Yearly Archives: 2012

There’s so much free music available now, free legal music, that it can be quite easy to get caught up with downloading large amounts of music and still miss out on the real gems. This is why every Monday, I try to pick out some of the best free music around that I can find. [...]

There’s no doubt that ‘Remember When’ being in a Discover Ireland advert brought Heathers to a lot more people’s attention than would have previously known of the Macnamara twins, Ellie and Louise, aka Heathers. Well, fast forward twelve months and the pair have a new album ready to unleash, ‘Kingdom’ will be released in September. [...]

Time for another ‘Quickie’, this time our anonymous non voiced interviewer asks Dublin rock band ‘Stone Trigger‘ a few questions.. RAWK! [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:08 — 33.4MB) | Embed Wow! I really enjoyed putting the show together this week, thanks to my guests, Matthew Causey from Tujacques, Simon Fagan and Myles Manley. Here’s the running order: 1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads 2. Chapel Club: Sleep Alone 3. Chat [...]

At the beginning of 2011, I made a promise to myself to try and see as many new bands as I possibly could in 2011. One of the first bands that were on my list were Chapel Club, so when they played Academy 2 in Dublin, I jumped at the chance to see them and [...]

Yet again Myles O’Reilly has captured something truly special. This time, it’s the final night on Donal Dineen’s radio show, Small Hours on Today FM. For fifteen years Donal provided our evenings with a soundtrack which has inspired and influenced so many Irish radio listeners and musicians. [...]

Magic Mike gives director, Steven Soderberg a chance to redeem himself. After directing the decent Contagion, he came along with Haywire. Yes, it was partly shot here in Dublin but that didn’t help how not great it was. But something must have worked as Soderberg teams up with Tatum Channing again for Magic Mike. Channing [...]

I managed to get into the Screen Cinema on Saturday for some of the Freshly Squeezed Film Festival, which gives Student film makers a chance to showcase their work. I arrived as the Experimental Screenings were getting underway. I was extremely impressed by the both the cinematography and sound design in Oppenheimer, Davide Pochinu Carta’s [...]

Last week George Michael unveiled his new single ‘White Light’ to the world on the thirtieth anniversary of ‘Wham Rap’ hitting the charts. This time last week, I was contemplating writing about Wham! and George and the musical influence on me (and posting a few pics with my entire GM collection). After hearing ‘White Light’ [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:29 — 28.1MB) | Embed Fifty weeks of Culture Cafe! Thanks to my guests, really enjoyed chatting with you all. 1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads 2. Of Monsters and Men: Little Talks 3. Bombay Bicycle Club: Beg 4. Chat with Piret Saar, Festival Organizer [...]