Tag: Music

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 88: March 27 2013

Great show this week, looking at the world’s of theatre, film and music. Thanks to my guests, Mark O’Brien, Director of ‘Waiting for Elvis’, which runs at the Axis Theatre in Ballymun, Triona Brick from Freshly Squeezed Film Festival and to Brian Gallagher from SOnance HOtel.

Here’s what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Treetop Flyers: Change Will Come
3. Chat with Triona Brick, Media Manager of Freshly Squeezed Film Festival.
4. Spring Offensive: No Assets
5. Chat with Mark O’Brien, director of ‘Waiting For Elvis’
6. Fairchild Republic: Arcadia
7. Chat with Brian Gallagher of SOnance HOtel
8. SOnance HOtel: I’m Not Here
9. Chat with Brian Gallagher of SOnance HOtel (Part 2)
10. SOnance HOtel: Sub-Dude
11. The Spikes: Move To Mars
12. Liza Flume: Poisin (Daithi Remix)

Enjoy the podcast! 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.

March 27, 2013
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 87: March 20 2013

Firstly, thank you all for listening this week, especially since I coughed and spluttered my way through. Thanks also to my guests this week, Aidan Cuffe, editor of Goldenplec who chatted with me about Coast to Coat: Tea and Toast, and Eoin Hally from Superblondes who are releasing their single ‘Kill Some Time’.

Here’s the lowdown on what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick
2. Tieranniesaur: DIYSCO
3. Little Green Cars: Harper Lee
4. Billy Bragg: Handyman Blues
5. Balthazar: The Oldest of Sisters
6. Chat with Aidan Cuffe, editor of Goldenplec, about Coast to Coast: Tea and Toast
7. Elaine Mai: IOU
8. Kodaline: High Hopes
9. Cat Dowling: Come On
10. Chat with Eoin Hally of Superblondes
11. Superblondes: Kill Some Time
12. Semi Precious Weapons: Aviation High
13. Alunageorge: Attracting Flies
14. Bastille: Pompeii (Kat Krazy Remix)
15. Willy Moon: My Girl (Hostage Remix)

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.

March 20, 2013
Culture Cafe Show 86: March 13 2013

Seeing as it’s the week where we all go green, I thought it was a good idea to focus on some Irish music. Thanks to my guests, Marlene from The Hard Ground, Gary from TheGManWorld.com and Ed from Vickers Vimy.

Here’s the lowdown:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. The Hot Sprockets: Soul Brother
3. The Spikes: Specialist
4. Chat with Marlene Enright of The Hard Ground
5. The Hard Ground: Bad Faith
6. Chat with Gary Meyler of TheGManWorld.com
7. Trumpets of Jericjo: Uh!
8. Chat with Gary Meyler of TheGManWorld.com (Part 2)
9. Protobaby: Microchip
10. Chat with Ed Drea from Vickers Vimy
11. Vickers Vimy: Days are getting better
12. Stephen James Smith and Enda Reilly: Mise Eire/I am Ireland

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.

March 14, 2013
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM: Show 85

Hello!, so yesterday’s show wasn’t broadcast as planned and to you the listeners and to my guests who had given up their time, I apologize. As the show is prerecorded, this was out of my hands.

The show will be broadcast on Sunday night at 9pm. Thanks to my guests, Sean Hawkey, Marika Hackman and Pearse McGloughlin and Enda Reilly of Urchin Collective. Also Urchin Collective have a gig tomorrow night March 8 in Bewley’s in Grafton St, listen to the podcast and head down to the gig.

So, here’s a peek at what you should have heard / will hear on Sunday night:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. The Spikes: Specialist
3. Chat with Sean Hawkey about his exhibition ‘Cotton on to Fair Trade’
4. Kiernan McMullen: Intermission
5. Chat with Marika Hackman about her new mini album ‘That Iron Taste’
6. Marika Hackman: Retina Television
7. Chat with Marika Hackman
8. Marika Hackman: Cannibal
9. Chat with Enda Reilly and Pearse McGloughlin of Urchin Collective
10. Pearse McGloughlin: Bright Star
11. Solar Taxi: Parcels
12. Bastille: Pompeii
13. Reid: Wake

Thanks for your patience, this was out of my control. Don’t forget you can listen to previous shows 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.

March 7, 2013