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The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 168 with Gregory Nolan

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 168 with Gregory Nolan

On this week’s show, I chat to Irish photographer, Gregory Nolan, whose exhibition ‘This was our scene’ is happening in the Fumbally Exchange in Dublin from October 19.

Hold on here a cotton picking minute, I hear you say, this show is about Irish people outside Ireland, no? In saying that, you are in fact correct. Gregory shot all the images for his exhibit in the mid noughties in London’s indie music scene.

Gregory is based between Europe and the U.S. and has worked with the likes of Bastille and Frank Turner. This collection of photographs gives a great insight into that London scene, not only the bands but also the punters!

Find Gregory Nolan online

You can find out about ‘This was our scene’ on the website and on Facebook.

You can keep up with all Gregory Nolan’s work on his website, Twitter and Instagram.

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 168 14th October 2017 // Playlist

1. L.A.D (Live After Dark): Dance Floor
2. Ivan Nicholas: Moving On
3. Aibhe Reddy: The Tube
4. Gregory Nolan speaks to Nessy about This was our Scene
5. Special Needs: A time to Remember
6. Gregory Nolan (Part 2)
7. Frank Turner The Ballad of Me and You
8. Marc O’Reilly – Enemy of
9. Otherkin: Enabler

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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.

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October 16, 2017
The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 141 with aidan from Floatinghome

Happy New Year! Hope you had a lovely festive season. We’re back with the first episode of The London Ear for 2017.

Interview with aidan from Floatinghome

On today’s show I’m delighted to catch up with aidan from Floatinghome. I know aidan a long time and we manage to catch up about once a year. He’s a singer songwriter based in Berlin and works as a sound engineer. He also works with Wallis Bird.

It was good to chat about his album ‘Dreams for Dreamers’ and how he managed to get me on one of his tracks.

You can follow Floatinghome on Facebook and on their website.

The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 141 // January 7 2017 Playlist

As well as playing some new Irish music (besides Floatinghome), I also played a couple of my favourite George Michael tracks to finish off the show. I’m going to write about it at some stage, but I’m truly devastated by George’s death, his music and production always influenced me. So I play a couple of my George tracks.

Here’s what happened:
1. Too Fools: Touch
2. Floatinghome: Believe
3. Chat with aidan from Floatinghome (Part 1)
4. Floatinghome: Beyond Tomorrow
5. Chat with aidan from Floatinghome (Part 2)
6. Floatinghome: Please Sir
7. Chat with aidan from Floatinghome (Part 3)
8. Trace: Awake
9. Bad Bones: Beg
10. George Michael: Fastlove
11. George Michael: Something to Save

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Picture of aidan from here

January 7, 2017
The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 130 with Abe Tarrush and Martin McNamara

On The London Ear this week I was delighted to be joined by with film maker and photographer Abe Tarrush and playwright Martin McNamara who chats about In The Shadow Or In The Shelter Festival.

Abe Tarrush speaks about his short film ‘The Proposal’

I’ve known Abe Tarrush a few years now and I was delighted to be able to catch up with him while he was in London. Abe was passing through following the screening of ‘The Proposal’ at the inaugural Exit 6 Film Festival in Basingstoke.

We had a great chat and I enjoyed hearing Abe chat about the process of filmmaking and hearing about having his short screened at a festival.

You can keep up with Abe on Twitter

Martin McNamara speaks about ‘In The Shadow or In The Shelter Festival’

Martin McNamara is a journalist and radio producer who has worked on ‘The Parting Glass’, a documentary presented by Fintan O’Toole on the Celtic Tiger. Martin also produced and presented ‘From Inside: The Guildford Four’ a documentary about the Guildford Four.

As a playwright, his first full length play, The Magic Hour, was produced at the Brockley Jack in 2013 and his first film script, The Shy Russian, is under option with Future Films USA.

Martin joined me to chat about ‘In The Shadow or In The Shelter Festival’. It’s a series of six one hour plays which tell the story of Irish immigrants to the UK from 1916 until today. Martin’s play ‘Traitors, Cads & Cowards’ runs as part of the festival.

The festival runs in the Lion and the Unicorn Theatre and then moves to River to Colour House Theatre from October 21st to 23rd.

You can get tickets for the Lion and Unicorn Theatre here and River to Colour House Theatre Here

You can keep up with the festival on Facebook and Twitter.

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 130 // October 08 2016

1. Wallis Bird: Control
2. Divine Comedy: How Can You Leave Me on My Own
3. Chat with Abe Tarrush
4. Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Kicking Roses
5. The Twigs: These Words
6. The Four of Us: Sugar Island
7. Chat with Martin McNamara
8. Placebo: Jesus’ Son
9. Two Door Cinema Club: Gameshow
10. The Japanese House: Face Like Thunder
11. James Darkin: Chase

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Photo of Martin from his website

October 9, 2016
The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 129 with John Gibbons

After a little break, The London Ear is back and no better reason to get back behind the mic than to chat to Ireland’s very own superstar DJ, John Gibbons.

Interview with John Gibbons

John is the man behind the rework of Charles and Eddie’s ‘Would I lie to you?’.
When we recorded the interview on Tuesday September 27th, the track has 4.7 million streams on Spotify. Last night (September 30th) John posted that the track has passed 5 million streams, an amazing achievement.

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 129 // October 1 2016 Playlist

Here’s what happened on this week’s episode of The London Ear.

1. Placebo: Jesus’ Son
2. Submotion: Headchecked
3. Interview with John Gibbons (Part 1)
4. John Gibbons: 1984 (Full Tilt remix)
5. Interview with John Gibbons (Part 2)
6. John Gibbons: Your Love
7. Interview with John Gibbons (Part 3)
8. John Gibbons: Would I lie to you?
9. The Shamen: Ebeneezer Goode

Listen Again

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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Check out John Gibbons online

Check out John’s website. You can also follow him on Twitter and Like him on Facebook.

Here’s ‘Would I lie to you?’ on Spotify.

October 1, 2016