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  • The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 137 // Conor Scully’s Projections // elephants and castles

    The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 137 // Conor Scully’s Projections // elephants and castles

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    I really enjoyed chatting both on air and off air to this week’s guests on the show.

    Chris Anderson from elephants and castles

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    I’ve know Chris for about two years now. His mum is from Co Roscommon and along with his bandmate Robin Spencer, makes up elephants and castles. The Irish connection continues with Robin whose wife is from our lovely island.

    I love elephants and castles tell stories. They look at the world around them, how neighbourhoods are changing, how life changes and incorporate that into their music. There’s not enough social commentary in music, if you ask me.

    Their new EP ‘What’s Left for Larry and Janet?’ is out now and features the track ‘Red Lemonade’ which we’ve played on the show. They’re launching their EP in Deptford Cinema on December 4th, Get there if you can.

    You can find elephants and castles on Facebook, Twitter and their website.

    Conor Scully’s Projections

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    Conor Scully is an Irish architect based in London. In this exhibition which opens on Thursday 8th December, he incorporates a 3D spaces with visual and audio projections to tell stories of the Irish diaspora from 1916 to now. Step forward, you move forward in time, step back, you move back in time. (We’re going to say it’s like time travelling)

    Conor explained how he has incorporated industrial building materials to create this unique exhibition. Sound really interesting, I can’t wait to walk through the exhibition.

    You can find Conor on Twitter and his website.

    The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 137 // December 3 2016 // Playlist

    Here’s what happened:

    1. QTY: Rodeo
    2. elephants and castles: Concrete Love
    3. Chat with Chris from elephants and castles
    4. elephants and castles: What’s Left for Larry and Janet?
    5. Chat with Chris from elephants and castles Part 2
    6. elephants and castles: Red Lemonade
    7. Chat with Conor Scully about Projections
    8. Tayne: Dreams

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  • Diary // Wallis Bird at The Garage, London

    Diary // Wallis Bird at The Garage, London

    Wallis Bird at The Garage, Highbury, London, May 11 2014

    So last Sunday night, I headed along to catch Wallis Bird at The Garage in London. The night was opened by Rachel Ries who recently released her own album ‘Ghost of a Gardener’. Ries, who played electric guitar, was for the most part accompanied on keys by a gentleman with an Irish accent, but whose name escaped me. There was a little of her playing keys. but the fact that she played electric guitar seemed to take her out of the little female piano playing singer songwriter cage.

    Architect is Wallis Bird’s fourth album and her most successful. This tour to support the album has seen more people than before come to see Wallis live. And it’s not surprising to see why. On record, Architect, is a fantastically accomplished piece of work, live, her enthusiasm for her music shines through, as does her honesty and authenticity. Bird and her band put on a great show, musicianship is tight and second to none but there’s also room for spontaneity. She plays tracks from her current album along with that of her older catalogue and it’s easy to see that belongs on stage.

    Bird’s humour shines through on stage, yes she has some terrible jokes. Even though. when she speaks about more serious between songs, such as gender equality Bird lovingly refers to Jesus Sausage. (This is the night after Conchita Wurst’s win at Eurovision).

    But the music speaks loudest of all and when you hear tracks like Communion, To My Bones, Hardly Hardly, Blossoms in the Street, I Can Be Your Man and Encore, it’s easy to see that Wallis Bird is one of the best artists of our generation. Great songs, great band, great stage presence, if you haven’t seen her live, you are doing yourself and injustice.

  • Tune of the Week: Wallis Bird – Hardly Hardly

    Tune of the Week: Wallis Bird – Hardly Hardly

    From the very first note of this track, I completely fell in love with it, at the time of writing it has gone from having 13000 views on YouTube to about 23000. I’m probably responsible for those, it’s awesome.

    The overall production on the track is just immense, the vocals are, in parts delicate, but balanced beautifully when Wallis lets rip. It track also boasts an amazingly dance-able rhythm and a bass line that makes you think its gone wonky occasionally. Superb. This is my favourite track of 2014 so far. I was trying to figure out how I would describe all this. If I was a proper musician, I’d want to sound like Wallis Bird.

    The new album from Wallis ‘Architect’ is out in April, I’ve pre-ordered the double vinyl. Go on, preorder too.. you deserve it