There could only be one choice for me for this week’s Tune of the Week. It’s the new single from The Cast of Cheers, ‘Trucks at Night’. It’s out on November 30th and if you’re looking for something to do on New Year’s Eve (yes it’s less than two months away and you’d want to get your skids on), The band are playing The Workman’s Club in Dublin, with tickets priced a a very reasonable €18.
Trucks at Night is taken from the fantastic album ‘Family’.
This is the second time I’ve seen Clock Opera and I have to say, they have blown me away each time. I love their energy, their enthusiasm, they have great songs and they genuinely look like they love what they do.
I had a blast! and also managed to get a copy of their album ‘Ways to Forget’ on vinyl.
You can read the review over on Goldenplec.
Lots of new music to play on the show today and I really enjoyed catching up with Dave from Fossil Collective and Fiona from Runaway Go. Here’s what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Uncle Frank: Irresistible You
3. Kodakid: Portis
4. Chat with Dave from Fossil Collective
5. Fossil Collective: On and On
6. Bastille: Flaws
7. Everything Everything: Cough Cough
8. Enfant: Border of Mexico
9. Runaway Go:Electric
10. Chat with Fiona from Runaway Go
11. Runaway Go: Jump Start
12. Versives: Two Enemies
13. Alt -J: Tessalate
14. Calling All Astronauts: What’s So Good About (Echoboy Bounce Remix)
Thanks for listening, remember you can listen to this week’s full show on the RTE player. Culture Cafe is broadcast on RTE 2XM every Wednesday at 1400 and is repeated every Sunday night at 2100. Thanks for listening.
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There’s nothing nicer than chilling out on a Bank Holiday and when you get a chance to go see some theatre, that tops it off. The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin was the location for Agatha Christie’s Murder on The Nile, on its sixty fifth anniversary tour. The story unfolds as a group of vacationers meet onboard a boat heading down the Nile.
Onboard are a Canon, a young gent with a sense of fun, Miss Ffoliot-Ffoulkes a seemingly wealthy travelled lady along with her niece, a Doctor and a couple of newly weds and the groom’s ex. This play was adapted from Christie’s 1937 novel, ‘Death in the Nile’ and was first performed in 1944 and somehow it hasn’t aged very well. The world where these people live is very different to what we know now. This is still a world where only the wealthy upper classes could ever dream of going on a holiday like this.
The story isn’t a typical whodunit either? Where with, for example JB Priestly’s An Inspector Calls, the entire play is exploring the leads to find the answer, here, almost of the entirety of the first half of the play is building up the story. This leaves the second half of the play for the Canon to declare himself head detective trying to find out the killer before the police arrive.
‘Murder on the Nile’ is worth seeing for a number of reasons, it does portray a time in British culture and the atitudes of the wealthy. The star of the show though is Nichola McAuliffe, who recently joined the cast in place of Kate O’Mara. She beautifully transforms the character of Miss Ffoliot-Ffoulkes into a caricature of a stately well do lady. Her performance alone is worth seeing the show for.
It runs in The Gaiety Theatre until November 3rd.