Episode #276 is a grab bag of topics and events in music so far from Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl Half-Time Show, the Grammys to the music highlights of 50 years of Saturday Night Live.

Niall and Andrea are running our mouths over what's been happening in mainstream music to this year.

Episode #276 is a grab bag of topics and events in music so far from Kendrick's Superbowl Half-Time Show, the Grammys to the musical portion of the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary celebrations.

We talk about Doechii's live performance at the Grammys, Robyn and David Byrne performing together and Lauryn Hill and Wyclef coming back together on stage at Radio City Music Hall to perform some Fugees and Lauryn Hill classics.

Then we delve into the archive of SNL's musical performances, prompted by Questlove and Oz Rodriguez' Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music documentary and come up with notorious SNL moments like Ashlee Simpson's lipsync farce, Sinead O'Connor's Pope-ripping a capella, Rage Against The Machine getting kicked out of the show for upsetting the advertisers and Republicans, Elvis Costello switching it up live without telling the producers.

Then we highlight some of our favourite performances on the show from The White Stripes / Jack White, Chance The Rapper on Kanye's 'Ultralight Beam', Janis Ian and Billy Preston on the 1975 debut of the show and more.

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Episode 275 is an interview with Kittser about his electronic project New Jackson. It may have felt like a side project when it debuted with The Night Mail EP in 2011, but over the last 14 years, the New Jackson releases have been so consistent across a multitude of EPs on Permanent Vacation, Hivern, All City, Maeve and more, with last year's second album Oops!... Pop softened the lines into a more techno pop songwriting style.

Ahead of the New Jackson live show in Dublin on Saturday March 28th with support from Rory Sweeney and The Outside, his forthcoming album project with Efa O'Neill, we talk that collaboration, his new release as MMOTTORR with TR One , what he's learned from 30 years of DJing, living in Kerry, Spotify and Bandcamp discourse, and bucking the zeitgeist trends in dance music in 2025.

David also picks some key influential New Jackson tracks from Joy Orbison, Wham!, Pépé Bradock, Carl Craig and The Egyptian Lover.

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Kicking off season 5 of the Nialler9 Podcast with the return of our regular series in which Nialler and Andrea Cleary share their favourite music of the month.

Discussing new albums from The Weather Station, MIKE, Pink Siifu, FKA Twigs among others; and songs from Lucy Dacus, Doechii, Niamh Regan, Japanese Breakfast, Olafur Arnalds, Talos and friends.

We also chat the Choice Music Prize album nominations, Bluesky, The Traitors and films we've seen lately including Nosferatu, Blue Velvet/Lost Highway (RIP David Lynch) and The Substance [Nialler's Letterboxd].

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Niall and Andrea hand out gongs in categories:

Best live TV and web video performances, sax solo of the year, the Andre 3000 award for best guest verse, best film soundtrack, song featured in a TV show, duds of the year, the heroes and villains of 2024 (Irish artists at SXSW, Drake, Spotify and more), best rap beat, trend of the year, the award for best music with annoying vocalist (hi Geordie Greep), sample, disappointments, pop artist, single released after critically-acclaimed album that was better than the album (hi Mk.Gee), quote of the year, funniest moment of the year (hi Grimes at Coachelly), club track of the year, best song about Palestine, favourite song that sounds like Bernard Herrman’s Psycho score and best cover song of 2024.

Dig in, and talk to you next year.

Niall and Andrea x

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Andrea and Niall share a selection of their favourite albums of the year.

Featuring discussion and reasons for best albums from Charli XCX, Jessica Pratt, Mabe Fratti, MJ Lenderman, Adrienne Lenker, Cindy Lee, Bricknasty, Father John Misty and Curtisy.

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Andrea and Niall pick a selection box of their songs of the year and talk about them.

Featuring songs from Charli XCX, MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee, Burial, Baby Rose, Laura Marling, Kendrick Lamar, Fontaines D.C., Róis and more.

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Episode 270 is partly a review of our favourite music of the month, and partly a chat about what's happening with Kendrick (new album) and Drake (lawsuits lol) in November.

Andrea tells us why Drake is suing UMG, the label both him and Kendrick are on, and why he is also suing the label for defamation for things said in a rap beef with Lamar (you couldn't make it up) .

 Then we review Kendrick's new surprise album GNX, with its West Coast focus and hyphy vibe adding up to a victory lap for the rapper.

After our recent deep dive into his seminal album, it's the return of Andrea’s Cool Big Guy Father John Misty and his new album Mahashmashana who as we found out is on the same release schedule as K.Dot. Andrea reviews the album and we talk a Cher endorsement too for Mr Tillman.

Then it's recommendation corner with music from Bolis Pupul, Ahmed, With Love., Oisin Leech, single men in their twenties and the Doechii and Tyler, The Creator performance at Camp Flog Gnaw.

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The Jameson Music Trail will present 100 live sets from dozens of Irish artists we love, with many acts playing twice in the town’s 16 venues, including a Jameson Connects stage at The Dingle Bridge House for the first time.

For this episode, I spoke to Kerry musician and OV regular Junior Brother about playing in Dingle, recording his soon-to-be-released third album with John "Spud" Murphy, and playing with The Pogues.

Then we chat to Juno King, events producer with the OV family, literally in that her dad Philip started the show 23 years go and Juno along with triplet sisters Molly and Ellen grew up in and around the show. Juno talks to us about the limitations and magic of putting on the festival every year and what's exciting her this year on the lineup.

Then, we beam in Dan and Paul from Silverbacks, the indie-rock band who have just released their third album Easy Being A Winner, and we discuss making the album with GIlla Band's Dan Fox, what success looks like for the band and what they're looking forward at Other Voices this year.

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With a Deluxe version of the album out now, I spoke to Gavin Curtis aka Curtisy about starting out rapping in 2021 and meeting Ahmed, With Love and making their first song 'Men On A Mission' in 2022 with Rory Sweeney. Curtisy has a prolific output, and we discuss his many collaborators (Ahmed, With Love makes a brief appearance too), valuing vulnerability and authenticity in your music and discuss the Irish music he loves including music from Sloucho, Lil Skag, EFÉ, Bricknasty, Rory Sweeney / Carlos Danger and of course, Ahmed, With Love; plus what comes next in 2025.

Curtisy Tour dates:

Saturday 16th November – The Black Box, Belfast

Wednesday 20th November – The Workman’s Club, Dublin

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In this episode, Nialler and Andrea kick off the chat with Halloween experiences, Andrea stays up for the Trump show, and advocates for leaving Twitter you guys.

Then we highlight our favourite tracks and albums from October, including new albums from Irish artists like Fionn Regan (O Avalanche), Silverbacks (Easy Being A Winner), Deathbed Convert (Inverse Field Vol. 1) and Olive Hatake (Boys Need Love) along with international choices from Laura Marling (Patterns In Repeat) and Mount Eerie (Night Palace).

There are song picks from Father John Misty, Waxahatchee and MK.gee too.

Plus, TV and films we're enjoying in the What's Consuming You? corner.

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As one of the most compelling album artists in rap, and an artist who is on a great run of records including Flower Boy (2017), Igor (2019), Call Me If You Get Lost (2021), how does Chromakopia stack up?

With Tyler bigger than ever and selling out two 3Arena Dublin shows this week, I take a deep dive into the record with self-confessed Tyler Stan Max Zanga aka Filmore!.

While it may look like a conceptual character record on paper, we discuss Tyler's clear vulnerabilities about his place in the world as a successful 30-something materially-rich rapper (“Biggest in the city after Kenny [Kendrick Lamar], that’s a fact now”) while Tyler grapples with whether or not he's ready to become a father (2024 is truly the year pop stars started writing about whether they should have children), whether he wants or needs a long-term relationship, and there's a re-examination of Tyler's own established narrative with his own estranged father.

Filmore!'s latest EP Idle Death Gamble is out now, as is Chromakopia.

*Finally - apologies about the audio quality this week, as host, producer and editor I messed up my audio source this week meaning we are hearing the webcam audio :( 

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What is a night mayor? A night czar? A night-time economy advisor?

Well, my perception of what it entails is someone who advocates and advises local city council policy and decision-making on what is required in order to make the city more liveable at night, more culturally rich, safer, and to be the glue between various communities like venue owners, promoters, night time economy workers and those who make decisions around how the city operates at night time. 

But we’re not going to take my word for it, we’re going to talk to Dublin's first night-time economy advisor Ray O'Donohue.

O’Donoghue is known for his work in events and the Sea Sessions festival, before his appointment in April. Last week, Dublin City Council shared its Night-Time Economy Strategy – “a comprehensive plan designed to cultivate a thriving night-time culture in our city”, spearheaded by Ray O’Donoghue and supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media.

So, I talked to Ray about his plans to help Dublin night-life, and what we can expect from the role for Dublin city...

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Boards Of Canada's debut album Music Has The Right To Children on Warp Records/SKAM is a modern classic, a highly evocative collection of music, operating like a fading childhood memory, a creeping nostalgic collage of analogue electronic music, samples from public service broadcasting programming, with inspirations from to hip-hop beats, ambient techno and psychedelia.

Join Niall and Andrea to discuss the liminal legacy of Music Has The Right To Children, and discover how library music, Sesame Street and nature documentaries all inform the album, and we chat about the album’s childhood nostalgia, and its preoccupation with a retrofuturistic nostalgia and memory.

Join us at the Big Romance on Wednesday October 30th for our Listening Party for the album. You won't want to miss the chance to hear this on vinyl as loud as possible! PATREONS USE THE CODE KNOCKBOC FOR REDUCED PRICE.

The Listen Closely series of listening party nights in The Big Romance, featuring a focus album from an artist we love on the last Wednesday of every month. It's a chance to appreciate a modern classic album played loud on vinyl through the bar's beautiful Toby Hatchett soundsystem with a chat about the record before and after, whether you know it and love it, or if it's brand new to you. 

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Episode 263 comes at us fast with Niall Byrne and Andrea Cleary's monthly music recommendations.

Chatting Indie Sleaze, a reason to be cheerful with the return of Adebisi Shank and a chat about club culture post-pandemic.

Then we highlight new albums from Floating Points (this is the Jamie xx Substack post that annoyed Niall), and Henry Earnest along with songs from Bon Iver, Ahmed With Love, Maria Somerville, Freak Slug, FKA Twigs, Fionn Regan, Nilufer Yanya and a Teac Damsa Nobodaddy-inspired closing pick.

Plus, TV, film and books we're enjoying in the What's Consuming You? corner.

Oh, and the tweet I showed Andrea is this one.

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The incident happened, in an increasingly hostile environment for minority communities in Ireland. Why was a block party in Temple Bar, that was giving no immediate pressing trouble, met with violence, while violence at far right protests and the burning of buildings earmarked for asylum seekers goes unpunished?

Ireland is seeing an increasing number of anti-immigrant accounts online, and the verbal abuse of people of colour has increased, while just this week, the government’s Justice Minister Helen McEntee has dropped the incitement or hate speech sections of the Criminal Justice Bill.

