Rory and The Island

This is actually hilarious, Rory Gallagher of Rory and The Island and his buddy playing a version of Jimmy’s Selling Watches, entitled ‘Jimmy’s Winning Matches’ all about Donegal GAA footballer Jimmy McGuinness. This has now had over 55000 hits on Youtube, Massive! It was filmed on a beach in Lanzarote where Rory lives.. [...]

To get you (and try to get myself) into the mood for all the football happening over the next couple of weeks, I decided to have a look at the Irish songs knocking around for Euro 2012. To be fair, there’s good, bad and downright ugly in this lot but hey this is a ‘Definitive [...]

Podcast (culturecafe2xm): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:49 — 20.2MB) | Embed Thanks to all my guest this week, Rory Gallagher of Rory & The Island, Declan Meade, editor of The Stinging Fly and artist Jack Hickey, here’s what happened: 1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads 2. The Riptide Movement: Hot Tramp [...]