So the Smedias are on tonight, good showing in the nominations from DCU. Hopefully we’ll come home with a few gongs!
Up for Blog of the Year myself, fingers crossed!
Will reveal all later!
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Wrecked but Happy
The weeks seems to be getting busier and busier. It’s two weeks until the end of my second college year and somehow, finally things all seems to be sliding into place.
We have a hell of a lot of assignments to do. At the moment, it seems that all I’m doing is assignments, video editing and preproduction for the radio show. Thanks to the internet being down in the Hub building in DCU this week, I had to prerecord interviews and in studio acoustic sets to be broadcast this week instead.
So this Tuesday (20th April) in studio I’ll have Hitman Lord and Oliver Cole, who I am thrilled to have in. On Thursday as well as live guests there will be an extended Culture Cafe with extra interviews from Von Bizmark and Killian McGrath.
OpenFM also had its first meeting, which I had to miss due to having to prerecord stuff. I wouldn’t let my booked guests down, that’s not fair. Looking forward to 30 days broadcasting during the Summer.
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Aoife Cleary: Us and The U.S. Review
Who is Aoife Cleary and why haven’t heard of her before?
Once part of all girl group The Blonde Majority, Aoife is about to release her debut single ‘Us and The U.S.’.
A cracking uptempo electronic rock song, Aoife Cleary has just done her bit to prove female singer songwriters don’t have to be sitting in their bedroom strumming their guitar just ever so gently.
For some reason, Aoife’s voice reminds me slightly of Karen from Cowboy X and being honest, Aoife’s musical style is in roughly the same ballpark.
Production on the track is good, clever guitar riffs, good bassline and harmonies that aren’t overdone, they’re just right. The chorus is catchy and there’s a nice little breakdown just over halfway in the track. Catchy as hell, radio friendly, this track should be all over your transistor soon!
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The Frank and Walters: The Parson Review
There’s something about The Frank and Walters, you may never have heard the song before but you just know its them. That’s what ‘The Parson’ was like for this writer. Maybe its the clever basslines, the jangly guitar sound, the muted snare drum? Maybe its all that and more.
‘The Parson’ is the first of four single that The Frank and Walters will release this year to coincide with the changing of the seasons. Representing Spring, The Parson is a catchy tune, with lyrics that tell quite a visual story of the ‘village and villagers’.
So this is the first of four? If this is Spring, Summer is going to be fantastic! The official campaign starts here: The Franks & Walters for my Summer soundtrack!
The Franks, you have been away too long!
