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  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 121 with Video Blue

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 121 with Video Blue

    Show 121 – June 18 2016

    I was delighted to be joined by Video Blue, aka Jim O’Donoghue Martin, who along with Trick Mist, aka Gavin Murray, released a split 7inch single this week.

    Jim has been on the show before and it was great to catch up with him, find out about life and how his music is going for him.

    Here’s what happened:

    1. The Stone Roses: Beautiful Thing
    2. All Tvvins: Unbelievable
    3. Video Blue: Filmic
    4. Chat with Video Blue Part 1
    5. Video Blue: Disco Nap
    6. Chat with Video Blue Part 2
    7. Video Blue: Talisman
    8. Chat with Video Blue Part 3
    9. Trick Mist: Crumbs Abound
    10. Hare Squead: If I Ask

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

    Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

    You can keep up with Video Blue on his website, Facebook and Twitter.

    Photo of Jim from here

    Check out the video for Disco Nap:

  • Tune of the Week // Hare Squead // If I Ask

    Tune of the Week // Hare Squead // If I Ask

    Who ever would have thunk that Dublin could sound this awesome? Hip, fresh and funky as hell.

    Hare Squead are hail from Dublin, are signed to Columbia Records, and according to their press blurb, ‘Their shared central African heritage combined with a mutual love for skating, music and chicken fillet rolls has cemented them as firm friends and an inseparable unit.’

    I don’t eat meat but anyone who manages to get chicken fillet rolls into their press release deserves utmost respect. How Irish can you get?

    There’s no denying that being based in another country hinders the amount of new Irish music that I get to hear. I’m so glad, I got to hear this. Simply pumping and insanely catchy.. press repeat.

    Tony Konstone, Jessy Rose and E-Knock, bravo gentlemen, bravo!

    https://youtu.be/TpTOnpd2THI

    Photo from here

  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 120 with Dermot Barrett

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 120 with Dermot Barrett

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    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 120 with Dermot Barrett // June 11 2016

    On The London Ear this week, I was delighted to be able to chat to singer songwriter and former Ten Speed Racer, Dermot Barrett. I really enjoyed the chat about life, emigration, what home means and how life is in Bergen, Norway for Dermot.

    Here’s what happened:

    1. Beck: Wow
    2. Metronomy: Old Skool
    3. Walking on Cars: Catch Me If You Can
    4. Miriam Donohoe: Bookmarks
    5. Eoin Boyle: Skybirds
    6. Dermot Barrett: Decisions Decisions
    7. Chat with Dermot Barrett Part 1
    8. Dermot Barrett: Stealing Stars
    9. Chat with Dermot Barrett Part 2
    10. Dermot Barrett: A Seam of Gold
    11. Kygo feat Kodaline: Ragin
    12. Hare Squead: If I Ask (Dub Mix)

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

    Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

    You can check Dermot Barrett our on Facebook

    Photo of Dermot Barrett by Daniela Ramos Arias, taken from here

  • Diary: Avec Sans // Live at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

    Diary: Avec Sans // Live at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

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    Avec Sans // Live at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen // June 9 2016

    Hoxton Square Bar was the venue for Avec Sans album launch on June 9th, following the release of ‘Heartbreak Hi’ on June 3rd.

    I’ve been a fan of the duo since I heard them first in 2012 and have played them on the radio but tonight was my first time seeing them live.

    The duo, Alice Fox and Jack St James, have a pretty slick live set up. Fox provides the vocals while St James, has a keyboard and three Novation launchpads on stage which face the audience. Apart from letting the audience actually see that you’re hitting a few buttons and triggers, the Launchpads also provide a pretty cool visual, with a preprogrammed light show accompanying each song.

    Those familiar with the pair, will recognise, Shiver, The Answer, When You Go and current single Heartbreak Hi, which to be honest is so bloody catchy, it’s a crying shame it’s not blowing up on every radio station right now.

    Avec Sans describe themselves as an electro pop group. In the past there seems to have been a little bit of snobbery with being called a pop group, of any sort, but these guys have nailed that. They produce really great pop songs, songs that we should be hearing on the radio, songs that have the potential to be very popular.

    The pair are quite a visual band, always appearing in monochrome, and the lengths they go to to maintain the detail is immense, down to having a white microphone cable for contrast.

    The night is finished off with an encore rendition of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill, which is simply spectacular.(Listen and Download the studio version here).

    Visually striking, sonically beautiful, the world needs a bit more Avec Sans in their lives.

    Get the album

    Watch the video for Heartbreak Hi.