On this week's podcast, we talk to Silent Jee, a DJ on the night about what went down from his perspective, and how the guards showing up at the block party is nothing new. We explore how these kinds of actions are familiar to black and POC in Ireland's creative community. We talk to Mo Cultivation's Bekah Molony about what allies and peers can do and how nothing has changed since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. Things have arguably gone the other way.

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It’s the Nialler9 Podcast’s monthly episode where Niall and Andrea recommend albums and songs of recent weeks.

Episode 261 of the Nialler9 Podcast features albums from MJ Lenderman and Sabrina Carpenter, along with songs from Moin, Adore, RÓIS, and a song discovery from Another Love Story festival.

We also pay tribute to Eoin French, of the Cork project Talos who sadly passed away last month.

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Over nearly TWO HOURS, Andrea takes us through the highlights of his albums: Fear Fun, I Love You, Honeybear; Pure Comedy, God's Favourite Customer and Chloë and the Next 20th Century, his run of albums from 2012 to 2022.

Our chat takes in topics of masculinity, lyrical explorations, cynicism, playing with character and performer roles, entertainment, ecology, doom-laden rants, societal schisms, online living, political nightmares and psychedelic experiences. You know... the small stuff.

The Nialler9 Podcast presents a Listening Party for Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (2015) at The Big Romance in Dublin on Wednesday September 25th at 7pm.  

Join Niall and Andrea for a playback of a compelling grandstanding album all about love, romance tempered by the cyncism and internal struggle of a man and songwriter who can't quite put faith in the idea that love might be the answer.

Patreon members use the code FATHERJOHNBIGROMANCEME to get discounted tickets.\

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Romance signifies some change from the Fontaines, their first on new label XL Recordings, they have graduated from the indie producer du jour Dan Carey with James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Depeche Mode, Florence and the Machine, Gorillaz ) at the controls, a producer used to big music stage sounds.

Romance brings a mix of guitar rock genres - shoegaze, 80s Irish and UK indie, ‘90s alt-rock, grunge, into their fold, while retaining their core Fontaines sound. Yet, the songs are among the brightest they've done.

Grian Chatten's lyrics have transcended their Dublin roots and embraced a universality. The preoccupation with a city of origin is replaced by Romance as a conceptual place. His vocals have grown on this record, more soaring, more melodic, brighter, less gutteral, more commanding and varied.

But is it any good? Dive into Romance with us.

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It was 4pm near the main stage between Sing Along and Natasha Beddingfield so I kept things fairly mainstream as the set went from cold open with no-one here at the start to full and hopping. There was even some impromptu breakdancing.

This is kind of my take on crowdpleasing DJ festival set.

This one is also on Soundcloud.

Tracklist: 

Lipps Funkytown / Soulwax - Another Excuse (DFA remix)

The Streets - Turn The Page (Overmono remix)

Sugababes - Round (Two Shell remix)

Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Diamond Setter's Supernature Edit)

Disclosure - She's Gone Dance On

Jamie xx, Robyn - Life

Missy Elliot - Work It [Confidence Man Bootleg Edit]

Skrillex, Four Tet, Starrah - Butterflies

Fred Again - Danielle (Smile On My Face)

Charli XCX - 365

Daft Punk - Technologic

Whirpool - From Disco To Disco (Les Rhthmes Digitales)

The Lisa Marie Experience - Keep On Jumpin' (Bizarre Inc remix)

The Cap Boy - Macarena

Caribou - Volume

Barry Can't Swim - Sunsleeper

Michael Gray & Kimberly Brown - Fly Away (Feat. The Sultra Gospel Singers)

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It’s the Nialler9 Podcast’s monthly episode where Niall and Andrea recommend albums and songs of recent weeks.

Episode 258 of the Nialler9 Podcast features Niall and Andrea discussing the Olympics, a brief review of All Together Now, Optimo at Hang Dai and more.

Up for discussion on the music tips are: albums from Clairo, Remi Wolf, Clara La San; tunes from A Lazarus Soul, Charli XCX, Kynsy, Merce Lemon, Devon Again, Chanel Beads, Fcukers and Father John Misty. Plus an unreleased gem from Phil Lynott?

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I spoke to Shiv about the nature of collaborating and connecting with different artists and producers for this episode of the Nialler9 podcast, ahead of Shiv’s set at All Together Now Festival this August Bank Holiday weekend, where Shiv plays on the Jameson Connects The Circle Stage at 7pm on the Friday night. Shiv will be debuting a special song and joined by her collaborator on the song James Vincent McMorrow.

The forthcoming album is a reflection of the personal upheaval she experienced, including a breakup, leaving a major label, parting ways with her manager, and moving countries. Shiv talks about how studying psychology has influenced her songwriting.

Shiv also talks about her influences and we focus on songs from Kanye, James Vincent McMorrow, Dijon, Ari Lennox, and Negro Impacto (see below).

The Jameson Connects: The Circle stage at All Together Now features some Nialler9 favourites including Optimo, Just Mustard, The Murder Capital, qbanaa, Aby Coulibaly, Morgano, Sloucho, Rachael Lavelle and more.

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It's the latest episode in the Niall explains a dance music genre to Andrea series.

What is French Touch? For some it means house music of French origin of the '90s and 2000s. For me, it's more defined.

French Touch is more of a subgenre almost exclusively made by French producers - French dance music rooted in samples of old disco records where strings, bass and vocals were rerouted through a Chicago house music 4/4 beat and given a retro futuristic sheen with shiny synthesisers and a compressed cosmic atmosphere. A sense of majique can we say?

It was part of a near 10 year period from the mid 90s to the early-2000s in which French dance music dominated, a time in which Parisian cool, French fashion and influence dripped out of the country’s culture, whether it was Daft Punk’s world domination, Ed Banger Records’ electro cachet on dancefloors worldwide, fashion and record label Kitsune’s coveted Maison compilations or Phillipe Zdar’s influence on music production.

For our short history of French Touch, we will feature music from Alan Braxe, DJ Falcon, Thomas Bangalter, Stardust, Cassius, Together, The Paradise Étienne De Crecy and the omnipresent Daft Punk.

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It’s the Nialler9 Podcast’s monthly episode where Niall and Andrea recommend albums and songs of recent weeks.

Episode 255 of the Nialler9 Podcast features Niall and Andrea discussing the latter's trip to see

Taylor Swift in Dublin (Andrea's review is here), and Niall went to LCD Soundsystem, and, got happily divorced this month. REAL LIFE STUFF.

Musically we are talking albums from Mabe Fratti and Kneecap, and songs from MJ Lenderman, Skinner, Charli XCX and Lorde, Sabrina Carpenter, Soccer Mommy, the batshit clubccordion polkapop song from Kesha and literally, music for tomato plants.

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There's no formula for writing a song of the summer, the same way that you can't guarantee a Christmas classic, but there are some ground rules that seem to apply for most of the songs in contention every year.

As noted by Mark Savage's The secrets of a hit summer song piece, some key things a song has to be simple (like Whigfield's 'Saturday Night'), It should make you feel like you're on holiday ('Pon De Replay' / 'Club Tropicana'), novelty is good, whether that means meme-friendly, silly ('Macarena') or a novel mix of styles (like Old Town Road's mix of country and rap) but most importantly it should be released before the summer, ideally mid April - early May latest.

We added a few more rules of our own - including mentions of food and drink are good, controversy can be helpful, titillation can work and the song's unquantifiable repeatable vibe that doesn't grate over months of listening via rooftops, out of cars, festivals, clubs and pubs. A catchy lyric is essential - are you ready to match our freak?

But really the song of the summer is a nebulous accolade, and ultimately decided by too many factors to identity.

This year's main contenders include Kabin Crew's 'The Spark', Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso', Tommy Richman's 'Million Dollar Baby', Chappell Roan's 'Good Luck Babe', Charli XCX's '360', Kendrick's 'Not Like Us' and songs from Tik-Tok memes, Billie Eilish, Jamie xx, Tinashe, Hozier, Shaboozey and more.

We take them at their word and consider each for the ultimate summer medal - the song of the summer 2024.

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On Episode 253 we are joined by Kelly Doherty (of The Vinyl Factory, Satellite Towns and formerly Nialler9) to discuss all things brat from the clubby rollout to the surprising vulnerability and insecurities on Charli’s latest record.

We put in context of her career, it girls, relationships, motherhood and how big of an artist Charli XCX really is now.

Plus, Kelly shares her favourite Charli songs including three under-rated favs.

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Episode 252 of the Nialler9 Podcast and we are excited and enthusing about music of May. There are songs from Kynsy, His Father's Voice, PinkPantheress, Kawaii Hoe, Clairo and Charli XCX.

And albums this month from Papa Romeo, Billie Eilish, Carlos Danger, Niamh Regan and yes, the Challengers score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

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"Don’t try this at home on your dad’s stereo — only under strict hip-hop supervision.."]

Join Niall and Andrea to hear why Beastie Boys' fourth album from 1994 Ill Communication is one of the best around - with chat about how the band recorded and made it, where the put the Beasties in the context of their discography and their career, the artwork, B-sides, Adam Yauch's spiritual enlightenment, political activism through the Milarepa Fund and Tibetan Freedom Concert and how the band addressed their previous Licensed To Ill misogyny.

Ill Communication is defined by a melting pot of hip-hop, punk, jazz-fusion, flute samples, funk, rare groove records and Tibetan monk chanting.

Plus, the brilliance of 'Sabotage', the Letterman performance and the best music video of all-time?

And Niall reveals that his first ever website was a Beastie Boys one in 1999 that he made with his friend Ciaran.

This week's episode is a companion podcast to our Listening Party of the album in the Big Romance on Wednesday May 29th. Buy a ticket here to join us.

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• Hozier is the first Irish artist in 34 years to get a US #1
• The Kendrick, Drake, J. Cole rap beef
• The reaction to Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department
• The Electric Picnic lineup
• Lankum, CMAT and Jazzy nominated for Ivor Novello Awards
• Early club nights are a thing
• Song of the summer contender: Espresso
• Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee - the power of one review and relative release obscurity

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Cian joins us to pick 6 tracks to represent his radio show over the years, and to discuss his process, DJing and how he has managed to present a world-renowned radio show for so long in a fickle media industry.

Tracks selected come from To Rococo Rot, St. Germain, Dead Can Dance, Fairmont, Loner Deluxe and Mike Smalle.

Cian is marking 25 years of ATT on his show from Monday 29th April to Friday 3rd May, wheree he feature all exclusive new music, previously unreleased and unheard outside of the musicians’ studios, from artists he admire from home and abroad, including Peter Gordon, Works Of Intent, Dian Cécht, Blamhaus, Elliot Adamson, The Shen, Meljoann, Man Power, Junk Drawer and Ambient Babestation Meltdown and Borai.

Two Disco Dána parties in Galway (Cuba venue on Saturday 4th May) and Dublin (at Hen's Teeth - Friday 31st May.) are also lined up.

