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  • Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Playlist and Podcast Show 27: 25/01/2012

    Culture Cafe 27

    The weeks are flying by, here’s what happened this week:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. Senekah: Human Relations

    3. Chat with Ronan from Tarantella Fall

    4. Tarantella Fall: Wasteland

    5. Youth Mass: Wide Eyes

    6. Chat with Fiach

    7. Fiach: You Dear

    8. Our Krypton Son: Catalonian Love Song

    9. The Animators: Marvelous

    10. Rob Kelly: Game Over

    11. Chat with David from Calling All Astronauts

    12. Calling All Astronauts: Someone Like You

    13. Come On Live Long: White Horses (Reid Remix)

    14. Frankie Rose: Know Me

    15. Delorentos: Little Sparks

    Thanks to all my guests, Culture Cafe is broadcast on Wednesdays at 1000, repeated Sundays at 2100 online, on digital and on UPC Channel 944

  • Get Back – The Story of The Beatles at The Tivoli: Review

    Get Back

    Everyone knows The Beatles, so going to a show like ‘Get Back‘, you kinda know what you’re going to get. The trick here would be how the story is actually told.

    Entering the Tivoli, the auditorium is a definite reminder of the sixties era, spacious tiered red cinema seats facing a stage with a drumkit and some guitar amps set up. Strawberry Fields roadsigns and images of the Fab Four hang in the venue. From the offset, everything is Beatle-esque, even the mandatory fire announcement are voiced by the quartet in a Scouse accent. Funny as hell and of course informative.

    The show starts in Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club and immediately its aurally hard to tell the difference between our performers ‘The Classic Beatles‘ and the real thing. But after a couple of tracks, I questioned if this would be interesting enough to last the full length of a show. Two minutes later, my question was answered as a large screen at the back of the stage transformed into what looked like a 1960s television broadcast. Really clever and this worked a treat. (more…)

  • Free Music Monday 23/1/2012: Pearse McGloughlin + Video Collaborators Wanted!

    Bright StarPearse McGloughlin is an artist I’ve got to know over the past couple of years and the more I hear the more I like his music. So much so that Pearse is the only person ever to do two live sessions for Culture Cafe while it was on air on DCUfm.

    Pearse is planning to release his second album ‘In Movement’ this year and today put a call out for visual collaborators.. Here’s what Pearse is after:

    ‘I’m looking for visual reactions to the songs from the album — little short films. These could be captured on iPhones, mobile phones, HD cameras, camcorders or whatever you use for rolling footage. I hope to release these via my website in the run up to the album’s release. If you are interested or even mildly curious please reply

    I will then give you one of the songs from the album, hoping that in turn you’ll create a 40-60 second visual piece, a mini music video if you will, for the song. This will be loosely related to the song or if you have an idea of your own, that’s cool too. It could be a complex stop motion, abstract and arty or just simple studies of light…whatever you see fit.’

    [Edit: Pearse got in touch with me, saying thanks for all your emails, the deadline has now passed]

    Anyway, you want some free music, here’s Pearse McGloughlin’s Bright Star available from bandcamp

  • Tune of The Week 20/01/2012: The Aftermath

    In Loneliness lives loveThis was an easy choice for me this week. I’ve have this track on repeat since I got my hands on it. The Aftermath released their debut album ‘Friendlier Up Here’ in 2008. Since then, the drive of the Cronin brothers, Mick and Johnny, has rightly earned them the moniker of one of the hardest working bands around.

    I really like this track, it brings the band’s Britpop vibe together with an awesome soul vibe. Catchy as hell. This Week’s Tune of The Week is The Aftermath and ‘In Loneliness Lives Love’.