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Red on Red is a weekly podcast series hosted by Mike McGrath-Bryan dedicated to new music and culture in Cork City. Picking up where Green on Red leaves off weekly, the show explores Cork's seemingly endless array of leftfield music, via the city's gigs, festivals & other events, digging into the sounds of the city with extended interviews & premiere listens.

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This week on the podcast, we’re taking a look at gigs happening throughout the city and county this February, including Quarter Block Party and Right Here, Right Now festivals!

  1. Mark Waldron-Hyden - Going-Away Breath
  2. The Bonk - May Feign
  3. God Alone - Feeling on Tic
  4. Pretty Happy - Schmuck
  5. Outsider YP & Pharaii - Good Ghost
  6. Actualacid - CRUSH
  7. Mantua - Something’s Happened Up at the Old Mill
  8. Elaine Howley - Song for Mary Black
  9. Ghostking is Dead - Palm Tree
  10. Arthur Valentine - Selfish
  11. Fixity - Theme from a Shitstorm
  12. The Altered Hours - Dig Early
  13. Anna Mieke - Arbour
  14. Caoilian Sherlock - Don’t Let Me Forget About Her
  15. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead

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This week on the podcast, we’re previewing next month’s Quarter Block Party festival, with help from Cork post-punk trio Pretty Happy!

  1. Outsider YP x Jay Ronic - STAMPEDE
  2. Jar Jar Jr. - Quandary on Wandesford Quay
  3. Mark Waldron-Hyden - Rain Stick
  4. The Bonk - May Feign
  5. God Alone - Fomhar
  6. Pretty Happy - Schmuck
  7. Elaine Howley - Ruin
  8. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  9. Trá Phaidín - Set a hAon (excerpt)

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This week on episode 100 of the podcast, we’re joined by a legend of music in Cork City: Ping Pong DJ, former PLUGD Records hassler, Tombstome gig promoter, and Penske Recordings man, Albert Twomey.

  1. Mark Waldron-Hyden - Mis-shapen
  2. Lighght - Passion Peace
  3. Doubt - U
  4. Pretty Happy - Arkansas
  5. Elaine Howley - Song For Mary Black
  6. Flowers at Night - Autumn Leaves
  7. Trá Phaidín - Set a hAon (Excerpt)

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This week on a live edition of the podcast, we're talking with Irish hip-hop veteran and music educator Ophelia McCabe about her roots, her experiences, and her life in Irish music. Plus, a pair of live performances.

Opening - Ophelia - Can You Feel It?
Closing - Ophelia - You Remind Me

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This week, on the last podcast episode of 2019, we're joined in studio by Hope is Noise frontman Dan Breen and Horse frontman Ian O'Callaghan, ahead of their big gig on Friday night at the Kino!

  1. Hope is Noise - Born Again Friend
  2. Horse - Drone
  3. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  4. Caoilian Sherlock - Don’t Let Me Forget About Her
  5. Ten Past Seven - Comedy Night
  6. Elaine Howley - Song for Mary Black
  7. MANTUA - Something’s Happened Up at the Old Mill
  8. Trá Phaidín - Set a hAon (excerpt)
  9. God Alone - Yes Aiii

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This week on the podcast, we're chatting live with filmmaker and This Ain't No Disco man Myles O'Reilly, as part of his weekend of events as artist-in-residence at Quiet Lights festival last month!

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This week, we’re taking another longform dive into the soundscape of Cork city, with a selection of music from local DIY indie/pop collective @HAUSU: it's the Leeside Tapes, Vol. 9.

  1. Repeater - Basics for Leisure
  2. Ghostking is Dead - Cast Iron
  3. Actualacid - Casino
  4. Automatic Blue - Akira
  5. Ghostking is Dead - Hollow
  6. Actualacid - Apollo
  7. Automatic Blue - Happy House
  8. Whytewyne - White (Alex Gough Remix)
  9. Arthur Valentine - Selfish
  10. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  11. Automatic Blue - Antoinette
  12. Arthur Valentine - 2018
  13. Ghostking is Dead & Automatic Blue - Boy Toy
  14. Actualacid - Crush
  15. Ghostking is Dead - Tokyo (Evan Miles Remix)

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by post-metallers @GodAloneCork, straight off their appearance in the pages of Kerrang! magazine, and their first UK tour.

  1. Spekulativ Fiktion - Rattlesnake
  2. Ten Past Seven - Johnstons Cows
  3. Bailer - Tuesday Blues
  4. Horse - Drone
  5. Worn Out - No Truth
  6. Actualacid - CRUSH
  7. The Altered Hours - Dig Early
  8. Automatic Blue - Antoinette
  9. Red Sun Alert - Live, Laugh, Love

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by singer-songwriter Eve Clague, ahead of her appearance at Quiet Lights festival this weekend.

  1. Eve Clague - Hide in Full View
  2. Mide Houlihan - Half of This Light
  3. Crevice - Sludge Gore
  4. Majia Sofia - The Wife of Michael Cleary
  5. Mantua - Something’s Happened Up at the Old Mill
  6. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  7. Anna Mieke - If
  8. Junior Brother - The Back of Her
  9. Eve Clague - Young, Naive Me

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Justin O’Donnell, aka the Cuttin’ Heads Collective’s DJ JusMe, ahead of the group's fourth anniversary bash at venues across the city this weekend!

  1. Jar Jar Jr. - Earthed
  2. Spekulativ Fiktion - Rattlesnakes
  3. Jimmy Penguin - Break Beak
  4. Senior Infants - First Journey
  5. Colm K - Diffraction
  6. Gaptoof - Overdue
  7. Gatch - Contradictions, Heartbreaks
  8. Craic Boi Mental - Adidas Track
  9. Jus'Me - Untitled (Demo)

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This week on the podcast, we’re taking a look at gigs and festivals happening at venues in the city throughout November.

  1. His Father’s Voice - No Room for Romantics
  2. Automatic Blue - Happy House
  3. God Alone - Feeling on Tic
  4. The Magnapinna - Cowboy Disco
  5. Percolator - Freshin’
  6. Hawkbastard - Hawk Filth (A Trilogy in Two Parts)
  7. Hazey Haze - What’s That
  8. Senior Infants - First Journey
  9. TAYNE - Open Up
  10. Hope is Noise - Born Again Friend
  11. Jogging - Loggerheads
  12. Pretty Happy - Shut Up
  13. Mantua - Something’s Happened Up at the Old Mill
  14. Majia Sofia - Edie Sedgwick
  15. Deadbog - Vending Machine

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This week we’re joined in studio by one of the team behind a brand new online magazine emerging from Cork City, Post-Material magazine's Killian McCann.

  1. The Altered Hours - Over the Void
  2. The Love Buzz - Disco Junkie 1200
  3. Pretty Happy - Shut Up
  4. Gilbert - Stingo
  5. Selkies - Hazard Lights
  6. Damsel - Head Hums
  7. Laurie Shaw - Knight of the Realm
  8. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  9. Electric Limes - Symbiosis

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Rory O’Brien, guitarist of Ten Past Seven, and we've got tunes from this weekend's Cork Jazz Festival.

  1. Ten Past Seven - Comedy Night
  2. Bantum - Roll Pt. 2 (Live)
  3. Eve Clague - In Needing Others
  4. Five to Two - Latinvader
  5. Shookrah - Notions
  6. Niall McCabe Band - 1-4
  7. Elaine Howley - Song for Mary Black
  8. Fixity - World Line (Live at the Poor Relation)
  9. Ten Past Seven - Orientation

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This week on the podcast: the voices, ideas and influences of women in Cork music take centre stage in the latest edition of The Leeside Tapes.
01. Shookrah - Notions
02. Luunah - Let Me In
03. Laura Duff - In the Winter
04. Crevice - Black Box
05. Morning Veils - Hiveless Bee
06. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
07. The Altered Hours - Sweet Jelly Roll
08. Elaine Howley - Song for Mary Black
09. Mide Houlihan - Half of this Light
10. Meghan Murray - Feeling Blue
11. Stevie G and Christiana Underwood - Not All About That
12. Whip Girl - Light it Up
13. Lakerama - Just Enjoy Yourself
14. Blakkheart - One Hot Afternoon in Texas
15. Roslyn Steer - Next Phase
16. Elll - Ride

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Cork hip-hop don Spekulativ Fiktion, and Northside wordsmith Gatch, ahead of their upcoming collaborative single, and Cuttin' Heads Collective's fourth anniversary weekend.

  1. Shookrah - Notions
  2. Caoilian Sherlock - Shades of You
  3. Fixity - Becoming an Earthworm
  4. Elaine Howley - Mary Black
  5. Outsider YP & God Knows - Clout9
  6. Blakkheart - Crush
  7. Kynz Illa x Danny Diatribe x Spekulativ Fiktion - Penny Drops
  8. Gatch - Contradictions and Heartbreak
  9. Ten Past Seven - Johnston's Cows

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This week we’re joined in studio by music programme director and managerial committee member of IndieCork Film and Music Festival, Tony Langlois, ahead of their seventh annual week-long programme, happening October 7th to 13th.