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Fiona Apple – Tidal (1996)

The debut album from the then 18 year-old American singer-songwriter established the artist’s unique raw songcraft that blends pop, rock, and jazz. Featuring the songs ‘Criminal’, ‘Shadowboxer’, ‘Sleep to Dream’, and ‘The First Taste’, Tidal is a fully-formed classic of the mid-90s written from the hardened perspective of a young woman surviving the world.

We discuss the album, how Fiona Apple got her record deal, how the media at the time largely focused on Apple's looks in the context of album reviews , how this "sullen girl" / strong-willed opinionated young woman was treated by the music industry, and how the album stacks up nearly 30 years later.

This week's episode is a companion podcast to our Listening Party of the album in the Big Romance on Wednesday April 24th. Buy a ticket here to join us.

Show notes

• Spotify Playlist - Songs played on the Podcast
• Fiona Apple & the Sexist Critics in the 90s
• Idiotalk Podcast

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A for America

B For Beyonce

C for Country

(and D for Discourse)

This 80 minutes and 27 track album, serving as Act 2 in the Renaissance trilogy, was purported to be Beyoncé's country album. That's not what has bolted from the stables. Cowboy Carter is not a country album, but it does feature a lot of country music sounds, references and personnel. it’s Beyonce kicking through the saloon doors of country and inviting whoever or whatever sound she wants alongside her. It’s more of a cultural reclamation of black AMERICAN music, with the origin story being that night in 2016 when Beyoncé performed Daddy Issues at the Country Music Awards in 2016, and made the traditionalists mad.

Cowboy Carter is an odyssey through American music of black origin, black country heritage, with Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, opera, bluegrass, Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, Westerns, "real instruments", Rodeo, Chuck Berry, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Jon Batiste, Rhiannon Giddens outlaws, shotguns and giddy ups and shotgun riders.

Join us for an very interesting chat about it.

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Episode 245 is a ping-pong new disco recommends, with music discussed from Waxahatchee, Adrianne Lenker, New Jackson, Tatyana, Travis & Elzzz, Glass Beams, Charli XCX, Havvk, Group Listening, Two Shell / FKA Twigs and Mildlife (I guess)...

Along with the What’s Consuming You corner with a sci-fi TV show we both loved this month.

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Portishead - Dummy (1994)

The debut album from the Bristol trio of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley was released during the summer of Blur’s Parklife and Oasis’s Definitely Maybe. Dummy was a darker, stranger record that would become a trip-hop classic that paired hip-hop, jazz, and electronic textures with Beth Gibbons spine-tingling voice and twangy tremolo guitars that belong in spy movies.

The winner of the 1995 Mercury Music Prize, Dummy features the singles ‘Sour Times’, ‘Glory Box’, and ‘Numb’, and is notable for its soulful turntable-sampling, melancholic film noir atmosphere. A modern classic indeed. We delve deep into how the band met, what trip-hop and the Bristol sound was, how the band got their name, how Dummy became hugely popular and a bit of a dinner-party LP ripe for sexy background music in film and more.

The hosts of the Nialler9 Podcast (Niall Byrne and Andrea Cleary)  present the Listen Closely series of listening parties on the Big Romance’s warm Toby Hatchett soundsystem, featuring a focus modern classic album and a chat around it on the last Wednesday of the month.

The Portishead - Dummy Listening Party happens Wednesday March 27th at The Big Romance.

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• KEXP 25 year anniversary interview in 2019

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Niall and Andrea discuss:

• Lankum winning the Choice Music Prize and their speech that encouraged the boycott of Israel
• Kneecap's show of Solidarity with Palestine on the Late Late Show & their US TV debut
• All the Irish bands including Kneecap who then cancelled their SXSW Festival shows this week in protest at US Military involvement
• Leo Varadkar wants nothing to do with bringing in the long-proposed Irish nightlife laws any time soon
• James Blake weighs in on streaming being broken, in a time which increasingly feels like it’s going towards a tipping point
• The growing crisis in music - How the rising cost of living is affecting bands' ability to create art and make money to live.
• “You can get a Grammy nomination and you still can't afford to rent a one-bedroom flat in London,” says Grian Chatten of Dublin's Fontaines DC,
• And the minor furore over an out-of-context use of quote from The Last Dinner Party - "People don’t want to listen to post-punk and hear about the cost of living crisis any more.”

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It's the Nialler9 Podcast's monthly episode where Niall and Andrea talk about the albums and songs they loved in the last four weeks.

Episode 242 is a return to the music recommends corner, featuring new album picks from Fynch, Thee U.F.O, Declan McKenna, Mohammad Syfkhan and new songs from Adrianne Lenker, Brittany Howard, Niamh Regan, Jessica Pratt, The Decemberists and Beck.

Along with the What's Consuming You corner with TV, books and films we are vibing with lately.

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The albums are:

Grian Chatten – Chaos For The Fly  (Partisan Records)
The debut album from the Fontaines DC frontman.

CMAT – Crazymad, For Me  (CMATBABY/AWAL)
The second album from Ireland’s global country pop superstar.

John Francis Flynn – Look Over The Wall, See The Sky  (River Lea Recordings)
The second album from the Dublin folkie turns with a contemporary twist.

Kojaque – Phantom Of The Afters (Soft Boy Records)
he second full-length album (not counting previously nominated mixtape Deli Daydreams) from the London-based Dublin rapper.

Lankum – False Lankum  (Rough Trade Records)
The fourth album from Ireland’s leading doom folk trad band.

Rachael Lavelle – Big Dreams (Rest Energy)
The Irish songwriter and avant-pop practitioner’s debut album.

Soda Blonde – Dream Big  (Overbite Records)
The second album from Dublin alt-pop band.

The Murder Capital – Gigi’s Recovery (Human Season Records)
The second album from the Dublin rock band who have softened somewhat for album two.

The Scratch – Mind Yourself  (Perrystown Music Limited)
The second album from the Dublin trad-folk-metal band.

Ezra Williams – Supernumeraries  (Ezra Williams / AWAL)\
The debut album from the Cork singer-songwriter.

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Niall, Andrea and guest Sophia discuss the albums in detail and decide which of the ten they individually think a) would like to win and b) will win the award.

The actual winner of the Prize announced at the live event in Vicar Street on March 7th, and is broadcast live on RTÉ 2FM in a special four-hour extended show with Beta Da Silva from 7-11pm. A special TV show will be broadcast on Thursday 14th March at 22.30 on RTÉ2.

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The hosts of the Nialler9 Podcast (Niall Byrne and Andrea Cleary) in conjunction with The Big Romance present the Listen Closely series of listening parties, a night featuring a focus album from an artist we love on the last Wednesday of the month.

To accompany the monthly listening party on Wednesday February 28th – 7.30pm @ The Big Romance, we present a Nialler9 Podcast episode all about this month's chosen album....

This month:

Laurie Anderson – Big Science (1982)

“This is the time/and this is the record of the time.”

An album that was ahead of its time upon release, Big Science draws from Anderson’s multi-media performance art piece United States I-IV, and presents an experimental avant-garde electronics, art-rock and spoken word prophetic dissection of 80s America that spawned a surprising pop hit with the towering O Superman.

Andrea takes the lead on why this album is noteworthy and important in this week's deep dive.

Listen Closely is a chance for the music heads, to appreciate a modern classic album on the Big Romance’s warm Toby Hatchett soundsystem with a chat about the record on the night. More info.

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On this week's pod, it's a deep dive into an album from one of our perennial favourites.  

It's the turn of the MF DOOM and Madlib's classic 2004 album Madvillainy by Madvillain, a dense, psychedelic, colourful rap album that quickly cemented itself as one of the best rap albums of all time when it came out on Stones Throw that year.

Why is Madvillain so important?

It's the sound of two masters of their craft -  Madlib deep crate-digging wizz of flipped samples which avoided the musical grid  and DOOM’s  "tripping off the beat kinda" rhymes which defied expectation and form,  and became endlessly quotable while retaining complex and comedic intent. Madvillainy is the sound of two elusive creatives ricocheting off each other’s oddball styles with disorienting brilliance. 

Niall and Andrea discuss the album's gestation, recording, leak, samples, lyrics and mythology.  

In January, we hosted a Listen Closely listening party in the Big Romance in Dublin with this album. Our next one will be Wednesday February 28th with Laurie Anderson's Big Science. Tickets on sale shortly.

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After taking January off, Niall and Andrea are back discussing what has been happening in music since we closed off the year with the Best of 2023 episodes including:

• Pitchfork's downsizing, the state of music journalism and the Enshittification of online music discovery and discourse, and online life in general?
• The Choice Music Prize Irish albums of the year nominees 
• The Eurovision Song Contest and the growing call for the Boycott of Israel. Will Ireland make a stand alongside Sweden, Finland, Iceland and more? 
• What we've been consuming - music, TV, film since our break.

Big special extra thanks to Georgia Hallion for editing the podcast.

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In a year where AI, touring became more difficult for musicians, and Spotify squeezed the emerging artists, Niall and Andrea's annual podcast awards are given out to the best and worst in music, with awards for:

• Best live gig
  Best live performance
• Villain of the year
• Thing we'd like to go away
• Best opening song lyric
• Best bagpipes solo
• The Alan Maguire  horny for photoshoots award
• Best rap guest verse(s) aka The Andre 3000 award
• Rap beat of the year
• Best new bands
• Surprising sample of the year
• best pop song
• worst song of the year
• worst guest verse of the year
• biggest letdown of the year
• Comeback of the year
• Most pointless release of the year
• Wonky beat of the year
• Best discovery from end of year lists
• Best Italo song of the year
• Favourite song to DJ this year
• Best ambient / chilled release of the year
• Best album about a bus Route in Galway
• Thing nobody wanted, aka the Harry Award
• Music documentary

Plus, our favourite TV shows, podcasts, film, needledrops and books.

Special thanks to Georgia Hallion for editing this podcast episode.

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Featuring albums from Lankum, Boygenius, Noname, Andre 3000, Olivia Rodrigo, Rachael Lavelle, Lana, Kara Jackson, Mitski and more.

Next episode: The Nialler9 Podcast Awards 2023.

Special thanks to Georgia Hallion for editing this podcast episode.

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We are talking tracks we loved from Lankum, Lana, Big Thief, Troye Sivan, CMAT, The Hives, Sofia Kourtesis, Mustafa, Olivia Rodrigo, Rachel Lavelle, Overmono, boygenius and more. All killer no filler.

Next episode: Albums of 2023.

Special thanks to Georgia Hallion for editing this podcast episode.

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Episode 234 is the latest in the occasional series of the podcast - Andrea's favourite weird little guy.

Nialler and Andrea Cleary take a big overview of the main discography of one of our favourite songwriters.

Sufjan Stevens is a Detroit Michigan artist, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a deep catalogue of studio albums drawing on orchestral conceptual releases about US States, electronic hymnals, secular-friendly Christian music, Christmas albums, ambitious cosmic electronic long players and devastating folk and singer-songwriter music informed by grief, love and life.

