Category: Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 81: 06/02/2013

A little later than usual, here’s the podcast and show notes for this week’s Culture Cafe. Thanks to my guests, Dave Browne from Picturehouse, Olive Barrett, curator of New Axis at the Talbot Gallery and to Elaine Doyle from The Riot Tapes. Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Swim Deep: The Sea
3. Delphic: Memeo
4. Chat with Dave Browne from Picturehouse
5. Picturehouse: Hello
6. Little Comets: Violence Out Tonight
7. Washington Irving: Holy Company
8. Chat with Olive Barrett curator of New Axis exhibition
9. Windings: Something Outnumbered
10. a dark horse: The Heart Won’t Lie
11. Chat with Elaine Doyle from The Riot Tapes
12. The Riot Tapes: The Key
13. Imagine Dragons: It’s Time.

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.

February 8, 2013
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 80: 30/01/2013

I had the pleasure of chatting with Rea Garvey this week, Rea is a household name in Germany, a solo artist one time frontman of Raemonn and a judge on The Voice of Germany. He’s coming to play a show in Academy 2 on February 18th so it was great to catch up with him. I also chatted to Sheelah Moloney, Director of 2020 Art Gallery in Cork about ‘Mirror Mirror, Beauty and Perception’, an exhibition which looks at body image. Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Let The Day Begin
3. The Cribs: Leather Jacket Love Song
4. Little Green Cars: Harper Lee
5. Chat with Sheelah Moloney, Director of 2020 Art Gallery in Cork about ‘Mirror Mirror, Beauty and Perception’
6. Delphic: Baiya
7. Walk The Moon: Quesadilla
8. Chat with Rea Garvey (Part 1)
9. Rea Garvey: Can’t Stand The Silence
10. Chat with Rea Garvey (Part 2)
11. Rea Garvey: Colour Me In
12. Ram’s Pocket Radio: Cavities
13. The Riot Tapes: The Key
14. Chvrches: Lies

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.

January 30, 2013
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 79: 23/01/2013

Quite a packed show this week, I spoke to photographer Amy Hanrahan, Birch Hamilton who is Director of the SDGI, they’re running Digital Biscuit this week. I also spoke to Cian Walsh from Cork band Toy Soldier.

Here’s what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. The Traps: Calypso
3. Chat with Amy Hanrahan
4. Billy Bragg: Handyman Blues
5. Swim Deep: The Sea
6. Chat with Birch Hamilton of SDGI about Digital Biscuit
7. Josephine: Portrait
8. Friends of Emmet: Coming Apart
9. Chat with Cian Walsh of Toy Soldier (Part 1)
10. Toy Soldier: Natural Disaster
11. Chat with Cian Walsh of Toy Soldier (Part 2)
12. Toy Soldier: Climbing Trees
13. To Kill A King: Cold Skin
14. Axis Of: Lifehammer

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.

January 23, 2013
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 78: 16/01/2013

This week’s show was full of female voices, not sure that has ever happened on Culture Cafe before. I had the pleasure of chatting to three very interesting ladies, artist, Mary Fahy, Director of ArtforArtSake.org Jennette Donnelly and Norwegian musician, Rebekka Karijord. Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Peace: Wraith
3. The 1975: Chocolate
4. Hawklion: Gold and Silver
5. Chat with Mary Fahy
6. The Tea Street Band: Disco Lights
7. Chat with Jennette Donnelly, artforartsake.org
8. Everything Everything: Kemosabe
9. Atoms for Peace: Judge, Jury and Executioner
10. Rebekka Karijord: Use My Body While It’s Still Young
11. Chat with Rebekka Karijord
12. Rebekka Karijord: Multicoloured Hummingbird
13. Booka Shade: Haleshop

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.

January 16, 2013