  1. Caoilian Sherlock - Shades of You
  2. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  3. Crevice - In Heart
  4. Spekulativ Fiktion - Rattlesnake (ft. Jonen Dekay)
  5. Shookrah - Notions
  6. Outsider YP and God Knows - Clout9
  7. Grandmaster Cash - Grandmaster in the Future
  8. Myles Manley - Pay Me What I’m Worth
  9. Sh*thätt - Puma

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Sans Chateaux man Austin Moore, after the release of his latest full-length, 'Ephemeral Heights', at Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival.

  1. Anna Mieke - Arbour
  2. Altered Hours - Open Wide
  3. Fixity - Farrest
  4. Cáit Kerrigan - Poltergeist
  5. Bantum ft. Rusangano Family and Senita - Feel Your Rhythm
  6. Elaine Malone - No Blood
  7. Circuits of Heaven - Super Black Sun
  8. O Emperor - Don't Mind Me
  9. Torcán - Down the Lane

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This week on the podcast: a love letter to Cork DIY collective Teletext Records, featuring music from their roster of collaborators, and previous headliners at their monthly gigs. This is the Leeside Tapes, volume 7.

  1. Rokaia - Leaders
  2. Gadget and the Cloud - Quiescence
  3. Messyng - Grand Rapids
  4. JJ Lee - Thursday
  5. FONDA - Dreaming
  6. Elaine Malone - My Baby's Dead
  7. Pretty Happy - The Lover
  8. Deadbog - Vending Machine
  9. Bokotono - You're Looking a Little Rough Around the Edges
  10. Gilbert - The Witch
  11. SELKIES - Clubbing Baby Seals
  12. Aponym - Berserker (Live)
  13. Fomorian Vein - Unrest

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined on the phone by musician, promoter, artist manager, and Quiet Lights festival head Jonathan Pearson, ahead of the folk and trad nua weekender's second installment this November.

  1. Anna-Mieke - Aurillac
  2. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  3. Eve Clague - In Needing Others
  4. Míde Houlihan - Half of this Light
  5. Lowli - Colourless
  6. Ye Vagabonds - Lowlands of Holland
  7. Maija Sofia - Edie Sedgwick
  8. Junior Brother - Hungover at Mass
  9. Crevice - Endless Bliss

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This week we’re joined on the phone by Shaky Shots photographer, arts facilitator, and Cork Zine Fest co-ordinator, Oriane Duboz!

  1. Beyond the Wash - Dusktime
  2. Arthur Itis - Life Raft
  3. Lowlek - Maybe We
  4. Jar Jar Jr - Lord of Latveria
  5. Crevice - Endless Bliss
  6. Yenkee - We Should Be Dead Now
  7. Ghostking is Dead - It's Over
  8. Roslyn Steer - Of a Sunday
  9. Spekulativ Fiktion - Lock All Doors

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by returning alt-folk outfit @boamorteband, talking about their new album 'Before There Was Air', twenty years together, and changes in the music industry.

  1. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  2. Saint Caoilian - I’ll Be a Fool For You
  3. Ten Past Seven - Johnston’s Cows
  4. God Alone - Feeling on Tic (Live at the Paranoid Pit)
  5. Jar Jar Jr. - Earthed
  6. Gaptoof - Overdue
  7. The Altered Hours - Over the Void
  8. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  9. Boa Morte - Deep Is/Deeper

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This week, on a special, feature-length edition of the podcast, a chat about Cork metal with Paranoid Beast promoter and label co-head, Mark Morrissey, plus new and unreleased live recordings from the monthly Paranoid Pit gigs at Fred Zeppelin's.

  1. Soothsayer - Of Locust and Moths
  2. Aponym - Berserker (Live at the Paranoid Pit)
  3. Gealach - Nailed to the Cross (Demo)
  4. Zhora - Ruthless Bastards (Live at the Paranoid Pit)
  5. Coroza - Iron from the Sky
  6. Partholon - Wild and Simple (Live at the Paranoid Pit)
  7. The Magnapinna - Cowboy Disco (Live at the Paranoid Pit)
  8. God Alone - Feeling on Tic (Live at the Paranoid Pit)
  9. Coroza - The Plutonian Drug (Live at the Paranoid Pit)

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This week on the podcast, we venture from foundation-setting tunes, to lo-fi beats and the slick ambition of a new generation of Cork hip-hop: this is the Leeside Tapes, Vol. 6.

  1. Spekulativ Fiktion - Deathly Words (2013)
  2. Young Phantom - Love Gold (2015)
  3. Jar Jar Jr. - Treasure Maps (DOOM Acapellas Version) (2016)
  4. Colm K - Basics (ft. Elaine Dowling) (2009)
  5. Craic Boi Mental - Adidas Track (2019)
  6. Arm the Elderly - The Desired Effect (2006)
  7. Ol' Dirty Chancer - States (ft. Sebi C.) (2008)
  8. Kalabanx - Shellshock (ft. Bony) (2018)
  9. Outsider YP x Kestine - Back It Up (2019)
  10. Spekulativ Fiktion x Deviant & Naive Ted - Slave Labour (ft. Clerk 5) (2014)
  11. Run the Jukes - LaLA/Drónaí O (2016)
  12. Blakkheart - Enlightened (ft. Darce) (2018)
  13. Shookrah - Don't Wanna Doubt You (2018)
  14. Stevie G - Not All About That (ft. Christiana Underwood & Walshy) (2014)
  15. Ddewthsw*g - Mr. Poloman (2015)
  16. Chris Power - In Luv (2016)
  17. Ghostking is Dead - Hollow (2018)
  18. Blakkheart - One Hot Afternoon in Texas (2019)
  19. Gaptoof - Overdue (2018)
  20. Jar Jar Jr - Wake Up Call (2019)

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This week on the podcast, we’re taking a look at some of the gigs happening in venues up and down the city and county, during the month of August!

  1. The Love Buzz - Hold Me Only Lonely
  2. Quangodelic - Hey Mister
  3. Gadget and the Cloud - Keep You
  4. CLM - Softer Music
  5. Annette Buckley - So Free
  6. Rosi Lalor - Clear Blue Sky
  7. Hands Up Who Wants to Die - Dreft
  8. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  9. One Horse Pony - Muddy Waters
  10. Crow Black Chicken - Priest Hunter
  11. Junior Brother - The Back of Her
  12. Vicky Langan - Live at Cafe OTO (Excerpt)
  13. Coroza - Iron From the Sky (Demo)

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Corkonian noise-rockers @PrettyHappyBand, ahead of their appearance at @indie_pendence this weekend!

  1. The Love Buzz - Hold Me Only Lonely
  2. Laura Duff - Up to You
  3. JJ Lee - Thursday
  4. Gilbert - Corpses Orbit
  5. Happyalone - wdyw4mm
  6. Messyng - Japanese Capital Punishment, or Le Pizza Galaxie Stole Our Green Diesel
  7. Gaptoof - Overdue
  8. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  9. Pretty Happy - Mr. Krabs

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Ghostking is Dead bassist, Messyng and solo multi-instrumentalist, and music journalist, JJ Lee.

  1. Pretty Happy - Shut Up
  2. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  3. Aerialist - In Glass Pagodas
  4. Gilbert - The Witch
  5. Meghan Murray - Broken Ladders
  6. Laura Duff - In the Winter
  7. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  8. Alex Gough - Step to Me
  9. Aponym - Worm God

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Colm Cahalane, public relations and social media head for Cork DIY record label HAUSU.

  1. Yenkee - Lander
  2. Shookrah - Gerascophobia
  3. Jar Jar Jr. - Bubby’s Lament
  4. Actualacid - Apollo
  5. Gadget and the Cloud - Keep You
  6. The Altered Hours - Birds
  7. Elaine Malone - No Blood
  8. O Emperor - Effort
  9. Talos - 209
  10. Young Wonder - Intergalactic

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This week on a special edition of our Leeside Tapes series of mixes, a hazy, summery odyssey into Cork's post-austerity psychedelic and experimental music, including The Altered Hours, Crevice, Elaine Malone, and more.

  1. The Altered Hours - Daydream Parade
  2. MERSK - Sea of Okhotsk
  3. Deadlands - One
  4. Saint Yorda - Manta Ray
  5. Une Pipe - Diarmait is the Sphinx
  6. Trumpets of Jericho - Nothing to Get Up For
  7. O Emperor - Whitener (Part 1)
  8. Elastic Sleep - Leave You
  9. Morning Veils - Bring Out Your Dead
  10. Senior Infants - First Journey
  11. The Great Balloon Race - Chocolate Beans
  12. The Bonk - Ancestor
  13. Roslyn Steer - Of a Sunday
  14. Sky, Horse and Death - Fleeting Glimpses
  15. Crevice - Anchorless
  16. Mueseum - Infinite Giftshop
  17. Not Earth - No Shit V
  18. Arthur Itis - Let's Touch
  19. Fixity - Becoming an Earthworm
  20. Elaine Malone - My Baby's Dead

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This week on the podcast, we’re taking a look at gigs happening in venues around Cork throughout the month of July. Plus, tunes from Elaine Malone, Gadget and the Cloud, Syn, and more!

