Category: Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM

Culture Cafe Show 48 podcast and Playlist: 20/06/2012

This week’s show was quite a diverse affair, theatre, classical music and the photographic art world were all looked at, I even managed to get some dark electro gothic punk music in there too!

Here’s the playlist:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Elevens: New Beginnings
3. The Pale: An Autograph for my Dad
4. Chat with Owen Roe about his roll in Glengarry Glen Ross at The Gate Theatre
5. Gaslight Anthem: 45
6. Calling All Astronauts: Winter of Discontent
7. Kopek: Love is Dead
8. Chat with Ivan Ilic
9. Ivan Ilic: Study Number 30 in F Major ‘Pastoral’
10. Leszek Wolnik speaking at the Propeller 2012 Exhibition Launch at the Copper House Gallery
11. Chat with Amy Hanrahan, winner of the Propeller 2012 award
12. Polica: Lay Your Cards Out
13. Niall Kelly: Your Worst Nightmare

Thanks for listening!

June 20, 2012
Culture Cafe Podcast and Playlist Show 47: June 13 2012

It was only when I finished recording this episode that I realised that during Culture Cafe’s time on DCUfm, I did 53 Episodes. This is Show 47 on 2XM which makes it Show 100 in total … Yay! Happy Show 100 to me!

Thanks to my guests, Eamon Doyle from The Proud and to Funeral Suits. Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Chat with Eamonn Doyle of The Proud
3. The Proud: Emerald Army
4. Raglans: Digging Holes
5. I am Not Lefthanded: Brace Brace
6. Eleventyfour: Snapshots
7. King Charles & Mumford & Sons: The Brightest Lights
8. Funeral Suits: Florida
9. Chat with Funeral Suits
10. Funeral Suits: Stars Are Spaceships
11. Silhouette: Running Against The Wall
12. Caan: Into The Night
13. Niaall: Triumph

The show goes out every Wednesday at 10am and is repeated every Sunday at 2100. You can listen online anytime here and live on DAB, online and on UPC channel 944.

June 13, 2012
Culture Cafe on RTÉ 2XM: Podcast and Playlist 06/06/2012

I have been struck down by the dreaded Summer flu, hopefully my croakiness didn’t annoy you too much!

Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Funeral Suits: Mary’s Revenge
3. Chat with Sinead Connolly, Festival Director, Dublin Writers Festival
4. Cfit: The Static
5. Saint Motel: 1997
6. Chat with musician David Lyttle
7. David Lyttle featuring Homecut: This Moon of Ours
8. David Lyttle Featuring Rhea: Questions
9. King Charles: Lady Percy
10. Foreign Slippers: Under Your Ribs
11. Chat with Jody Ackland, Project manager of Love Live Music, national music day on June 21st.
12. The Radioactive Grandma: Fly With The Crows
13. Michael Kinwanuka: I Need you By My Side
14. Kopek: Floridan

Thanks to everyone who listened this morning, don’t forget you can still listen to the show in full on the RTÉ player. The show is broadcast every Wednesday at 1000 and is repeated on Sunday nights at 2100 online, on digital and on UPC channel 944.

June 6, 2012
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Podcast and Playlist Show 45: 30/05/2012

Can’t believe there have been forty five episodes of Culture Cafe on 2XM. Thanks to my guests, Cormac from The Answer, Johno from The Radioactive Grandma and Denise Canavan from Helium Festival.

Here’s the running order:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Spector: Celestine
3. Garbage: The Battle in Me
4. Chat with Cormac Nesson from The Answer
5. The Answer: Rise
6. The Plea: Oh Ah Yay
7. Chat with Denise Canavan from Helium Festival, Ballymahon
8. Delorentos:
9. Neon Wolf: All Of It’s Yours
10. Chat with Johno from The Radioactive Grandma
11. The Radioactive Grandma: Waves
12. Redsail: Paper Cutouts
13. Cry Monster Cry: The Fallen
14. Twin Terrace: To Belong

You can listen to the show in its entirety, including all the music, here. Culture Cafe is broadcast on RTÉ 2XM every Wednesday at 1000 and repeated every Sunday at 2100

May 30, 2012