Yearly Archives: 2012

I just realised that I never added a Tune of the Week for the last weekend of 2012, so it had to be this. I’m not sure what the story is with Disclosure and Sam Smith, this track was released in October and reached number 11 in the UK Charts. For some reason though, it’s [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:42 — 12.8MB) | Embed I’ve just received a few messages from Kodaline fans asking if I could put up the interview from December 26th’s Culture Cafe with Mark and Stephen. Here it is! [...]

When a film like ‘The Impossible’ comes along, there’s always accompanying question of ‘Is it too soon to make a film about this?’ In the case of ‘The Impossible’, it’s the December 26 2004 Tsumani, the biggest natural disaster of our time. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, ‘The Impossible’ is based on a true story [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:08 — 21.4MB) | Embed So Christmas is over! Hope the red fella was good to you, had great chats with David Thomas Smith and Kodaline for this week’s show. Here’s what happened 1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads 2. Hawklion: Silver and Gold 3. [...]

Originally Published on Goldenplec.com Horslips: Live at The Olympia Theatre, December 14 2012 It’s the weekend before Christmas and Dublin city centre is in the party mood, revelers in festive garb merrily make their way along the streets. Indoors, Horslips have embraced the festive season and gig goers heading to their Olympia Theatre show are [...]

With three albums under their belts and a live show not to be missed, Turn are one of Ireland’s bands of the last fifteen years. After six years apart, they returned to play this year’s Electric Picnic, now Ollie Cole, Gavin Fox and Ian Melady are back for a series of final gigs. We’re sitting [...]

I don’t think I really need to say why I made this track Tune of the Week. Proceeds from this single are going to the help the families of the 96 with legal costs in their fight for justice. YNWA [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:54 — 16.6MB) | Embed Ho Ho Ho! It’s almost Christmas which means I get to play some Christmassy tunes for you, some really awesome ones and a few cheddar filled ones, alongside some of the best new music around. I also got to chat to [...]

Finally DJ Earworm has unleashed his remix mash up of this years 25 biggest hits and it’s sounding awesome! Brilliant to hear Alex Clare in there Methinks it’s the best one for a while! Mr Earworm has now updated the link to download the mix you can get it from soundcloud or you can download [...]

I haven’t read James Patterson’s books based around the character Alex Cross and I’m not sure how closely linked this film is to them. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. What I do know is that this film is one hundred minutes of my life I’ll never get back. [...]