Andrea leads us through his main thoroughfare, stopping at  Enjoy Your Rabbit (2001) to Michigan (2003), Seven Swans (2004), Illinois (2005),  The Avalanche (2006), The Age of Adz (2010), Carrie & Lowell (2015), The Ascension (2020), Convocations (20201) and stopping at his most recent rejuvenating album Javelin, released in the wake of the rare peek into Sufjan's private life - his coming out after speaking about the passing of his partner, and the autoimmune disease he has been rehabilitating from recently.Show notes

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Nialler and Andrea Cleary are joined by pop culture writer and DJ Louise Bruton to discuss the chilling details that Britney Spears reveals about her career and private life.

That includes her treatment by the media, fame-hungry exes Justin Timberlake and Kevin Federline, the conservatorship, and the ultra-overbearing toxic role that her parents held over her for 13 years where they controlled what she ate, where she was allowed to live, how she performed and all manner of abuse-like behaviour including putting her in a mental health institute for taking energy supplements or refusing to do a dance move.

Britney was denied her own lawyer for 13 years but finally broke free of the conservatorship to regain control of her own life finally.

It’s a miracle that Britney is even alive after the harrowing experiences of what she’s lived through, and what her family put her through..

We discuss this, the conspiracies and much more.

Special thanks to Georgia Hallion for editing this podcast episode.

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• See also: Podcast: #FreeBritney: The Framing Britney Spears Documentary with Louise Bruton.

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Episode 232 has an exoskeleton theme of accidental spooky picks as we feature new albums from Kojaque, OXN, CMAT, Sufjan, Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist and new songs from The Last Dinner Party, I Dreamed I Dream, John Francis Flynn, Rachael Lavelle and Tandem Felix.

And a couple of oldie picks to round things out from William Onyeabor and Echo & The Bunnymen, along with the What's Consuming You corner with TV, books and films we are vibing with.

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With streaming paying pennies or less than for many artists, the independently-driven music platform Bandcamp is the last bastion of online revenue making for many bands - allowing musicians to sell their music digitally, and on vinyl or CD direct to their fans.

Artists on Bandcamp collectively earned $193 million in the last year alone, and Bandcamp has paid out  $1.19 billion since its founding in 2007.

But recent business deals have meant Bandcamp was acquired by Songtradr, after a short 18 months owned by Epic Games. With the acquisition came news today that approximately half (60) of the Bandcamp staff of 118 employees, including the Bandcamp Daily team, had been laid off, with the entire negotiating team at the workers' union - Bandcamp United, let go.

We discuss what it means for independent musicians, what the alternatives are and also the other dodgy news this week, that NTS radio have been partially bought by Universal and Spotify is planning on reducing its royalty payouts to a minimum threshold so that many artists literally won't get a penny for their song streams.

All that, plus Niall shares his months-long local detective story, and Andrea talks about presenting PHD at a dance music conference in Huddersfield last week.

With streaming paying pennies or less than for many artists, the independently-driven music platform Bandcamp is the last bastion of online revenue making for many bands - allowing musicians to sell their music digitally, and on vinyl or CD direct to their fans.

Artists on Bandcamp collectively earned $193 million in the last year alone, and Bandcamp has paid out  $1.19 billion since its founding in 2007.

But recent business deals have meant Bandcamp was acquired by Songtradr, after a short 18 months owned by Epic Games. With the acquisition came news today that approximately half (60) of the Bandcamp staff of 118 employees, including the Bandcamp Daily team, had been laid off, with the entire negotiating team at the workers' union - Bandcamp United, let go.

We discuss what it means for independent musicians, what the alternatives are and also the other dodgy news this week, that NTS radio have been partially bought by Universal and Spotify is planning on reducing its royalty payouts to a minimum threshold so that many artists literally won't get a penny for their song streams.

All that, plus Niall shares his months-long local detective story, and Andrea talks about presenting PHD at a dance music conference in Huddersfield last week.

Show notes

• Thinking of ditching Spotify? Musician Joel Harkin explores alternative music platforms so you don’t have to
• Bandcamp alternatives: Faircamp / Nina / Tone Audio  / Mirlo
• First Floor Substack
• Interdependence Podcast
• Dancecult conference
• Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist

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The Fandom of Taylor Swift is something that I find so fascinating, particularly the massive surge in popularity in the last 3 or 4 years.

Where Taylor couldn’t sell out Croke Park in 2018 on her Reputations tour, her current Eras tour as we’ve discussed before on the podcast, crashed Ticketmaster and has seen such a huge unprecedented demand that that’s worth exploring why?

With the three Dublin gigs at the Aviva next summer and the Taylor Swift Eras Tour film doing big numbers at the box office, it felt like the right time to dip in.

With Andrea’s absence this week, I thought I’d delve into the lore and fandom of the Swifties through the lens of a community which gather around Taylor once a month.

Swiftogedden is a club night that plays only Taylor songs all night, and was started by Dave Fawbert, a DJ and former journalist who put on his first Swiftogedden in London in 2019, and since then it has grown to a national UK and in the last two years an nationwide Irish event too.

Anna Jacob is a resident DJ at the Irish Swiftogedden club nights, and a pal of mine, and I’ve been fascinated with the success of the single artist only night – as Swifties gather en masse to sold out venues in Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Galway and Limerick along with a rake of UK cities to sing their hearts out to Swift classics, new songs, new versions and deep cuts.

Our chat covers fandom becoming a religious like community of like-minded people, why Taylor Swift is the new Mozart, a celebration of the “eras” of girlhood and womanhood, what happens at Swiftogedden nights and why does it work so well and we also read out some passages from this wonderful Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times piece on Swiftiedom.

 Anna’s Swiftie Skeptics playlist. 

Show notes

• Taffy Brodesser-Akner piece on Swiftiedom [New York Times]
• Inside Dublin’s Swiftogeddon club night [Irish Times]
• Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist
• All 237 of Taylor Swift’s Songs, Ranked [Rolling Stone]

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English electronic musician Kieran Hebden has been a constant artist in my life’s history of listening to music.

Recently, the artist has exploded in popularity in his DJ partnership with Skrillex and Fred Again.., but as we’ll discuss, headlining Coachella this year, was just a natural culmination of two decades plus of music making and collaborations.

On this week’s episode it is all about the music of Four Tet.

We discuss his origins in the Elliott School with fellow now-famous musicians Burial and Hot Chip, the formation of his first band Fridge, who signed their first record deal when Hebden was just 15.

We take you through an output that moves from jazz, folk, electronica stylings of his early work, the seminal album Rounds from 2003, his subsequent collaborations with Burial, Steve Reid, remixes work for the likes of Madvillain and Caribou, and how his live show worked.

// On Wednesday November 8th, we are putting on a Listening Party at the Big Romance playing Four Tet's Rounds (2003) in full, as part of the Listen Closely monthly series.

And onto his independent releases throughout the last 15 years as his music moves from the ambient instrumental electronic music to the more club-focused 4/4 tracks that came about as he began to DJ at Plastic People and DJ at festivals around the world.

We discuss his court case with Domino, and how his flirtations with remixing pop artists telegraph his bromance with Fred Again.. and Skrillex. Plus, we spotlight some of our favourite Four Tet / KH / Kieran Hebden Percussions tracks.

The Accompanying Four Tet playlist for the episode

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On Episode 228 we are album focused with new LP chat about records from Mitski, Cleo Sol, The Alchemist, MIKE and Wiki; Olivia Rodrigo, Soda Blonde, Natalia Beylis and an EP from Soccer Mommy.

There are songs from Annika Kilkenny, Holly Humberstone and two Golden oldies from Anne Clark and Fountains Of Wayne.

Plus what's consuming you - Fringe Festival shows, Peter McGann, TV, books and films we are vibing with.

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Lumo Club's 75th night is this Saturday in Yamamori Tengu, 11pm to 3am with special guest January Winters (2FM) taking the main slot this month.

Free limited Patreon tickets 

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Recording is from our August party,  on this post or also on Soundcloud.

Lumo Club is a monthly disco party in one of the best club spaces in Dublin. DJs Nialler9, Gav Elsted, Simon Roche.

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To celebrate 10 years of Faber Books are reissuing Yeah Yeah Yeah (with a new chapter taking it up to present day), along with its prequel Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop (the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties), both on paperback.

Along with the books, Bob Stanley also put together a compilation for Ace Records called Latin Freestyle - New York/Miami 1983 - 1992, in his words a crashing electro-funk sub genre of dance music.

It was the aural equivalent of a can of thirst-quenching Quatro or a Spanish Harlem dance-off, and it became the electronically constructed bridge between disco and house.

Latin Freestyle grew out of electro, and was a more female-fronted classic pop version with frequently Latina vocals, bleepy synth riffs, proto-house piano lines, drum machine hits and lyrics that harked back to '60s girl groups teenage concerns of heartbreak, boys and dancing.

We talk to Bob about the books and this subgenre of electro music that developed in New York and Miami in the early 80s and included Madonna, Debbie Deb, Shannon, Alisha, Company B, Lisa Lisa, Exposé, Taylor Dane and went on to influence music from the Bee Gees' Robin Gibb, Pet Shop Boys, Freeez and more.

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Two British men, the Scotsman Bill Drummond and Englishman Jimmy Cauty created a notorious music project that engulfed the charts, aggravated the art world, upset the capitalists, annoyed the record industry and almost everyone else.

Other musicians have been known as provocateurs before but The KLF were on an whole other level, because they became a massive chart success, while posing questions about the validity of art, original ideas, creativity, commerce and capitalism.

This is the story of a band who did things like no one else, who had number 1 hits, who created art installations, defaced billboards, made cryptic advertisements, gave manic performances on Top of the Pops, fired machine gun blanks into the audience, became known as pranksters, and blew all the money in one huge notorious stunt.

We discuss their flagrant sampling of Abba and pop hits, their stadium house/rave chart-topping music, how to have a number one hit according to The Manual, a cult weekend on a Scottish Island, involving journalists, Wicker Man and Martin Sheen, The KLF's Brit Awards shenanigans, The K Foundation art stunts, and the literal burning of a million quid.

The KLF is a story like no other.

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• KLF on the Late Late Show in 1995
•  The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way, 1988
• References: KLF.De  / Who Killed The KLF documentary (2021)

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The Casa Bacardi area is always busy and there was a few thousand people there for this so I was really happy with how it all went.

Planned some of this in advance to fit the Casa main vibe of house, soul, disco, so this was my take on that.

It's also on Soundcloud

Photos: Glen Bollard.

