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  • Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 81: 06/02/2013

    Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 81: 06/02/2013

    A little later than usual, here’s the podcast and show notes for this week’s Culture Cafe. Thanks to my guests, Dave Browne from Picturehouse, Olive Barrett, curator of New Axis at the Talbot Gallery and to Elaine Doyle from The Riot Tapes. Here’s what happened:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
    2. Swim Deep: The Sea
    3. Delphic: Memeo
    4. Chat with Dave Browne from Picturehouse
    5. Picturehouse: Hello
    6. Little Comets: Violence Out Tonight
    7. Washington Irving: Holy Company
    8. Chat with Olive Barrett curator of New Axis exhibition
    9. Windings: Something Outnumbered
    10. a dark horse: The Heart Won’t Lie
    11. Chat with Elaine Doyle from The Riot Tapes
    12. The Riot Tapes: The Key
    13. Imagine Dragons: It’s Time.
    Culture Cafe 81
    Thanks for listening, don’t forget you can listen to the full show again on the RTE Player. The show is broadcast every Wednesday at 1400 GMT and is repeated every Sunday at 2100 GMT. You can also subscribe to the Culture Cafe podcast on iTunes.

  • The Riot Tapes: Photograph Review

    I actually wasn’t going to write about this cos I basically did a review of it when I played it on the Culture Cafe on Thursday night but a few people who know my kind of music, asked me what I thought so here goes.

    There are always a few comparisons and stereotypes a band will get with a female singer backed by a few blokes. The opening ‘Stupid Girl’ Garbage/Clash-like drum beat on ‘Photograph’ doesn’t dispel these. The feedback guitar intro then dips into a more Texas-like verse.

    Elaine Doyle’s vocals are strong and commanding, I can’t figure out whether its her vocals or the vocal production that reminds me of Sharleen Spiteri. It’s enough to make me listen a couple of times to try and figure out if the vocal lines are reverbed or doubletracked. </nerd>  (more…)