. Danny Tenaglia's version of Little Fluffy Clouds. Eating Oranges to Cygnus x. Air horns. Roland SH 101.

The Temple Bar Music Centre. Covid Raves. Makullas. Sherbet Dip.
Sticks that Glow in the Dark. Kickers Red and Blue. Toast. Pepe Jeans. Wearing Sarongs at Tumbling Crows in the Furnace.
Flapjacks. Turbosound.

Thank you

23/03/2026

Leftfield Not Forgotten. Hard Hands. Holding Hands with Herbie Dade, saying, "Studio 54 Forever" Bartley Dunnes & Hairy Lemon after parties. Cans and Cocktails Rutland Place. 6 Fairy cakes. B_sides.

Stefan Hoffmans Carhartt tees. Metro_city. Alexander Robotniks microphone. Red velvet banquets. Yop. Hugh Scullys tape shop. Abbey Mall. Bia Bar. Southern Comfort and Red. Rothmans. The Pink Elephant.

Capricorn 20hz. Macs Records George's Arcade. Paninis. Cuba Libres. The tiny DJ box in Cafe del Mar. Zaytoon. The legacy of Karen Reddy. Asleep on the grass.
The pint glass of Ice. Reese Bass.
Chips in Stradbally.

The Pav then Crane Lane. The Savoy. Lime cordial. Keeping Paper Bus Tickets. MTV Yo Raps. Eamon Sweeneys Silent Disco. The Jumping Bean. Deasy. Weather Report. DjBox. Through streets broad and narrow.

18/03/2026

Seeing Mek jam a butchers knife into a 12 at Eamon Dorans. Trouble Soul. Da Club. Soul gun warriors. DJ Trace in Powerfm Parnell Square. When PYG was good. Teores USB wristband. Dune by Dior. Dubfly.

The long mixes of Casper. Sasha in the System. Roots Manuva at 33-45. Martin Thomas. Rollies. Droid n' Slug. Decal. Bola in the Funnel. 'Not' going to Mark McCabe in the Temple Theatre. Mad Sound Disease.

Getting dragged out of the Kitchen by U2's lackeys. Viva. Mr Scruff in the Sugar Club. 2013. Unique. David Holmes dropping Sweet Dreams after Smokebelch in Tripod. Dungarees. Dubliner Magazine.

Not paying local DJ's more. Pawn Shop. Slazenger wristbands. Secondhand Wristbands. Underworld shapes at MTV EMAs 1999. Basement Jaxx in Radio Friendly Cork wearing Buffalos. Aftermath by Nightmares on Wax.

Thank you
Johnny Moy, Djing with Andy Weatherall
in the Good Bits with keeping it mannerly.

11/03/2026

Darklight. Stouts with Mani in Cuba Galway. Solas New York. Solas Wexford street. Deadmau5. Spare headphone Jacks. The Dublin Event Guide. The jukebox in the Globe. Dune by Dior.

Taking Andy Weatheralls photo in the Good Bits. Johnny Moy gave me 45 minutes in Sides. Psychotropic Hypnosis. Kennedy's. Me and Mark in the forest for Body and Soul. Left side Wobble. Will Softly and his top hat love. Avril.

Staring at Candi Statons Gucci's for too long. Witnessing "You Got The Love" in Sir Henry's. TopKatz. Sankeys Soap alongside Richard Fearless. Recording Dandelion. Tuna and Sweet corn. Knitting on ha'penny bridge with Bill Drummond KLF.

Charly says. Blue Adidas Samba. For years I wore a fork Bracelet. Chime Orbital. Bicep at ATN. Sitting on Underworlds flight cases. Fresh in Temple Bar. Carbon Records. Todd Terje. Starbars.
Home in Hibernian way. Alias Tom.

Thank you Darlin