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  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 43 // July 30 2014

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 43 // July 30 2014

    On today’s episode of The London Ear, I had the pleasure of chatting to Fia Rua and to Alessio from Stags about their new releases.

    1. The London Ear Intro
    2. Youth Mass: Old Enough To Know Better (Elaine Mai Remix)
    3. Banks: Beggin For Thread
    4. Chat with Fia Rua (Part 1)
    5. Fia Rua: Baby I’m a Liar
    6. Chat with Fia Rua (Part 2)
    7. Fia Rua: When Mark met Tom
    8. Rainy Boy Sleep: Ambulance
    9. Chat with Alessio from Stags
    10. Stags: Just Like You
    11. El May: I played a Role
    12. Volcanoes: Up in Smoke
    13. Deadmau5: Errors In my Head

    Thanks for listening. You can listen live every Wednesday at 1400 and the repeat on Sunday nights at 2100. You can listen to the show again on the RTE player.

    You can also listen to the show in its entirety on Mixcloud or in the widget below.

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 43 // July 30 2014 by Nessy on Mixcloud

  • Tune of the Week 24/12/2013: Fia Rua – That Christmas Feeling

    Tune of the Week 24/12/2013: Fia Rua – That Christmas Feeling

    You got to love this. The gravelly voice of Fia Rua and his banjo alongside the opening verse of this makes you think this is going to be a ‘Bah Humbug’ kinda Christmas song but somewhere along the way those elves sprinkled their dust over Fia Rua. It’s a terror what a bit of snow can do to make it all Christmassy. Christmas described extremely accurately in a folk punk stylee.

    Mobile device users can hear the track here if you can’t see the embed below.

  • Fia Rua: Falling Time Review

    fiaruaThis is one of those albums that has been knocking around my desk for a while. ‘Falling Time’ is the current album from Galway based experiemental folk artist Eoghan Burke, better known as Fia Rua.

    Opening with the title track ‘Falling Time’, an uptempo track with fiddles, guitars, everything you’d expect to hear on a folk album Fia Rua though is a little different as contemporary production creeps in, with little noises and hooks. You’ll be singing this all day.

    There are a few guests on the album including Jinx Lennon, who on Shakier, spits out lines like ‘you got to keep it raw, awkward and real if you want to survive the next twenty four years’. (more…)