  1. The Grunts - Heal Your Heart
  2. Luunah - Let Me In
  3. Syn - Terra Drums
  4. Flowers at Night - Fade My Jewels
  5. Mide Houlihan - A Long and Awkward Day
  6. Lowlek - Sink In
  7. Bokotono - You’re Looking a Little Rough Around the Edges
  8. Aponym - Grandstander (Live at Fred Zeppelin's)
  9. Ordnance Survey - Goya (feat. John McEntire)
  10. Mark Waldron-Hyden - Hope
  11. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  12. Clare Sands - Join Me at the Table
  13. Gadget and the Cloud - Quiescence

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Oisin Duneen, songwriter and frontman of Cork psych-rockers Any Joy, plus tunes from The Altered Hours, Elaine Malone, Fixity and more!

  1. The Altered Hours - On My Tongue
  2. Laurie Shaw - Chaos Kisses
  3. Elaine Malone - My Baby’s Dead
  4. Arthur Itis - Let’s Touch
  5. O Emperor - Girl
  6. God Alone - Dagda
  7. Fixity - World Line
  8. The Bonk - Monologue
  9. Nun Attax - Reekus Sunfare
  10. Any Joy - The Sea

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined in studio by Lowlek frontman and Last Fridays at the Corner House booker Arran Mac Gabhann, ahead of the band's gig at The Roundy on July 12th.

  1. O Emperor - Effort
  2. Laurie Shaw - Chaos Kisses
  3. The Great Balloon Race - WKNDGRL
  4. Annie Bloch - Records & Rabbits
  5. Hanora George - This Mighty Load
  6. The Altered Hours - Virgin’s Sleeve
  7. Elaine Malone - No Blood
  8. Lamp - Brick Ticker
  9. Lowlek - Sink In

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined in studio by Leeside hardcore heroes Worn Out, ahead of their first headlining gig at Fred Zeppelin's on the 28th.

  1. BAILER - Crawl Back
  2. zhOra - Ruthless Bastards
  3. Selkies - Clubbing Baby Seals
  4. God Alone - Dagda
  5. Sex Hardcore - END
  6. Horse - Dragging
  7. No Spill Blood - No Retreat
  8. Coroza - Iosis
  9. Spekulativ Fiktion - Google

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This week on the podcast, a look at some upcoming gigs and all-dayers at venues around the city this month, plus tunes from @Elai_Malone, @jarjarjiggetyjr, @godalonecork and more!

  1. Elaine Malone - You
  2. Laura Duff - In the Winter
  3. Arthur Itis - Running Lots
  4. The Bonk - Cipher
  5. Gaptoof - Overdue
  6. Jar Jar Jr. - Manhattan Warmonger (ft. DOOM)
  7. Pretty Happy - Mr. Krabs
  8. The Slut Club - Hold Me Only Lonely
  9. Coroza - Iosis (Demo)
  10. God Alone - Dagda
  11. Five Go Down to the Sea? - Knocknaheeny Shuffle

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined in studio by alt-pop singer and composer Laura Duff, talking about new EP 'For Your Company', plus tunes from @GhostkingisDead, @AlexGoughhh and more!

  1. Meghan Murray - Broken Ladders
  2. Pretty Happy - Shut Up
  3. Eve Clague - Young Naive Me
  4. Alex Gough - Breakfast
  5. Sara Ryan - Euphoric Recall
  6. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  7. Arthur Valentine - Selfish
  8. Toucan - Gold
  9. Paddy Dennehy - Painting of a New Century

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined in studio by Ricky Dineen, Liam Heffernan and Ian Walsh, of post-punk supergroup Big Boy Foolish/And Nun Came Back, plus tunes from @thealteredhours, @elai_malo, @hopeisnoisecork and more!

Recommended listening as per the conversation early in the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/paulmcder/get-that-monster-off-the-stage

  1. Nun Attax - White Cortina
  2. Mean Features - Summer Holidays
  3. The Altered Hours - Over the Void
  4. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  5. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  6. Gadget and the Cloud - Keep You
  7. Pontius Pilate and the Naildrivers - Big Gorilla
  8. Hope is Noise - Bitter End
  9. Big Boy Foolish - Horsey!

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This week on the podcast, we’re chatting with Drew Linehan, aka HAUSU Records producer and artist Automatic Blue, plus tunes from @ghostkingisdead, @prettyhappyband and more!

  1. Arthur Valentine - Selfish
  2. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  3. Alex Gough - Breakfast
  4. Pretty Happy - Mr. Crabs
  5. Damsel - Head Hums
  6. Pat Lagoon - Game Boy
  7. JJ Lee - Thursday
  8. Marcus Woods - Saturn V
  9. Automatic Blue ft. Arthur Valentine & Molly Annelle - 203-087

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This week, just off a pair of Bank Holidays and ahead of festival season, we’re off on another longform sonic journey, through some of the best of Cork music in 2019. It's one of our Leeside Tapes specials.

  1. Anna Mieke - Idle Mind
  2. Fixity - Theme from a Shitstorm
  3. Laurie Shaw - Scared of Dogs
  4. Laura Duff - In the Winter
  5. Pretty Happy - Mr. Crabs
  6. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  7. Lowlek - Sink In
  8. Bantum x LOAH - April Brave
  9. Outsider YP - Disco
  10. Kalabanx ft. SwitchX - Bellyflop
  11. Ellll - Ride
  12. Messyng - Hernan Crespo, How's Your Father? (Pt. 2: For Julie Landers, Forever Ago)
  13. Declan Synnott - Strands Stuck
  14. Gadget and the Cloud - Quiescence

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This week on the podcast, we take a look through the lineups for Cork's summer festivals, including It Takes a Village, Open Ear, The Marquee, Cork Midsummer, Indie19, and more. We're helped in studio by Julia and Cian of Red Sun Alert, plus tunes from Ghostking is Dead, Elaine Malone, The Frank and Walters, and more!

  1. Gadget and the Cloud - Quiescence
  2. Ghostking is Dead - Deflector
  3. BANTUM - Take It ft. Loah
  4. ELLL - Pepsi
  5. Happyalone - Bodybags
  6. The Frank and Walters - Stages
  7. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  8. God Alone - Poll na mBrón
  9. Red Sun Alert - Ted Bundy of the West

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with Tomás O’Brien (@IstDasAberGeil), sound engineer and newly-installed bassist for Cork metallers Coroza. Plus tunes from @gadgetatc, @godalonecork, @laurieshaw and more!

  1. Gadget and the Cloud - This Year
  2. ELLLL - Pepsi
  3. Fixity - Becoming An Earthworm
  4. Rianoir - Forbidden Passion
  5. Yenkee - Lander
  6. Laurie Shaw - Dream Song
  7. Soothsayer - Cephalopod
  8. God Alone - Poll na mBrón
  9. I'll Eat Your Face - The Eels of Love Lake

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with the @AngryMomCollective, a group dedicated to addressing gender inequality in Cork arts, plus tunes from @TheAlteredHours, @gadgetatc, @elai_malone and more!

  1. Laura Duff - Up to You
  2. Meghan Murray - Space
  3. Elaine Malone - You
  4. Red Sun Alert - Ted Bundy of the West
  5. Pretty Happy - Shut Up
  6. Sarah-Beth - Make Me Feel Alive
  7. Gadget and the Cloud - And I Told You Something True
  8. The Altered Hours - Sweet Jelly Roll
  9. Sara Ryan - Glitter Skies

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This week on the podcast, we’re taking a look and listen through some recommended gigs happening in Cork City, over the next few weeks, including Fixity, New Jackson, Wastefellow, and more!

  1. Fixity - Becoming an Earthworm
  2. Crevice - Anchorless
  3. Declan Synnott - Balanced Pair
  4. The Slowest Lift - Bank Holiday Tuesday
  5. Lowlek - Some Way Out
  6. The Shaker Hymn - Brother (Love in Flight)
  7. Wastefellow - On the Dry
  8. Jar Jar Jr. - Manhattan Warmonger
  9. Craic Boi Mental - Pockets Full of Cash
  10. New Jackson - There Will Always Be This Love
  11. Elder Druid - Stinkroach
  12. Soothsayer - Cephalopod
  13. Bailer - Crawl Back
  14. zhOra - Riverchrist

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with Rory Burke and Alex O’Regan of Cork prog-rockers Gilbert, Or The Unfathomable Loneliness of the Deep Space Prospector (to give them their full name!).

  1. Gilbert - Corpses Orbit
  2. Pretty Happy - Mr. Crabs
  3. Aerialist - 6466
  4. Aponym - Grandstander
  5. Elastic Sleep - Leave You
  6. Deadbog - Vending Machine
  7. JJ Lee - Thursday
  8. Laura Duff - Up to You
  9. Gilbert - Dust of Old Stones

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with John Godfrey of UCC’s Music Department, ahead of the institute’s Sound Sound Day, this Saturday at the Nano Nagle Centre. Plus! Tunes from Crevice, Naive Ted, Bliss Signal, and more.

