Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 95: 15/05/2013

Nessy and Tara Kennedy laughing at the awful attempts at a selfie

First show in Foxden Studios, it was great to have the chance to have a guest in to play a song or two, thanks to Tara Kennedy for the live music and thanks to Eleanor Creighton of Dublin Dance Festival and Photographer Kate Nolan for the chats.

Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Prides: Out of the Blue
3. Chat with photographer Kate Nolan about her photobook ‘Neither’
4. Bastille: Laura Palmer
5. Chat with Eleanor Creighton, Dublin Dance Festival
6. Maud In Cahoots: Dance With Me
7. Chat with Tara Kennedy
8. Tara Kennedy: For the Both of Us (Live in Studio)
9. Tara Kennedy: Castles (Live in Studio)
10. Jack White: Love is Blindness
11. Neon Wolf: I Can’t Speak For You
12. Toy Soldiers: Climbing Trees
13. Stay Blessed: Always

As a little extra for you today, you can listen to Tara Kennedy’s songs on Soundcloud or in the widget below.

Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening. 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.

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM: Show 94 08/05/2013

Show 94, it was great to catch up with Little Green Cars and also Andrew from Juggling Athlone… Don’t forget Little Green Cars’ album Absolute Zero is out this Friday… here’s what happened.

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Strangers: Something New
3. Marina & The Diamonds/Charli XCX: Just Desserts
4. Kodaline: Love Like This
5. Orla Gartland: Piece by Piece
6. Chat with Little Green Cars including:
7. Little Green Cars: The John Wayne
8. Little Green Cars: 10 o’clock
9. Little Green Cars: Red (Demo)
10. Little Green Cars: My Love Took Me Down To The River To Silence Me
11. Little Green Cars: Harper Lee
12. Elevens: Forlorn Soul
13. Chat with Andrew from Juggling Athlone
14. My Tribe Your Tribe: My Friends Live Here
15. Blaue Blume: On New Years Eve

Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening. 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.

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 93: May 1 2013

Episode 93 on RTE 2XM, where does the time go? So what should I do for episode 100, any ideas? Let me know! nessy @ nessymon.com

Thanks to my guests on this week’s show Joan Burney Keatings MBE from Cinemagic Film Festival, Lindsay Rountree from Gospel Rising and Cathal MacGabhann from The Altered Hours

Here’s what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Eye Emma Jedi: Places
3. Must: Just Wait
4. Chat with Joan Burney Keatings MBE, Festival Director, Cinemagic Film Festival
5. Les Mistons: Overcoming Fear
6. Swords: All The Boys
7. Chat with Lindsay Rountree from Gospel Rising
8. Little Green Cars: My Love Took Me Down To The River To Silence Me
9. Cat Dowling: Cruel
10. Cathal MacGabhann from The Altered Hours
11. The Altered Hours: Sweet Jelly Roll
12. The 1975: The City

Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening. 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.

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 92: April 24 2013

Thanks for listening to the show this week, thanks to my guests Ray Yeates from TBCT who chatted about the Outdoor Film Festival, musician McMahon and Dominic Campbell, director of Bealtaine Festival.

Here’s what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Empire of the Sun: Alive
3. Chat with Ray Yeates of Temple Bar Cultural Trust about their Outdoor Film Festival
4. The Money Go Round: Endless Sun
5. The 1975: Chocolate
6. Chat with McMahon
7. McMahon: Deep Down
8. The Plea: Glass Waltz
9. The Hot Sprockets: Soul Brother
10. Chat with Dominic Campbell, director of Bealtaine Festival
11. Daft Punk feat Pharrell Williams: Get Lucky
12. Jessie Ware: Imagine It Was Us
13. Laura Mvula: Green Garden (Monsieur Adi Remix)
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Sacrilege (Tommy Sunshine and Live City Remix)

Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening. 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.

