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Listen – Willy Moon: Album Sampler

Friend of nessymon.com and the sharpest dresser I have ever met, Willy Moon has unveiled a sampler of his new album ‘Here’s Willy Moon” It’s about eighteen months since I first heard of Mr Moon and I have been looking forward to hearing the full album, especially since I spoke to Willy for Culture Cafe just days after he finished the album. I’m also delighted to see that ‘Railroad Track’ which was recorded for Jack White’s Third Man Records, has managed to get on the album too.

‘Here’s Willy Moon’ will be released on March 29th in Ireland and is available to preorder now. A single ‘My Girl’ will be on March 1st.

Have a listen to my chat with Willy below:

February 20, 2013
Culture Cafe on 2XM – Interview with Nick from WALK THE MOON

So this week’s show literally was stuffed to the gills with great chats with Nick from WALK THE MOON and Ethan Johns, both acts coincidentally play in Dublin on February 22nd. WALK THE MOON play in The Academy while Ethan Johns plays in The Sugar Club. It was the kind of show that really makes me wish I had more than one hour a week on 2XM.

So because altogether there’s nearly 45 minutes of chat, I thought it would be easier for you, dear listener/reader if I made two podcasts, one with Ethan Johns and one with Nick Petricca from WALK THE MOON. So here’s the one with Nick, you can find my chat with Ethan Johns here.

I was asked to remove the other podcast by artist management so this is the only available podcast this week. It features Nick Petricca from WALK THE MOON, whom I managed to track down while on tour in Pittsburg.

Playlist: 13/02/2013
1. DJ FLip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Walk The Moon: Jenny
3. Chat with Nick Petricca, Walk The Moon including:
4. Walk The Moon: Tightrope
5. Walk The Moon: Anna Sun
6. Chat with Ethan Johns including:
7. Ethan Johns: Don’t Reach Too Far
8. Ethan Johns: Eden
9. Ethan Johns: Whip Poor Will

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 15, 2013
Codes: Triangulum – Live In Studio (Video)

Get your earholes around this! Ireland has lost much over the past couple of years, including musical exports. Proving that they haven’t been resting on their laurels, Codes have released a Live in studio video for Tringulum and it bloody rocks! The track brings together all the good things we’ve come to expect from Codes over the past few years, intelligent rock with pure vocals and a few pips and squeaks thrown in for good measure, Turn your speakers up loud!

February 11, 2013
Warm Bodies: Film Review

Warm Bodies is a classic love story of star crossed lovers. In this case it’s an undead zombie boyfriend ‘R’ (Nicholas Hoult) and a very alive girlfriend ‘Julie’ (Teresa Palmer). Leave the Twilight references there because they are definitely not in the same ballpark.

Some epidemic or other has changed the world as we know it and the humans led by Julie’s Dad, ‘Grigio’ (John Malkovich), live inside a high walled commune while many of the infected zombie types have taken residence in the local airport. When a group of friends from the commune, including Julie, have to go to the outside world to get supplies, that’s when the fun starts. To cut it short, ‘Julie’ meets ‘R’ and she makes his cold dead heart beat again.

Ok, that’s pretty straight forward. We’re introduced to this world by R’s inner monologue and his coherence plays beautifully against what others see of R, grunting and shuffling along. The comedy is built up by melding with R is thinking and what is actually happening on screen. He brings Julie to his hideaway to keep her safe, she thinks he’s by kidnapping her. Also, a Shakespeare-esque balcony scene is used to hilariously good effect.

Warm Bodies also features some great one liners, great subtleties in the script and a fantastic soundtrack. How many zombies do you know with an awesome vinyl collection?

Jonathan Levine has done an amazing directing job on Warm Bodies and has perfectly combined the humour, romance and background story to great effect. Palmer is great as the all American good girl and after this Hoult should be spoken of as the guy from ‘Warm Bodies’, not ‘About a boy’ or ‘Skins’.

I’ve seen a fair few of the Oscar contenders but Warm Bodies is my favourite film of 2013 so far. Attention film makers: don’t bother trying to make anything else in this genre. This is the ultimate Zom-Rom-Com.

Go see it!

February 8, 2013