Tag: RTE

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // with Shaefri and Secret Cameras

We’ve got not one but two interviews with London based musicians on the show today.

Interview with Shaefri

Shaefri is a London based, Irish Egyptian musician and I adore her new single Pixelate. We had a good chat about the recording of the single, who she’s working with as well as how both Ireland and Egypt have influenced her work.

You can check Shaefri out on Facebook, Twitter and her website.

Interview with Itamar Starets from Secret Cameras

Secret Cameras are a band that I think are probably typical of the melting pot of cultures that London is. You have members who are English as well as Israeli, Greek and half French.

Their new single ‘Going Places’ is gaining traction and has been featured by Dan Hegarty on RTE 2XM as his Tune of the day.

You can check out Secret Cameras on Facebook and Twitter.

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 133 // Playlist

1. Barry McCormick: All The Things You’ve Done
2. Chat with Shaefri
3. Shaefri: Pixelate
4. Cronin: She Saves
5. Chat with Itamar Starets from Secret Cameras (Part 1)
6. Suede: New Generation
7. Chat with Itamar Starets from Secret Cameras (Part 2)
8. Secret Cameras: Going Places
9. Dead or Alive: You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

Listen Again

Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

Check out the video for Shaefri’s ‘Pixelate’

Check out the video for Secret Cameras’ ‘Going Places’

October 30, 2016
The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 132 with Kiernan McMullan

This episode of The London Ear heads across the Atlantic to a member of the Irish dispora based in Nashville.

Interview with Kiernan McMullan

Kiernan McMullan is a musician based in Nashville. He went to secondary school in Ireland and also attended a Sound and Lighting Course in the Sound Training Centre in Temple Bar. His family still live in Ireland.

Kiernan has a new single out. “What’s for you (Won’t Go Past You) and it was great to catch up with him to chat about that. We spoke to Kiernan a while back on The London Ear and it was interesting and refreshing to hear a musician speak about how they had to take stock of everything and take a step back to recharge the batteries. We’re delighted Kiernan is now refreshed and ready to take on the world.

You can follow Kiernan on Facebook, Twitter and on his website.

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 132 with Kiernan McMullan // October 22 2016 // Playlist

1. Sleaford Mods: TCR
2. Cronin: She Saves
3. James Vincent McMorrow: Evil
4. Justice: Randy
5. Slow Riot: Absent Dreams
6. We Cut Corners: Mandinka
7. Chat with Kiernan McMullan
8. Kiernan Mc Mullan: I Stayed The Same
9. Chat with Kiernan McMullan (Part 2)
10. Kiernan McMullan: What’s for you (Won’t Go Past You)
11. Green Day: Bang Bang
12. The Academic: Mixtape 2003

Listen Again

Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

Photo of Kiernan from here and single cover from here.

October 23, 2016
The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 131 with Jack O’Rourke

Episode 131 of The London Ear, gave me a chance to catch up with an artist who I had missed out on since moving to London.

Interview with Jack O’Rourke

Jack O’Rourke is a Cork musician with such a beautiful voice. It has a depth and warmth that many will envy. Think along the lines of John Grant or Leonard Cohen. He has just released his album ‘Dream Catcher’.

You can find Jack on Twitter and Facebook or on his website. You can check out Dream Catcher on Spotify

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 131 // October 15 2016 // Playlist

1. James Darkin: Chase
2. Secret Cameras: Going Places
3. Two Door Cinema Club: Gameshow
4. The Academic: Mixtape 2003
5. Gypsies on the Autobahn: Torrents
6. Jack O’Rourke: Naviety
7. Chat with Jack O’Rourke (Part 1)
8. Jack O’Rourke: Iggy
9. Chat with Jack O’Rourke (Part 2)
10. Jack O’Rourke: On The Downlow
11. The Japanese House: Face Like Thunder
12. John Gibbons: Would I Lie To You?

Listen Again

Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

October 15, 2016
The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 130 with Abe Tarrush and Martin McNamara

On The London Ear this week I was delighted to be joined by with film maker and photographer Abe Tarrush and playwright Martin McNamara who chats about In The Shadow Or In The Shelter Festival.

Abe Tarrush speaks about his short film ‘The Proposal’

I’ve known Abe Tarrush a few years now and I was delighted to be able to catch up with him while he was in London. Abe was passing through following the screening of ‘The Proposal’ at the inaugural Exit 6 Film Festival in Basingstoke.

We had a great chat and I enjoyed hearing Abe chat about the process of filmmaking and hearing about having his short screened at a festival.

You can keep up with Abe on Twitter

Martin McNamara speaks about ‘In The Shadow or In The Shelter Festival’

Martin McNamara is a journalist and radio producer who has worked on ‘The Parting Glass’, a documentary presented by Fintan O’Toole on the Celtic Tiger. Martin also produced and presented ‘From Inside: The Guildford Four’ a documentary about the Guildford Four.

As a playwright, his first full length play, The Magic Hour, was produced at the Brockley Jack in 2013 and his first film script, The Shy Russian, is under option with Future Films USA.

Martin joined me to chat about ‘In The Shadow or In The Shelter Festival’. It’s a series of six one hour plays which tell the story of Irish immigrants to the UK from 1916 until today. Martin’s play ‘Traitors, Cads & Cowards’ runs as part of the festival.

The festival runs in the Lion and the Unicorn Theatre and then moves to River to Colour House Theatre from October 21st to 23rd.

You can get tickets for the Lion and Unicorn Theatre here and River to Colour House Theatre Here

You can keep up with the festival on Facebook and Twitter.

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 130 // October 08 2016

1. Wallis Bird: Control
2. Divine Comedy: How Can You Leave Me on My Own
3. Chat with Abe Tarrush
4. Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Kicking Roses
5. The Twigs: These Words
6. The Four of Us: Sugar Island
7. Chat with Martin McNamara
8. Placebo: Jesus’ Son
9. Two Door Cinema Club: Gameshow
10. The Japanese House: Face Like Thunder
11. James Darkin: Chase

Listen Again

Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

Photo of Martin from his website

October 9, 2016