Tracklist:

Bob Musella - Hot Stuff
Natalie Smash - New Start (Loose Control Band NY Club Mix)
Block & Crown, Maickel Telussa - Move Out (Nudisco Dubb)
Missy Elliott - Work it (Confidence Man remix)
Kings of Tomorrow - Finally
Adeva - In and Out of My Life (Michael Gray Remix)
CASSIMM - Is it All Over My Face?
Daft Punk - Burnin'
DJ Dodger Stadium - One Who Lost
Brame & Hamo - Roy Keane
The B-52s - Love Shack (DJ Tonka remix)
Cerrone - Supernature (Dr Packer Remix - Edit)
Kelis - Bossy [Feat. Too Short] [Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Earth Out Remix]
Soulwax - NY Lipps (Kawazaki DUB)
Cartin - Smasha
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Hot Remix)
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Junior Jack - Stupidisco
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Rip It Up Version]
Barry Can't Swim - Sunsleeper
Aluna, Tchami & Kareen Lomax - Runnin' Blind
Tensnake, Jessy Lanza - Keep It Secret
Joy Anonymous - JOY (Head To The Sky)

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On Episode 225 we have album recommendations from The Hives, Citrus Fresh and Noname along with song inclusions from Sufjan, Diners, BadBadNotGood, Cartin, Barry Can’t Swim, Walshy+Curtisy and Olivia Rodrigo.

Plus what’s consuming you, chat about live gigs from The Walkmen, Boygenius, Another Love Story Festival, and the Roisín Murphy thing.

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DJs Nialler9, Gav Elsted, Simon Roche.

https://soundcloud.com/nialler9/lumo-club-all-together-now-2023 

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Lumo Club is back this Saturday at Yamamori Tengu and here is the limited freelist for the party this Saturday with the 3 residents. 

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Lumo Club is a monthly disco party in one of the best club spaces in Dublin. DJs Nialler9, Gav Elsted, Simon Roche.

And here's last month's recording straight from the decks, featuring Laine who takes over from an hour in to about 2:05.

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It's Richard D James, "the godfather of IDM", "the Mozart of Ambient,",  the mischievous enigmatic man who I shook hands with once, the artist born in Limerick who has been making weird electronic music since he was the age of 14 for over 35 years now.

As Richard D James turns 52 this Friday, we take a chronological look through his back catalogue touching on the three main strands of his sound - ambient, experimental and dance. We discuss the myths around AFX,  the famous 'Windowlicker' and 'Come To Daddy' videos in detail, the side-projects, the live show, the mischievous humour, the ubiquitous Richard D James face and much more.

Using quotes from the man in his many interviews, we figure out why the music of Aphex Twin is so unique, how he developed his own scales, how he builds his own instruments and studios, and how he has always been a composer and sound designer first, but also an abrasive techno merchant,  a purveyor of acid, drill and bass, electro and creator of beautiful classical melodies.

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Three Spotify Playlists to accompany this episode:

Aphex (Ambient) - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3D3JHTMlcP4AAidCaPIoOz?si=cf12d9d5822b4a5b 

Aphex (Experimental) - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2RZ24ZVCqSoRHzWHSydijE?si=0b6dc7a047114da9 

Aphex (Dance) - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JmvP37Io8p2h8Z7YyVepP?si=502f9e16eb9644d8 

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We review last weekend's All Together Now Festival in Waterford.

Niall shares his experiences of the festival's fourth year, a weekend in which ran the weather gamut from rainy to windy, muddy to sunny.

We talk highlights and lowlights, the mud, the rain, the wind, festival organisational logistics, stage sound, and tents nearly blowing away on Saturday morning.

In between the muck, there was great music and lots to discuss. We shared YOUR weekend experiences from those who emailed us, responded on Insta (we couldn't get to all 199 of you),  Twitter and Discord callouts.

Plus, Andrea puts forward the case for more "quiet camping" areas.

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On Episode 222 we have selections from Big Thief, Sarah Crean, Andrea's pick of the Barbie soundtrack, another of Niall's song of the summer contenders, Fizz, Aluna, Mitski, The Hives, girlfriend, albums from Blur and Joanna Sternberg and some a tune tribute to Sinead O'Connor.

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Today's episode is all about my favourite subgenre of disco and dance music - Italo. What it is, where it came from and why it's so enduring.

Italo disco is a European form of electronic disco that proliferated throughout Europe in the early '80s.  It’s a catch all term for 80s electronic pop of mostly Italian origin.

Italo is what happens when disco starts getting made with drum machines and synthesizers -  a loveable curio of romantic pop, a  tasteless yet tasteful novelty item, A simple music born at a time when music was increasingly sophisticated.

Italo is big fun electronic pop music that doesn't take itself too seriously. It is time capsule of a generally more innocent time of bad dancers, keytars, moustaches and chrome-shimmering fashion.

From Vice’s A Bullshitter's Guide To Italo-Disco by Angus Harrison

Imagine, if you can, if somebody made a B-movie of the entire disco genre. Music so obviously emotional, it becomes inescapably affecting. This is Italo and its heartstring-pulling magic. It's not disco, in fact in most cases it's technically a lot worse, but there is untold charm in the chintz.

Niall and Andrea take you deep into how US disco morphed into Italo, how Moroder and Hi-NRG fits in, the characteristics of Italo disco, the glitz, the glamour and the keytars. Plus, we talk about the Nialler9 Podcast theme song - Red Dragon Band's 'Let Me Be Your Radio'.

8-hour Italo Playlist for Patrons only 

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Balearic is often thought of as a signifier of music that is evocative, sun-kissed and downtempo, but as our deep dive discovers Balearic is a feeling, an approach, that encompasses those things but also can be cheesy, soft, rocking, easy listening, dancey, slowed-down, dreamy, psychedelic and as dance music writer Frank Tope put it “it’s pop music that sounds good on pills.”

The true origin story of Balearic is certain to includes the music selections of the Ibiza DJ Alfredo who DJed at Amnesia during the years of 1983 to 1988, just as all-night licences were coming to the Island.

You know Ibiza as the Balearic Island haven where superclubs bang out techno and house and big name DJs hold residencies now, but in the '80s, the story of clubbing in Ibiza was being built from the ground up.

Alfredo played an eclectic mix of pop, soul, disco, electronic, house, psych rock and Latin pop including Sade, The Cure, Derrick May, Simply Red, the Pink Panther Theme, Madonna, Richie Havens, Queen, psych rock wigouts, The Woodentops, and The Style Council, but was initially derided for his DJ sets.

Our tale of Balearic music is linked to the Bhagwan Oregon cult selling MDMA on the island, new age dropouts, hippies, gays and party jet-setters, chillout Cafe Del Mar sunsets, and a sunny island mecca that became a setting for ecstasy-fuelled music epiphanies, that spread dance and club culture throughout the UK and Europe.

Let's explore: What is Balearic? The story of Ibiza, MDMA, Alfredo & genre...

Episode notes / references

• Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist
• DJ Harvey on Balearica
• Did the Cult From 'Wild Wild Country' Introduce MDMA to Ibiza?
• Last Night A DJ Saved my Life - Bill Brewster, Bill Broughton
• Joe Muggs  - The Balearic Aesthetic guide
• Alfredo Spotify Playlist
• Alfredo @ Amnesia, Ibiza (1985) / Youtube.
• Cian O'Ciobhain’s Balaeric special
• Balearic Beats
• Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth-Pop, Boogie And House (1982-1992)

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You may have heard of the term Indie Sleaze lately. A term newly coined to describe a nostalgic trend of post-Y2K era of culture and aesthetics of indie music and parties that crossed cities and continents.

Niall and Andrea are talking indie-rock, blog house, nu-rave, electro-clash and the alternative scene of the years of 2004 to 2012 that gave us the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,  Crystal Castles, CSS, Uffie, MGMT, New Young Pony Club, MIA, Hipster Runoff, Mashups, The Cobrasnake's hedonistic flash photography, Dublin clubs like Antics and spawned an Indie Sleaze instagram account.

So how are Gen Z co-opting the vibe of the era and is the Indie Sleaze trend just a Tik-Tok-enabled churn in nostalgia economy?

Plus, Louise McSharry, host of the new topical news podcast Catch Up, drops in to talk about her experiences of indie, electro and alternative of that time, the fashion and the tunes she still loves, and why she wants to start a club night in the era's honour.

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• Indie Sleaze Playlist

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Michael's new book Reach for the Stars is a rip-roaring oral history of UK pop music between 1996 and 2006, told through the interviews with the popstars, the songwriters, producers, label executives, pop fans, svengalis and culture writers of the day.

Of the book, Louis Walsh said "no-one’s going to read this," and he’d be wrong. It's an unputdownable behind-the-scenes history of British pop music that tells the story of the Spice Girls, 5ive, Steps, S Club 7, Atomic Kitten, Girls Aloud, JLS, Liberty X, Sugababes, McFly, Busted, Craig David, Blue and the TV talent shows Popstars and The X-Factor.

The book contains many anecdotes like Geri Halliwell missing the Spice Girls audition because she had sunburn, 5ive saying 'Baby One More Time' is "fucking wank” to Max Martin's face or Liam Gallagher pulling in Bop It! out of his bag to play with the lads from 5ive in a hotel room in Rio...

“The hours were brutal, and the schedule like no other,” says Hear’Say’s Myleene Klass. “No rock stars would be able to keep up. It’s hardcore.”

We spoke to Michael about the machinations of the period from the pop stars' mad schedules, the lack of mental health awareness, the songwriting teams like Xenomania, the moguls like Pete Waterman, Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh; the  homophobia around boy band members coming out, TOTP, Smash Hits and the media landscape of the day, and the crazy pressure they were under in which a number two record is considered was failure.

Michael Cragg will also be appearing for an interview and Q&A with our pal Louise Bruton at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party on Saturday July 15th at Wigwam. Expect more juicy stories from the time, and a Y2K pop dance party with DJ Lou Bru after. Tickets are on Eventbrite.

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• Buy Reach For The Stars
• Smash Hits Poll Winners Party: Michael Cragg Author Interview and Pop Party

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On Episode 219 we have selections from King Krule, The Hives, Bright Eyes, Peter Gabriel, Maija Sofia, Glasser, Slaughter Beach, Dog, Niall's song of the summer contender and some oldie shouts from Butthole Surfers, Freestylers, Joy Anonymous and Bikini Kill.

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• The Hives live gig mentioned.

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As you can see I didn't get any good pics of the tent but here's the festival site and a pic of Pillow Queens.

I never really plan my sets these days but have an idea of the vibe and so ended up doing some big '90s track remixes, acid and new favourites.

Tracklist below.