  1. Crevice - In Heart
  2. Naive Ted feat. MurLi - Only The Oppressor Knows Peace
  3. NonSleep - Never Lied
  4. Bliss Signal - Tranq
  5. UCC Experimental Sound Practice - untitled improvisation
  6. Cork Gamelan Ensemble - Telephones and Gongs
  7. Tosh Molloy - Perpetua (4th Raga)
  8. Ute Wassermann - Schwitters
  9. CAVE - Pattern Portrait: Cork

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Cork Sound Fair director Conor Ruane and performers Josh Warry and Eamon Ivri, aka Lighght, ahead of next weekend's big festival at venues around the city!

  1. Elll - Pepsi
  2. Naive Ted - Situationz
  3. Lighght - Hang Nail
  4. SALAC - Avon Terror Corps
  5. Josh Warry & Phil McNamara- The Excavation Of Lazarus
  6. Last Eden - Elysian Plain (Excerpt)
  7. Baltic - Night Visiting Song (Excerpt)
  8. Repeater - Athra Titim Gach Rud (Excerpt)
  9. Bliss Signal - Drift

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This week, in the spirit of RedFM’s Paddy’s Day proceedings, we’re off on another longform sonic journey, through some of the best of Cork music so far this year, as well as offerings from artists visiting the upcoming Cork Sound Fair and It Takes a Village Festivals. Stay locked in as we embark on the Leeside Tapes, Vol. 3.

  1. Gadget and the Cloud - Too Soon to Say
  2. Ghostking is Dead - How Did I Get Here? (Quarter Fade Version)
  3. The Shaker Hymn - Brother (Love in Flight)
  4. Anna-Mieke - Keep it Whole
  5. Arthur Valentine - Selfish
  6. Colm K - Water
  7. Bantum - Prometheus
  8. Not Earth - No Shit IV
  9. Fixity - World Line (Live at the Poor Relation)
  10. Senior Infants ft. Sebi C - STAP (Live at the Roundy)
  11. Craic Boi Mental (prod. Fomorian Vein) - Ná Caitheamh Tobac
  12. Toby Kaar - Promises
  13. ooSe - Sundance
  14. Elll - Jawbreaker
  15. Naive Ted - You Are So
  16. Underling - emulsion 3_drum crush
  17. Lila Tirando a Violeta ft. Lighght - Wet Season (Lo Que Queres)

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This week on the podcast, Cork music impresario and Live at St. Luke’s man Joe Kelly, ahead of @ITAVFestival this May in Trabolgan! New line-up announcements, in-depth chats and tunes from the festival.

  1. Senior Infants - Thirtysomethings (on acid)
  2. Happyalone - Real Fear Right Now
  3. Bantum - Move
  4. Toby Kaar - Promises
  5. Colm K - Beginnings
  6. ELLLL - Febreeze
  7. The Shaker Hymn - Brother
  8. Junior Brother - Hungover at Mass
  9. Pillow Queens - Gay Girls

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This week on the podcast: a return visit from multi-instrumentalist and improviser @danwalshdrums, ahead of the release of his Fixity project's second album. Plus, tunes from @thealteredhours, @SSENIORIINFANTS and more!

  1. Lumi - Love Drunk Poem
  2. Neil O’ Lochlainn - Bádaí na Scadáin
  3. The Bonk - My Bugle
  4. Fixity - No Blues
  5. Senior Infants - YEAHHAYHI
  6. Altered Hours - On My Tongue
  7. Great Balloon Race - Marble Man
  8. Sky Horse and Death - The Lake of Forgetfulness
  9. Fixity (Solo) - No Man Can Tell (Red on Red Session)

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with Quangodelic bandleader and general man-about-town, Pat Allott, about the funk fifteen-piece and its debut album, launching this Friday at the Kino.

  1. Shookrah - Flex
  2. Quangodelic - Be Yourself
  3. Crab Seal Teeth - Incinerator
  4. The Grunts - If It Feels Good, Do It
  5. Jet-Li & Calibre - Push Through It
  6. Lighght - Topography of Data Erosion
  7. Stump - Buffalo
  8. The Light Runners - War and Migration
  9. Quangodelic - Civilised

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking about music journalism and the Cork scene with @GoldenPlec writer Cailean Coffey! Plus, tunes from @happyandfriends, @gadgetatc, @jarjarjiggetyjr and more!

  1. Happy Alone - Bodybags
  2. Gadget and The Cloud - Too Soon To Say
  3. JarJarJr - Best Boy in Ballincollig
  4. Gaptoof - !!!
  5. Laura Duff - Up To You
  6. Ghostking is Dead - Hollow
  7. Messyng - Grand Rapids
  8. 1000 Beasts - Lord (It’s Okay)
  9. Rushes - Wild High

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This week on the podcast, part two of our preview special of @QtrBlockParty, happening this weekend at venues across Cork City! A mix of tunes from some of the artists playing the festival, including @gadgetatc, @trickmist and @juniorbrotherie!

Gadget and the Cloud - Planet
Ghostking is Dead - Hollow
Spekulativ Fiktion - Joe Dolan
Trick Mist - Crumbs Abound
Extravision - They Don't Know
Laurie Shaw - Chaos Kisses
Junior Brother - Hungover at Mass
Eve Clague - In Needing Others
Maija Sofia - Persephone
Sam Clague - Rope to Climb
Anna Mieke - Keep It Whole
Shookrah - Don't Wanna Doubt You
Kneecap - Amach Anocht
Post-Punk Podge - Never Coming Home

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This week on the podcast, part one of our preview of Quarter Block Party in just under two weeks’ time: chats with some of the artists appearing, including Laura Duff, Gaptoof, and Spekulativ Fiktion.

  1. Trick Mist - Hearts
  2. Yenkee - Are You Alright?
  3. Gaptoof - Wandering
  4. Gadget and the Cloud - Too Soon to Say
  5. Barry Wilson - Persuasions to Enjoy
  6. Ghostking is Dead - Hollow
  7. Spekulativ Fiktion - Google
  8. Shookrah - Flex
  9. Laura Duff - The Other Side

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This week on the podcast, we get the chats in with Cork's two-headed lofi pop beast WhipMental, plus tunes from Aileen Wallace, Mankyy, Outsider YP and more!

  1. HLYWD ft. Outsider Yp - Hunnids
  2. Mankyy - Adjustments
  3. Fire + Water - Just Love
  4. Aileen Wallace - Anamnesis
  5. Blakkheart - Neon Electric
  6. CP Kelleher - Like Batman
  7. Kalikah - Kali
  8. Oscar Benso - Chocolate Apples
  9. WhipMental - Rendezvous (Paris)

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This week on the podcast, we talk to Cork-based Dundalk native Gavin Murray, aka Trick Mist, about his debut album, travels to India and making creative connections.

  1. Gadget and the Cloud - Too Soon to Say
  2. Bantum - Already There
  3. Ghostking is Dead - Cast Iron
  4. Altered Hours - Over the Void
  5. Happyalone - Colours
  6. African Fiction - Heat
  7. ELLLL - Romance
  8. Trick Mist - Heart
  9. Margaret Barry - The Turfman from Ardee

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This week on the podcast, we take a belated look back on the year that was for Cork music, with the help and insight of Leeside musician and arts journalist @kallgeese. Venues, festivals, new releases and more!

  1. Happyalone - Bodybags
  2. God Alone - Cnoc na hAoine
  3. Arthur Itis - I Think About the Babies
  4. Elaine Malone - You
  5. O Emperor - Make it Rain
  6. Shookrah - Don’t Wanna Doubt You
  7. Gadget and the Cloud - This Year
  8. Spekulativ Fiktion - Google
  9. Sam Clague - Balloons

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This week on a special edition of the #RedonRed podcast, we're talking with some of the promoters, organisers and artists behind this Sunday's Undivided fundraiser for Sexual Violence Centre Cork, at Cyprus Avenue (kickoff 6pm, tickets €10).

Chats with Cormac Daly (Cosmonaut Music), Emma Kelly (Merakindie), Julia Pawlak & Cian Mullane (Red Sun Alert), Katie Cosgrove (Cyprus Avenue) and Cormac Porter (UCC Music Society).

  1. Laurie Shaw - Chaos Kisses
  2. The Altered Hours - Over the Void
  3. Gadget and the Cloud - So Shy
  4. Stevie G ft. Christiana Underwood - Deep Down South
  5. Red Sun Alert - Ted Bundy of the West
  6. Horse - Drone
  7. Cara Kursh - I Just Fly
  8. Elaine Malone - You
  9. Any Joy - Suckers

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This week on the podcast: we’re chatting with musician, sound-artist, engineer and educator Aileen Wallace, about Bunker Vinyl & Studio, being a self-taught musician/sound-artist, and her work at Girls Rock camps around the country.

