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  • Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 34 Playlist and Podcast: 14/03/2012

    Culture Cafe 34Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening! Apologies there was some technical issues with the playout system at the start of the show which meant you didn’t get to hear runawayGo. Will play the guys again next week. You also missed about a minute of Steve Simpson’s interview. Steve is the first up in the podcast. the full show will be repeated on Sunday night at 9 and should be up on the RTE player later today. Here’s what happened:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. runawayGo: Electric

    3. Chat with Illustator Steve Simpson about his current exhibition ‘Illustrated, as advertised’

    4. Charli XCX: I’ll Never Know

    5. Chat with Nathan of Sound of Guns

    6. Sound of Guns: Silicon

    7. Chat with Dave Byrne, Creative Manager of Fingal Film Festival

    8. Ben Howard: Black Flies (Nixon Remix) Radio Edit

    9. Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Ticket To Ride

    10. Chat with Brian Hogan of Preachers Son

    11. Preachers Son: Come On

    12. Tempermental Miss Elaneyous: Dominoes

  • Free Music Monday 12/03/2012: Lianne La Havas

    liannelahavasIn quick snappy time, a new Lianne La Havas date was announced for The Academy on May 9th 2012, in what seemed like just hours after her gig in The Sugar Club on Saturday night. If you haven’t heard her now is a great time to bag yourself a copy of ‘The E.P. Live in L.A.’ and see what the fuss is all about.

  • Ham Sandwich: Croke Park March 11th (video)

    whitefoxSomewhere between a hurling game and a football game today in Croke Park, Kells heroes, Ham Sandwich, played a few tunes accompanied by non other than funnyman, Fred Cooke. If that wasn’t enough the boxer, Bernard Dunne tried to get Podge to do a duet as gaeilge. Gawd bless his cotton socks.

    Sorry the video wasn’t closer, it was filmed from the Davin stand, or as I still prefer calling it, The Canal End.

  • Le Galaxie: Powers of Miami (Video)

    legalaxieOne of the albums that I do really believe deserved to get a Choice Music Prize nod was Le Galaxie‘s Laserdisc Nights II. Ever since some of these guys were in 66 Electric they have grown as musicians and have been getting better all the time. Le Galaxie are one of the best in the country.

    Here’s the video for Powers of Miami from the album and as many are bound to have said, not for the first time, ‘Michael Pope, you little dancer!’

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