Do tune in this evening from 9pm to 103.2 Dublin City FM when we will be joined in studio by Chequerboard a.k.a. John Lambert.
We’ll also be playing through a few of our favourite tracks this week, Mary Healy will be with us for the gig guide and nialler9 has a great track to recommend this week…
If you don’t catch us live on air, the mp3 podcast of the show will be up on this very blog in but a few days.
Until 9pm so…
Laura and Chris Coffey from The Holy Roman Army by Ian Oliver
Last Thursday, we were indeed joined on the indie hour by Dublin based (but from Carlow really) The Holy Roman Army. Laura and Chris Coffey made their way down to our East Wall Road studios to talk about tracks taken from their forthcoming debut album.
The album is still in the production stages, and so that meant we would be playing the tracks on the show from a CDR. I’m always a bit nervous using CDRs on the show, because radio station CD players can be slightly…diva-ish. They’re used a million times a day and are most probably abused a bit, so they can be a bit funny about CDRs sometimes. Most Thursdays, they’re fine though.
Not so on the night The Holy Roman Army came down with their CDR of four tracks for an exclusive play through on the show. The cd just. wouldn’t. play. Gagh! I had about eight cds in my bag, which I played on Thursday night to make up the hour. Thank goodness for The Jimmy Cake and their twenty minute songs.
I met up with The Holy Roman Army this evening in their home studio (and Chris’ actual home) for a proper chat about their impending album and what it’s like to be in a band with your big brother/little sister.
The mp3 below is the interview with Laura and Chris. I’ve decided to leave last week’s show in the ether of radiowave land, seeing as I got a bit flustered and said ‘Fuck!’ on the radio when the CDR wouldn’t play. Not very professional.
The Holy Roman Army are playing upstairs in Whelan’s on Friday the 18th of April. After hearing their tracks on myspace, I am really looking forward to hearing their album, which they are aiming to release late in the summer of this year. I expect it to do rather well, and think it should help to bring some more attention to the ever growing and ever improving electronica scene in the country.
The tracks on the mp3 below are, in the following order, Elegy, How The Light Gets In, Lastwood and Dublin In The Deadlight.
Keep an eye on The Holy Roman Army’s myspace page for when they’ll be playing near you and when you’ll be able to get your hands on a copy of their debut album.
Download away!
MP3
The Holy Roman Army Tuesday March 19th
Laura from The Holy Roman Army
Do tune in this evening at 9pm to 103.2 Dublin City FM when we shall be joined on the indie hour by The Holy Roman Army.
We’ll be playing a few of our favourite tunes as well as the nialler9 weekly recommended track.
Don’t fret if you will not be at home to listen to the show on the old wireless, as the mp3 of our chat with The Holy Roman Army will be available for download on this very blog in a few days.
Bret and Jermaine of Flight of the Conchords
Danny over at Speaker Speaker left a comment on the Labryinth post I put up asking if I’d seen the Flight of the Conchords’ song Bowie’s In Space. I haven’t heard that song but I have heard this one:
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If you’ve yet to be welcomed into the world of New Zealand’s ‘fourth most popular digi-folk paradists’ then head over to youtube to watch some vids or get your paws on copies of the hilarious TV series. Brilliant.
Hi-Fi Popcorn, an excellent blog which rather naughtily went missing for a few months last year, is back with a beauty of an interview.
Hi-Fi Popcorn brings you Ms Lynch, aka Shane Lynch’s two sisters from B*witched.
Head here to have a good read…
I’m sure the girls are trying to get away from the denim thing but I have to remind you of this video:
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I love when the fiddly oirish bit kicks in. Class.
Aoife Mc and Carly Sings by Ian Oliver
So that picture of myself and Carly Sings looks a bit staged and cheesy. Oooh, we’re sharing the music etc. But actually what was happening is that I hadn’t heard Carly’s mastered version of her debut album The Glove Thief, and we were listening through the tracks to pick the ones to play on the show. And then Ian came out of nowhere and took our picture. Photographers are so sneaky.
