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  • Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 29 Playlist/Podcast:08/02/2012

    Culture Cafe29Really enjoyed this show, great stuff in there if I may say so myself! Great topics and great guests.

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. Rob Kelly: Game Over

    3. Chat with Louise Marlborough of Pretty Vacant Dublin about Hidden Currents

    4. Ren Hardvieu: Through the Night

    5. Chat with Emily Elphinstone Festival Co-Ordinator of the Collaborations Festival happening in Smock Alley, Dublin

    6. Raglans: The Man from Glasgow

    7. Chat with Larry Love of Alabama 3

    8. Alabama 3: Facebook.con

    9. Chairlift: I Belong In Your Arms

    10. Chat with Fran King, cast member of Get Back – The Story of the Beatles

    11. The Beatles: A Day in The Life

    12. Chat with Lorraine Maye, Temple Bar Cultural Trust about A Date in Dublin

    13. The Aftermath: In Loneliness Lives

    14. Senakah: Human Relations

    Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening! The show airs on RTÉ 2XM on Wednesdays at 10 am and repeated Sundays at 9pm

  • Get Back – The Story of The Beatles at The Tivoli: Review

    Get Back

    Everyone knows The Beatles, so going to a show like ‘Get Back‘, you kinda know what you’re going to get. The trick here would be how the story is actually told.

    Entering the Tivoli, the auditorium is a definite reminder of the sixties era, spacious tiered red cinema seats facing a stage with a drumkit and some guitar amps set up. Strawberry Fields roadsigns and images of the Fab Four hang in the venue. From the offset, everything is Beatle-esque, even the mandatory fire announcement are voiced by the quartet in a Scouse accent. Funny as hell and of course informative.

    The show starts in Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club and immediately its aurally hard to tell the difference between our performers ‘The Classic Beatles‘ and the real thing. But after a couple of tracks, I questioned if this would be interesting enough to last the full length of a show. Two minutes later, my question was answered as a large screen at the back of the stage transformed into what looked like a 1960s television broadcast. Really clever and this worked a treat. (more…)