Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New...Vampire...Weekend


New Vampire Weekend.


I will say no more.

Vampire Weekend - White Sky

Friday, September 25, 2009

New Order supergroup!


Bad Lieutenant. Hmmm. Shite name? Delve a little deeper. Bernard Sumner and Phil Cunningham from New Order and Alex James from Blur?! Sweet!
Here's the first single, it's out on Monday
Bad Lieutenant - Sink Or Swim

A "stroke" of Genius! (...Jaysus I'm awful funny)


New Julian Casablancas tune,
Any thoughts?
Album Phrazes For The Young Is Out Oct. 19th
Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Alabama Three in Session


Alabama 3 popped in to play a few tunes a week back,
Any plan for an interview was quickly scrapped as to lads were bollixed after playing at Angelica Heustons birthday party the night before, but a cup of tea in and they were away with songs and pirate-ly stories of booze, drugs and womanising not fit for Saturday afternoon radio.

Lovely gents, mad as a bag of spiders and damn good music makers

>Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning (i102-104 Session)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Yvonne from Disconnect 4 on iTake Over


iTake Over is a weekly show between 9 and 10 on Sunday evenings on i102-104, we get guests in to pick an hour of music

Last Sunday saw Yvonne Ryan, bassist extraordinaire with Disconnect 4 behind the mic,

Here are her tunes!

The Bees - These Are The Ghosts
The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man
White Stripes - Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To be Heartbroken
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone
Talking Heads - A Forest
The Clash - Train In Vain
The Jam - Down At The Tube Station
Prince Buster - Ten Commandments
Joy Division - Transmission
Nelson - People And Thieves
Metric - Satellite Mind
So Cow - High Standards
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug

Disconnect 4 will appear at Hard Working Class Heroes in October

Catch them in Kellys for Substance this Thursday

Talking Heads - A Forest

Belle & sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap

iTest Playlist for Sun. Sept 20th


iTest is a new music radio show on i102-104, Sundays between 6 and 9

It's fun, silly and nothing like you'd usually hear on a commercial radio station

Jim Carroll - People Who Died
Otis Redding - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Arctic Monkeys - Diamonds Are Forever
The Nextmen - So many Girls
The Very Best ft. M.I.A - Rain Dance
The XX - Islands
Super Extra Bonus Party - Comets
Pearl Jam - Got Some
Flight Of The Conchords - Hurt Feelings
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Hanuman
The Big Pink - Velvet
Ex Humans - Chicane
Alice In Chains - Your Decision
Bebel Gilberto - Chicachicaboomchic
Brother Ali - The Preacher
The Raveonettes - Heart Of Stone
Julian Plenti - Games For Days
Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Codes - This Is Goodbye (i102-104 Session)
Pearl Jam - Gotta See My Friend
Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
Music For Dead Birds - What Did You Expect
Volcano Choir - Sleepymouth
Ian Brown - Stellify
The Big Pink - Dominos
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Penguin Prison - Animal Animal
Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule
Air - Sing Sang Sung
Dinosaur Pile Up - Cat Attack
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
The Cribs - Cheat On Me
Wolfmother - New Moon Rising
Lou Barlow - Gravitate
Blk Jks - Banna Ba Modino
The XX - Basic Space
Portugal. The Man - People Say
Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
Brother Ali - Crown Jewel
Alice In Chains - Take Her Out

The show kicked off with Jim Carroll - People Who Died because Jim Carroll who wrote the Basketball Diaries died last week. This tune was one of the most requested songs on radio when John Lennon died apparently, very punky, catchy and scarily morbid!
The Nextmen have just released their new album Join The Dots, they're playing in Kelly's Galway Sunday October 25th, this song reminds me of that Lou Vega tune! The Nextmen - So Many Girls
And Flight of The Conchords Season 2 is out, it's funny, but not as funny as Season 1, the songs just aren't as good, this one aside Flight Of The Conchords - Hurt Feelings The album is out in October

Any suggestions for tunes or band demos to:

Unit 19 Wellpark Leisure Block
Wellpark
Galway
F.A.O Josh Clarke
joshclarke@iradio.ie

Super Extra Bonus Party


My thoughts on the top Irish bands around are constantly changing, Adebisi Shank are up there, as is the Mighty Stef but as of last Friday Super Extra Bonus Party definitely grabbed one of the spots. They played one of the best live show's I've seen in the Roisin Dubh in Galway all year, and I've seen quite a few Roisin Dubh shows this year!

Their new album is called Night Horses and features Cadence Weapon, R.S.A.G and May Kay from Fight Like Apes

This is the current single Comets and features indie pop twins Heathers who are also brilliant (www.myspace.com/heatherswhatsyourdamage)

Super Extra Bonus Party - Comets

Vampires = deadly choooons ... who'd have thought?!


I don't get Twilight

In general I don't like Vampires, not my thing to be honest

But as much as I'd love to ignore Twilight and everything to do with it the soundtrack to the new flick is really really good!

1. Meet Me on the Equinox (Death Cab for Cutie)
2. Friends (Band of Skulls)
3. Hearing Damage (Thom Yorke)
4. Possibility (Lykke Li)
5. A White Demon Love Song" (The Killers)
6. Satellite Heart (Anya Marina)
7. I Belong to You [New Moon Remix] (Muse)
8. Rosyln (Bon Iver and St. Vincent)
9. Done All Wrong (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
10. Monsters (Hurricane Bells)
11. The Violet Hour (Sea Wolf)
12. Shooting the Moon (OK Go)
13. Slow Life (Grizzly Bear)
14. No Sound But the Wind (Editors)
15. New Moon (The Meadow) (Alexandre Desplat)

Fuck me

Death Cab For Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox

New blog!

Here's a tester

Brother Ali - The Preacher

Cracking tune!