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September 2009 Archives

Playlists & Interview, Week 13

By 2FM Moderator on September 24, 2009 11:33 PM


SHOW THIRTEEN: 23rd July '09

Interview: We chat to Cillian Stewart, organiser of the Castlepalooza festival in Charleville Castle, Co. Offaly.




Playlist:

1. Let's Light Fires - Dark Room Notes from their debut album We Love You
    Dark Matter released earlier this year on Gonzo
 
2. Michael Grady Went To Mexico - Robotnik from 2008's Pleasant
    Square released on the Angry Xmas Shop label
 
3. Blue Eyes - Patrick Kelleher from his debut album You Look Cold released
    in May of this year through OSAKA Recordings
 
4. Fallen - The Lost Brothers from Trail of the Lonely released in 2008 on
    Bird Dog Recordings

5. Trust Me - 8 Ball from their forthcoming album With All Your Friends set
    for release on Death of a Clown Records on 11th of October.

6. Caught In The Wire - The Holy Roman Army from their debut album How
    The Light Gets In released earlier this year on Collapsed Adult Records
 
7. Bad Seed - RSAG from his debut album Organic Sampler released at the
    tail end of last year on Psychonavigation Records.

8. Weight On My Mind - The Lowly Knights from a live session recorded for
    the BBC earlier this year.
 
9. Comets - Super Extra Bonus Party from their second album Night
    Horses which they released themselves in May of this year

10. Into The Breeze - David Kitt from his second album The Big Romance
      which was released on Blanco Y Negro in 2001




Playlists & Interviews, Weeks 1-5

By 2FM Moderator on September 17, 2009 4:29 PM

Show One: 30th April '09

Interview: Music writer Siobhan Kane discusses her time at the now de-funkt Event guide.




Playlist:

1. Chick Habit - April March
    from her Chick Habit EP released in 1995 on the 'Sympathy for the Record Industry' label.

2. Napoleon Says - Phoenix
    from their forthcoming album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix due for release on V2 at the
    end of May.

3. It's Thunder and It's Lightning - We Were Promised Jetpacks
    from their debut album These Four Walls due for release on Fat Cat Records in June '09

4. William It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
    released as a single by Rough Trade in 1984

5. So Much Love - Dusty Springfield
    from Dusty in Memphis released in 1969 on Atlantic Records

6. I Was A Man - Jape
    from the Choice Music Prize winning album Ritual released in 2008 on Co-Op

7. Now We Can See - The Thermals
    from their latest record of the same name released on the Kill Rock Stars label

8. Rawnald Gregory Erickson The Second - Starf**ker
    from their eponymously titled release on Badman Records in September '08

9. Roccoco Zephyr by Bill Callahan
    from Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle out now on Drag City


SHOW TWO: 7th May '09

Interview: Ex Horslip drummer, music journalist and all round legend Eamon Carr discusses life, music and the world of journalism.


Interview 2: Sun Studio manager John Hanley gives us the low down on one of Dublin's best known recording studios.




Playlist:

1. Actor Out Of Work - St. Vincent
   from her latest release Actor out now on 4AD

2. Knots - Pete and the Pirates
   from their Life Before Death album released on the Stolen label in February '08

3. French Navy - Camera Obscura
   from their latest release My Maudlin Career out now on 4AD

4. Endless Art - A-House
    from their Bingo EP released on Setanta in 1990

5. That's Just My Heart Talkin' - Ron Sexsmith
    from his Blue Boy album released on Cooking Vinyl in '01

6. How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead
    off their Kid A record released on Capitol in 2000

7. True No. 9 Blues - Golden Silvers
    from their debut album True Romance out now on XL

8. The Devil's Crayon - Wild Beasts
    from their Limbo Panto album released on Domino in '08

9. Nothing But Change Part 2 - Harlem Shakes
    off their latest album Technicolor Health out on Gigantic

10. Poltis - Subplots
     from Nightcycles out now on Cableattack!! Records


SHOW THREE: 14th May '09

Interview: Road Records, one of Dublin's most prominent independent record shops, was brought back from the brink of closure earlier this year through some good old fashioned artist solidarity and fund-raising. Owner Dave Kennedy chats to Jan about the experience, how the shop started and where Road goes from here.



