interview

This originally appeared on Goldenplec.com Little Green Cars release their debut album, this week, Vanessa Monaghan caught up with three of the band, Stevie Appleby, Adam O’Reagan and Faye O’Rourke to chat about their work. It’s been a long day for Little Green Cars, media days can be tough, especially if it’s a high profile [...]

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 when they were in Ireland. Many of us get our ideas and thoughts of Las [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:07 — 51.0MB) | Embed 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) [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:38 — 13.6MB) | Embed So this week’s show literally was stuffed to the gills with great chats with Nick from WALK THE MOON and Ethan Johns, both acts coincidentally play in Dublin on February 22nd. WALK THE MOON play in The Academy while Ethan Johns [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:52 — 25.7MB) | Embed This week’s show was full of female voices, not sure that has ever happened on Culture Cafe before. I had the pleasure of chatting to three very interesting ladies, artist, Mary Fahy, Director of ArtforArtSake.org Jennette Donnelly and Norwegian musician, Rebekka [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:21 — 13.4MB) | Embed January 2nd, brand new year but the same great guests on Culture Cafe. I was delighted to be able to kick off 2013 with A chat with Harry and Alfie better known as Hudson Taylor. Alongside our chat I had the [...]

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 [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:53 — 15.0MB) | Embed I decided to keep this separate from the other podcast this week. I saw Honnningbarna in Whelan’s on November 14 and was blown away by their energy despite the language barrier. They sing in their native Norwegian. I was thrilled to [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:23 — 19.9MB) | Embed So this week was show 70 on 2XM, time flies eh? Thanks to this week’s guests, musician Willy Moon and Mark O’Brien from axis in Ballymun. Here’s the running order of what happened: 1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads 2. [...]

Ryan Bingham brings his brand of country rock’n'roll to Whelan’s this Friday night (November 9) Tickets are available from Ticketmaster.ie We chat about rodeos, rattlesnakes and doing it yourself in the music industry. No big PR machine behind this release, Ryan picked up the phone and called me himself! Read it on Goldenplec.com Check out [...]