  1. Gadget and the Cloud - Melting
  2. Cara Kursh - To the Sea
  3. The Sunshine Factory - Some Kind of High
  4. The Altered Hours - Open Wide
  5. Kalikah - Black and White
  6. Mountainous Riff Club - I’ll Find My Way
  7. Fixity - Song for Free
  8. Elaine Malone - You
  9. Last Eden - Elysian Plain

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This week on the podcast, we’re taking another longform, uninterrupted listen to some of the best tunes to emerge from the city from the past few months. This is the Leeside Tapes, Volume Two.

  1. Arthuritis - Bermudean Holiday
  2. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  3. Yenkee - Freedom
  4. Laurie Shaw - Chaos Kisses
  5. Laura Duff - Up to You
  6. Whytewyne feat. Alex Gough - White (Remix)
  7. Shookrah - Flex
  8. O Emperor - Bogey Wonderland
  9. Happyalone - Real Fear Right Now
  10. Automatic Blue feat. Ghostking is Dead - Boy Toy
  11. Actualacid - Unreleased 300
  12. Ghostking is Dead - Hollow
  13. Lighght - Hang Nail
  14. Deadbog - Vending Machine
  15. God Alone - Dagda

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This week on the podcast: we’re taking a look at some of the gigs happening in venues around the city, throughout December.

  1. Happyalone - Real Fear Right Now
  2. The Slut Club - Hold Me Only Lonely
  3. Kojaque - Politicksis (prod. Jar Jar Jr)
  4. The Lonely Tourist - White Whale
  5. Yenkee - Are You Alright
  6. Laurie Shaw and the Swamp People - Tatty Bye
  7. Natalia Beylis - Kukalka, Kukalka
  8. Siomhá - July, Red Sky (Live)
  9. Fixity - Hungry Clouds
  10. A Cow in the Water - Memphis (1991 Demo)
  11. Elaine Malone - You
  12. Saint Caoilian - The Faraway
  13. Bailer - Tuesday Blues
  14. Worn Out - With False Hope
  15. Post-Punk Podge x DJ Nervous - Never Coming Home

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with Cork alt-rock godfathers Hope Is Noise about their upcoming Coughlan's gig, over two decades together, and their upcoming fifth album.

  1. Deadbog - Vending Machine
  2. God Alone - Dagda
  3. Terriers - Clean My Bones
  4. Ten Past Seven - Johnston's Cows
  5. I'll Eat Your Face - Tony's Coming to Massage Me
  6. Horse - Drone
  7. El Bastardo - My Name is Shite
  8. Rest - Sol - Luna - Astra (Live)
  9. Hope is Noise - The Great White

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This week on the podcast, we're talking to Donagh Sugrue from Cork-based label/collective Teletext Records about starting a label and the impact of co-working on Cork music.

  1. Happy Alone - Colours (3:13)
  2. Ghostking is Dead - Burn Out (3:08)
  3. Aponym - Here Of Your Own Accord (7:54)
  4. Deadbog - Vending Machine (6:19)
  5. Rokaia - Dwell (4:42)
  6. Chameleon Fields - Battalions (4:32)
  7. Zola Daze - K (4:31)
  8. Pretty Happy - The Lover (4:17)
  9. Glassy Overture - Canada (4:08)

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This week on the podcast: Cork beatmaker Jar Jar Jr talks about sampling, the @cuttinheadscork birthday weekender, and getting millions of plays on YouTube. Plus tunes from Colm K, Gaptoof Jazzfeen, and more.

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This week on a spooky podcast: we’re talking with @HAUSURecords’ songwriter and producer Matt Corrigan, aka @GhostkingisDead. Plus tunes from @GodAloneCork, @YenkeeMusic, @PodgeLaneMusic and more!

  1. Alex Gough - 1800-CALL-ME
  2. Actualacid - APOLLO
  3. Podge Lane - Bass Fishing
  4. Yenkee - We Should Be Dead Now
  5. Repeater - Sweet Dream #7590
  6. Automatic Blue - Gasmask & Happiness
  7. Selkies - Love-joy
  8. God Alone - Dagda
  9. Ghostking is Dead - Tokyo

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with Paul Savage from @OEmperorMusic, ahead of the Cork psych-rock band’s final brace of gigs next month, plus tunes from @TheAlteredHours, @Elai_Malone and more!

  1. Happyalone - Colours
  2. The Bonk - Ancestor
  3. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  4. Senior Infants - First Journey
  5. The Altered Hours - Grey on Blue
  6. Fixity - Hungry Clouds
  7. Arthuritis - Disappear
  8. ELLL - Romance
  9. Laurie Shaw - That’s Life

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This week on the podcast: we’re talking with indie/electronic sensations @HappyAndFriends about their whirlwind debut year, from topping the #SpotifyViral50 to playing the main arena at @EPfestival.

  1. Altered Hours - Dig Early
  2. Selkies - Clubbing Baby Seals
  3. Slut Club - Hold Me Only Lonely
  4. Dry Roasted Peanuts - Upstanding
  5. Glassy Overture - Inner Planet Influence
  6. Gadget and the Cloud - 3600 seconds
  7. Blaming Hannah - I’m Alive
  8. Pretty Happy - The Lover
  9. Happyalone - Haunted

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This week on the podcast: we’re talking with Numbertheory and Brownsauce from Cork-based online music platform SESHFM, the musical arm of meme peddlers and debauchery advocates Humans of the Sesh. Plus, tunes from Gadget and the Cloud, Tension, and previews of upcoming SESHFM releases.

  1. Gadget and the Cloud - Window
  2. Numbertheory - Mob Shit
  3. Hazey Haze - What's That
  4. Aswell - Hello Kitty
  5. Tension - Undergrowth
  6. Lofa - No Sleep
  7. Bobby Basil - Same as She Used to Be
  8. Little Taty & Mickey Flesh - I Ain't Finished
  9. Huva Ghanu & Chilly - Jolly

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This week on the Red On Red podcast: we’re talking with members of Cork electronic and indie collective @HAUSURecords. Chats about music and collectives in the city, as well as brand-new music from the collective's bands and producers.

  1. Alex Gough - afraidofmoney
  2. Ghostking is Dead - Hollow
  3. Automatic Blue - Boy Toy (ft. Ghostking Is Dead)
  4. Yenkee - Lander
  5. Repeater - Ashtray (unfinished)
  6. Mothra - Instrumental 02 (produced by Automatic Blue)
  7. Actualacid - Unreleased Track
  8. Messyng - Bodies
  9. Arthr Valentine - Selfish (Live)

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This week on the podcast: we’re talking with singer-songwriter and spoken-word artist Cara Kursh about her new E.P. and the spoken-word scene in Cork. She plays live in studio, plus tunes from Happyalone, Spekulativ Fiktion, Elaine Malone and more!

  1. Sam Clague - Balloons
  2. Roam - Helf 5
  3. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  4. Chewing - I Just Fly (Chewed Remix)
  5. Gadget and the Cloud - Planet
  6. Sugar Slug - Flack
  7. Happyalone - Bodybags
  8. Spekulativ Fiktion - Rattlesnake
  9. Cara Kursh - To the Sea (Live/Acoustic)
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This week on the podcast: we’re talking with Quarter Block Party co-ordinator, @shb_gigs member, and one-third of Morning Veils, Aisling O’Riordan. Chats about running gigs and festivals, plus tunes from Microdisney, Yenkee, Laurie Shaw and loads more.

  1. Microdisney - Leper
  2. Shookrah - Don’t Wanna Doubt You
  3. Yenkee - Lander
  4. Laurie Shaw - Void Walkin’
  5. Elaine Malone - You
  6. Trumpets of Jericho - Nothing to Get Up For
  7. The Altered Hours - Open Wide
  8. Crevice - Anchorless
  9. Cal Folger Day - Rawkin' Chair

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with @QuarterBlockParty co-ordinator and Southern Hospitality Board member @caoilianjsure, aka Saint Caoilian. New music live in studio, plus tunes from @TheAlteredHours, @daithimusic and @annamiekemusic.

  1. Yenkee - Are You Alright?
  2. Hugh Dillon - Harbour
  3. Daithi - Take the Wheel
  4. Landless - The Trees They Grow Tall
  5. Anna-Mieke - Arbour
  6. Laurie Shaw - Skipped Period Blues
  7. Lowlek - Some Way Out
  8. Altered Hours - Grey on Blue
  9. Saint Caoilian - Dream About the Night Again (Live)

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with Shaky Shots facilitator and A Vent Zine editor Oriane Duboz, ahead of Doppelganger Cork Zine Fair in October! Plus, tunes from @elai_malone, @thealteredhours, @creviceband and more!

  1. Elaine Malone - Mindless
  2. Crevice - Black Box
  3. Laurie Shaw - Sophistication
  4. Arthuritis - Hot Garbage
  5. The Bonk - Ancestor
  6. The Sunshine Factory - Negative Light
  7. The Altered Hours - Open Wide
  8. Spekulativ Fiktion ft. Jonen Dekay - Rattlesnake
  9. Fixity - Hungry Clouds

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This week on the podcast, we're previewing Quiet Lights Fest, a new folk and trad festival happening across Cork city and county next week. Chatting with us is festival director and curator Jonathan Pearson of Islander Music, plus we have tunes from @elai_malone, @caoilianjsure and more.

