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  • Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 5 Playlist and Podcast: 24/08/2011

    Culture Cafe 5This week I was focusing on the Electric Picnic, looking at some of the musicians that are playing as well as some of the Arty things that are happening over the weekend, Oh and I got an invitation to become a certified clown! The show was originally broadcast on Wednesday 24th August 2011. Here’s what happened:

    1: DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick : Crossroads

    2: The Gorgeous Colours: It’s Ok To Be Normal

    3. Chat with Charles from Fossett’s Circus

    4. Everything Everything: MY KZ, YR BF

    5. Chat with Louise Allen of Craft Council of Ireland about Craftitecture

    6. Yuck: Shook Down

    7. The Event Guide with Kevin McCabe

    8. Chat with Robin James Hurt

    9. Robin James Hurt and The Band of Moonlight Love: Yarmouth Town

    10. Padraig McQuaid artistic director of ‘It’s No Picnic On The Streets’ exhibition curated by DePaul Ireland

    11. Lykke Li: Get Some

    12. White Lies: Holy Ghost

    13. Chat with Nightbox

    14. Nightbox: Pyramid (Hidden Cat Remix) Recommended Free Legal Download available from Facebook.com/nightboxband

    Hope you enjoyed the show, If you missed it, the show is repeated on Sundays at 2100 GMT. The podcast contains all the interviews in the show.

    Thanks for listening. Don’t forget you can listen online, on Digital and on UPC Channel 944.

  • Robin James Hurt: The Market House E.P. Review

    Robin James HurtFolk music and me have a long standing complicated relationship. Once it goes to diddly aye territory, I’m outta there. Hearing the new E.P. though, from Robin James Hurt (with the Band of Moonlight Love) has given me quite a smile.

    The CD opens with an original instrument composition, ‘The Doonbeag Waltz’, a tender mandolin led piece beautifully intertwined with delicate guitar and string arrangement.

    Hurt has taken traditional songs and given them his own arrangements. Traditional instruments are flanked by drums and bass guitar and Hurt’s raspy vocals make these songs his own. (more…)