My late brother Colin Boland was brought in last minute to do front of house sound

David Murphy is from East Cork and teaches computer science in MTU. He recently set up his own independent record label called Krim Kram, a name he took from two characters in Samuel Beckett's novel ‘How It Is’. 

Krim Kram launches and distributes some truly niche and experimental noise music with a steady output since the label's inception back in April 2022. 

Dave Murphy is one of those rare philanthropic folk that all music scenes need, he has no interest in making music himself, but through a deep knowledge and intense fondness for all things underground he’s willing to take a risk in giving a platform to the music he loves. 

We talk about all this and much much more! 

I hope you enjoy :-)

Episode # 18 - Dave Murphy (Krim Kram Records)

Amanda Feery is a composer working with acoustic, electronic, and improvised music. She has written for chamber and vocal ensembles, film, theatre, installation, and multimedia. She was the Mark Nelson Fellow in Music at Princeton University, completing her PhD in Music Composition in 2019. She has formed multiple collaborative relationships with many ensembles and musicians including Alarm Will Sound, Third Coast Percussion, Ensemble Mise-en, Bearthoven, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, ConTempo Quartet, the National Symphony Orchestra, This is How We Fly, Chamber Choir Ireland, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Paul Roe, Michelle O’Rourke, and Lina Andonovska plus many more.

Her work has been featured at New Music Dublin, First Fortnight Festival, and Dublin Fringe Festival, among others, and she has been composer-in-residence at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, SOUNDscape, and Greywood Arts. Her 2019 residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais focused on recording piano improvisations on public pianos in Paris. 

Her recent projects include: A Thing I Cannot Name, a 20-minute opera film commissioned by the Irish National Opera; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra; and we could be diving for pearls, commissioned by Gleo Festival. 

She was a 2023 recipient of the Markievicz Award, which is funding the composition of an hour-long radio work, in response to Eamon de Valera’s 1943 radio address, ‘On Language and the Irish Nation’ and she is currently a Lecturer in Composition at the University of Galway. 

I hope you enjoy!

Episode # 21 - Amanda Feery (Composer)

DJ Dougie McMahon discusses his musical infulences in relation to the music scene in Dundalk in the 1980's. Check out the nusic of The Cellars and The Mineshaft before dancing the night away in the Rugby Club.
 All tracks on original vinyl

Classic vinyl with Dougie McMahon

Albert Twomey has done immense work for the independent music scenes in Limerick and in Cork. Cutting his teeth in Limerick as a promoter he started out with the non-profit Aspersion Music Collective and by the mid-2000s, AMC were bringing bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Fugazi to Limerick. 

In 2003 he co-founded ‘Out On A Limb Records’ which is one of the longest running independent labels in Ireland. In 2007, he moved to Cork and began a long stint as a purveyor of all things underground with Plugd Records, he ran the hugely popular alternative club night ‘Ping Pong’, he started another independent record label called Penske Recordings, he still puts on gigs as a promoter under various monikers from time to time and he has most recently become a library assistant in the Cork City Libraries. 

We talk about all this and much more and Albert chose a great playlist to accompany our chat.

I hope you enjoy and thanks for supporting local radio :)

Episode # 22 -Albert Twomey (Penske Recordings, Tombstome Promotions)

Another song from Choice as a two piece (Jaki & Ciaran). Thanks to Willy for digging out the cd version of this.

Choice -  "Lust Generation" Demo 1987

REM/Blue Nile/Go-Betweens documentary maker Ken Sweeney travels to
the West Coast of Scotland to tell the story of The Trashcan Sinatras, featuring recollections from band members, a visit to their former Shabby Road studios, and new acoustic performances by guitarist John Douglas, in a new documentary for Ireland's Radio Nova.

The Trashcan Sinatras

Garret Lee.....guitar....Mark Sullivan..vocals.....Paul O Brien...drums....Declan O sullivan...keybords...Gerry Lenard....guitar.

Casablanca Moon....susan....demo...1986

"Prince At The Castle" a radio documentary produced by Colin McElarney and Ronan Kelly for RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One.

Broadcast date: June 16, 2018, RTE Radio 1 @2pm

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2018/0608/969084-prince-at-the-castle/

Prince At The Castle - RTE Doc On One

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