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Motorcycle Display Team: A Taste (Video)

Motorcycle Display Team: A Taste (Video)

Motorcycle Display Team have unleashed a new video on the world. ‘A Taste’ features some clever animation techniques where the story is played out by passport photo representations of the characters. It’s taken from the London based band’s album ‘Captatio [...]

May 2, 2013 Music
Dead Man Down: Film Review

Dead Man Down: Film Review

Dead Man Down is Niels Arden Oplev‘s first shot at directing a Hollywood movie. He’s best known for his work in the original ‘The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo’. It’s not surprising then, when Noomi Rapace, who played Lisbeth Salander [...]

May 2, 2013 Film/DVD Review
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 93: May 1 2013

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

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:28 — 24.6MB) | Embed 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 [...]

May 2, 2013 Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM
Kodaline: Love Like This (Video)

Kodaline: Love Like This (Video)

So the lads from Kodaline have finally put themselves in front of the camera for the vid for their forthcoming single, ‘Love Like This’. The track is a bit more uptempo than ‘All I Want’ or ‘High Hopes’. I spoke [...]

May 1, 2013 Music
Arrow in the Sky – Sombunall (Video)

Arrow in the Sky – Sombunall (Video)

Folk music and me, well, we have an awkward relationship, sometimes I really like it and sometimes I just don’t want to hear it. At all. That’s not the case though with Arrow In The Sky. I’ve been familiar with [...]

May 1, 2013 Music
Little Comets: Live at Academy 2 – Review

Little Comets: Live at Academy 2 – Review

Originally posted on Goldenplec.com - Little Comets at Academy 2, Dublin, April 20th 2013 It’s two years and two weeks since Little Comets last played Academy 2 and what a difference that has made. Last time, a very small crowd [...]

April 26, 2013 Music Review
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 92: April 24 2013

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

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:30 — 21.0MB) | Embed 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 [...]

April 24, 2013 Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM
Interview with Imagine Dragons

Interview with Imagine Dragons

This interview originally appeared online on Goldenplec.com Imagine Dragons recently went Top Ten in the Irish Charts and Number 2 in the UK charts with their debut album, ‘Night Visions’. Vanessa Monaghan (that’s me) caught up with Sin City’s finest [...]

April 21, 2013 Music Interviews
Tune(s) of the Week 21/04/2012 – Huey Morgan and The New Yorkers

Tune(s) of the Week 21/04/2012 – Huey Morgan and The New Yorkers

We all know Huey Morgan, slick front man of Fun Lovin’ Criminals, BBC Radio 2 & 6 DJ, TV Dog trainer extraordinaire.. He’s left FLC behind for an album with ‘Huey Morgan and The New Yorkers’. He’s still backed up [...]

April 21, 2013 Tune Of The Week
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM: Show 91 17/04/2013

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

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:43 — 37.6MB) | Embed 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. [...]

April 17, 2013 Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM