Episode 10: 10/11/09

Episode 10:

Things were a bit mad before seven o’clock.. I was joined by Simon Fagan for a chat and a song and our Ear to the Music Ground, Aisling before they both rushed off to a Hot Press event.

Here’s what happened:
1. Theme Tune: DJ Flip and Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. The Jades: Look at me Now
3. Simon Fagan: Bring The Dance
4. Chat with Simon Fagan including live instudio acoustic Damn Honey
5. Simon Fagan: Falling Into You
6. Chat with Aisling, review of Yo La Tengo
7. Yo La Tengo: Last Days of Disco
8. Noah and the Whale: Love of an Orchestra
9. Hitman Lord: Wanna Healing Music
10. Chat with Lafterbirth http://www.youtube.com/lafterbirth
11. Yeasayer: Ampling Alp
12. Jody Had A Hitlist: You Used To Be Fun
13. Vampire Weekend: Horchata
14. Red Light Company: Scheme Eugene
15. Cowboy X: Squirrel Chase Ball
16. Ou Est La Swimming Pool: Dance the Way I Feel
17. J. Cole: Grown Simba
18. Speech Debelle: The Key
19. Neon Stars: Never Seen It Coming
20. Identity Parade: Colette Collar
21. Robbie Williams: You Know Me
22. Out!!

Only one show this week. Back with two next week. Tuesday and Thursday 1830-2000 GMT

..Nessy out!

Episode 9: 5/11/09

Episode 9:

Got myself an hour and a half for each show.. thought I’d have to do a lot extra more to fill it.. but no it means I can give everything I already was doing more time.. so YAY!

Thanks to half of Frantic Jack for popping in and to Will St Leger, Barry from Richter Colelctive and Tim from Tickletoc Productions for chatting on the phone.. and of course to Aisling, our Ear to the Ground for all the best new music.

Here’s what we got up to:

1. Intro: DJ Flip and Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Slow Motion Heros: Paper Over Cracks
3. Chat with Aisling, our Ear to the Ground
4. Deastro: The Shaded Forest
5. Mahoney: Gucci Boy Band
6. Simon Fagan: Falling Into You (Acoustic) Our recommended Free Legal Download of the week available from SimonFagan.net)
7. Chat with Barry From the Richter Collective
8. Guilty Optics: Down to Business
9. David Turpin: Dorothy Gale
10. Yeasayer: Ambling Alp
11. Treassa Lavassur: Low Fidelity
12. Chat with Will St Leger about Bluetooth Fairy
13. Hockey: Song Away
14. Frantic Jack: Free
15. Chat with Frantic Jack
16. Trophy Boyfriend: Black Ship
17. Run Kid: Delphine
18. Ou Est La Swimming Pool: Dance The Way I Feel
19. Outro: DJ Flip and Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

Episode 8: 27/10/09

Episode 8:

I’ve been really bad this week with getting this up – apologies.. it’s all busy busy!

The show didn’t go too bad, there was a lot of noise in the Student Union building on Tuesday and being honest it threw me off a little. (Yes there was only one show last week – on Wednesday and Thursday I was responsible for training in all the newbies – hi guys!)

So here’s what we got up to:

Xerosun ( a hardrock metal band joined me in the studio and we chatted throughout the hour)

1. Crossroads: DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick

2. Neon Stars: Never Seen It Coming (First Radio Play)

3. Chris Singleton: Worry Number One (recommended free legal download of the week available from http://www.singletonmusic.com/)

4. Xerosun: All or Nothing

5. Telephone Chat with Fiach http://www.fiach.net/home.htm

6. Fiach: You Dear

7. Wallis Bird: To My Bones

8. Telephone Chat with Simon from Mugger Dave

9. Mugger Dave: Crawl Up

10. Xerosun: Broken

11. Xerosun: Driving Me (First Public Play)

12. Outro…

I also have a tshirt here which was kindly donated by Xerosun, unfortunately there was a problem with our text line so the competition is running over to the next show..

All you have to do is go to Xerosun.net and find out who did the artwork for Xerosun’s new album. Get the answer and SMSDCUFM.com on 085 7515 973 and the winner will get the shirt!

Til Tues when I’ll be joined by DCUer Russell James who starts his first show next week..

nessy out!

Episode 7: 21/10/09

Episode 7

I had a really good time on Wednesday – Carosel were lovely!

We’re going to do a French Music Night!! Looking forward to that..

Here’s What we got up to :
1: Crossroads: DJ Flip and Freezemaster Slick

2. Mumford and Sons: Little Lion Man

3. Evermore: It’s Too Late (Our nominated Free Legal Download of the Week available from evermoreband.com)

4. Chat with Karen Walshe, Director of Deaf.. Deafireland.com

5. Neosupervital: Dance With You

6. Kev’s Music Reviews including Zero 7

7. Chat with Aidan Kelly, Candy Collective about Sweettalk 37 Candycollective.com

8. LipGloss: Land of Lords

9. Carosel: Easy As It Flows

10. Chat with Carosel including Sun is Shining Live Acoustic

11. Carosel: Polly

12.. the outro.. and it was over way too soon…

Back next week on Tuesday at 8 on DCUFM.com

Episode 6: 19/10/09

Episode 6:

Definitely a different kind of Culture Cafe!

I did a sports interview! I was lucky enough to have DCU’s own World Champion handballer pop in to say hello…

Here’s what happened..

1. Culture Cafe Intro.. DJ Flip and Freezemaster Slick
2. Hitman Lord: Wanna Healing Music
3. Chat with World Champion Handballer Ciaran Leary and DCU Handball Chairman
4. David Turpin: The Bone Dance
5. Mahoney: Gucci Boy Band
6. Aidan: Believe
7. Telephone chat with Aidan
8. Lord Altmont: Tirkadely
9. Eleanor McEvoy: Oh Uganda
10. The Jades: Bermuda Song
11. Director: Don’t Think I’ll know
12. Cowboy X: Squirel Chase Ball
13. Mugger Dave: Crawl Up
14. Wallis Bird: To My Bones
15. Culture Cafe outro

That was Monday.. another show tonight!

…nessy out!

Episode 5: 14/10/09

Episode 5, Culture Cafe DCUFM.com

Loads of busy-ness going on tonight.. phones being weird.. technology getting back to normal, the goldfish bowl was a hive of activity!

Here’s what we got up to:

1.  Culture Cafe theme DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

2.  Ou Est Le Swimming Pool: Dance The Way I Feel

3.  Miracle Bell: Who Took It All?

4. Chat with Dave from Miracle Bell (Jess the manager was too shy to speak on air, ah bless!)

5. Miracle Bell: Into The Trees

6. Chat with Wookie about Octocon.

7. Babylon Zoo: Spaceman

8. Chat With David Turpin who releases his new album ‘Haunted’ this Friday

9. David Turpin: The Bone Dance

10. Chat with Angela Dorgan, Hard Working Class Heroes about next weekend’s Festival

11. Neosupervital: Dance With You

12. Chat with Dermot Lambert from Garageland and a rock legend in his own right as part of Blink, about the launch of the second years CD of the Irish Youth Music Awards

13. Boy Number Seven: Come Inside

14.  Culture Cafe theme DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

Didn’t unfortunately have time for some other cool music I had on the playlist including Hockey,Vampire Weekend and Noah and The Whale and didn’t have a chance to get Kev to do his music reviews so he will be doing them next week…

The hour goes sooo fast!

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Episode 4: 12/10/09

Episode 4 of Culture Cafe done and what a great one it was..

A very special thanks to Michael and Rowan from Director who came in to have a chat and sing a song.. appreciate it guys!

So here’s what we did!