Playlist:

1. Rubber Lover - Marmaduke Duke
    from their Duke Pandamonium album released on 14th Floor Records in May '09

2. Sixteen Fifteen Fourteen - PJ Harvey and John Parish
    from their latest release A Woman A Man Walked By released in March '09 on the
    Island label

3. Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
    from their third album Veckatimest released on Warp Records in May '09

4. What The World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love - Jackie De Shannon
    released as a single on the Imperial label in 1965

5. Beeswing - Richard Thompson
    from his Mirror Blue album released by Capitol Records in 1994

6. Race:In - Battles
    off their Mirrored album released on Warp Records in 2007

7. Inner City Pressure - Flight of the Conchords
    from their eponymously titled debut album released on Sub Pop in April '08

8. So Easy Baby - Condo F**ks 
    off their latest album F**kbook out on Matador Records since March '09

9. I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Bettye LaVette
   from I've Got My Own Hell To Raise released on ANTI- in 2005


SHOW FOUR: 21st May '09

Interview: Shane Cullen gives us a tour of his K9 Studio in south Dublin - responsible for recording a whole host of new Dublin band's including New Amusement and Funeral Suits, amongst others...



Playlist:

1. Familiar Light - Asobi Seksu
    from their latest album Hush released by One Little Indian in February '09

2. Come Saturday - Pains of Being Pure At Heart
    from their eponymously titled debut release on the Fortuna Pop label in February '09.

3. Lovers are Lunatics - Cutaways
    from their debut album Earth and Earthly Things set for release in July '09.

4. PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
    off her Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea album released by Universal/Island
    in 2003.

5. REM - Orange Crush
    from their sixth studio album Green released by Warner Music in 1988

6. Outkast - Spread
    from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below released in 2003 by Arista Records

7. Subzero Fun - Autolux
    from Future Perfect released on these shores by the Full Time Hobby label in 2005

8. Angela - Jarvis Cocker
   off his second solo album Further Complications released last week through Rough Trade.

9. Baltihorse - Dan Deacon from
    Bromst, his second album on the Car Park label, released in March '09.

10. In Galway - Martin Finke
     from his fourth solo album Make Daylight, released by Parallel Music in April '09










Mercury Rising...

By 2FM Moderator on September 9, 2009 9:49 PM

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There's been a lot of talk that 2009 is the year of the female artist. Albums from the likes of La Roux, Bat for Lashes and Florence & The Machine have caused quite a stir and for the first time in the history of the Mercury Music Prize there were five female nominees this year. Betting folk were laying their houses on a Florence, Bat or Roux victory. A woman did win...just not the woman everybody expected!

Speech Debelle had sold a little over three thousand copies of her debut album 'Speech Therapy', when she collected a cool twenty grand in prize money last night. Just four years ago she was living in a hostel for the homeless.

Lyrically her album, 'Speech Therapy', is clearly inspired by her time on the streets but musically it has a warmth to it that you don't necessarily expect from a rap record. Her arrangements for drums, clarinet, double bass and piano (among other instruments) nod to jazz and old school hip hop. Thankfully she values the riff and the rhyme equally.

The Mercury Music Prize is far from perfect (M People won it in '94 for goodness' sake) but you'd be hard pressed to argue that by naming Speech Debelle's debut as their album of the year for 2009, the panel have, at least, done a good thing. As the lady herself says in album track 'Bad Boy', 'a life unpraised is a life unsure, always looking for help but expecting closed doors'. This win will give Speech Debelle a deserved leg up, a platform, a means to go on and achieve her full potential as an artist...and she'll surely shift more than three thousand copies along the way!

Jan






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On This Week's Show....

By 2FM Moderator on September 9, 2009 9:13 PM

We link Pink Floyd super-sub Dave Gilmour to sarky Scots Arab Strap in Six Degrees of Separation. We'll also be saying sianara to summer and welcoming the autumn with open arms by sharing some of our favourite seasonal tunes and looking ahead to some great gigs scheduled for the coming months. We'll have music from Mercury Music Prize nominated Friendly Fires, Dublin band Etcha and Scandanavian indie popster Jens Lekman.

You can find us on DAB, online at rte.ie/digitalradio/twoxm or on Chorus NTL Channel 944 at 7pm Thursdays, repeated 6pm Saturdays.

