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  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 128 with Andrew from Romes

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 128 with Andrew from Romes

    The London Ear Show128 Romes

    On this week’s show we headed to Toronto, to speak with Andrew Keyes from Canadian based Irish band, Romes.

    Interview with Andrew Keyes from Romes

    I first heard about an Irish band in Toronto way back in 2011. They were the band that would eventually be known as Romes. Back in 2011, they were known as Nightbox and I interviewed the band for Goldenplec and featured them on Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM.

    Since then, the band have undergone a line up change and while the current members were part of Nightbox, they have a different edge.

    You can find out more about Romes on their website, Facebook and Twitter

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 128 // August 27 2016 Playlist

    Here’s what happened on this week’s episode of The London Ear.

    1. George The Poet: What do you reckon?
    2. Michael Kinawuka feat Nasir : Black Man in a White World (Gettysburg Address)
    3. The Swedish Railway Orchestra: VI
    4. The Naked and Famous: Higher
    5. Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Summer
    6. Evering: CityFlyer
    7. Dan Amor: Cnoc Cnoc Cnoc
    8. Florence and The Machine: Too Much is Never Enough
    9. The Lemon Twigs: These Words
    10. Cfit: Salvo
    11. Swords: Betty Machete
    12. Wild Beasts: Big Cat
    13. Chat with Andrew Keyes from Romes
    14. Romes: Believe
    15. Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth

    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 Romes’ current single ‘Believe’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO1P99Jmuqc

  • Tune of the Week // The Naked and Famous – Higher

    Tune of the Week // The Naked and Famous – Higher

    The Naked and Famous - nessymon

    Higher from The Naked and Famous is this week’s Tune of the Week

    I genuinely miss The Naked and Famous when they’re not around. Their debut, ‘Passive Me, Aggressive You’, became the soundtrack to my 2011 after I reviewed their Button Factory gig for Goldenplec.

    It was such a good album and many of tracks found themselves synced (the term when a track from an album gets put on the telly or in a film) across everything from Cabin in The Woods to Made in Chelsea. The follow up album, ‘In Rolling Waves’, featured ‘Hearts Like Ours’, another cracker, but didn’t seem to have the same impact.

    Somewhat Damaged – Doing it for themselves

    Well, they’re back and on their own terms by the looks of it. New Zealand’s finest are now living in Los Angeles and will be releasing their third album, ‘Simple Forms’, on October 14th.

    Three years isn’t a huge amount of time to get an album together but when you realise that The Naked and Famous are releasing this on their own label, ‘Somewhat Damaged’ and being distributed by Kobalt Label Services, it shows that the guys have their heads screwed on and getting down to business.

    Kobalt are a company that independent artists can use to get their music out there without having to have the powerhouse weight of a major label behind them. They make sure that the tracks are on iTunes, can help with marketing, all the business stuff.

    Anyway, ‘Higher’ is the current single from The Naked and Famous, they really do have their own sound and Alisa Xayalith’s vocals contribute a big part to it. Electronica with a band sound and rousing chorus refrains you can sing at the top of your lungs? That will do nicely, thanks!

    Pic from Facebook

  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM Show 10: 27/11/2013

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM Show 10: 27/11/2013

    The London Ear on RTE 2XMSlowly getting back into the swing of things after moving apartments, thanks to this week’s guests Robin Romei and Maya from Pocket Satellite. You can hear our chats in the podcast.

    Here’s the run down on what happened:
    1. The London Ear Intro
    2. The Naked and Famous: Hearts Like Ours
    3. Strangers: London Lights
    4. Harts: Leavn It All Behind
    5. Robin Romei: We Are The Underdogs
    6. Chat with Robin Romei
    7. Robin Romei: Effy
    8. Royskopp: Running To The Sea
    9. Pocket Satellite: Astronaut for a Day
    10. Chat with Maya from Pocket Satellite
    11. Pocket Satellite: Pixelated Lives
    12. Orla Gartland: Roots
    13. Mark Geary & Glen Hansard: Christmas Biscuits
    14. The 1975: Is there someone to watch over you

    Thanks for listening, you can listen live every Wednesday at 1400 and the repeat on Sunday nights at 2100. You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. Here’s the catch, on the player The London Ear is still showing up under the name of my old Dublin based show, Culture Cafe so search for that instead.

    If you are in a band based in Ireland or the UK and would like to get involved in the show, email me nessy @ nessymon.com (take out the gaps)

    Til next time!

  • Tune of the Week 29/07/2013: The Naked and Famous – Hearts Like Ours (Updated with new video)

    Tune of the Week 29/07/2013: The Naked and Famous – Hearts Like Ours (Updated with new video)

    TNAF bannerThere was only ever going to be one choice for me, for this week’s Tune of the Week. I absolutely adored The Naked and Famous‘ album ‘Passive Me, Aggressive You’, and I loved seeing them live.

    Over the past while, on Instagram, the band have been giving hints that their new album was almost ready and just last week posted the words ‘Hearts Like Ours’ with the caption “New song. #album2 #watchthisspace”.

    Well, we didn’t have to wait long, ‘Hearts Like Ours’, is the track track we’ve heard from the New Zealanders’ second album ‘In Rolling Waves’ which will be out on September 13th was recorded in Los Angeles. The album was produced by Thom Rogers and Aaron Shortt from the band and Justin Meldal-Johnsen (NIN, M83). ‘Hearts Like Ours’ continues where ‘Passive Me, Aggressive You’ left off and has been on constant rotation since I heard it last week.

    TNAF are kicking off touring again in San Diego in September and make their way to Ireland & UK later on this year. Catch them at:

    21 Nov 2013 Ritz Manchester
    22 Nov 2013 HMV Institute Birmingham
    23 Nov 2013 UEA Norwich
    25 Nov 2013 Olympia Theatre Dublin
    26 Nov 2013 The Limelight Belfast
    27 Nov 2013 O2 ABC Glasgow
    29 Nov 2013 O2 Academy Bristol
    30 Nov 2013 O2 Academy Oxford
    02 Dec 2013 O2 Shepherds Bush Empire London

    EDIT: The Naked and Famous released the video for ‘Hearts Like Ours’ on July 30th 2013, here it is.

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