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Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM: Show 98 June 5 2013

I’m a bad daughter, today was my Mummy’s birthday and I forgot to say hello to her on the radio. So happy birthday Mam. My excuse is that it was quite a busy show today, new music, plus chatting to Moya and Tiane Doan Na Champassak.

Moya is a London based singer songwriter who has a lot of radio success in hte UK with her song ‘A Little More Love’. The video has also had over 587000 views on YouTube. She’ll be in Ireland at the end of June supporting Rod Stewart in the Odyssey in Belfast and at the RDS in Dublin.

Tiane Doan Na Champassak is a French born photographer of Asian descent. He current has two exhibitions running in the Copperhouse Gallery. I spoke at length about ‘Showroom’ which is a exhibition focused on a transgendered community in India, who come together in small village to celebrate a religious festival. During our chat, Tiane explains what really happens.

Here’s the running order for the show:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Runaway GO: I Would Go
3. Catfish and The Bottlemen:Homesick
4. Chat with Moya
5. Moya: A Little More Love
6. David Lyttle feat Rhea and Duke Special: Celebrate
7. Chat with Tiane Doan Na Champassak (Part 1)
8. L.A. Salami: Old Queen’s Head
9. Chat with Tiane Doan Na Champassak (Part 2)
10. Public Service Broadcasting: New Dimensions in Sound
11. Lethal Dialect: 13 Til Infinity

Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you 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.

June 5, 2013
Free Event: The Shoos are making a time lapse video!

Friday evening June 7th, what are you up to? Nothing? Why not head down to The Showroom, on Upper Erne Street, where The Shoos are making a video. There’ll be some refreshments too!?!

It’s kinda clever, June 7th is the release date for the band’s new single ‘Battlescars’ but the are using the opportunity to also make a vid for ‘That’s What She Does To Me’.

Here are all the deets!
The Showroom, 11-15 Upper Erne Street, Dublin 2

Dublin band The Shoos, are creating a new video with graffiti artist Jeff McDowell and Videographer Michael Golden on the day of release of their brilliant new single ‘Battlescars’ – Friday 7th of June. Jeff will be filmed while painting his creation to make a time-lapse video for ‘That’s What She Does To Me’ from The Shoos current album ‘Panic Slowly’. The event will be taking place in The Showroom on Erne Street, just down the road from Holles Street Hospital from 5-8pm. Good way to start your Friday evening eh?

While Jeff and Michael are doing their thing there will be food and refreshments available for everyone who attends in the fabulous forms of El Porko Loco (Mexican) for all you burrito fans, for those of you who are on a health buzz The Shoos have got you covered with Nobó the dairy free ice cream made from Almond milk, and J.W. Sweetman Pub will be there to give out samples of their craft beers straight from their brewery. Not only will you be rubbing your belly with satisfaction there will also be music to your ears from Jon Jon (former 98FM), who will be DJing throughout the evening.

If that’s not enough to keep you entertained Splitter Van Ireland, Ireland’s only splitter van hire company, will be there demoing their splitter vans for tours.

The Shoos are planning some live dates, festivals and maybe a few emails over the coming months so keep your eyes peeled for when they’ll next be in a town near you!

Here’s the vid for Battlescars

June 5, 2013
Download: Spring Offensive – Speak

Spring Offensive have released a new track. Speak is the follow up to No Assets, which I made a Tune of The Week in March. The track was recorded by David Pye (Faithless, Wild Beasts) and was mixed and produced by Emre Ramazanoglu who has previously worked with Warpaint and Palma Violets.

These guys aren’t resting on their laurels, they’ve been touring with To Kill A King, Stealing Sheep and Stornoway already this year and a gearing up for a busy second half to the year with a string of dates in the UK and Germany.

15 June – St John The Evangelist – Oxford, UK
19 June – Hoxton Hall – London, UK
23 June – Kulturhaus III&70 – Hamburg, Germany
24 June – Studio 672, Stadtgarten – Cologne, Germany
25 June – Festival Stand’été – Moutier, Switzerland
26 June – Club Stereo – Nuremberg, Germany

You can get stream and get ‘Speak’ as a FREE DOWNLOAD from the widget below. Well? What ye waiting for?

June 5, 2013
Listen: Cloud Control – Dojo Rising

Cloud Control‘s debut album ‘Bliss Release’, was one that managed to get onto my ipod, into my CD player and just never leave either. It boasted beautifully lush harmonies and a slight hippy psychedelic vibe. It also won them a Aria in their native Australia, their version of a Mercury or Choice Music Prize.

Following the release of their debut, the band moved to UK and Dojo Rising is the first new music we’ve heard since then. It’s a little dark and mournful, features some contemporary electronic blips and with sometimes overlapping vocal lines. Although there still is a little bit of a psychedelic edge, the band have moved on from Bliss Release.

Dojo Rising is taken from ‘Dream Cave’ and will be released on Infectious Records in Ireland and the UK on September 16th.

June 5, 2013