Category: Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM

Culture Cafe: Show 68 Podcast 07/11/2012

The show was a bit choca-block this week, I guess it’s a good complaint when you want more time to cover everything going on! Thanks to Paul from O Emperor, David Burke and Walshy from The Original Rudeboys for chatting to me.

Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Angel Haze: New York
3. O Emperor: Electric Tongues
4. Chat with Paul Savage from O Emperor
5. O Emperor: Erman Gou
6. Kodaline: All I Want (Everything Everything Remix)
7. Chat with Sean Walsh from The Original Rudeboys about turning down Chris Brown
8. The Original Rudeboys: Blue Eyes
9. Joe Janiak: You Can’t Hurry Love (Supreme’s Cover)
10. Chat with David Burke
11. David Burke: Love Hate
12. Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra: The Killing Type
13. Willy Moon: Yeah Yeah

Thanks for listening, don’t forget you can listen to the full show again on the RTE Player. The show is broadcast every Wednesday at 1400 GMT and is repeated every Sunday at 2100 GMT. You can also subscribe to the Culture Cafe podcast on iTunes.

November 7, 2012
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Podcast and Playlist Show 67 – 31/10/2012

Lots of new music to play on the show today and I really enjoyed catching up with Dave from Fossil Collective and Fiona from Runaway Go. Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Uncle Frank: Irresistible You
3. Kodakid: Portis
4. Chat with Dave from Fossil Collective
5. Fossil Collective: On and On
6. Bastille: Flaws
7. Everything Everything: Cough Cough
8. Enfant: Border of Mexico
9. Runaway Go:Electric
10. Chat with Fiona from Runaway Go
11. Runaway Go: Jump Start
12. Versives: Two Enemies
13. Alt -J: Tessalate
14. Calling All Astronauts: What’s So Good About (Echoboy Bounce Remix)

Thanks for listening, remember you can listen to this week’s full show on the RTE player. Culture Cafe is broadcast on RTE 2XM every Wednesday at 1400 and is repeated every Sunday night at 2100. Thanks for listening.

October 31, 2012
Culture Cafe Show 66 Melanie C Interview

This week allowed me to mark one thing off the bucket list, I had the honour of chatting to Melanie C, who I truly believe is an artist whose achievements have been overlooked. Never mind her time in the Spice Girls, Melanie has released six solo albums, four of those on her own ‘Red Girl Records’ label. Add that to her acting achievements in Blood Brothers and Jesus Christ Superstar and you’ve got one interesting lady to chat to.

We managed to get ten minutes to chat, so I asked about her label, working as an independent artist right up to how she chose the tracks for her new album ‘Stages’.

I also had the opportunity to play lots of new music, here’s what happened:

1. DJ FLip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Kimbra: Posse Strangers Remix
3. Avec Sans: Heartbreak Hi
4. Bird: I Am A Mountain
5. Liz Lawerence: Bedroom Hero
6. Cat Dowling: Cruel
7. O Emperor: Electric Tongues
8. Orphan Code: Friendly FIre
9. Runaway GO: Jump Start
10. Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra: The Killing Type
11. Melanie C: Goin’ Down
12. Melanie C: Aint Go No/I Got Life
13. Chat with Melanie C
14. Melanie C and Emma Bunton: I Know Him So Well
15. Melody’s Echo Chamber: I Follow You
16. Jake Bugg: Fire

Photo of Melanie C from her website.

Culture Cafe is broadcast every Wednesday at 1400 GMT and repeated every Sunday at 2100 GMT. Thanks for listening!

October 25, 2012
Culture Cafe Podcast: Interview with Mika

I had the privilege of catching up with Mika when he was in Dublin on September 27th for Arthur’s Day. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, maybe I was about to meet a complete pop starish diva, that couldn’t have been further from the truth.

I really loved chatting to Mika, about love, his life, his wanting to write music for movies. I’d love to sit down to him over a coffee for an hour, he’s a really interesting guy with so many layers to him.

Enjoy the podcast, this was originally broadcast on September 27th. Keep an eye out for my review of Mika’s new album ‘The Origin of Love’.

October 17, 2012