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IN June of 2019 the visit of Metallica to Liscannor was an unexpected novelty, coming the day after the American heavy metal group had played in Slane. Their visit was recalled in an exhibition entitled Tiny Little Histories which was at the Limerick City Gallery of Art recently. The visit of Metallica was evoked through an audio story made by artist John Lillis entitled ‘Black Helicopter’. Speaking about it, John says, “There was a call out from the GAFF in Limerick to do with audio storytelling. I have an interest in storytelling in general and I knew it was something I’d be interested in applying for. “It was quite short, you only had seven minutes, and they wanted something that was kind of a contemporary story, it had to have happened in the last 100 years. I just sat with it for a couple of days.” By chance he came upon his subject. “I live in Clahane just outside Liscannor …
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