I first heard Carly Sings when she performed an opening set for the excellent Halfset in The Sugar Club before Christmas. Shy songwriter she is not. She plays alone live, accompanying herself with a guitar. It’s not just her powerful voice that attracts, but also her composure and confidence on stage, especially when she sings the occasional rather shocking lyric. I heard that she was working with Stephen Shannon from Experimental Audio on an album, and I was looking forward to hearing the songs with full arrangements, and to see what the end result would be.
Carly came down to the studio on Thursday with rough mastered versions of her album, for an exclusive pre-view (or pre-listen) of the album which will be released in late March, early April. We talked about Carly’s very short but rich musical journey to date, about working with producers, being in love with synths and writing silly but sincere lyrics in French. Mon petite pois, indeed. We listened to The Only Human Left, L’Amour, George Emerson, and (my personal favourite) Eyes Closed from the album The Glove Thief.
We started the show with Crayonsmith’s Lost In The Forest, the first single taken from his second album White Wonder which will be released on 4th April on Out On A Limb Records. Lost In The Forest was released yesterday the 7th of March with a shindig in Whelan’s with support from Somadrone. Head to Crayonsmith’s myspace for details of his up-coming Irish tour.
Nialler9 recommended Time to Pretend from New York’s indie pagans MGMT, who are playing in The Academy in Dublin tonight. Looking forward to hearing Oracular Spectacular live. And it will be my first gig in The Academy (formerly known as Spirit).
We finished up the show with a quick chat from Phil Udell, editor of State Magazine, a.k.a. Ireland’s new music payload. He told us where the idea for the magazine came from, the process of getting it all together over the last couple of years, and rounding up some of the best new talents in music journalism.
We finished the show with Haunted Candle from The Jimmy Cake’s brilliant Spectre & Crown, which will be released in April of this year. The Jimmy Cake are featured in the first issue of State magazine, which should be on a shop shelf near you. Something that Phil made a point of was that Irish bands will be featured in the magazine, but not in a tokenistic way. Instead, State propose to treat Irish bands with the respect they deserve, and to actually write proper articles about them. Cool.
Here’s more of Carly Sings:
Check out the collection on Ian Oliver’s flickr page.
And here is the Carly Sings mp3.
MP3
Carly Sings Thursday 6th of March
Here are two of my favourite things:
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Charlie Brown and Hey Ya!
Thank you Chelsea. You know who you are.
The mp3 of the show last night with the pretty amazing Carly Sings is on the way…
Carly Sings by Tom Burke
Do tune in this evening to Dublin City 103.2 FM at 9pm sharp, when we will be joined in studio by Carly Sings who will be talking us through the imminent release of her debut album The Glove Thief.
We will also be talking to Phil Udell about State magazine, which hit (most) shops today.
If you can’t catch us the old fashioned way on the wireless, have no fear as the mp3 will be available on this very blog in but a few days.
Right, I’m off to Tower Records on Wicklow St to catch Carly play an in-store at the State magazine party that’s been going on there today. See you down there.
Jareth, the Goblin King
Last night, after getting home from the launch of State (I won’t spoil the surprise for those of you who are going to buy it tomorrow, suffice to say it looks great and reads like a dream) I went on a bit of a nostalgia buzz and watched The Labyrinth, probably my favourite movie of all time.
As I was singing along to Dance Magic, marvelling at Ludo’s ability to call rocks, shouting at Hoggle to NOT give Sara the peach, I was thinking that they just don’t make kids movies like they used to. Monsters Inc. and all those films are amazing, but using puppets creates a much more real effect, and makes you believe that, yes, there is a Goblin King, and yes, he looks a bit like David Bowie.
Here’s Dance Magic from The Labyrinth for a bit of Wednesday afternoon sentimentality.
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Being Mumblin’ Deaf Ro
Foggy Notions presents Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, Boa Morte & Adrian Crowley upstairs in Whelan’s tomorrow night Wednesday 5th of March at around 8pm for €12.00.
This is the first week of a month long residency for Adrian, who will be playing in the new upstairs venue every Wednesday in March.
In the following weeks, the support will come from Clarence Black, Carly Sings, and Serafina.
Below are the mp3s of the indie hour interviews with Mumblin’ Deaf Ro and Adrian Crowley. Let’s think of it as recycling podcasts, hmmm?
MP3s
Adrian Crowley Thursday 17th of January
