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Vosho On The Beat 8

What's living in modern day Dublin like in your twenties as Zimbabwean Irish people? Kayssiek, MissDine and Gideon get together on VoshoOnTheBeat to open up a space for honest and explicit conversations that play a large role in a Young Irish immigrant's life.

Vosho On The Beat 9

Join the conversation with KayseeK, MissDine and their special guest Eadair. As they get together to talk about living in modern day Dublin is like in your twenties. Vosho on the Beat is an open space for honest and explicit conversations that play large role in a Young Irish immigrant's life.
Topics ; self growth, friendship and life after lockdown.

Vosho On The Beat 10

Working with music this Sunday 28th of November 11am to 1pm.

🔺Special Guest🔻🧙Artist and sounder,
creative genius/goddess
the Aideen Barry @aideenbarry talking about her new art work! #oblivion

@aislinglyonsmusic @riitmusic @stephenshannon @installtechireland @itmadublin @musnetirl

A shout out to @othervoiceslive happy 20th anniversary can’t wait to see and hear the bands in Kerry this weekend! 🎉

Make sure to listen to this months show as its a good one😎

Edited by the class @rnnlwlr 😎

#workingwithmusic #aideenbarry #dublindigitalradio #tipperary #cork #clare #artist #oblivion #orhervoices

Working With Music- 28- Nov-2021

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🎄St Stephen’s day Christmas special 🎅
📻Tune into my Sunday’s show 📻 @dublindigitalradio
Working with music this Sunday 26th of December 11am to 1pm 2021

A shout out to the King @shanemacgowanofficial and Queen @victoriamaryclarke of Christmas🎉
A nice mix of Christmas energy tunes and New music from @sleaford_mods Make sure to listen in to Dublin digital radio while your cooking up a Christmas storm this st Stephen’s day!


#workingwithmusic #christmasspecial #dublindigitalradio #dublin #music #alternative #tunes #artist #dublindigitalchristmasspecial #xmas #radio #alternativetunes

26-12-2021  WORKING WITH MUSIC XMAS SPECIAL

9. Fuego Spirit - Water Feature

6. Lumigraph - Glass Jaw

4. R.Kitt - Oiche Mhaith

3. OBW - Tidal Wave

2. SBOT - Breathe In

The mighty jungle cat roared with abandonment and pride as he ran free from the towering walls of the zoo which had kept him imprisoned for so long. It was no problem that he might never return, the wind blew prominently against his fur as he darted between the trees under the glow of the moonlight. It was desperately cold under the chill of winter but that had been the incentive for a fantastic escape, a driving force behind the evacuation which had been coming for oh so long. 

Apres Ski appears on a new compilation set for release on the 13th of March later this month. He features alongside an array of Irish counterparts on the first compilation being released by Dublin Digital Radio, a station which has championed up and coming Irish talent across the breadth of electronic music.

PREMIERE: Apres Ski - No Prob [Dublin Digital Radio]

Frenetic, anxious house from Dublin Digital Radio’s Breen – lifted from the station’s forthcoming charity compilation in aid of Dublin homeless charity.

Read the full premiere article here: http://bit.ly/2p3IPkl

Premiere: Breen ‘Dips in the Poddle’

This week Current. speaks to Sam Tranum, Deputy Editor of Dublin Inquirer on the decision by national media to publish government ads for Ireland 2040 as real news. Sam has written previously on the dangers of this practise by both regional and national newspapers in Dublin Inquirer. 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/make-2040-ads-look-like-real-news-papers-told-kq20xcs67

https://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/02/09/sam-the-dangers-of-publishing-ads-that-look-like-news-articles/

Current. Weekly - Strategic Communication Unit

Current. Weekly - Inner City Helping Homeless

Current.weekly speaks to David Kenny of Trinity College Dublin Law School on constitutional referendums and acclaimed Irish American poet Erin Fornoff shares her poem "Ask This Passport"

Current. Weekly - Irish Constitutional Law

Current. Weekly - Need Abortion Ireland

This edition of current.weekly explores education and migration. We speak to the Migrant Teacher Project and poet Chiamaka Enyi Amadi on her experiences moving to an Irish school from Lagos, Nigeria.

Current. Weekly - Migration & Education

Current. looks at the Bailout and the Anglo Tapes 10 years on

Current. The Bailout 10 Year Anniversary

Current. takes an in depth look at Budget 2018

Current. 18 Seconds For Budget 2018

The Inner City Helping Homeless podcast series talks to Dublin collective Subset about their upcoming fundraiser this Friday.

Fundraiser event - https://www.facebook.com/events/2114000741957561/

Podcasts on ddr. - http://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/podcasts

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A podcast about art, ideas and some other stuff too. Each episode, we focus on a thinker or maker that has shaped or influenced the way we think about art. Brought to you by NCAD's Art in the Contemporary World MA and Dublin Digital Radio. 

For more information visit: www.acw.ie 

A conversation about and with Liam Gillick on the satisfaction of aesthetic disappointment, modesty in the age of capitalism and spectacle, and more. Including excerpts from a recent public conversation between Gillick and Seanan Kerr hosted by Art in the Contemporary World.  

In the debut episode of the Art in the Contemporary World podcast, Co-Directors of NCAD's Art in the Contemporary World MA, Declan Long, Francis Halsall, and Sarah Pierce talk about recent projects from the renowned artist Liam Gillick, including exhibitions at the Goethe Institut and the Kerlin Gallery. A far-ranging discussion which touches on Katy Perry's “curatorial” practices, Masha Gessen's theories on autocracy, and the role of art in troubled times.

