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  • Interview: A Quickie with Stone Trigger (Video)

    Interview: A Quickie with Stone Trigger (Video)

    Time for another ‘Quickie’, this time our anonymous non voiced interviewer asks Dublin rock band ‘Stone Trigger‘ a few questions.. RAWK!

  • Culture Cafe on RTÉ 2XM Podcast and Playlist Show 51: 11/07/2012

    Culture Cafe on RTÉ 2XM Podcast and Playlist Show 51: 11/07/2012

    Culture Cafe 51Wow! I really enjoyed putting the show together this week, thanks to my guests, Matthew Causey from Tujacques, Simon Fagan and Myles Manley.

    Here’s the running order:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
    2. Chapel Club: Sleep Alone
    3. Chat with Simon Fagan (part 1)
    4. Simon Fagan: Damn Honey
    5. Chat with Simon Fagan (part 2)
    6. Simon Fagan: Tomorrow’s Another Day
    7. Heritage Centre: Oldest Friend
    8. Chat with Myles Manley
    9. Myles Manley: You’re Young Enough To Come Back Home
    10. Chat with Matthew Causey of Tujacques
    11. Tujacques: Wicked Wind

    Thanks for listening! Remember you can listen to the entire show on the RTE player and the repeat is on Sunday night at 9pm on RTÉ 2XM. Thanks for listening.

  • Free Music Monday 09/07/2012: Chapel Club

    Free Music Monday 09/07/2012: Chapel Club

    At the beginning of 2011, I made a promise to myself to try and see as many new bands as I possibly could in 2011. One of the first bands that were on my list were Chapel Club, so when they played Academy 2 in Dublin, I jumped at the chance to see them and their dark eighties indie sound.

    It seem’s a lot can happen in eighteen months, tracks like Surfacing and All the Eastern Girls have been replaced by a new sound.

    The band have been kind enough to give a free download of their new single ‘Sleep Alone’ on their website through Soundcloud and have also given a preview of three new tracks which will be on their new album ‘Good Together’, which will released later this year. A nice new electro feel to these tracks.

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  • Arbutus Yarns: The Wake of Donal Dineen and Small Hours (Video)

    Arbutus Yarns: The Wake of Donal Dineen and Small Hours (Video)

    Yet again Myles O’Reilly has captured something truly special. This time, it’s the final night on Donal Dineen’s radio show, Small Hours on Today FM. For fifteen years Donal provided our evenings with a soundtrack which has inspired and influenced so many Irish radio listeners and musicians.