DCU's World Champion Handballers with DCU Handball Chairman Brian O'Sullivan and Nessy
Episode 6:
Definitely a different kind of Culture Cafe!
I did a sports interview! I was lucky enough to have DCU’s own World Champion handballer pop in to say hello…
Here’s what happened..
1. Culture Cafe Intro.. DJ Flip and Freezemaster Slick
2. Hitman Lord: Wanna Healing Music
3. Chat with World Champion Handballer Ciaran Leary and DCU Handball Chairman
4. David Turpin: The Bone Dance
5. Mahoney: Gucci Boy Band
6. Aidan: Believe
7. Telephone chat with Aidan
8. Lord Altmont: Tirkadely
9. Eleanor McEvoy: Oh Uganda
10. The Jades: Bermuda Song
11. Director: Don’t Think I’ll know
12. Cowboy X: Squirel Chase Ball
13. Mugger Dave: Crawl Up
14. Wallis Bird: To My Bones
15. Culture Cafe outro
These are indeed interesting times for book publishers. They’ve seen the mistakes of the music industry and how illegal downloading has had its effects. What’s about to happen with books? The next while will be telling.
The Sony Reader has been on the market a while but hasn’t seemed to capture the market like it should.
Last week Amazon offered us the international Kindle, so those of us outside the US could enjoy and today the Nook was launched by Barnes and Noble.
What’s the problem with the Kindle? Amazon shot themselves a little by selling an ebook and then entering each Kindle remotely and removing the offending ebook. This brings a lot of questions into play including that of privacy.
While listening to a recent podcast of ‘The week in Tech’ with Leo Laporte (www.twit.tv), Leo mentioned he had left his Kindle on a plane. While he could report the Kindle stolen with Amazon, they have the ability to completely block the Kindle from uploading new material but don’t. If whoever ended up with his Kindle, tries to put new books on the kindle, Amazon need the serial number to remotely upload the publication to that particular Kindle, so they who has it anyway…
I’m sure the next week will have lots of Nook reviews.
The main problems it seems, for the readers and why it hasn’t taken off yet is, price. People don’t have $/200/300 to spend on something to read books or newspapers on.
Yes, we have all come to love our Ipods but they do lack the all round bang of listening to a CD or even the feel of vinyl. But we can carry every piece of music we own at once. Before this it would all be packed in a large room and we would have bad backs trying to carry it all.
The other prong in all of this is whether people actually have the time to read books on devices like the kindle. It is another device to carry around, now we have phone, ipod, ereader.. To bring with us everytime we leave the house.
Audio books are making a comeback.. You may not have time to read a book but you can listen to a book in the car whilst driving or any means of commuting. Is audible.com onto a winner? This could be the way forward.
Full Review of Pink and Evermore from the 02 on October 15th… coming…
Here’s Pink’s Setlist to keep you going..
Highway to Hell (ACDC…Just before Pink entered the Arena)
Bad attitude
Just Like A Pill
Who knew?
Don’t let me Get me
I touch myself (Divynls Cover)
Please Don’t Leave Me
U and Ur Hand
Leave me Alone
So what
Family Portrait
I Don’t Believe You
Dear Mr President
Trouble
Summertime
Sober
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen Cover)
Funhouse
Stupid Girls
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
Get the Party started
God Is A DJ (Musical Interlude)
Glitter In the Air
Je Ne Regret Rien (as the audience was leaving)
Loads of busy-ness going on tonight.. phones being weird.. technology getting back to normal, the goldfish bowl was a hive of activity!
Here’s what we got up to:
1. Culture Cafe theme DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool: Dance The Way I Feel
3. Miracle Bell: Who Took It All?
4. Chat with Dave from Miracle Bell (Jess the manager was too shy to speak on air, ah bless!)
5. Miracle Bell: Into The Trees
6. Chat with Wookie about Octocon.
7. Babylon Zoo: Spaceman
8. Chat With David Turpin who releases his new album ‘Haunted’ this Friday
Nessy, David Turpin
9. David Turpin: The Bone Dance
10. Chat with Angela Dorgan, Hard Working Class Heroes about next weekend’s Festival
11. Neosupervital: Dance With You
12. Chat with Dermot Lambert from Garageland and a rock legend in his own right as part of Blink, about the launch of the second years CD of the Irish Youth Music Awards
13. Boy Number Seven: Come Inside
14. Culture Cafe theme DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
Didn’t unfortunately have time for some other cool music I had on the playlist including Hockey,Vampire Weekend and Noah and The Whale and didn’t have a chance to get Kev to do his music reviews so he will be doing them next week…