Current. - On Liam Gillick and the Art of Disappointment

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@nataliabeylis

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr-compilation-02

Natalia Beylis - The Poole And The Sly Road

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@repeaterrepeater

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr-compilation-02

Repeater - Iridescent Mystery

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@enabrennan

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr-compilation-02

Dowry - In É

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@oddned

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr-compilation-02

Odd Ned - Blocko And Cheeser

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@trone1234

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr-compilation-02

Tr One - I'm Dreaming Again

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@thedriftersound

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr-compilation-02

The Drifter - Song For Rosie

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@the-cyclist

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr-compilation-02

Joni Ft. The Cyclist - Harpsi

Art in the Contemporary World is a podcast about art, ideas and some other stuff too.

In this episode Declan Long and Francis Halsall talk with Sarah Pierce about the work of the late writer, theorist and educator Mark (K-Punk) Fisher, who died in 2017; and producer Roisin McVeigh talks to political theorist Jodi Dean.

Topics include nostalgia, depression, Capitalist Realism and the political potential of pop music.

Declan Long, Francis Halsall, and Sarah Pierce are the Co-Directors of NCAD’s Art in the Contemporary World MA.

For more information visit:

www.acw.ie

http://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/podcasts

Current. AICW E02 on Mark Fisher

Dublin Digital Radio is back with its second compilation from producers, composers and musicians resident on Europe’s Best Online Radio Station.

The compilation is a reflection of the range of homegrown talent resident on the station and an opportunity for ddr. to showcase the music of the online station’s monthly residents.

All proceeds for the compilation go to Inner City Helping Homeless, a charity dedicated to providing an outreach and advocacy service to those worst affected by Ireland’s spiraling housing crisis.

@djselky @club-comfort

Support: dublindigitalradio.bandcamp.com/album/ddr…lation-02

DJ Selky - It's Like That

Opening set from ddr's Jigsaw Party in May from @rosita-moulin

Rosita Moulin - @ ddr. Party - Jigsaw

What’s living in modern day Dublin like in your twenties? KayssieK, MissDine and Gideon get together on VoshoOnTheBeat to open up a space for honest and explicit conversations that play a large role in a Young Irish immigrant’s life.

Current. Vosho on the Beat E02

Nervous State.
"High culture for low lives."

Issue 1 of Nervous State was first broadcast on 14/06/2020.

It featured:
a roundup of the Dublin Inquirer's stories of the month with DI editor Stephanie Costello.
an interview with Siobhan McKeown, author of A Life Lived Remotely.
a chat with Dean McGrath, head of Dublin record label wherethetimegoes.
a discussion between political economist Michael Taft (who blogs at notesonthefront) and environmentalist Sinead Mercier.
an interview with Bulelani Mfaco, member of Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland.
a chat with Vaari Claffey, a Dublin based curator, about Isolation TV.

Music on the show from Nash Paints, Rising Damp, AllTimesNowNothing and MuRli.
Sound editing and design by Jane Deasy.

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Nervous State - Issue 1

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In this episode we’ll be bringing you a segment on the English language education sector in Ireland, presented by Lahela Jones and produced by Sian Cowman. The educational sector in Ireland has been heavily impacted by Covid-19 restrictions, but international English language students have faced some especially difficult circumstances. We interview two Chilean students who tell us how their schools have dealt with the pandemic, and the housing and labour conditions they’re experiencing. We discuss why this sector is so huge in Ireland and why it is so poorly regulated


It isn’t just ESL students in the gig economy who’ve borne the brunt of Covid-19 – their struggles in the labour market are just one example of a deeper problem with inequality between different parts of the workforce. 


Whilst 2020 has been the year of working from home for many office-based professionals, this simply isn't an option for low-paid workers in manufacturing and the service sector. Ireland is one of the few countries in the EU without mandatory sick pay, but the government has not talked about bringing it in before the end of 2021 despite the public health problems forcing people to go to work, even when showing symptoms, has created throughout the pandemic. Has Covid exposed the existence of a two-tier workforce, and what is there to be learned from this going forward? Patrick McCusker is joined by Michelle Murphy, Policy Analyst for Social Justice Ireland and Andrew Flood, independent researcher and host of The Plague Tapes on Mixcloud, to discuss this.


On the cultural front, Martin Leen caught up with The Mary Wallopers who are in the midst of recording a new album of trad folk stompers and sean nos bangers, possibly titled The Curse of The Mary Wallopers. Hailing from Dundalk (we do have a sneaky Dundalk fetish here at Nervous State),The Mary Wallopers are a folk group who travel the length & breadth of the country singing & collecting songs. They exude a raw energy that could be described as the Clancy Brothers meet John Lydon. In the interview we play a few bangers, chat about the nature of the said curse, what to expect in the new album, being live stream sensations, keeping the buzz going during Covid, collaborating with Post Punk Podge and lots more.


Moving West, Tulca festival of visual art has been going in Galway since 2002 and commissions a different curator every year who comes up with their own theme. This year the curator is artist Sarah Browne, whose programme is called The Law is a White Dog. The title is taken from a book by Colin Dayan, an interdisciplinary legal scholar, which is subtitled How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons. Drawing on engagement with the law in her own practice, Sarah has put together a programme of artworks and events in a very challenging pandemic context. Caitriona Devery spoke to her about the ideas behind the programme, curating in lockdown, and some of the artists involved.


We’ll also feature Darragh Deighan-Gregory talking to Seán Murray, the director of Unquiet Graves, about the recent controversy surrounding his film being shown on RTÉ, and why challenging received narratives about the Troubles is so important.


As ever, we’ll be kicking off with our usual check-in with the Dublin Inquirer’s Stephanie Costello for all the biggest stories going on around town.

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