Tag: RTE

The London Ear on RTE 2XM Show 2: 25/09/2013

I made a boo boo and forgot to tweet/Facebook about today’s show – Put it down to me being really important in my new job 🙂

On the show today, I chatted to Jim Lockey and to Julie Martin of The Would Be’s. This week’s featured album is Morcheeba with Head Up High, their eighth studio album.

Also with thanks to MCD, I have two tickets to give away to Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun this Friday night, September 27th, in the Academy 2 in Dublin. Not to confuse everything, I’ve details about the competition here.

Here’s what happened:

I. Intro
2. Laura Welsh: Undiscovered
3. The Salt Flats: If You Leave
4. Morcheeba: Gimme Your Love
5. Chat with Jim Lockey of Jim Lockey and The Solemn Sun
6. Jim Lockey and The Solemn Sun: England’s Dead
7. Gavin James: I Remember
8. The Love Junkies: Maybelene
9. Stags: Stealing My Heart
10. Chat with Julie Martin of The Would Be’s
11. The Would Be’s: Beautiful Mess
12. Cat Dowling: Something Else
13. Morcheeba: Face of Danger
14. Bell X1: Careful What You Wish For

Thanks for listening, really appreciate it. If you know an Irish band living or touring London / UK tell them to get in touch, I’d love to chat to them. Thanks for listening and don’t forget to enter the Jim Lockey Competition.

I’ve included a Soundcloud link to the show below, just as The London Ear is showing up under my old show name ‘Culture Cafe’ on the RTE player. This is for demonstration purposes only and no copyright breaches are intended. The file will be removed on Sep 28th.

Thanks for listening. Don’t forget the show is broadcast every Wednesday at 1400 and is repeated at 2100 on Sunday nights.

Thanks for listening!

September 26, 2013
The London Ear on RTE 2XM: Show 1 Sep 18 2013

As you may or may not know, I’ve relocated to London for work but this has given me the opportunity to do a new music show. So I let my unveil ‘The London Ear’. I’m still working on a logo and stuff like that and I’ve been working on an intro for the show.. may still add a little more of it.

Here it is, what do you think?

On this first show, I’m delighted to say that I had the pleasure of chatting to Paul Savage of O Emperor and to Dundalk natives Bold Things, who play the Sebright Arms on Saturday 20th September.. Get down there if you’re in London. I also chose Placebo’s new album ‘Loud Like Love’ as album of the week and played a couple of tracks from that.

3/4 of Bold Things

Here’s what happened:
1. London Ear Intro
2. The Traps: Calypso
3. Myles Manley: Got to get out of the country
4. Placebo: Loud Like Love
5. O Emperor: Holy Fool
6. Chat with Paul Savage from O Emperor
7. O Emperor: This is it
8. George Ezra: Budapest (Available as a free download)
9. London Grammar: Strong
10. Placebo: Purify
11. Chat with Bold Things (Part 1)
12. Bold Things: Keep Together
13. Chat with Bold Things (Part 2)
14. Bold Things: Hearts Ajar

So that’s it for Show 1, fingers crossed Show 2 will feature Jim Lockey and The Solemn Sun and The Would Be’s. Thanks for listening, the full show should be up on the RTE player in the next day or so. If not, you can always listen to the repeat of the show on RTE 2XM on Sunday night at 2100.

Thanks for listening!

September 18, 2013
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 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