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  • The Day I Met Bertie!

    On my first day back in college in September this year, I had a message during my first lecture. A Client who owed me a few bob said they would be at my college in ten minutes and asked if I could meet them outside.

    So, on my crutches I hobbled down the stairs and met my client, there were a few cars around and thought it was a bit busy.

    I turn to head back into college when I see a couple of the guys from DCUFM, I head over in their direction.

    The guys had been interviewing former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for Studio One, Steve Conlon’s show on DCUFM.

    Next thing I know, Bertie is standing there asking me what happened my poor old leg! He had broken his leg a while back and was sympathising with my dilemma.

    After a quick chat I headed back into the lecture…

    Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern with Nessy

    Picture by Sean Conroy

  • DCUFM Update – They Shut Us Down

    I’ve been really involved with radio again and I love it! I’ve been really lucky and have done about 45 live shows since September between DCUFM and Hot Country.
    DCUFM is great, it has given me the opportunity to try out an idea and prove that it would work, as I did with Culture Cafe.

    On Monday of last week, our stream was stopped by Redbrick, the society in DCU that stream our station.  To stream an online station here in Ireland, you must pay a licence fee every year. DCUFM’s licence was in the process of being renewed and IMRO, The Irish music Rights people had allowed us to continue as the licence was being reissued.

    On Wednesday night, a voiceover by a former DCUFMer, was put on a loop by Redbrick stating “Due to non payment of an IMRO licence, Redbrick has been forced to discontinue the streaming of DCUFM until further notice.”  This implies that we didn’t pay our licence and that we were infact breaking the law. This isn’t true.

    DCUFM has had to remove a listen live link from DCUFM.com and because we don’t have an FM licence, would be broadcasting to the room if programming were still going ‘out’.

    This Defamation of character, really hurts. Since before the academic year started station management, Denis McEvoy and Alan Regan  along with News Director Steve Conlon have been toiling away to make something of DCUFM. The quality of the programming is high and everyone involved in the station is taking this really seriously.

    DCU seems to be full of red tape, almost too much to cut through sometimes so DCUFM will have to look for an alternative server/stream provider to get up and running again. Seeing as its now Week 12 and we’re off for Christmas on Friday it looks like DCUFM wont be on again til 2010.

    Hopefully we will be back stronger and more determined to make DCUFM the best possible college radio we can.

    I just can’t believe that one College society would do this on another. It’s just childish, selfish behaviour.

    …nessy out!

  • This week on the Radio

    Just thought I’d give a quick update on what’s happening radiowise this week.

    Unfortunately due to some technical problems Culture Cafe won’t be broadcasting tonight on DCUFM, hopefully by Thursday everything will be sorted and we’ll be on the air between 1830-2000 GMT DCUFM.com


    I’ll be on Hot Country twice this upcoming weekend, which is the last weekend of the temporary licence. I’ll be on Saturday evening between 1700-2200 counting down part of the Top 500 country songs of all time.

    On Sunday I’ll be back with Simon Young between 1100-1400 with our last Sunday Fun! HotCountry.ie

    I’m planning a few bits in January which I’ll let you all know about as soon as I can..

    ..Nessy out!

  • Culture Cafe 3/12/09

    We had a special extended episode of Culture Cafe tonight. No one came for the 8pm show so we went on!

    In a very chilly goldfish bowl we had some great fun with Conor Furlong, Staf from House of Dolls, Dave from Sanskrit and chatted to Karen from Cowboy X and James from Frantic Jack on the phone..

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. Them Crooked Vultures: New Fang

    3. Chat with Conor Furlong including Are you Gonna Sleep Tonight (live)

    4. Conor Furlong: Wrong

    5. House of Dolls: Gimme Some Glory

    6. Chat with Staf from House of Dolls

    7. House of Dolls: Before She Wakes

    8. Chat with Karen from Cowboy X

    9. Cowboy X: Analogue Droids

    10. Yeasayer: Ambling Alp

    11. Chat with Dave from Sanskrit including We are not the Same (live)

    12. Sanskrit: Carnivore

    13. Frantic Jack: Free

    14.The Aftermath: The Power of Love

    15. VHS or Beta: Feel It When You Know (LA Riots Remix)

    16. David Turpin: Dorothy Gale

    17. Big Pink: Dominos

    18.Vampire Weekend: Horchata

    19. Noah and the Whale: Love of an Orchestra

    20. Ivan St John:  This is how we play

    21. George Michael: December Song ( I Dreamed of Christmas)

    22. The Temper Trap: Sweet Disposition

    23. Florence and the Machine: You Got the Love

    24. Adam Lambert: For Your Entertainment

    25. Christophe Willem: Double Je

    26.Taken By Trees: Sweet Child Of Mine..

    And so I decided to go home.. its too cold in the goldfish bowl!