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  • Playlist // Time Time Time, See What Becomes of Me

    Playlist // Time Time Time, See What Becomes of Me

    It’s the time of year when we think of the year gone and its regrets and the year to come and our hopes and resolutions.

    Enough about that though, to mark the passing year, I’ve put together a 4 and a half hour playlist of songs about times, dates, seasons, months.. As Simon & Garfunkel said ‘Time Time Time, see what becomes of me’.

    Enjoy!

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    Time Time Time, See What Becomes of Me // Songs and Artist List

    1. Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell: Time Warp
    2. The Jesus and Mary Chain: April Skies
    3. U2: New Year’s Day
    4. Video Blue: September & October
    5. The Drifters: Saturday Night at the Movies
    6. Earth Wind and Fire: September
    7. Billie Holliday: Autumn in New York
    8. Bryan Adams: Summer of 69
    9. Guns n’ Roses: September Rain
    10. Pilot: January
    11. The Bangles: Hazy Shade of Winter
    12. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer in the City
    13. The Cure: Friday I’m In Love
    14. Frank Sinatra: I Love Paris
    15. Patti Smith: Easter
    16. Little Comets: One Night in October
    17. Bruce Springsteen: 4th of July, Asbury Park
    18. Amy Winehouse: October Song
    19. Foo Fighters: February Stars
    20. Robert Plant: The May Queen
    21. Jim Croce: Thursday
    22. Fleet Foxes: Third of May
    23. Azure Ray: November
    24. Primal Scream: Gentle Tuesday
    25. Blondie: Sunday Girl
    26. The Smashing Pumpkins: 1979
    27. New Order: Blue Monday
    28. Mundy: July
    29. The Bangles: Manic Monday
    30. The Divine Comedy: 4th of April
    31. The National: Day I Die
    32. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
    33. The Pogues: Tuesday Morning
    34. The Undertones: Wednesday Week
    35. The Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning
    36. Mumford & Sons: Winter Winds
    37. Finlay Quaye: Sunday Shining
    38. The Specials: Friday Night, Saturday Morning
    39. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
    40. Sparks: Beat the Clock
    41. Hard Fi: Living For The Weekend
    42. Everything Everything: Torso of the Week
    43. Pvris: Winter
    44. Loyle Carner: Mean it in the Morning
    45. Pet Shop Boys: Thursday
    46. MGMT: Weekend Wars
    47. The Beatles: A Day in the Life
    48. The Doors: Strange Days
    49. Tom Waits: November
    50. Kasabian: Days are Forgotten
    51. Clannad and Bono: In a Lifetime
    52. Sara Bareilles: Winter Song
    53. Bill Withers: Lovely Day
    54. The Barenaked Ladies: One Week
    55. Elton John: Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
    56. Green Day: Wake Me Up When September Ends
    57. Ryan Bingham: Fear and Saturday Night
    58. Heathers: November
    59. Cat Stevens: Another Saturday Night
    60. Oasis: Morning Glory
    61. Placebo: Pure Morning
    62. Eurythimics: Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)
    63. David Essex: A Winter’s Tale
    64. WHigfield: Saturday Night
    65. Rebecca Black: Friday
    66. Michael Gray: The Weekend

  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 175

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 175

    HoHoho!It’s time for the annual “let’s play some festive tunes just before Christmas episode of The London Ear. Thank you for listening all year, hope you all have a fantastic break!

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 175 // December 23 2017 Playlist

    Here’s what happened:

    1. Croupier: Carol of the Bells
    2. Ryan Sheridan: Frozen in TIme
    3. Dovile Lee: Have Yourself a Merry little Christmas
    4. Jon Dots: Happy CHristmas Baby from Me
    5. Gar Cox: Too Late for Christmas
    6. Jim Reeves: Silver Bells
    7. The Darkness: Christmastime Don’t Let the Bells End
    8. Mark Geary and Glen Hansard: Christmas Biscuits
    9. Brian Mackey: Just One Night
    10. Bing Crosby: White Christmas
    11. Keith Harkin: Merry Christmas You’ve Been on My Mind
    12. JD McPherson: Twinkle Christmas Lights
    13. Track Dogs: How Christmas Was Meant to me
    14. Seal : The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)
    15. Wham! : Last Christmas
    16. Autamata: Liberty Bell

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    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

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  • Tune of the Week // Jon Dots – Happy Christmas Baby from Me

    Tune of the Week // Jon Dots – Happy Christmas Baby from Me

    Ah Jon Dots, where have you been all my life? This week’s Tune of the Week comes from the aforementioned Jon Dots, a Dublin based artist who has reignited the classic Christmas song. ‘Happy Christmas Baby from Me’ will wrap you in its arms and fill your heart with warmth, like a great mug of mulled wine. But, as with real life Christmas, the track is tinged with the sadness of a lost love.

    Mr Dots has been a busy boy in 2017 (Please excuse me, I’m late to the party), releasing twelve tracks in the year. What’s even better is that the entire back catalogue is available on Bandcamp on a Name Your Price basis!

    While ‘Happy Christmas Baby from Me’ echoes classic sounds from the seventies, the rest of Dotts’ catalogue shows a much more diverse and contemporary artist. If you’ve only got 20 minutes, check out the Impossibly EP from July for Dotts’ diversity.

    This is such a gorgeous song, the closest I can come up with is “A Christmas ‘ I love you Honeybear”. Magic.

    Find Jon Dots online

    You can find out more about Jon Dotts on Twitter, Facebook and you can get all his music on Bandcamp

    Listen to Happy Christmas Baby from Me

  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 174 with Thom Hickey – The Immortal Jukebox

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 174 with Thom Hickey – The Immortal Jukebox

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    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 174 with Thom Hickey

    On today’s episode of The London Ear, I was delighted to be able to chat to author of one of my favourite blogs Thom Hickey. Thom is the man behind The Immortal Jukebox, a blog which looks at popular music from the 1920s right up to 1977. If you want to find out more about music or rediscover lost gems, this is the blog for you! Thom was born in London to Irish parents and grew up surrounded by Irish culture.

    You can find Thom online on Twitter and of course, on his website ‘The Immortal Jukebox’.

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 172 December 16 2017 // Playlist

    Here’s what I played:

    1. Manic Street Preachers: International Blue
    2. Oh Joy: Apple
    3. Swords: Battle
    4. All the Luck in the World: Landmarks
    5. Ryan Sheridan: Frozen in Time
    6. Chat with Thom Hickey from The Immortal Jukebox
    7. Van Morrison: Brand New Day
    8. Chat with Thom Hickey from The Immortal Jukebox Part 2
    9. Roy Orbison: Pretty Paper
    10. Lydian Collective: Legend of Lumbar
    11. Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra feat Samm Henshaw: Unfinished Sympathy

    Listen On Demand to The London Ear

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

    Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

    Listen to the music on Spotify

    You can keep up to date with all the music I play on The London Ear in one handy Spotify playlist. Every track I’ve played in 2017 and that is available on Spotify is in there. You can find it right here.