Next DJ sets:

July 22 @ Lumo Club, Tengu
Aug 4th @ All Together Now (with Lumo Club)
August 19th @ Another Love Story (with Lumo Club)
August 26th - Lumo Club @ Tengu
August September 1st - Casa Bacardi @ Electric Picnic

Tracklist:

• Fontaines -  A Hero's Death [Soulwax remix]
• Jape - Floating [Prins Thomas 0.75 Miks]
• Daphni - Yes I Know
• Missy Elliot - Work It [Confidence Man Bootleg Edit]
• Madonna - N2 The Groove [1987 Mix]
• Rayko - The Jam
• Channel Tres - All My Friends
• Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
• Kylie - Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head
• Django Django - Don't Touch That Dial [Earthworks Acid Hip-House Remix]
• Cassius - Feeling For You [Les Rhythmes Digitales Remix]
• Freestylers - The Sound (Blapps Posse Remix)
• Fred Again, Future, Skrillex, Four Tet - Baby Again
• Julio Bashmore - Bubblin'
• DJ Dodger Stadium - One Who Lost
• Peggy Gou - Na Na Na (It Goes Like)
• Marie Davison - Work It (Soulwax remix)
• Burno - People Everywhere
• Tori Amos - Professional Widow [Armand Van Helden Star Trunk Funk Remix]
• Junior Jack - Stupidisco
• Kendrick Lamar - N95 (Never Dull Remix)
• Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (Rave Yard Mix)
• The Streets - Has It Come To This?
• Tensnake, Jessy Lanza - Keep It Secret
• Joy Anonymous - Joy (God Only Knows)
• Young Marco - What U Say?

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We are keeping our summer school  vibe going for a bit for the season by keeping episodes relaxed and casual for a bit while the weather is a bit nicer.

Episode 218 of the Nialler9 Podcast then, sees Niall take the reins of the going out buzz after last week's Andrea Goes To Slane episode.

It was a busy festival weekend with Beyond The Pale, Body & Soul and Seas Sessions all taking place in Ireland this past weekend. Niall went to the first two for Body & Soul Festival on Friday and Saturday and then festival hopped to Beyond The Pale on the Sunday.

He shares his experiences of both, from the weather to the site cleanliness to the highlights, lowlights and an attempt to answer the question that was on everyone's lips - why was Beyond The Pale and Body & Soul clashing on the same weekend?

There were thunderstorms, lightning, big sets, stage time delays, vibe checks and crowd checks to consider.

Plus, we share your highlights and lowlights from your festival weekend experiences   from our Insta and Discord callouts.

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Simon, Niall & Gavin.

Lumo Club  went down to Glendalough on Sunday to catch the last day of the Beyond The Pale festival. 

We saw a bit of main stage before settling in at Horse Meat Disco and Luke Una's B2B, and we played over at Beyond The Plate afterwards til close, from 7pm to 11pm. We were told we might get another hour but alas, was not to be. Here's the recording of our 4 hours.

It's also on Soundcloud.

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22 years (!) after Nialler was last at the big annual concert in Meath, Andrea makes her first trip to Slane for the Harry Styles concert and our roving vibe reporter is here to share her experiences from the gig day out, the food on offer, and the car park saga after.

Plus, there’s a look at the recent Why Not Her? radio report, a new official Beatles song via AI, some fascinating facts culled from the recent New Yorker piece on the Ed Sheeran/ Marvin Gaye copyright case

Plus, the US plan to hike up artist visa prices from $460 to $1,615 per individual musician or crew member, meaning a lot less international touring acts going to America to play if it goes through.

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You are not all "highly interchangeable modular parts" and I'll say that to your face.

In case you want more Succession chat and a proper music community buzz - join the members only Discord.

SPOILERS EVERYWHERE OFC.

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On Episode 216, there are some "face eggs"-themed albums from Water From Your Eyes, Eyes Of Others and Caoilian Sherlock along with song choices from Gurriers, Blur, Kieran Hebden + William Tyler,  Bricknasty, Buck Meek and two oldies from The Fall and Glasser.

And for those of you who appreciate our usual Succession talk, this week, there is a 40 minute BONUS EPISODE  available on the Patreon for subscribers only, where we discuss the Succession finale episode / THAT'S COMING LATER TODAY FOLKS.

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For this week's episode (#215), Andrea Cleary, takes the lead for a deep dive into the life and times of Cass Elliot, the late-60s singer who recently went viral when a Tik-Tok user used her song 'Make Your Own Kind Of Music' on a meme with Nicolas Cage / Pedro Pascal from the film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

The song's virality has lead to a reappraisal of the legacy of the singer, whose established narrative can now be seen through a lens of fatphobia and unfair treatment of women in the industry and society at large.

Andrea takes us through her life and times on this fascinating episode.

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Fresh from the release of new song ‘Forest’ with Morgana of Saint Sister on vocals, Nealo is teasing a new album at a later date, and along with last week’s guest Celaviedmai, is playing at The Hennessy Hip-Hop House at Body & Soul Festival this summer.

We’ve been talking to Nealo about getting him on the podcast for a long time, so we’re delighted to finally bring him in with Niall and Andrea.

On this episode we discuss what Nealo has been up to by asking him about some songs that are inspiring him and he loves right now, along with chats about making and releasing music in 2023, sobriety, going to see Post Malone, and possibly controversial opinions about Taylor Swift.

Listen to the chat here, or read the abbreviated choices @ Nialler9 

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Mai is an artist with ambition and exciting plans on the horizon including a set at The Hennessy Hip-Hop House at Body & Soul Festival this summer.

It was great to have Mai in to pick 5 songs that have influenced her craft and one current banger she can’t get enough of, and trail some future plans for Celaviedmai.

Listen to the chat, and see the songs that Mai picked.

We also played ‘Go Down Low’ and ‘Known Better’ from the artist.

Full site link with embeds.

Celaviedmai photos: Ruth Medjber</figure>

Celaviedmai’s current favourite track:

Doechii – Crazy

z“I think anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessed with Azealia Banks. That’s the first thing that I notice about the Doe Chii song. Also, the drums. what’s going on? It’s very busy, it reminds me of my mind. I feel like my mind is so busy that it kind of seems like chaos, but it gives me peace at the same time.And I know it’s a hectic song, but that’s what it feels like for me. And I love that so much about that song, and I just love the tone of her voice as well”

Celaviedmai’s influential tracks…

Azealia Banks – Luxury

“Funny story. I always got stories, but funny story. I remember when Azealia Banks came to Dublin, I went to her headline show, and she gave me the dirtiest look of my life!.“At first I thought I was imagining it, right? But I was like, Nah nah. I think she really did. So it happened, like, a couple of times. So I was like, ‘Girl, what the hell is going on?’ ‘So I was like, you know what? Let me message her. She probably won’t see it, but let’s see.’ And she did, and she responded…“She was like, you and your friend, you guys were high as hell. DA DA DA DA. Like shouting me on instagram. I was like, Girl, you know what? You kind of weird. But I still love you regardless. So that’s our little altercation that we had.“But you know what? I felt so seen that I didn’t care, because my idol responded. And I don’t care what anybody says. I made it in life, because Azealia Banks seen me.”“Azalea Banks, is probably the type of artist where you have to separate the art from the artist. And one thing you can’t take away from her, she’s bloody talented.“Like, she is a creative genius, regardless of what anyone says. I think she was way ahead of her time. But like I always say, your mouth can either be your blessing or your curse. And you just have to be really careful with what you say and do.“Sometimes be authentically yourself, but don’t do it in a sense of hurting people. Don’t do it on Twitter, too out of pocket. And unfortunately, I think that was the case for her. But I I love her. That’s Mommy!”

Missy Elliott & Ludacris – One Minute Man

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“To be honest, why do I always got backstory? There is this girl called Sharaya J, that was like Missy Elliott’s prodigy and I was listening to her music, and then I think the next on my playlist was ‘1 Minute Man’. It really stuck in my head.“And also, someone DM’d me recently talking about ‘let me take you on a date…’, and this song came to my head! So, eh… yeah.”

J Dilla, Common, D’Angelo – So Far to Go

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“When I started rapping, this was one of the first instrumentals that I found. When I did my little quick YouTube search for hip hop instrumentals, it was one of the first ones that I found that I rapped to. So it’s just something that has stuck with me since forever. So every time I think about freestyling or just writing music back in the days, that will be the song in my head.”“And there’s just something about it as well that just, I don’t know, hits me heavy. And plus, when I heard Common on it, I was like, oh my God. Because I was obsessed with Common when I was younger.So I just wanted to freestyle on it and you know, back in the days when you’re younger, you’re like, ‘yeah, I’m going to post it on social media, and he’s going to see it and he’s going to fall in love with me and I’m going to be so happy’. So it was one of those for me…”

JAY-Z & Kanye West – Otis

“It’s the same story as the last one. It was one of the first songs that I did a cover to when I started rapping when I was posting on social media back in the day. So that’s the reason why I picked it, because I was thinking about, okay, hip-hop in general and my sound evolution. ““Actually, basically the way I picked the list was just kind of picking it in terms of my sound evolution and phases of my life and when and what time I listened to the songs and stuff. So that was kind of like the start of my career.And I just love that song so much. I love the flows. It introduced me to different flows and styles as well. So I really just love that song so much.”

Doja Cat – Get Into It (Yuh)

“So, basically, I picked this one because it kind of reminds me of Nicki Minaj. So if you listen to second verse, right, I don’t even want to butcher the lyrics right now because it’s one of those songs that I just listen to because it gives me this type of vibe.”“I really like her energy. I like her vibe. I love she’s another person I would deem as a creative. Like, they really understand their craft. She kind of is like me, but just more advanced a little bit. She’s very versatile. She does absolutely everything, but it works for her, so I like that about her.”

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On Episode 212, there are albums recommended by Feist, Kara Jackson, Benefits and Tom Trago, along with choice songs from Anna St. Louis, Laurie Shaw, Beabadoobee + Clairo and two oldies.

Plus a bit of listener feedback about last week's AI episode, some book, TV and film recommends and a bit about the Ed Sheeran / Marvin Gaye copyright case.

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• Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist
• Did Ed Sheeran ACTUALLY Plagiarize Marvin Gaye?

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In the space half a year, we have gone from a problematic fake rapper Fn Meka signing to Capitol before being dropped over moral issues, David Guetta creating a fake Eminem sample and China's AI pop hit hitting over a million streams to a fake AI-assisted Drake and The Weeknd song that had to be pulled off Spotify, a fake Oasis circa'97 album in its entirety, Grimes saying she will share her royalties with AI-generated songs that use her likeness and rap songs using deceased or contrasting voices to create new songs or versions of old classics.

It brings up questions about human creativity, copyright, moral standpoints, inherent biases in datasets and how sentient Chat GPT really appears to be.

On this episode, Niall and Andrea cover all these flashpoints of AI in recent months, discuss the cautionary tales, academic angles and artistic ones, like Holly Herndon's work in the space for a number of years now. Plus, we create so AI-generated content of our own...

Show notes

• Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist
• AISIS
• Duolingo Reference
• Holly Herndon's Spawning Tools
• Interdependence Podcast
• Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem By Martin Clancy

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We are talking about the last of the enigmatic crooners who played the same festival - Coachella - and got on very differently.

Firstly, Andrea takes the lead on recounting and speculating on what exactly was / is going on with Frank Ocean's set at Coachella at weekend 1 this past Sunday.

Ice rinks, ankle injuries, long silences, unfocused showmanship, and a man who really didn't seem to want to be there did he? His subsequent cancellation at weekend 2 in the Indio Valley late last night confirms that. Fans felt duped.

Then there's Jai Paul, who played his first ever live show at Coachella, and has announced his first ever shows in venues in London and New York.

