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  • Culture Cafe on RTÉ 2XM Show 24 Playlist and Podcast:04/01/2012

    Culture Cafe 24The first show of 2012! Here’s what happened:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. Various Cruelties: Great Unknown

    3. Chat with Wayne from Hogan

    4. Hogan: 1, 2, 3, 4

    5. Maccabees: Pelican

    6. Lana Del Ray: Born To Die

    7. Goyte: Somebody That I Used To Know

    8. Ben Howard: Black Files (Nixon Remix)

    9. Chat with Frankie from The Hot Sprockets

    10. The Hot Sprockets: Cruisin

    11. Eugene MCGuinness: Thunderbolt (Recommended Free Legal Download)

    12. Chat with Sam from Keywest

    13. Keywest: Feels So Cruel

    14. Slow Moving Millie: Feels Like Heaven

    15. Born Blonde: Radio Bliss

    16. Clock Opera: Once and For All

    17. The Chakras: Build Me A Swan

  • Keywest: Back In Your Arms Review

    keywest back in your armsKeywest are one of those bands who I’ve heard about, seen their stuff online but didn’t really know anything else. ‘Back In Your Arms’ is the first single to be taken from their debut album ‘The Message’, due for release later this year.

    The band have been working with Mark Needham (The Killers. Fleetwood Mac) so I was expecting a polished pop song. That’s what I got. The track starts with a breathy vocal not dissimilar to Enrique’s style. A drum beat drives the song to its chorus crescendo. It’s only then that full instrumentation is used.  If you crossed U2 and The Script, you’d get Keywest. Drums and guitar seem to be very U2 influenced, with a hint of the Edge’s guitar sound and style. (more…)