I had a really good chat with Mark on the show and felt that it wasn’t fair just to have 8 minutes aired.
So I decided to put the full interview out as a podcast. I loved to hear Mark talk about his music and how he approaches gigging. I really appreciate Mark being so open.
Hope you enjoy it.
RTÉs Big Music Week runs across all platforms from October 10th to 15th to celebrate all music RTÉ brings to its audience through radio, television and live performances as well as through its online services. Heres a glimpse of what you can look forward to.
RTÉ/RAAP (Recorded Artists Actors Performance) will announce the winner of this years Breakthrough Busaries. The categories go from rock to trad and, drawn from 800 entries, the 12 finalists will feature across all RTÉ stations over the week.
Read the rest of this post I wrote over on TwoTube.
Show 11: I hope you are enjoying the shows as much as I’m enjoying getting them all together.. and if you haven’t lsitened yet.. it’s never too late to start!
Here’s what happened:
1. Crossroads: DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick
2: The Plea: Odyssey
3. Chat with Eric Fraad of Ex about Shipwrecked
4. Lana Del Ray: Blue Jeans
5. Chat with Oonagh Young about Time Coloured Place exhibition (part 1)
6. Invisible Alan: Chubby Little Nerd
7. Chat with Oonagh Young (Part 2)
8. Tom Vex: Aroused
9. Author Maeve Binchey’s memories of Eason’s at the launch of their 125th Birthday celebrations
10. Event Guide with Kev
11. Cloud Control: Death Cloud (This Week’s Recommended Free Legal Download available from cloudcontrolband.com)
12.Tribes: Sappho
13. Chat with Marie and Geoff from The Brilliant Things
14. The Brilliant Things: Something to Say
Thanks for listening, the podcast contains all the interviews and I will have an extended interview with Oonagh Young online later today. Culture Cafe is broadcast online, on DAB and on UPC channel 944, every Wednesday at 1000 and repeated every Sunday at 2100
As a follow up to the interview on last week’s Culture Cafe and the written piece on my blog, I’ve been asked by some people if I would share the audio from my interview with Nick and James from Canadian/Irish Band Nightbox, who are based in Toronto.
Here it is, we chat about everything from Sweeney’s chips in Greystones, music to even the weather.. here it is! Oh, if you’re in town tonight, August 30th, catch the guys at The Academy 2 tonight, they played at Reading and Leeds last weekend and will also be at Electric Picnic this weekend.