Jan

Electric Picnic Day 2 Review

By 2FM Moderator on September 9, 2009 1:26 PM

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A mercifully dry night, a surprisingly good sleep and we're rearing to attack the timetable with coffee in one hand and crepe in the other. First port of call - Irish folk duo The Lost Brothers. It's early and the Cosby Stage tent is sparsely packed, but a perfectly formed crowd respond well to the "Losties" brand of harmonised Everly Brothers tinged melancholia. The XX provide the next stop. Strange scheduling one this. The middle of the afternoon in the largest tent for a band that specialise in the kind of hushed dynamics and sparse arrangements that a later time and smaller tent would better serve. But they are a huge draw thanks to an immaculate debut album and the gig is a resounding endorsement of their sound. Each song is greeted with a familiarity belying their virginal state and, from our point of view the sound is spot on. A big yes then (Check out our full review below). At this stage news filters through of Bat For Lashes cancellation and thusly the first tinge of disappointment at this years EP. But the quick one-two of Jape (superb,  review here and "Floating" live from the Picnic here) and The Walkmen (a revelation) quickly dispel any lingering comedown. We later found out she "hurt" her knee. Good excuse then. Next on our agenda was Brian Wilson. Now legend though he is, and with a backing band - The Wondermints - who are almost more faithful to the Beach Boys than the Beach Boys themselves, we are left a little heartbroken by the man himself. You wonder whether he actually realises what's going on, let alone where he is playing. Yet (and yet) the set proved a real feel-good hit of the (late) summer. And so to Chic. Now forgive us (well Barry) for being slightly sceptical but this was truly the most fun we had all weekend. From "Le Freak" to a cover of Bowie's "Lets Dance" to "I Want Your Love" the Electric Arena danced its proverbial arse off. High on the groove we wandered over to The Body & Soul area. Here, Tunng proved a fitting end to the night for team Wired For Sound as we stood down in the hollow of the Body & Soul stage basking in the electro folk stylings of wee Becky Jacobs and her London outfit.

Barry


The XX Feel the Hype and Do It Anyway!

By 2FM Moderator on September 5, 2009 7:00 PM

The+xx+xx.jpgLondoners The XX have borne a massive weight of expectation on their young shoulders in recent months as the release date of their debut album, 'xx',  drew near. It arrived a couple of weeks ago to rapturous reviews and rounds of applause so not surprising then that the Electric Arena was close to bursting despite their mid afternoon slot here at the picnic.

Given the peared back intimacy of 'xx', I had my concerns as to whether they could translate what is effectively a wee hours sound to a festival floor bathed in daylight. I need not have worried. This was a thrilling set of quiet intensity, all around hips swayed gently while heads bobbed in unison.

'VCR', 'Crystalized' and 'Islands' were particular highlights as was an atmospheric cover of Womack and Womack's 'Teardrops'. For those unfamiliar with the band there was certainly enough here to merit further invesigation, while everyone else left very happy indeed.

Jan


Wired for Sound Touchdown in Stradbally!

By 2FM Moderator on September 5, 2009 1:31 PM

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Wired for Sound hit the Electric Picnic with a spring in our step, tents on our backs and a touch of tailback induced stress yesterday afternoon! After hurried pitching of tarps and the like we made our way to the Crawdaddy Stage where Lykke Li had pulled a pretty massive crowd.

Opening with a double whammy of 'Dance Dance Dance' and 'I'm Good, I'm Gone' from her 2008 debut album 'Youth Novels' had body's bouncing from the off, but alas the Scandinavian songstress failed to capitalise playing two or three moody numbers back to back. Festival goers don't do moody at teatime on the opening day of Electric Picnic. Nonetheless things improved towards the end of her set with energetic renditions of 'Breaking It Up' and a cover of Kings of Leon's 'Knocked Up' - wasn't my cup of tea but the crowd seemed to lap it up.

Overall a disappointing set from Lykke Li; badly structured setlist, over reliance on covers and no new material. Having ripped it up earlier this year in Dublin's Button Factory expectations were high...and just weren't met.

Jan




This Is A Post About Adebisi Shank

September 2, 2009 10:37 PM

 

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   The crowd gape as Adebisi Shank tear it down in Andrews lane Theatre 29th Aug 09

 

Adebisi Shank play loud music. A frenetic mutant combination of noise rock, punk, metal and intricate instrumental. To put it simply they owned the stage during their support slot to Bats in ALT on Saturday. The casual observer might well have asked who are these madmen? Why aren't they ripping it up to more and more people on a wider, grander scale? A support slot to Faith No More at the Olympia a few days beforehand should help on that front - to a certain extent. Watching them on Saturday a side of me wondered why I'd really not taken the time to get beyond the band's recordings. Well, because they are so so so much better live. Hopefully someone will bottle that energy and chaos and they'll make an album befitting a gigging prowess that few Irish bands can muster right now.

 

 Just go see them, stand close to the stage...and watch

 

Barry

 

 

On This Week's Show....

September 2, 2009 4:44 PM

 

Keith Downey from Psychonavigation Records chats about the challenges of keeping a record label going for nine years, Lauren heads back to the future in a bid to prove that 80s popsters Huey Lewis & The News and Dublin purveyors of funk Republic of Loose are separated by a mere six degrees. We have new music from The Antlers and The Big Pink not to mention the heads up on new gigs announced this week!

 

You can catch us on Thursdays at 7pm on DAB, online at rte.ie/digitalradio/twoxm or on Chorus NTL Channel 944. Show repeated Saturdays at 6pm.

 

If you're heading for Electric Picnic this weekend you can start planning your itinerary and cursing the inevitable clashes as the stage times have all been revealed! Keep an eye out here for the odd live update from Stradbally - that is if we can tear ourselves away from the music!

 

Jan

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