Hey folks, hope you’re all enjoying this wonderfully grey June-uary! I’m back on Sweet Oblivion on 2XM after a few weeks’ break (which included a trip to Primavera), so here’s a link to the latest show. ~Just click here to listen to new stuff from The Walkmen, Fred, Bonnie Prince Billy & Moon Ate the…
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Some musical things for the weekend
Happy (almost) weekend! Here’s the latest Sweet Oblivion show (click) and playlist Artist / Track / Album THEESatisfaction – Enchantruss – QueenS Big Star – Ballad of El Goodo – #1 Record Grandaddy – He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot Townes van Zandt – Waiting Around To Die Yawning Chasm – Seen Like A…
Sweet Oblivion has moved to Wednesdays at 11pm
Hey folks! Just a little update – 2XM has undergone some (really positive) changes, which has led to the station schedule being shuffled about a bit. As a result, Sweet Oblivion is no longer on Thursdays at 5pm. Instead, it is on Wednesdays at 11pm. At first I was a little worried about it being…
Real church music: Áine O’Dwyer
I’m not really a religious person, but I’m no atheist either. Maybe you’d call me spiritual – or just plain indecisive – but whatever it is, I believe there’s something other than ourselves out there. With that in mind, when I listen to a piece of music that makes the hairs on the back of…
Sweet Oblivion 16 Feb 2012
This week’s Sweet Oblivion is up for your listening pleasure right now – just click here. Here’s what to expect on the show… Artist//Track//Album Kings of Convenience – I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From – Quiet is the New Loud Perfume Genius – DIRGE – Put Your Back in 2 It Low…
Latest Sweet Oblivion shows plus playlists…
Hey folks, here’s a little update on the most recent Sweet Oblivion shows. You can listen to them all on the RTÉ Radio Player, which is a really handy addition to the site. Here’s the link to the most recent show – if you click through to this, you will then be given the option…
Lightbox tour, Rest & Ten Past Seven gig, new Daniel Rossen song
The past two years have seen a huge rise in the amount of young electronic musicians emerging from their bedrooms and plonking themselves onto blogs, radio shows and into the ears of many. It’s not like Ireland wasn’t a place for great electronic-based music before, but it’s very easy now to get your hands on…
Sweet Oblivion on 2XM interview: Elastic Witch
The world needs more independent record stores, but it’s an extremely hard time to open one. That’s why the latest bunch of Irish indie record stores – Elastic Witch in Dublin and Wingnut in Galway, and now Waterford – are taking a new approach to selling records in Ireland. Instead of focusing on being stand-alone entities,…
New Irish music: Seamus O Muineachain, Band of Clouds, Songs of Green Pheasant
These days, I find myself playing more and more Irish music on the show – more and more Irish songs that I adore. So much so that in planning this week’s show I’ve realised I won’t have any room for anything outside of Ireland (plus I’ll have an interview hopefully on the show too, with…
Donal Dineen, Irish music, and whether radio really matters
Does radio really matter? Does it matter to you, to me, to him, to her, to bands, to venues and listeners and dancers and writers? Of course it does, you might say. But does it really? It wasn’t that long ago when the only way you could hear a new track was to tune in…
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