  1. Landless - Doomsday
  2. Saint Caoilian - The Faraway
  3. Strung - The Hut on Staffin Island/The Clare Shout
  4. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - It’s All About The Rhythm Of Her Toes
  5. Elaine Malone - You
  6. Dowry - In É
  7. Ye Vagabonds - Pomegranate
  8. Inni-K - Edges
  9. Slow Moving Clouds - Hiljainen Suru

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This week on the podcast, we're previewing Cork (and Cork-related!) bands and artists heading to Electric Picnic. Tunes from the likes of @happyandfriends, @bitchfalcon and @elai_malone, plus chats with @genericpeopleHQ about the experience of running a stage at the big festival.

  1. Happyalone - Bodybags
  2. Outsider YP - Spill My Guts
  3. Bitch Falcon - Syncope
  4. Elaine Malone - You
  5. Trick Mist - Crumbs Abound
  6. Pale Rivers - Icefield
  7. ABOVEDAT - Deep Down South
  8. The Service - We Knew You’d Do It
  9. Bantum ft. Rusangano Family & Senita - Feel Your Rhythm (Generic People Remix)

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with bassist/vocalist Brian Collins of Cork punks/alt-rockers @audible_joes, ahead of their gig in the Poor Relation on Saturday night. Chats about joining a long-running band, and Ireland's punk scene, plus tunes from @craicmob @happyandfriends and more.

  1. Spekulativ Fiktion ft. Jonen Dekay - Rattlesnake
  2. Happyalone - Colours
  3. Stanton’s Grave - Shut Up and Eat Your Freedom
  4. The Jollars - Hang ‘Em High
  5. BAILER - Malevolent
  6. Worn Out - With False Hope
  7. God Alone - Intivim
  8. Archaos - Elysium
  9. Audible Joes - Majority Rule

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This week on the podcast: we’re talking with producer, DJ and musician Eamon Ivri, aka Lighght. Chats and tracks from @SESHFM's new compilation 'Solidarity Vol. 1', in aid of Palestine, as well as Cork nightlife and transitioning from classical composer to producer.

  1. Gadget and the Cloud - Planet
  2. Jake Riordan - Mourning Ritual
  3. Lighght & Lila Tirando A Violeta - Warmth of the one lying next to you
  4. Lighght & Cnámha - Indulgences or Bruises on a Broken Body
  5. Syn - Coy
  6. Tension - On Call
  7. Meijis - Abir
  8. Numbertheory - Pilgrimage
  9. Lighght - Raav Trax

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This week on the podcast, we’re joined in studio by DJ, skratchologist, onetime record dealer and Cuttin’ Heads Collective mastermind Justin O’Donnell, better known as Jus’Me (@hobo_convention). Chats about Radio Friendly, record-collecting and hip-hop in Cork, and tunes from Jar Jar Jr., O Emperor and more.

  1. O Emperor - New Fish Tank (@oemperormusic)
  2. Shookrah - Don’t Wanna Doubt You (@shookrah)
  3. Blues - Worthless
  4. Jar Jar Jr./Kojaque - Bubby’s Cream (@jarjarjiggetyjr)
  5. Chance - Midnight in the City
  6. Colm K - Beginnings
  7. Static - Switch
  8. Brian Ring - Love Taken Over
  9. Bassneeds - U Remind Me

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with musical polymath and arts facilitator Dan Walsh (@danwalshdrums) about his multitude of bands, the festival circuit, improvised music, and his musical upbringing as a session player in the pubs of Cork. Plus, tunes from Horse, Catherine Sikora, Waiting Room and more!

  1. Sky Horse and Death - Fleeting Glimpses
  2. Sam Perkin - Waves
  3. Catherine Sikora - Speedbag Swivel
  4. Declan Synnott - Soft Container
  5. Arthuritis - Owls
  6. Morning Veils - Lily
  7. Laurie Shaw - Jeans
  8. Horse - Reject the Arches
  9. Waiting Room - I Took Some Painkillers

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with blogger, media producer and podcaster Eoghan O’Sullivan (@OSEoghan), of The Point of Everything (@TPOEblog), about developing a music blog, podcasting and developing a live spoken-word show. Plus tunes from The Altered Hours, Shookrah, the new Litany of Failures compilation, and more!

  1. Altered Hours - On My Tongue (@thealteredhours)
  2. Yenkee - Are You Alright (@yenkeemusic)
  3. Shookrah - Don’t Wanna Doubt You (@shookrah)
  4. Anna- Mieke - Arbour (@annamiekemusic)
  5. Saint Caoilian - I’ll Be a Fool (@caoilianjsure)
  6. Colm K - Good Fridays
  7. The Sunshine Factory - Interloper (@thesunshinefac)
  8. Any Joy - Suckers
  9. Elaine Malone - You (@elai_malone)
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This week on the podcast: we’re talking with Cian and Jake from black-metal outfit God Alone (@godalonecork). Chats about music options and help for young people in the city, balancing full-time gigging with the Leaving Cert, and their upcoming festival & UK gigs! Plus, tunes from Ten Past Seven, Bailer, Horse and more.

  1. Worn Out - With False Hope
  2. Bailer - Tuesday Blues
  3. The Magnapinna - Cowboy Disco
  4. Ten Past Seven - Johnson's Cows
  5. Horse - Dragging
  6. Elastic Sleep - Bad Machine
  7. Partholón - All We Are
  8. Terriers - Vancouver
  9. Rowan - Everytime

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with DJ, blogger and Cuttin’ Heads co-founder Siobhán "Shiv" Brosnan, about her time in the city, working in music media, and the next stage in her career as she heads to Dublin after ten years of DJing Leeside. Tunes from Ten Past Seven, Katie Kim and more!

  1. Katie Kim - I Make Sparks (@dancekatiekim)
  2. Chris Power - Oh No
  3. Mynameisj0hn - Portals (@mynameisjohann)
  4. Deviant and Naive Ted - Zip Dr'ma (@unscenemusic)
  5. Ten Past Seven - Orientation
  6. Infomatics - New Era
  7. Lewis James - Everything
  8. Krayb David - MM26 (The Person Remix)
  9. Defekt - Dimension Glider

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with Shookrah and Lakerama vocalist Senita Appiakorang (@appiseni) about creativity, discussing consent in Shookrah's new single, and the band's upcoming Indiependence appearance. Tunes from Colm K, Outsider Rapha, Cáca Militia, and more!

  1. Roslyn Steer - Tiger Mother Man (@kantcope)
  2. Saint Yorda - Manta Ray
  3. Black Pope - One Shot Kill
  4. ooSe - Heavy Afro
  5. Outsider Rapha - Late Night
  6. Conor Muldowney - Sunday
  7. Shookrah - Gerascophobia (Aux Fnx Remix) (@shookrah)
  8. Cáca Militia - No Pain, No Game
  9. Colm K - Seeing

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This week on the podcast, something a little bit different. The first in an occasional series of mixes we’re calling The Leeside Tapes, where we take a longform listen to some of the best new music that Cork has had to offer in the first half of 2018, from ambient electronic and hip-hop, to psychedelic pop and post-metal.

  1. Spekulativ Fiktion - Rattlesnakes (ft. Jonen Dekay) (@craicmob)
  2. Happyalone - Bodybags (@happyandfriends)
  3. Automatic Blue - Akira (@drewlinehan)
  4. Jar Jar Jr. - Manhattan Warmonger (ft. DOOM) (@jarjarjiggetyjr)
  5. MueseuM - The Caves of Nick
  6. Elaine Malone - No Blood (@elai_malone)
  7. Ghostking is Dead - Fool (@deadroyalboi)
  8. The Shaker Hymn - Colour of the Holy Sun (@theshakerhymn)
  9. O Emperor - Make it Rain (@oemperormusic)
  10. The Altered Hours - Over the Void (@thealteredhours)
  11. Chameleon Fields - Psychedelic Death Shroud
  12. Partholon - All We Are (@partholonian)
  13. The Sunshine Factory - Negative Light (Live) (@thesunshinefac)
  14. Gadget and the Cloud - This Year (@gadgetatc)

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This week on the podcast, we talk to one of Cork's busiest musicians and arts facilitators. Darren Keane (@kallgeese) talks to us about his bands Not Earth, Mueseum, The Creeps, Worm, and The Council of the Dark Arts Orchestra; as well as community projects that he's involved in. Tunes from Shookrah, Saint Caoilian, O Emperor and more!

  1. Elastic Sleep - Tzar Bomba
  2. The Shaker Hymn - I Don’t Ever Want to See the World (@theshakerhymn)
  3. Roslyn Steer - Further Away (@kantcope)
  4. O Emperor - Don’t Mind Me (@oemperormusic)
  5. Shookrah - Don’t Wanna Doubt You (@shookrah)
  6. Arthuritis - Hot Garbage (@arthurpawsey)
  7. Saint Caoilian - I’ll Be a Fool For You (@caoilianjsure)
  8. Elaine Malone - You (@elai_malone)
  9. Fixity - Hungry Clouds (@danwalshdrums)

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This week on the podcast we’re talking with Merakindie promoter, The Roundy (@roundybar) booker and one-third of the Signal gig collective, Emma Kelly (@emmamerakindie). Chats about booking gigs and tours, running venues & spaces, and what goes into making touring work for Cork artists. Tunes from The Altered Hours, Elaine Malone, Ghostking is Dead, and more!

