Yes, I know it’s hard to believe, someone is giving me the microphone to go nationwide on 2FM this Sunday night. I’ll be back on after 10 pm as 2XM invades 2FM for the night. It’ll be a good un!
I’ll be chatting to Chris from Our Krypton Sun, Daniel Spencer from animation group,Pegbar.ie and to Leo Moran from the Saw Doctors and I’ll be playing a few festival tunes! Sunday night, after 10pm, 2fm…me!
Really enjoyed getting this show together, here’s what happened
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. The Dead Flags: You Got It Wrong
3. Chat with Leah Johnston from Abära International Disability Film Festival
4. Rams Pocket Radio: Dietar Rams Has Got The Pocket Radio
5. Jape: You Got The Love
6. Chat with Pat Coldrick
7. Pat Coldrick: Lament
8. Event Guide with Kev McCabe
9. Chat with Adrienne Geoghan about Images Without Borders exhibition
10. Patrick Wolf: House
11. Handsome Furs: Memories of the Future
12. We Cut Corners: Go Easy
13. Chat with Mark Geary
14. Mark Geary: See-Saw
You can also listen to a podcast with my full chat with Mark Geary.. it’s just in the post after this one…
Thanks for listening.. DONT FORGET!!! You can listen to Culture Cafe this Sunday night between 10-12 as part of the 2XM on 2fm night.. Glorious FM stereo!
Ireland lost one of its best know media personalities yesterday. Gerry Ryan was larger than life. He was the kind of radio presenter that you either loved or hated.
Being honest, I prefered Ryan when he was on his late night shows in the late eighties. On these shows, he introduced me to Deacon Blue, Prefab Sprout, lots of Irish bands too I didn’t know. I remember fondly as he played Aidan Walsh’s ‘Community Games’, the song was so bad it was good.
I remember not being happy when Ryan was moved from his night time slot to the 9am slot. Within weeks, he turned the show into his own and became one of Ireland’s biggest radio stars.
He did some television too, most recently Ryan Confidential. I always thought though, he never got a real break with TV, he never got a real cracker of a TV show. I remember though Gerry Ryan and Dave Fanning were team captains on the eighties music show ‘Number One’. RTE One, Monday (I think) at 7. I always watched.
I met Gerry a few times, seemed like a nice guy. I remember when I was 18 doing work experience in RTE, being sent to look for something in the video library. Gerry, producer Philip Kampf (who was producer on the show I was working on) and a group of others were in Connemara for a week, without supplies. This lead to the infamous “Lambo’ controversy where a lamb was killed for food.
At 53, Gerry’s gone way too soon and is a major loss to RTE, the media and really to Ireland. My sympathies go out to his kids, Moira, family and partner.
The Ryan line has closed.
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Picture from Independent.ie
When a PR company send me something to play on the radio, if I can I try to review it also.
Nothing But Trouble by Donegal band, The Plea, is the lead single taken from a new EP of the same name. The Plea are the first rock act to be signed to an imprint of Belgian dance label R&S Records, once home to Aphex Twin.
Produced by Cenzo Townsend, Nothing but Trouble is a three and a half minute radio friendly rock song. Vocals, provided by Denny Doherty are quite early Bono in style, the vocoder – esque effect about half way through the song does noting to dismiss this (reminders of Elevation here). The production and musicianship cannot be faulted on this. I’d just love to hear more of an impact in the refrain of Nothing But Trouble.
It’s not going to harm them either that they are featured in the new 2FM promo (see Below)
5 out of 6
http://www.myspace.com/thepleamusic
Picture from their myspace