Monthly Archives: May 2012

On Sunday night (May 27th), I had the pleasure of going to see Newton Faulkner in a very sticky Whelan’s and being jammed it also meant you got to know your neighbours a little bit better than you intended to. Newton played some tracks from his forthcoming album, ‘Write it on your Skin’, alongside some [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:48 — 23.0MB) | Embed Can’t believe there have been forty five episodes of Culture Cafe on 2XM. Thanks to my guests, Cormac from The Answer, Johno from The Radioactive Grandma and Denise Canavan from Helium Festival. Here’s the running order: 1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster [...]

I really enjoyed chatting to Chris Burman, who is guitarist in much talked about band, Spector. (Yes, those guys who do that Chevy Thunder song. He comes across as a very personable guy and was really honest and open with his answers which was nice. We chatted loads, can’t wait to see the band in [...]

It’s not every day you get to see a living legend perform, then again, there aren’t that many around that are actually deserving of the title. Dionne Warwick is one who is. Five Grammy awards, fifty something singles in the charts and now celebrating her fiftieth year in showbusiness. On May 24th, Ms Warwick took [...]

As you can see, all my content is gone from my website. To be honest, this is turning into a head banging table thumping time for me. My site got hacked at the end of April. After I finished my thesis I managed to get it up and running again and just last week got [...]

One of the good things about recommending free music is as well as sometimes recommending downloads from artists that we would all be familiar with, it also gives the chance to introduce new acts. This week, I’ve decided to recommend the ‘Long Time Listener EP’ from Waterford band ‘In The Willows’, who have only been [...]

Another movie inspired by another book, it seems every second movie is now based on a book. This movie, ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting’ is inspired by Heidi Murkoff’s book and as far back as 1995, this popped up in movies like Nine Months, Hugh Grant’s character reads it. Fast forward seventeen years ‘What [...]