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The Saw Doctors: Indian Summer Review

The institution that is known as The Saw Doctors, always seem to have a story for every occasion. Following their Christmas smash, Downtown, with Petula Clark where they came close to swiping the Christmas Number One from The Cowell Factor, they return with Indian Summer.

You know what you’re going to get with The Saw Doctors, they’ve created a genre of music just for themselves. This mid tempo track features some subtle string arrangements which lift the track beautifully. Again as with their previous releases, the observations and story telling that The Saw Doctors manage to capture in musical form is something quite unique to them.

This is a re-release but if we do happen to get some good weather in our little rock, this could be the soundtrack to the summer.

May 23, 2012
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Podcast and Playlist Show 44: 23/05/2012

I have to say I really enjoyed the chats I had with Rob Kelly and Johnny Cronin on today’s show, make sure you check out their new singles.

Here’s what I got up to:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

2. Sailor and I: Tough Love

3. Ocho: Young Hunting

4. Chat with Rob Kelly

5. Rob Kelly ft Rebecca Creighton: The Real Thing

6. Alex Clare: So Close

7. Born Blonde: I Just Wanna Be

8. The Shoos: Say Something

9. Chat with Johnny Cronin of The Aftermath

10. Shane McGowan, The Aftermath & Friends: The Rockier Road To Poland

11. Ellen and The Escapades: IOU

12. Gaslight Anthem: 45

13. Bouts: Turn Away

The show is broadcast on 2XM every Wednesday at 10 and repeated every Sunday at 2100. You can listen online, on your DAB radio set or on UPC channel 944.

Thanks for listening

May 23, 2012
Baz Luhrmann: The Great Gatsby Trailer

A trailer for Baz Luhrmann‘s adaption of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has just been released. It’s fair to say that Luhrmann had doubters concerned about this adaptation and bout how he was filming in 3D. Going on this trailer, their fears will be put to rest.

The film seems to be still pure Luhrmann piece of work though, with Catherine Martin’s costume design beautifully taking over from where Moulin Rouge left off. The cityscape looks fantastic in the trailer, where in Moulin Rouge, the Paris rooftops were actually a set, it’s both interesting and a bit of sense if the same can be done using computer technology.

Your scribe has always been a fan of Luhrmann’s work and I love how he works with the same team over and over again, here with Craig Pearse on the screenplay and also with musician and musical genius Craig Armstrong.

The film stars Leonardo Di Caprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Isla Fisher and will be released on December 26th.

May 23, 2012
Eurovision Song Contest Live Blog: Semi Final 1 May 22 2012

Seeing as I’ve had so much fun in previous years chatting about Eurovision via Twitter and Facebook while it was happening, I decided I’d give it a go on a blog. Heck, I’d be saying all this stuff on Twitter anyway so I’ve decided to hook it up to the blog. It’s all for a bit of fun and we had barrels of fun when we did a run down of the National Song Contest entrants for Goldenplec. It all kicks off at 2000 tonight!

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May 22, 2012