  1. Elaine Malone - You (@elai_malo)
  2. Crevice - Anchorless (@creviceband)
  3. Fixity - Hungry Clouds (@danwalshdrums)
  4. The Altered Hours - Dig Early (@thealteredhours)
  5. The Great Balloon Race - Did It On My Own (@thegreatballoon)
  6. The Shaker Hymn - Sucking it Out (@theshakerhymn)
  7. Ghostking is Dead - Fool (@deadroyalboi)
  8. Automatic Blue - Happy House (@drewlinehan)
  9. Shookrah - Woman (@shookrah)

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with singer, songwriter and educator Karan Casey about Fairplé, an initiative to right the gender balance in Irish trad and folk music. Live acapella performance in studio, plus tunes from O Emperor, Anna Mieke, The Altered Hours and more!

  1. Happyalone - Bodybags
  2. Elll - Romance
  3. O Emperor - Make it Rain
  4. The Altered Hours - Over the Void
  5. Anna Mieke - Arbour
  6. St. Caoilian - I’ll Be a Fool For You (Green on Red Session)
  7. Stuck on Repeat - Áthas
  8. Elaine Malone - You
  9. Karan Casey - Sister, I Am Here for You (live acapella)

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This week on the podcast, we talk with psych-folk singer-songwriter Elaine Malone (@Elai_Malone). Chatting about her creative processes, being part of the music community in Cork, and the relationship between art and activism. Plus, tunes from The Altered Hours, Fixity, O Emperor and more!

  1. The Bonk - Heave (@The_Bonk_Music)
  2. Crevice - Anchorless (@CreviceBand)
  3. Altered Hours - Hey No Way (@TheAlteredHours)
  4. Sam Clague - Melting Butter (@Sam_Clague)
  5. O Emperor - Make it Rain (@OEmperorMusic)
  6. Fixity - IYMTG (@danwalshdrums)
  7. SENIOR INFANTS - Stap (@SSENIORIINFANTS)
  8. ARTHUR ITIS - Small Boats for Strange Seas (#arthuritis)
  9. Anna Mieke - Arbour (@AnnaMiekeMusic)

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with Cork music blogger, overblown.co.uk editor and gig promoter Jamie Coughlan (@overblownzine). Chatting about starting a blog, working with others, experimenting with crowdfunding and the work/life balance. Tunes from Gadget and the Cloud, Sillk, Happyalone and more!

  1. The Magnapinna - ‘Surf’s Up Baby’ (@themagnapinna)
  2. God Alone. - ‘Intivim’ (@godalonecork)
  3. SILLK - ‘Switchblades Don’t Sleep’ (#sillk)
  4. Terriers - ‘Clean My Bones’ (#terriers)
  5. Happy Alone - ‘Bodybags’ (@happyandfriends)
  6. Soothsayer - ‘Cephalopod’ (@soothsayercrew)
  7. Partholon - ‘All We Are’ (@partholonian)
  8. Gadget & The Cloud - ‘And I Told You Something True’ (@gadgetatc)
  9. Sam Clague - ‘Waves Make Foam’ (@sam_clague)

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This week on the podcast, we're catching up with Ian O'Callaghan, vocalist of Cork hardcore band Horse (@HorseBandIRE), ahead of their gig on Saturday night with No Spill Blood at @daliandgala. We talk about his roots in Cork music, joining the band, and their recent tour of the UK. Tunes from God Alone, Hope is Noise, Casavettes and more!

  1. I'll Eat Your Face - 6 Miles In
  2. God Alone - Samhain (excerpt) (@godaloneband)
  3. Hope is Noise - You, The World And A Bubble (@hopeisnoisecork)
  4. Dolph Lundgren's Party Dungeon - Let's Get Physical
  5. Ganglions - My Wife Won't Stop Flirting With Me (@ganglionsband)
  6. Elk - Wet Stars
  7. Horse - Reject The Arches (@horsebandIRE)
  8. No Spill Blood - White Out

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with Coughlan's Live (@coughlanslive) co-founder and promoter Edel Curtin about a pair of upcoming festivals: Right Here, Right Now (@rhrnfest) on June 2nd and 3rd at Cork Opera House, and Coughlan's Live Music Festival, happening at the venue in September.

Tunes from bands playing the former, plus new music from Outsider YP, Happyalone and Selkies.

01) Ye Vagabonds - Lowlands of Holland (@yevagabonds)
02) Marlene Enright - 123 (@mazzygooze)
03) HappyAlone - Bodybags (@happyandfriends)
04) Outsider YP - Spill My Guts (@outsideryp)
05) John Blek - Salt in the Water (@johnbleksolo)
06) Anna Mitchell - All These Things (@annamitchmusic)
07) SELKIES - Clubbing Baby Seals (@selkiesofficial)
08) Soothsayer - Cephalopod (@soothsayerdoom)
09) The Service - We Knew You'd Do It

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with guitarist and vocalist of Cork psychedelic rockers The Altered Hours (@TheAlteredHours) about their story so far, creative life in Cork during the recession, and life on the road. Tunes also from O Emperor, Crevice, Fixity and more!

  1. Rory Francis O’Brien - The Veil (@roryoseven)
  2. Fixity - IYMTG (@danwalshdrums)
  3. Roslyn Steer - Hey Sunshine (@kantcope)
  4. O Emperor - Make It Rain (@oemperormusic)
  5. Crevice - Anchorless (@creviceband)
  6. Arthur-itis — Bathe (@arthurpawsey)
  7. SoothSayer - At This Great Depth (@soothsayerdoom)
  8. Ellll - Romance (@__ELLLL__)
  9. Saint Yorda - Death Ray

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This week on the podcast, we're talking with event promoter and producer Cormac Daly (@cosmonautcork) about his work with promotion company Cosmonaut Music, bass night Under:current, the Cork Community Print Shop venue and festivals like Townlands Carnival (@townlandstlc) and IndieCork (@indiecork).

  1. The Altered Hours - On My Tongue (@thealteredhours)
  2. Fixity - Hungry Clouds (excerpt) (@danwalshdrums)
  3. Spekulativ Fiktion - Culture Of Abundance (@craicmob)
  4. Terriers - Clean My Bones
  5. Aponym - Life Is A Wounded Stag (excerpt) (@aponym)
  6. Arthur Itis - Disappear (live in Connolly's) (@arthurpawsey)
  7. Defects Major - The Ether
  8. Laurie Shaw - Countries (@laurie_shaw_)
  9. Happyalone - bodybags (@happyandfriends)

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This week on an extended edition of the podcast: we’re talking with Music Zone record shop boss Ray O’Brien (@musiczonedv) about Record Store Day on Saturday April 21st (@recordstoreday), the vinyl revival, and supporting local music.

Tunes from artists playing at the shop ahead of RedFM's special broadcast on the day, as well as artists playing CorkLovesMusic (@corklovesmusic) and It Takes a Village (@ITAVfestival) this weekend.

  1. The Shaker Hymn - Colour of the Holy Sun (@theshakerhymn)
  2. Transmission Club - Taking Off (@tclubmusic)
  3. The Altered Hours - Open Wide (@thealteredhours)
  4. Shookrah - Gerascophobia (@shookrah)
  5. August Wells - Nothing Like Love (@augustwellsband)
  6. John Blek - Lace (@johnbleksolo)
  7. God Alone - She Was the Sea (@godalonecork)
  8. The Sunshine Factory - Cruelest Animal (@thesunfac)
  9. Gadget and the Cloud - So Shy (@gadgetatc)

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This week on the podcast, we’re talking with photographer and man about town Shane J. Horan, about his roots in Limerick's music scene and his work with Cork-based gig promoters and blogs. Tunes this week from HappyAlone, Anna-Mieke Bishop, The Magnapinna and more.

  1. Happyalone - Colours (@happyandfriends)
  2. Anna-Mieke Bishop - Arbour (@annamiekemusic)
  3. The Magnapinna - Uniform (@themagnapinna)
  4. BAILER - Death is a Reminder (@bailerofficial)
  5. Cara Kursh - I Just Fly (@cara_kursh)
  6. Sarah-Beth - Love or Lust
  7. God Alone - She Was the Sea (@godalonecork)
  8. Soothsayer - Of Locusts and Moths (excerpt) (@soothsayerdoom)
  9. Spekulativ Fiktion - Rattlesnake (ft. Jonen Dekay) (@craicmob)

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This week on the podcast, we talk with rapper, beatmaker and Irish hip-hop advocate Spekulativ Fiktion about his new EP, his upcoming appearance at It Takes a Village festival. and his roots in Cork city's heavy metal scene. Music this week from O Emperor, Naive Ted, Jar Jar Jr., Elaine Malone, and more.