1. (Culture Cafe Theme) DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

2. (Music) Hitman Lord: Wanna Healing Music

3. (Music) Grades of Shade: Bleed In association with MusicReviewUnsigned

4. (Music) Director: Moment to Moment

5. Chat with Michael and Rowan from Director including an acoustic rendition of Don’t Think I’ll Know

6. (Music) Director: Play Pretend

7. (Music) Miracle Bell: Into The Trees (Our Free Legal Download of the week available fromwww.miraclebell.com)

8. (Music) Fiach: You Dear

9. (Music) The River Valley Band: Kimberley

10. (Music) Carosel: Easy As It Flows

11. (Music) David Turpin: The Bone Dance

12. (Music) The Jades: Bermuda Song

13. (Music) Cowboy X: Analogue Droids

And then it was over…. so fast until Wednesday when we’ll be doing a bit of chatting about the Hard Work Class Heroes Festival, the launch of the IYMA’s CD and music chats with Miracle Bell and David Turpin…

I’m off to bed

…nessy out!

Episode 3: 7/10/09

Episode Three:

So due to an overwhelming response, which, I hasten to add I’m extremely thrilled about, it looks like there will be two episodes of Culture Cafe every week. One doing what we always do and the other solely concentrating on Irish Music.

(Music) Cowboy X: Analogue Doids

Chat with Von Shakes

(Music) Von Shakes: The Routine

(Music) Von Shakes: Jackit

(Music) Miracle Bell: Into The Trees

(Music) The Shower Scene: In At The Deep End

(Music) Grades of Shade: Bleed  Artist of the month in association withwww.musicreviewunsigned.com

(Music Live) Identity Parade: Kicking Stones

Chat with Identity Parade

(Music Live) Identity Parade:Ooh Ooh

(Music) Identity Parade: Collette Collar

(Music) David Turpin: The Bone Dance

(Music) Hogan: PS You’re Crazy

Outro: DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

Next week:

Culture Cafe Irish Music Show Monday 8-9pm:
I’ll have Director in studio for an Interview

Culture Cafe Arts Wednesday 8-9pm:
I’ll be chatting to Angela Dorgan about the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival, Miracle Bellwill be in for a quick chat, I’ll also be chatting to Dermot Lambert about the launch of the IYMA’s cd, Wookie will be telling us how he got on at Octocon and David Turpin will be dropping in.

…nessy out!

Episode 2: 6/10/09

Episode Two.. Packed to the brim!

Wow! That was a buzz!!

I love technology, moreso when it works, when it doesn’t it just a few pieces of metal and plastic. But the show must go on! And so it did.

Here’s what happened.

Started off …
Download of the week: Carosel: Easy as it flows.

Chatted with Aisling about last weekend’s Music Show in the RDS

(Music) Director: You Don’t Know

Chatted with author Michael Carroll about his writing and involvement with Octocon, the Irish Science Fiction Convention

(Music) Speech Debelle: The Key

Chatted with photographer/artist Fionn Kidney about his Facebook group to make the light installation on Liberty Hall  a permanent feature.

(Music) David Turpin: The Bone Dance

Chatted to Band TKO and included a live track which incorporated The 4 of Us’ Mary

Kev reviewed the best new albums

(Music) Muse: The Uprising

We did the draw for the David O Doherty tickets for tomorrow night.

(Music) Outro.. DJ Flip Track 6 from his CD Crossroads.

Really enjoyed it, hope it sounded as good to everyone listening.

Irish Music Show tomorrow night.. Can’t wait!

…nessy out!

Episode 1: 30/9/09

Episode One:

Done and dusted…

delighted with how things went..special thanks to Loreana Rushe and Mike Bartlett who came into studio and also to Aisling, Alan and Kev .

So what did we feature ?

Download of the week: Mahoney: Gucci Boy Band

Treassa Levasseur: Low Fidelity (MusicReviewUnsigned.com Artist of the Month for September)

Interview with Loreana Rushe talking about David LaChapelle and about her own photography.

Alan reviewed Reemo and Orphancode from The Village.

Reemo: Sometimes

Aisling came into studio to talk about Hockey’s gig in the Academy last week.

Hockey: Song Away

Mike Bartlett Interview includes Live in studio ‘No Woman No Cry’.

Mike Bartlett: Song That Changed the World

Red Light Company: Arts & Crafts

Radiohead: These are My Twisted Words

Our Intro/Outro is Track 6 by DJ Flip from the CD Crossroads.

Hopefully we’ll get it all sorted for a podcast..

For the Second time today

…nessy out!