Niall takes a us through a short history of Jai Paul's career, the Myspace beginnings, the leaked album, the Paul Institute, his brother AK Paul, collaborations with Big Boi, Lorde (possibly?) and yes, there's Ed Sheeran covering 'Jasmine'. Don't hurt me.

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Here's a 3 hour recording of what transpired on the night of Indie Sleaze in the Workman's Cellar. It was a brilliant night, loads of happy faces and dancing - music still felt fresh to me. As the night's blurb suggested Alex Donald and I played fun electro pop and remixes from CSS, The Rapture, La Roux, Justice et al, lots of Meet Me In The Bathroom-era music from The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the UK equivalent like Bloc Party, Klaxons, MIA, and a bit of Irish stuff with Fight Like Apes, and a Jape Floating remix by DIM in there too.

Looking to do Indie Sleaze 2 in September after the summer.

The Soundcloud version. 

Also, Lumo Club is back this Saturday in Tengu - always a fun night out. I'll be itching to dig into the Songs To DJ soon folder.  

Limited free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/600388447007/?discount=GETFRESHATTHEWEEKEND 

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Louise has recently restarted her Legless In Dublin platform on a paid Substack (free to disabled people), where she is "covering areas of access and disability, reviews and personal essays that champion disabled people and educate non-disabled people".

It came after Louise had grown exhausted by being  a source of free advice for others working in the live music industry who would ask her for an answer about access, a quote for media, or put the burden of the answer on her, so she is charging for that knowledge.

We talk to Louise about the current issues with accessibility at venues. It was eye-opening to hear Louise share her experiences of venues, that are on the surface , accessible, but the inclusivity stops there - with the experience of the gig itself often an afterthought - involving restricted views, bad sight lines, and a limit of one friend to keep you company.

In the last few years, music communities have done much to address inclusivity, gender balance and making spaces more welcoming, but it appears that wheelchair users like Louise are still left wondering when they will be included to the same level of access to the live music experience.

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Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus came together as boygenius in 2018 with a debut EP on Matador. The EP combined their collective tones of tones of country, melodic folk, indie and singer-songwriter strands together, before they all went off to make another solo record - Phoebe Bridgers made Punisher (2020), Lucy Dacus made Home Video (2021) and Julien Baker put out Little Oblivions (2021).

A week after Punisher came out, Phoebe sent Lucy and Julien a demo of “Emily I’m Sorry” and asked if they could be a band again. Julien made a Google Drive folder called “dare I say it?”, and everyone flooded it with potential songs.

It lead to a debut album recorded in January 2022, which was released last week. We review the record and discuss the songwriter's collective cohesion and style together and apart, how their bond of the trio is integral to the band, whether it gels for us and if this is a great record, as many reviews have said.

We also look at the "sad girl" trope often attached to this kind of female-lead music, and ask AI to write us a Phoebe Bridgers song.

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March has given us a jam-packed month of albums to get our ears around, including:

• Lankum - False Lankum
• Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
• Ailbhe Reddy - Endless Affair
• JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
• Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume...
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V

Plus songs from Krea, Kneecap, Sorcha Richardson covers The Killers and an electroclash classic.

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Here's a recording straight from the decks on the night.

Lumo is back on April 15th for the Spring  - with the OG trio on the decks.

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The band split up in 2016 after releasing three albums Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion (2008), The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner (2010) and Fight Like Apes (2015) along with a series of EPs.

Flapes as they're affectionally known, were one of the first buzz bands out of Ireland in the online era, bursting onto the scene with ‘Lend Me Your Face’ and deflating a scene in which singer-songwriter had a chokehold on things by bringing a sense of pop culture fun with synth-pop and alternative, punk rock energy and catchy hooks.

Ahead of the band's big comeback show at 3Olympia Theatre on Friday March 24th, I spoke to May Kay about what it's like to return to the well of the past, which songs hit different, how the London and rehearsal show went, and how she views the band's time in the spotlight now.

We also talk about MayKay's trip to Palestine last year, and the plight of the Palestinian people who have lived in an apartheid state for the last 75 years, and why it's so important to hear the Palestinian people's own everyday stories of living under occupation and oppression.

ACLAI is an Irish gym founded by Ainle O’Cairealla’in in Palestine.

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC)

Fight Like Apes' vinyl albums on Rubyworks / Alcopop Records.

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The film by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern is based on the oral history book of the same name by Lizzy Goodman and is concerned with the rise of New York rock and indie stalwarts like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture and Interpol.

From The Moldy Peaches' early open mike night performances where they meet folk songwriter Karen O and The Strokes just as they are about to hit it big, Meet Me In The Bathroom is a fun nostalgia trip into first 10 years of indie-rock in New York through the aforementioned bands, and how it spills out into the world.

Dave and I chat about the film's comings and goings. Join us.

Nialler9 is hosting an Indie Sleaze night on Good Friday, April 7th @ Workman's Cellar, where you'll hear most of this kind of music and more.

More on Indie Sleaze from our podcast last year with Louise McSharry.

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A year later, that album, a classic record - 1997's Let's Get Killed was released, which imbued a cinematic world-building dance record with audio of the characters Holmes met on the New York streets with samples of 7" records gifted to him by Terri Hooley,  of Good Vibrations record shop in his hometown in Northern Ireland.

Holmes would go on to make the cinematic sing as a composer for soundtracks for Steven Soderbergh that includes Out of Sight, the Ocean's Trilogy of films, alongside soundtracks for TV shows The Fall and Killing Eve. Holmes has never stopped DJing or creating, whether it's the four albums he's made with Unloved or producing a Noel Gallagher album.

This podcast is the story of how Let's Get Killed bridges New York and Belfast in David Holmes' own words, in conversation with Nialler9, along with some chat about the art and organisation of DJing and news of an upcoming dance-focused David Holmes album.

This conversation takes place ahead of the INY x Guinness Storehouse event on Sunday March 19th where David Holmes will be doing a public conversation with John Kelly about the record, and DJing alongside his old pal Billy Scurry.

We've some tickets to the sold out event on Insta.

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It's the monthly episode with Niall and Andrea discussing songs and albums we loved from the last month.

Just before Andrea went off to India for the rest of the month, and after last week's Choice Music Prize special, we are chatting specific favourite new and some old, music.

Featuring chat about Lana Del Rey, Skrillex, Caroline Polachek, Lisa O'Neill, Bully & Soccer Mommy, Feist, Ugolino, Chósta and Tangerine Dream.

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10 nominated albums are in the process to be pored over by 11 judges, and they are..

CMAT – If My Wife New I’d Be Dead

A self confessed global pop star from Ireland Ciara Mary Alice’s Thompsons country pop debut album.

Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia

The third album and the third nomination for the London-based Dubliners Fontaines DC? Will it be 3rd time lucky?

Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector

The second album from Dublin foggy psych-folk artist on Partisan Records.

Just Mustard – Heart Under

Dundalk five-piece alt-rock band on Partisan Records, who have three albums on this year’s list.

Dermot Kennedy – Sonder

Second album from Ireland’s biggest songwriting pop export of the last 5 years? Possibly

The Mary Wallopers – The Mary Wallopers

Dundalk’s finest purveyors of craic, divilment, and drinking songs.

Anna Mieke – Theatre

Wicklow singer-songwriter's second album of alt-folk

Pillow Queens – Leave the Light On

A second album of anthemic indie-rock of “queer dream blues,” on a Canadian label Royal Mountain.

Sorcha Richardson – Smiling Like an Idiot

A collection of guitar/synth indie-pop music, the second album on Faction Records

THUMPER – Delusions of Grandeur

It’s the debut from the six-piece double drumming, triple guitars rock band.

While the winner album prize announced at the live event on Thursday March 9th at Vicar Street will receive €10,000 prize fund, our prize is arguably more coveted right? We give each album the once over in a deep dive and then pick the albums we want to win and the one we think is going to win this year.

It's episode 202 of the Nialler9 Podcast...

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We discuss how an obscure 1960s B-side became the most sampled song in history and helped birth genres like drum and bass and jungle. We explore the sample art of albums like DJ Shadow's Entroducing, Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, J Dilla's Donuts, Girl Talk's Night Ripper and The Avalanches' Since I Left You.

And then Niall and Andrea share their favourite samples including but not limited to music from Steely Dan, Super Furry Animals, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye, Burial,  Kate Bush, ABBA, James Blake, Skepta and a disco Beethoven true original.

The track that kicked off the idea was Rory Sweeney and Emby's 'All My Life'  which samples Kendrick's 'Backseat Freestyle'.

Shout out to Tracklib on Youtube for some of the audio sample beds. Some lists of what we played below.

A very fun episode for us.

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Songs referenced on his episode, and their samples

• Britney Spears  - Toxic (Bollywood sample - Lata Mangeshkar and S. P. BalasubrahmanyamTere Mere Beech Mein 1981 )
• Beyoncé – Crazy In Love (Chilites – Are You My Woman)
• 2pac – California Love (Joe Cocker – Woman To Woman )
• Len – Steal My Sunshine (Andrea True Connection)
• Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You ( Chaka Khan – Fate)
• MIA - Paper Planes ( The Clash - Straight To Hell)
• Fugees - Ready Or Not (Enya - Boadaciea)
• EMBY x Rory Sweeney All My Life (Kendrick Lamar - Backseat Freestyle)
• The Winstons – Amen Brother – The Amen Break
• NWA - Straight Outta Compton
• Carl Cox - Let The Bass Kick
• Snow – Informer
• Apollo Two - Return To Atlantis
• Prodigy - Poison
• General Levy - Incredible
• Ganja Kru - Super Sharp Shooter
• Roni Size, Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag
• David Bowie - Little Wonder
• Futurama Theme
• Tyler The Creator - Pigs
• Adam F - Circles
• PinkPantheress - Break It Off
• J Dilla - Workinonit
• Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump (13 samples listed here)
• DJ Shadow - Stem / Long Stem (samples)
• The Avalanches  - Since I Left You (samples)
• Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees ft. Jay Rock (Beach House - Silver Soul)
• Kendrick  Lamar - Hood Politics (Sufjan Stevens - All For Myself)
• Kanye West - Wolves (sample - a wolf)
• Kanye West - Blood On The Leaves (Nina Simone - Strange Fruit)
• Kanye West - Bound 2 (The Ponderosa Twins Plus One - Bound)
• Super Furry Animals – The Man Don’t Give a Fuck (Steely Dan – Showbiz Kids)
• Madvillain - Fancy Clown (ZZ Hill - That Ain’t The Way To Make Love)
• Kate Bush – Under Ice’ (The Field – Over The Ice)
• Madonna – Hung Up (ABBA – Gimme, Gimme, Gimme)
• Walter Murphy  - A Fifth Of Beethoven (Beethoven's Fifth Symphony)
• Burial - Archangel -  (Ray J - One Wish / Opening Infiltration by Harry Gregson-Williams and Norihiko Hibino from Metal Gear Solid (2001) / Christina Aguilera performing beautiful from Saturday Night Live (2004)
• Burial - Come Down To Us (samples / Lana Wachowski Receives the HRC Visibility Award)
• Skepta- Man (QOTSA - Regular John)
• Wu-Tang Clan  - C.R.E.A.M. (The Charmels - As Long As I've Got You)
• Passion Pit – Sleephead /(Mary O’Hara – Oro Mo Bhaidin)
• James Blake & Rosalía song Barefoot In The Park (Valerie Armstrong - Fíl a Run Ó’ recorded at the Feis Ceoil, RDS, Dublin for RTE in 1971)

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Plus, there's chat about Rihanna at the Superbowl, hip-hop at Grammys and  a small tribute to Trugoy  of De La Soul.