  1. O Emperor - Make it Rain
  2. Elaine Malone - You
  3. Ol Dirty Chancer feat. Sebi C - My Own Fault
  4. Gatch - Pardon the Roast
  5. Jar Jar Jr. - Fire in the Hole
  6. Calm d’Goolys - Love Looks like One
  7. Spekulativ Fiktion - Google
  8. Naive Ted x YP - Grayson
  9. David Jackson - Totem Soul

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This week on the podcast, we speak with music journalist-turned-electronic producer/DJ Kelly Doherty, aka Gadget and the Cloud.

We discuss Doherty's beginnings as an online music journalist in North Cork, the process of taking up electronic music from scratch, the scene in the city at present, and the story behind her debut album, 'Songs for Sad People to Dance To'.

We also hear music from some of Doherty's favourite local artists, such as Elll, Numbertheory and Jar Jar Jr., as well as new music from Anna-Mieke and Ghostking is Dead.

  1. Anna-Mieke - Arbour (@annamiekemusic)
  2. Ghostking is Dead - Cast Iron (@ghostkingisdead)
  3. Jar Jar Jr ft. Looms - Ah Well (@jarjarjiggetyjr)
  4. Numbertheory - Pilgrimage (@numbertheory666)
  5. SYN - Wasteland
  6. Doubt - Whisper
  7. Gadget and the Cloud - And I Told You Something True (@gadgetatc)
  8. Elll - Romance (@__ELLLL__)
  9. Papa Floral - Wanderlust

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This week on the podcast, we talk with Connolly's of Leap proprietor and Talos drummer Sam McNicholl about the return of the iconic West Cork venue, its recent IMRO Venue of the Year win, Talos' Choice Prize nomination and his thoughts ahead of their dates at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week.

Plus, we have a playlist of some of McNicholl's favourite Leeside music, including John Blek, The Altered Hours, and O Emperor.

  1. Elaine Malone - You (@elai_malo)
  2. Brian Deady - Eloise (@briandeady)
  3. Ye Vagabonds - Lowlands of Holland (@yevagabonds)
  4. O Emperor - Make it Rain (@oemperormusic)
  5. Talos - Landscapes (@talostalostalos)
  6. The Altered Hours - Open Wide (@thealteredhours)
  7. John Blek - Lace (@johnbleksolo)
  8. The Shaker Hymn - Colour of the Holy Sun (@theshakerhymn)
  9. Farewell J.R. - A Thought, A Mind (#farewelljr)

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This week on the podcast, we preview International Women's Day in Cork's music scene with the help of sound engineer/production manager Francesca de Buyl-Pisco. We take a look at The Roundy's big weekender for the occasion, Cyprus Avenue's gig presented alongside Girlcrew Cork, and take in tunes from Corkwomen like Elaine Malone, Gadget and the Cloud and Crevice.

Music tracklist:

  1. Dowry - In É (@enabrennan)
  2. Elaine Malone - You (@elai_malo)
  3. Morning Veils - Hiveless Bee
  4. Gadget and the Cloud - October 31st (@gadgetatc)
  5. Elll - Romance (@__ELLLL___)
  6. Crevice - Black Box (@creviceband)
  7. Mide Houlihan - Something Worth Looking At (@Meed_A_Plan_B)
  8. Sara Ryan - Euphoric Recall
  9. Shookrah - Woman (@shookrah)

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This week on the podcast, we take a look at April's It Takes a Village festival, happening April 13th-15th at Trabolgan in East Cork. We're joined in studio by festival bookers/curators Joe Kelly and Ed O'Leary, and we run down the line-up, discuss the festival's setting, and take in tunes chosen by the lads themselves, including The Altered Hours, Lankum, The Jimmy Cake, Shookrah, and more.

  1. Bantum - Take It (ft LOAH) (@ruairilbantum)
  2. Shookrah - Gerascophobia (@shookrah)
  3. Bitch Falcon - Clutch (@bitchfalcon)
  4. The Altered Hours - Over the Void (@thealteredhours)
  5. Lankum - Lullaby (@lankumdublin)
  6. Saint Sister - Causing Trouble (@saintsister)
  7. Le Boom - What We Do (@leboom)
  8. Cian Finn - So Nice (Dreadsquad Remix) (@cianfinns)
  9. The Jimmy Cake - Tough Love Pt.1 (Excerpt) (@thejimmycake)

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This week, we take a special preview of two big metal gigs: this Saturday's UrbanAssault all-dayer festival at An Spailpín Fánach, and Cosmonaut Music's one-year anniversary gig, happening Saturday March 3rd.

We have music from metal and hardcore bands on both line-ups, and a chat with UrbanAssault promoter Danny Lee.

  1. Horse - Dragging (@HorseBandIRE)
  2. Bailer - Long Gone (@BAILEROfficial)
  3. Partholon - Jerusalem (@Partholonian)
  4. Corr Mhóna - Dall (@CorrMhonaBand)
  5. Na Cruithne - Sionnach Damnú (@NaCruithne)
  6. Overoth - Sigil of the Empty Throne (@Overoth)
  7. Rest - Sol Luna Astra (@ThisIsRest)
  8. God Alone - She Was the Sea (@GodAloneBand)
  9. We Come in Pieces - You Had Me at Hell (@WCIPBand)

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This week, we preview next month's Cork Sound Fair (@CorkSoundFair), taking in music and audio from artists performing at Cork's new leftfield electronic festival, happening on March 23rd and 24th. Curator Conor Ruane and artist Robert Curgenven talk about the festival, plus new music from Cork psych-rockers The Altered Hours.

  1. The Altered Hours - Over the Void (@TheAlteredHours)
  2. Robert Curgenven - Allegro in Segrito Oltre (@robertcurgenven)
  3. Nadir - I Might Be Human (#nadir)
  4. Autumns - Female Model (@AutumnsIre)
  5. Davy Kehoe - Storm Desmond (#davykehoe)
  6. Warrior - Birds (excerpt)
  7. Beatrice Dillion and Call Super - Fluo (excerpt)
  8. African Fiction - The Most Boring Thing Happened in Iceland Today (@africanfiction)

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This week on Red on Red: we take a listen to some recent releases, tunes from artists partaking in next month's Cork Sound Fair, and sessions from the recent Green on Red live special. We also chat with singer-songwriter Laurie Shaw about new album 'Weird Weekends', and with rapper Outsider YP about his new EP as well as February 18th's Outsiders' Summit networking event for young creatives.

  1. Saint Caoilian - 'I’ll Be a Fool For You' (Green on Red Session) (@caoilianjsure)
  2. Spekulativ Fiktion - 'Lock All Doors' (Green on Red Session) (@craicmob)
  3. Elaine Malone - 'You' (@elai_malone)
  4. Ghostking is Dead - 'Cast Iron' (@hausurecords)
  5. Laurie Shaw - 'Shatterproof'/Interview (@laurie_shaw_)
  6. Partholón - 'Jerusalem' (#partholon)
  7. Outsider YP - Interview/'Lost Bonds' (@outsideryp)
  8. Gadget and the Cloud - 'And I Told You Something True' (@gadgetatc)
  9. African Fiction - 'Heat' (Excerpt) (@african_fiction)

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A roundup of gigs and recent releases, including tunes from Spekulativ Fiktion, Crevice, Ealadha and Outsider YP, plus chats with Declan Synnott of Sioraí Geimhreadh about the band's February 11th gig at the Spailpín Fánach, supporting GNOD R&D.

  1. Spekulativ Fiktion - Epilogue
  2. JarJarJr. - Cast the First Stone
  3. Crevice - Black Box
  4. The Quiet Club - Snow Birds (short excerpt)
  5. Ealadha - Bathe
  6. MT Heart - Signs
  7. Outsider Y.P. - Saddest Day
  8. Woven Skull - Chantelle
  9. Sioraí Geimhreadh - Sitting Patiently (excerpt)
  10. Interview: Declan Synnott (Sioraí Geimhreadh)
  11. Arthur Itis - Hot Garbage
  12. Tuath - Seacht Seachtaine

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A look at the music of next weekend's Quarter Block Party festival, including tunes from O Emperor, Percolator, PowPig, God Alone and more. Plus, a conversation with festival music curators Caoilian Sherlock & Aisling O'Riordan, joined by performers Elaine Malone and Anna-Mieke Bishop

Tracklisting:
01. O Emperor - Switchblade
02. Percolator - Crab Supernova
03. Tandem Felix - Were You There?
04. Rory Francis O'Brien - Burning White Dove (live)
05. Damsel - A Signal Sent
06. The Sunshine Factory - Cruelest Animal
07. Davy Kehoe - Storm Desmond (Excerpt)
08. Bad Bones - You
09. Pillow Queens - Rats
10. PowPig - Blue Manchild
11. Elaine Malone - No Blood
12. Andy Wilson - I’ll Be Yours
13. Hawkbastard - Avalon
14. God Alone - Samhain
15. Pale Rivers - ‘My Own Comeback’
16. Cal Folger Day - ‘Rawkin’ Chair’
17. INTERVIEW - Quarter Block Party
18. Anna-Mieke - ‘My Lagan Love’