Conor Mc Kenna

This is my blog of an interview with Conor Mc Kenna

http://youtu.be/d8amFhWLx9w

haloween music

For me the videos most associated with Halloween are and how much I like them. To me this is an exciting time for music but it normally comes from America. A few of these I knew but some I found out by looking for Halloween videos
1 Thriller MICHEAL JACKSON

2 Ghostbusters RAY PARKER JUNIOR

3 I put a spell on you JAY HAWKINS

4 Nightmare on my street WILL SMITH AND DJ JASSY JEFF

5   Everybody BACK STREET BOYS

6 Monsters KANYE WEST

7   Monster Mash BOBBY PICKET JUNIOR AND THE CRIPT KICKERS

8 Tubular bells Part 1 MIKE OLDFIELD (theme from the Exorcist)

9    Somebody’s watching me ROCKWELL

10 Spooky DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

11 The Adams family theme

12 Werewolves of London WARREN ZEVON

13 Rocky horror picture show THE TIME WARP

14 Bark at the Moon OZZY OSBOURNE

15 Highway to hell ACDC

international shout out

I would like to give a shout out to Northern Ireland who have played 3 won 3 England for a similar reason and the Republic of Ireland for that John O Shea equaliser at the Dying seconds. It is good to see all of our teams doing well

ant and dec saturday night takeaway 22-8-14

I WENT TO SEE ANT AND DECS SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE  

 

Below are pictures of a challenge that Ant and Dec did which started with them having to climb 120ft ladder to release  three balls

 

The picture  is of one of the three balls that the audience had to bring to the top floor where Ant and Dec were on stage. I thought this idea was a lot of fun but they should have tried to use the entire audience *****

 

This was Ant vs Dec challenge where they had to go to school. Ant was being the good boy and gave Kimberly Wyatt an apple while Dec did not really want to care and was being the bad boy. I liked this very much and thought that it was a laugh ***** 



 

Kimberly Wyatt from the Pussycat Dolls  sang her new single as she now wants to be a solo act. I was not that pushed as she went up on this moving platform which did not allow her to move*****

Ant and Dec sang lets get ready to rumble in the finally. Ant and Dec and the dancers were all wearing 1990s clothes as they were doing the dance. I lied this very much as it reminded me of a silly era*****

Kian Eagan from Westlife wore an earpiece and talked to a member of the Ant and Dec staff it did seem like she was aware as she did not react naturally to being  pranked. This could have worked out a lot better *****

In the win the Ads Lauren was the winner of the chance to win. We got the chance to see her win 6 of the prises gamble and win all of the prises. It was on this weeks news

Blue sang All Rise which I thought was cool *****

Little Ant and Dec talked to little mix they said Belfast was the bet audience *****

In the interval there was background music I thought it was OK *****

A man that I had never seen decided to warm up the audience. There were 3 girls and 1 man. The warm up guy decided to focus on this man who was not very good but the audience backed him as they thought that he was very funny. He danced at the end of the show and that was his prize. I am not sure whether this was right or wrong as a spectacle*****

 

 

Ant and Dec danced with the cast of river dance here is a picture of I. I thought that this was very funny as an idea***** 

 

 

 

titanic information part 2

Lucy duff Gordan a well known dress designer and Sir Cosmo a Scotsman who’s ancestor was James Duff in British council. They got on a lifeboat and took there servants with them  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After watching the ship dive beneath the water, amidst the screams of the 1,500 people calling for help that they were ignoring, the tactless Lucy commented to her secretary, "There is your beautiful nightdress gone." Two sailors commented "It's all right for you, you can get more clothes, but we have lost everything." Cosmo then gave the men a "fiver" each ($360.00 today) to help them out, a gesture that would cost him a lot more later when he was accused of bribing the crew to let him escape the liner and then row away without helping any of the victims in the water.

Miss Edith Brown who is the oldest living person that was on board the titanic who died on January 20^th 1997. In 1993 she preached her oral

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was in Lifeboat #13. I always remembered that. My father was waving to us and talking to a clergyman, the Rev. Carter."

"The Titanic went in the ice and I heard three bangs. Before we hit, there had been terrific vibrations from the engines during the night as the ship was really racing over the sea."

"As the lifeboat pulled away we heard cries from people left on the Titanic and in the water and explosions in the ship. There were lots of bodies floating ... We were in the lifeboat nine hours."

"I kept looking in the water for my father and when we reached New York we went to the hosptials to see if he had been picked up."

Edith married the late Frederick Haisman in South Africa. They had 10 children and more than 30 grandchildren.

 

There was a section about the different movies of the titanic and there was one movie in Germany that came to my mind where the British were the failures and it was a German who had to come to mind to save the people they also looked at different movies from different countries some of which I found to be interesting others I did not. Like a movie they did in Britain in the 1960s

 

There are some amazing things that you can find blow where the titanic sank and scientist are still looking now. Some of the think that were shown I showed in my previous blogs but things like jewellery camber pots and other things that would have been used during the time of the titanic. To this day there are still people who want to look and learn as much as they can from the titanic   

information on titanic rosies points part 1

 

I did enjoy the titanic quarters a lot but I do think that there was a lot of reading to it and that to me was very boring. I found some of the information to be fascinating like how women worked and what they actually had to do but I do think that they should have made the tour more interactive as there was a lot of reading in it and you had to pick up the information and I did find that to be quite slow. Probably my lasting memory was sitting in that lift moving from one part of the exhibit to the other.  There were a few videos but they were not as interesting as they should be

The linen industry was one of the things that turned Belfast from a small town. It grew from a small town in the 1860s to a major city in the 19^th century. To make linen Flax was harvested and scotched (a process that makes flax more fibrous) then women made it into yarn by churning which was woven into linen cloth and sold in the nearest place

 

Belfast has been known as a shipyard city in fact the earliest written record was in 1636 when a 150 ton ship was made by the clergyman of the city. In July 1791 William Richie set up the first shipbuilding industry employing 10 men. The most famous ship builders were Harland and Wolf when Edward Harland a young engineer from Yorkshire purchased a company and in 1861 he took Gustov Wilelf Wolff from Hamberg Germany as a partner. During the war they built 139 navel ships

The titanic ship was known as ship no 401 and would not have been known as the titanic if another ship was built on time. She carried 2224 people. The ship was under control of Edward Smith. After leaving Southampton on 10^th April 1912 the Titanic went to Chebourg in France and Queenstown  (now cobh)  

 

 

Belfast girls are known as Millies even to this day because the women in the war used to work in the mines

Thomas Andrews is credited with making the Titanic but the working conditions seemed to be impossible as you would have had long hard days. Young boys going into work as young as 10 and that was considered acceptable. They worked usually in pairs with the man having to do some of the tough physical labour while the boy had to do difficult jobs also. It would have been a very long hard day but they would be happy to have the work.

 

The way that someone was able to live depended on how much money they had. A first class bed would have a lot of space a personal place to put your chamber pot room to put in your clothes and you could be there yourself. A third class bedroom would have no room whatsoever 2 bedrooms you would have to go to an area to go to the toilet so everyone went together there were 2 completely different ways of life

titanic 2

This was one of the fun things that I saw It looks like an astronaut

This was a different way that they set up their information

Here is a make up they have done of the titanic

This would be an example of how they worked

Here are some people who were singing in their native tongue it was very nice to listen too

Here I am reading with someone who is helping me try to understand Rosie Magire

Here I am with Alex one of the main people who run Titanic