The Shock World Service is a 100 episode collection of painstakingly assembled audio collages of soundtracks, electronic oddness & spoken word.

Started in 2007 by Jon Averill as a way to further explore & expand musical horizons beyond the mainly dance floor-centric music he was playing at the time  &  as an antidote the cheapening of the mixtape format by the glut of .mp3 mixes online with no track listing, no artwork & no real attention to detail applied to them. 

"A provider of collage-heavy, loosely hauntological soundscapes" – Fact Mag

"One of the most enlightening and entertaining track lists we’ve ever been sent, nay of all time" – It's Nice That

A beer and boardgames podcast. 

A view into the world of hobby gaming as we see it, why we do it, and why we play the games we do. Plus our choice of craft beer to pair with each game!

    Indie blues rock band



“Waterford foursome Kodakid clearly did their homework before creating Shake Skin. It’s a sultry, swagger-drenched piece of indie blues-rock that could easily be a lost Black Keys number.” – Celina Murphy, Hot Press

“If this single [Shake Skin] is anything to go by, and if Kodakid can produce an album of the same quality, they could easily be one of the biggest things to come out of the Irish music scene in a long time.” – Deirdre Harrison, Golden Plec


    Formed late 2010 in Waterford, Ireland
    First single release, Pray, March 2011
    Second release, Low 7, July 2011
    TV3’s Apprentice/Irish Daily Mail/Hot Press competition: Chosen as one of Ireland’s top 10 Irish bands of 2011. 
    Supporting band compilation CD published with the Daily Mail on Sunday
    Brought to the UK to play main support to The Noisettes
    Performed on Ireland AM on TV3
    Third release, Shake Skin, February 2012
    Headlined Spraoi opening night, played Festival of Fires & Indiependence (‘generating one of the finest of indie 
    performances of the entire festival’ - Fintan Walsh, State Magazine)
    Fourth release, Portis, October 2012
    Portis received MRU’s single of the year award
    Album: Scheduled release date – Summer 2013


Airplay: 2FM (Jenny Huston, Dan Hegarty), Today FM (KC), Radio 1 (John Creedon), Beat FM (Rob O’Connor), WLR (Rick Whelan, Liam Merriman, Roddie Cleere), 96FM (Michael Carr), TV3 (Ireland AM, The Apprentice)

Videos: Shake Skin, February 2012. Portis, October 2012, both directed by IMTV award winning director, John Loftus



Kodakid are:


Kevin Power: Lead Vocals

Alex Soikans: Guitar

John Duignan: Backing Vocals & Bass

Tony Browne: Drums

Ian Dalton was born into a musical family.  This lineage runs back to the Spanish Armada of 1588.  Javier Daltonez who was a sailor in the Spanish Armada was eating soup with two spoons on deck to save time between rigging the sails.  A large wave crashed against the ship and the spoons clacked together!  From this moment on the castinet was born.  Javier Daltonez became central to the morale of the fleet with his unique flamenco castinet playing style, called flamenco because of his unusually long pink neck due to sun exposure and lack of vitamin C.   Javier Daltonez washed up on the shores of Waterford and established the Daltonez family name in Waterford.  Due to racial stigma and fear of the letter “Z”, he dropped the “EZ” and adopted the anglicized name “Dalton”.

Centuries past and the Daltons became key figures in the vinyl pressing factory in Waterford City. Ian's grandfather, “No Fingers Dalton” , lost all his fingers in a vinyl pressing accident and retired from public life for a period.  He spent most of his time honing and perfecting what is now known as “mixing” in DJ culture.  The fingerless pioneer that was “No Fingers Dalton' relied on his stubby knuckles to cue, scratch, mix, crossfade, eq and isolate his musical vision, which predates that of one Frankie Knuckles by 15 years.  These skills were passed down to Ian by “No Fingers”.

Ian Dalton has built on this rich family history by refining his skills on a local level for 15 years. When some people went to university to study, Ian stayed at home studying records, soul and rhythm.  He is deeply influenced by the sounds and cultures of Detroit, Chicago & New York's disco scene.

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