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The London Ear with Nessy // Show 171

The London Ear with Nessy // Show 171

Hello hello hello! I’ve got an hour of freshest new music for you. See I’m down with da kidz. On The London Ear this week, I’ve got new music from The Eskies, Trick Mist and, I have to say, I adore Ham Sandiwich’s new one ‘Bodies’.

Also, I’m bad, today is my godson Cian’s birthday and I didn’t give him a shout out. Happy Birthday Cian!!

The London Ear with Nessy // Show 171 // November 18 2017

Here’s the playlist for today’s show:

1. The Eskies: I’m not sorry
2. Nocturnes: Humans
3. Heavy Soda: Elephant
4. Hayes & Y: Always so Simple, Always So Cold
5. Penrose: Better Man
6. Picturehouse: Somebody Somewhere
7. Ivan Nicholas: Moving On
8. Trick Mist: Fraction (Phare Remix)
9. Wyvern Lingo: Out of my Hands – Ringsend Road Sessions
10. Peco: Self Harm – A Beginner’s Guide
11. HamsandwicH: Bodies
12. Sinead Harnett: Unconditional
13. Conor Mason: Grounds to Fall
14. Childhood: Too Old for My Tears
15. Rews: Your Tears

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Listen to the music on Spotify

You can keep up to date with all the music I play on The London Ear in one handy Spotify playlist. Every track I’ve played in 2017 and that is available on Spotify is in there. You can find it right here.

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November 19, 2017
The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 159 with Davy Flats and Eleanor Tiernan

Hello from London. Well this week the summer heat is really starting to take effect here. Even if it’s not too hot, the underground is sickening with a severe lack of air. Apart from the circle line, the average temperature there is 18 degrees, which is particularly gorgeous.

Interview with Davy Flats

London based musician, Davy Flats, joined me on the show to chat about his two new tracks ‘Avocado’ and ’41’. Written about the 41 bus in North London.

You can keep up with Davy on Facebook and YouTube

Interview with Eleanor Tiernan

I was pretty lucky to be able to get chatting to comedian, Eleanor Tiernan, for this week’s show. I managed to chat to her in between stand up shows and catching trains. Eleanor is doing some shows as she prepares to gear up for the Edinburgh Fringe.

You can Find Eleanor on Twitter, Facebook and here’s her website.

The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 159 July 2 2017 // Playlist

1. Everything Everything: Can’t Do
2. Larkins: Sugar Sweet
3. Childhood: California Light
4. Wyvern Lingo: I love you Sadie
5. Chat with Davy Flats
6. Davy Flats: Avocado
7. Chat with Davy Flats Part 2
8. Davy Flats: 41
9. Bodies: I’m Waiting
10. Confidence Man: Bubblegum
11. Chat with Eleanor Tiernan
12. Arcade Fire: Everything Now

Listen On Demand to The London Ear

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.

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Photo of Eleanor Tiernan taken from here. Photo of Davy Flats taken from here.

July 8, 2017
The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 123 with Shura

Show 123 with Shura // July 9 2016

I was delighted to finally get Shura on the show. Her album, ‘Nothing’s Real’, came out this week and it thoroughly deserves your attention.

Here’s what happened:

1. Remi: Substance Therapy
2. MØ: Final Song
3. Hozier: Better Love
4. Wyvern Lingo: Left Hand Free / Don’t Let Go
5. Júníus Meyvant: Signals
6. Cathy Davey: The Pattern
7. Shura: Touch
8. Chat with Shura (Part 1)
9. Shura: What’s it Gonna Be
10. Chat with Shura (Part 2)
11. Shura: White Light
12. Twin Atlantic: No Sleep

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.

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You can keep up to date with Shura on her website, Facebook and Twitter.

If you prefer to listen to Shura’s interview on Soundcloud:

July 10, 2016
100 Days to Change // Days 18 – 31

It can be hard to keep this updated all the time, especially if you’re actually trying to do stuff every day. Here’s a recap:

I went to the first module of the Music Managers Forum Music Publishing nights. The first night was great, lots to take in and I left there buzzing. There was lots of technical ins-and-outs about publishing and over the rest of the nights we will delve into these a bit deeper. Can’t wait for the next one on February 8th.

Last week’s radio show went down really well. I recorded the show with Goldenplec writer, Tara Joshi via Skype and was really happy after the broadcast when people mentioned online that they thought we were in the same studio, not chatting via Skype. Score! The entire show was dedicated to Goldenplec‘s Plec Picks for 2016.

I also had the opportunity to speak to Johnny Ward last week for this week’s show. He’s such an inspiration, travelling and running a business from this laptop. Mega impressed, delighted I could chat to him.

I also had a bit of a brainwave last weekend. I thought it was good idea so I bought some domain names. Over the next week or two I will be able to get things up and running and hopefully, it will help the Irish music community in London and then later the UK. That will give me something solid to get my teeth into.

The longer I think about things, the more I believe that you have to give things a go, you have to try, even if you fail. You have to strive for something more than what this world just hands you, you have to fight for what you want, the only barriers are the ones you give yourself.

This week I had to overcome a dodgy back, thanks to new chairs at work. We’ve had them for a while and my shoulder had been a bit sore but I didn’t put it down to chairs. Doing nothing, just sitting in my chair on Monday afternoon, my back gradually got sorer and sorer until it was tighten up. Yay for having to lie flat on my bed for a couple of evenings once I get home!

That made this week almost a write off. However, yesterday I did manage to get up, go for a nice walk to Lewisham, go to Brixton Academy and interview Wyvern Lingo for next week’s episode of The London Ear.The ladies are opening for Hozier on his UK tour. Really nice people, I enjoyed our chat and thanks to their Tour Manager Anne for all her help.

On Wednesday I also went to Rigtrain‘s Pitching Tips for Radiomakers. It was good but in the UK if you pitch an idea to the BBC, the majority of times you need to go through an approved Indie production company. Now, call me thick, but if a production company was going to pitch your idea to the BBC, I don’t think you’d be going into a room with the Commissioning Editor of BBC Radio 4 on your own. I reckon there would be at least one week’s prep. Am I wrong?

So today is the last day of January, I’m glad to see the back of it to be honest. The past few days have been colder again so hopefully a new month and longer evenings will lead to less hibernation.

Nessy out!

January 31, 2016