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM: Show 91 17/04/2013

What a jam-packed show! Thanks to all my guests, photographer Donal Moloney, Colm from Ghost Estates, Louise Tangney from Vantastival and to folk musician Sarah McQuaid.

Here’s what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Chat with Donal Moloney about his Intruders exhibition
3. John Blek and The Rats: Hand On My Heart
4. Chat with Colm from Ghost Estates
5. Ghost Estates: In Waves
6. Chat with Louise Tangney of Vantastival
7. And So I Watch You From Afar: All Hail Bright Futures
8. Chat with Sarah McQuaid (Part 1)
9. Sarah McQuaid: The Sun Goes On Rising
10. Chat with Sarah McQuaid (Part 2)
11. Sarah McQuaid:Lift You Up and Let You Fly
12. Aidan: Into The Future

Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening. 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.

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 90: April 10 2013

This week I had the opportunity to chat to Peter McCauley of Rams’ Pocket Radio, who I’ve wanted to chat to for ages and also to the amazing Imagine Dragons. I interviewed them for Goldenplec.com (watch out for a written feature) and nabbed the audio for the radio show, so I’ve included the version of our chat, without the music in the podcast.

I also had the chance to play some great new music, here’s what went down:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Enemies featuring Conor Adams: Executive Cut
3. Fred: Battles
4. Chat with Peter from Rams’ Pocket Radio
5. Rams’ Pocket Radio: Dieter Rams has got a pocket radio
4. Chat with Peter from Rams’ Pocket Radio (Part 2)
6. Rams’ Pocket Radio: Cavaties
7. aidan: Into The Future
8. Travis: Another Guy
9. Chat with Imagine Dragons including:
10. Imagine Dragons: Radioactive
11. Imagine Dragons: Hear Me
12. Imagine Dragons: Amsterdam
13. Imagine Dragons It’s Time
14. The Spikes: Move to Mars
15. Frantic Jack: Living Proof
16. Altered Hours: Sweet Jelly Roll

Thanks for listening, 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.

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.

Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 87: March 20 2013

Firstly, thank you all for listening this week, especially since I coughed and spluttered my way through. Thanks also to my guests this week, Aidan Cuffe, editor of Goldenplec who chatted with me about Coast to Coat: Tea and Toast, and Eoin Hally from Superblondes who are releasing their single ‘Kill Some Time’.

Here’s the lowdown on what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick
2. Tieranniesaur: DIYSCO
3. Little Green Cars: Harper Lee
4. Billy Bragg: Handyman Blues
5. Balthazar: The Oldest of Sisters
6. Chat with Aidan Cuffe, editor of Goldenplec, about Coast to Coast: Tea and Toast
7. Elaine Mai: IOU
8. Kodaline: High Hopes
9. Cat Dowling: Come On
10. Chat with Eoin Hally of Superblondes
11. Superblondes: Kill Some Time
12. Semi Precious Weapons: Aviation High
13. Alunageorge: Attracting Flies
14. Bastille: Pompeii (Kat Krazy Remix)
15. Willy Moon: My Girl (Hostage Remix)

Thanks for listening, 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.

Culture Cafe Show 86: March 13 2013

Seeing as it’s the week where we all go green, I thought it was a good idea to focus on some Irish music. Thanks to my guests, Marlene from The Hard Ground, Gary from TheGManWorld.com and Ed from Vickers Vimy.

Here’s the lowdown:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. The Hot Sprockets: Soul Brother
3. The Spikes: Specialist
4. Chat with Marlene Enright of The Hard Ground
5. The Hard Ground: Bad Faith
6. Chat with Gary Meyler of TheGManWorld.com
7. Trumpets of Jericjo: Uh!
8. Chat with Gary Meyler of TheGManWorld.com (Part 2)
9. Protobaby: Microchip
10. Chat with Ed Drea from Vickers Vimy
11. Vickers Vimy: Days are getting better
12. Stephen James Smith and Enda Reilly: Mise Eire/I am Ireland

Thanks for listening, 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.

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.