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Prompted by the news of a Strokes box set of 7" singles this month, Andrea Cleary talks about the particular form and use of B-sides in the streaming era, the role of singles in the ongoing vinyl revival (2022 was the 15th straight year of vinyl sale growth), and why we love vinyl so much anyway.

We read aloud Jeremy D. Larson's howlingly good Maneskin review for Pitchfork, we check into the Grammys from Sunday night to find that things are as they always seem to be and

Steve Albini is hating on Steely Dan and it's a hoot.

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Firstly, Andrea went to the 1975 live concert in Dublin last week and has some surprising thoughts on things, as well as a bit of a gush. For the rest of the episode we are talking and sharing our favourite music of the first month of the year from Lil Yachty, boygenius, Dave Rowntree, Rozi Plain, Lankum, Everything But The Girl, Aphex Twin and more.

More Best of the month here.

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It's that time again - Andrea and Niall's personal favourite episode of the year where we award out winners in made-up categories to scratch a particular music or media itch.

This year's awards include the annual best sax solo, Best guest rap (aka the Andre 3000 verse), Best Tik-Tok trend, best song discovered on a TV show,  best '90s-sounding 2022 club song, Best DJ mixes on Youtube, Squeakiest song of the year, word of the year, best song discovered in a club, best live gig,  sample of the year, most disappointing album of the year, worst song of the year, and our favourite movies, TV and books of 2022.

Thanks for listening and joining us. We're taking a break now til 2023.

EOTY Podcasts:

Albums of 2022
Songs of 2022.

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This week, it’s the turn of the long player, and Andrea and Niall share 10 albums each from our year of listening that brightened up the days and nights, and stayed with us.

There is discussion about Big Thief, Little Simz, Beyoncé, Billy Woods, Alvvays, Kendrick, CMAT, Mary Wallopers, Rosalia, The 1975 and more.

Next week: the Nialler9 Podcast Awards!

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This week, Niall and Andrea pick 10 songs of their year each featuring selections from Alvvays, Overmono, Kieran Hebden, Angel Olsen, The Mary Wallopers, CMAT, Elaine Howley, The 1975 and more.

Next week: Albums of 2022.

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Live shows have returned for over a year now, but not without unforeseen new challenges of inflation, Brexit, cost of living and increased touring costs. Added to already existing dwindling digital revenues and the toll a touring loss makes on mental health, acts are feeling the squeeze.

One area where artists are looking to take the power back is on selling merchandise at live venues and festivals. A lot of medium to large venues take a 25% commission on artist merch sales by default, without providing any assistance. Some venues bring in an agency to manage merch and take the cut at source and in many venues this is a mandatory and sometimes additional cost. When it applies to support and emerging artists, it can really make the difference whether a tour makes money or not.

On this episode we spoke to Canadian rapper, writer, poet and activist Rollie Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon on some of the thoughts he has shared on the live music industry.

Rollie is an Edmonton-born, Toronto-based rapper and author of a new book about his life in music - Bedroom Rapper. Pemberton won the 2021 Polaris Prize - the Canadian album of the year prize -  for his fifth album Parallel World.

Rollie has announced a North American campaign to end the practice of venues and festivals taking a cut from the artists’ merch – in association with the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) to launch of the FAC’s 100% Venues campaign called #MyMerch.

The campaign has come in the wake of FAC's UK campaign where 400 venues have now signed up to pledge not to take a cut on artist's merch sales in venues. Ireland could do with a similar list.

It's a practice that was largely unknown to fans, but recently has been highlighted by Dry Cleaning, Yard Act, The Big Moon lately, and even, Jack Antonoff has weighed in.

Niall and Andrea talk about how merch cuts work, and their issues, before we chat to Rollie about the campaign, his experiences touring last year at a loss and a previous 360 deal he signed that exploited every stream of income he had for 12 years, and his hopes for the future.

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Firstly, Niall attended the Sunday of the recent Kendrick Lamar gigs on The Big Steppers tour in the 3Arena, and Andrea went to the "men in their late 30s convention and your ex-boyfriend is here" Pavement gig at Vicar Street.

We talk about the Grammy nominations where things are as problematic as ever but you know, Beyoncé is still killing it.

This week's Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco, where fans for her 52-date US tour crashed Ticketmaster and were waiting for up to 8 hours in a virtual queue to no avail, has us examining the secondary ticketing market once more, where Adele tickets in Vegas are going for $22,500 for this weekend, where Taylor tickets are listed for $92,500 and closer to home on Stubhub where Elton John tickets are going for €450 and Gilla Band tickets  at the National Stadium are going for double the ticket price on Viagogo that are currently listed on Ticketmaster.

But wait, didn't the Irish government approve a bill to stop the exorbitant resale of tickets for events? Yeah, but venues and promoters have to opt-in, making this a very impressive invisible lasso on the secondary ticketing market in Ireland.

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So with Richie releasing a new electronic instrumental record called 9K Hi Volume 1 on Faction Records this week, we visited Richie (virtually) in his Malmo studio to talk about dance and electronic music, old low-bit samplers, old technology and dance music made for graveyards and walks.

Richie talks about five tracks from Irish electronic artists including Or:la, New Jackson, Comte, BB84 and Donnacha Costello; and a new discovery from Naran Ratan.

You'll also hear two songs from his new record - 'Eugh' and 'Secret Area'.

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We've got big albums from The 1975, Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Gilla Band, The Mary Wallopers, Loyle Carner, Dry Cleaning and Alvvays.

Plus Niall shares a song he heard at a club during his NYC trip.

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Her debut album First Prize Bravery was just released on Faction and thew subsequent tour ended up getting rescheduled seven times. It wasn't all bad though, the album was very well-received, picked up a Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish album of the year and won her a whole set of new fans across Ireland, UK, Europe and North America.

With second album Smiling Like An Idiot and tour dates very much nailed on and happening from this week (including her biggest hometown show at 3Olympia Theatre on Thursday October 20th, and the Limelight 2 in Belfast on Wednesday October 19th, before UK and European dates), we spoke to Sorcha about coming home from living in New York to find a new community in Dublin around music in a challenging time for artists, to conversations about Oasis with Los Angeles-based producer Alex Casnoff, the difficulties of touring, drum sounds and Bowie-esque guitart solos, all through the lens of 5 songs that inspired the second album.

The songs discussed are:

• Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk
• LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change
• Dijon - Good Luck
• Big Thief - Masterpiece
• Oasis - She's Electric

You'll also hear snippets of Sorcha's songs 'Shark Eyes', 'Archie' 'Stalemate' and 'Spotlight Television'

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I listened back today and I think I was in the zone for much of this so sharing here for your pleasure.

So this recording started just before 11pm..

Tracklist:

Hot Chocolate - Don`t Turn It Off

Herman's Rocket - Space Woman

Babe Ruth - The Mexican

Massara - Margherita

Extra T's - ET Boogie

Bilbo - Sex Machine

Kindness - Gee Up

Chemise - She Can't Love You 

Steve Monite - Only you (Karma Fields Edit)

Block & Crown, Maickel Telussa - Move Out (Nudisco Dubb)     

Horse Meat Disco, Roy Inc., Xavier Smith - Self Control 

Ian Dury & The Blockheads & The Blockheads - Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3

Roni Griffith - Love Is The Drug (Todd Terje Edit)

Donna Summer - Hot Stuff

Sharon Prabhakar - Halchal (cover of Donna Summer - Hot Stuff)

Prince - 17 Days - Zach Witness Remix

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Bourgie', Bourgie' (Joey Negro Super Bourgeoisie Remix)

Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug  (Todd Terje Disco Dub)

LCD Soundsystem - Us V Them

Sheila B Devotion - Spacer (12" Version)

Skyy - Movin' Violation

Billy Paul- Only The Strong Survive (Magick edit)

Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka

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This time out, we're recommending and discussing new albums from ELIZA, Djo, Vieux Farka Touré / Khruangbin, Sorcha Richardson and songs from Bricknasty, Weyes Blood, Arctic Monkeys, Sudan Archives and Babe Ruth?

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The fallout of that action is at the centre of Kathryn Ferguson’s new documentary about Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares – which is in cinemas this Friday.

Following the release of last year’s Rememberings, O’Connor’s biography, the film tells the story of Sinead’s upbringing, subsequent success focusing on the early period of her career and the vindication of her actions at the time. Sinead O’Connor was ahead of her time.

The documentary celebrates a maverick artist, who never compromised her personal integrity or artistry, who was often ridiculed, and deemed the mad Irish women who shaved her head, who spoke up for minorities, criticised the church for child abuse coverups, Magdalene laundries (which she had direct experience of), and Ireland’s fight for abortion rights.

These causes and beliefs are now mainstream but at the time, O’Connor was openly mocked for pointing out the abuses of power (especially in America, where she refused to allow the National Anthem to play before her concert) further fuelling an anti-patriotism sentiment around the Irish artist, that fundamentally altered her pop career, one that she never wanted anyway.

“I’m not a pop star. I’m just a troubled soul who needs to scream into mikes now and then.”

Sinead O’Connor was a protest singer, first and foremost. Joining Niall and Andrea to discuss the Sinead O’Connor film is pop critic Louise Bruton. We discuss her relationship with Gay Byrne, the parallels to Britney and MIA, that Bob Dylan tribute concert, and the aforementioned themes from the film.

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Here's a recording of that talk for those who could not attend, and anyone interested in Dublin night-life.

The discussion is hosted by Michael McDermott (editor of Totally Dublin) with..

• Carly Heath (Bristol Night-Time Economy Adviser)
• Sunil Sharpe (Give Us The Night)
• Cllr. Claire Byrne (Green Party, Dublin - South East Inner City)
• Renn Miano (Origins Eile)

Photo: Roisin Murphy O'Sullivan

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Andrea surprises Niall with a special milestone birthday quiz, we discuss two very different losses in music this week – Coolio and Pharoah Sanders, Andrea shares her thoughts on the new David Bowie film Moonage Daydream and the Harry Styles-starring Don’t Worry Darling, and Niall discusses the Budget, the Night Moves Culture Night event and upcoming changes to licensing laws on the cards.

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Sometimes it’s irrational, sometimes it’s circumstantial, sometimes it’s association, but sometimes the song is just bad, and awful, and terrible.