Damien O'Carroll
After getting far too bored with university to actually bother finishing the science degree he was doing, Damien ended up working in a music shop, selling CDs and funny old things called "cassettes".
A short time later he bought the shop and started a thrilling 11-year adventure in retail, which he enjoyed... for at least two years.
But three very good things came from this experience; the first was an appreciation for an extremely broad range of music and the second was a truly massive and somewhat intimidating CD collection. The third was his introduction to writing by way of a weekly CD review column in a local paper. Unfortunately the paper didn't last long, but the love of writing did.
Following his time in the music shop Damien swears he had a brief career as a secret agent before his first real journalist-job freelancing for a far more robust newspaper writing about music and entertainment, real estate (yes, really...) and cars. The “writing about cars” bit eventually led to a job as assistant editor at Driver magazine doing just that. Four years later and he is back freelancing, still writing about cars, but now also writing about music and entertainment again, this time for Fly Buys Communities.
Articles by Damien O'Carroll
Boy (DVD)
Reviewed on: DVD
Also Available on: Blu-ray
Rating: M
It goes without saying that Boy is pretty much on track to become a classic kiwi film. […]
Ultimate Rock Singer Quits Singing Rock. World Doesn’t End.
A rock star with integrity? Apparently it does happen, and believe it or not, legendary Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant […]
Crazy Heart (DVD)
Reviewed on: DVD
Also Available on: Blu-ray
Rating: M
It is easy to see why Jeff Bridges snagged the Best Actor nod at the last […]
The Ultimate Movie-Nerd In-Joke
It is probably the most famous death scene in movie history and yet it is doubtful you have ever seen […]
Tommy Ill – Tommy Ill
Okay, I might as well just finish this review right here; Tommy Ill’s self-titled debut album is the best damn […]
Transformers: War For Cybertron (PS3)
Reviewed on: PS3
Also available on: Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS
Rated: M
Damn you Michael Bay. Damn you back to whatever fast-moving, visually impressive, yet […]
Stuck In The Middle
A situation arose recently that I thought highlighted just how much that wonderful playground we call the internet has changed […]
Rock On! And Off… then on again…
Why wont the ’80s leave me alone?
I just seem to be getting past the Devo/Gary Numan thing that has consumed […]
Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare
I have to admit that I have always pretty much written Avenged Sevenfold off as being somewhere between “Annoying Nu-Metal” […]
Mostly Harmless. Maybe.
So the iPad has finally officially made our shores and suddenly become the trendy thing for a certain type of […]
