A music podcast about iconic Irish albums. Each episode takes a deep dive into the making of an album with one of its creators.

Dale Grundle and Alice Lemon from Catchers join me to chat about their band Catchers. Formed in Portstewart in the early 90s the band were signed to Setanta Records and moved to London. 'Cotton Dress' their debut single was awarded 'Single of the Week' in Melody Maker and the band recorded Mute, their debut album, with Mike Hedges in France. Mute was critically acclaimed in the music press and Catchers toured Europe with Pulp and Edwyn Collins becoming hugely popular in France. Dale and Alice chat about the Catchers career, the recording of both Mute and Stooping to Fit, their second album. Episode notes are here: www.paulmcdermott.ie/episode-34

Produced by Paul McDermott for Learn & Sing Productions.
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THKW EP34 - Mute by Catchers

Maybe let this loose as a demo.

I just opened up an older laptop to look for something and found this in the recent file history. I have a fair amount of stuff from the pandemic and afterwards in various states. There will be some new music this year......honestly.

I was going to redo the Jen SX1000 i have in this as there are some scratchy distorted in a bad way pots on mine, but maybe i'll leave it there.

There's some falling downstairs perucssion in there too.

Cabinessence was the working title, can't be calling it that, Mike Love would be coming for some cash/flesh.....

Cabin Presence (Demo)

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The debut album from Coney Island Sound: Klang!, is released on the Score Draw Music label and accompanied by remixes from Bitmap, Thrash Hat and Minotaur Shock.

It's a collage of light hearted cut-and-paste electronic music made at the seaside by sound archivist, Ewan Gordon.

Coney Island Sound is a project that fuses together samples of old recordings, junkshop synths, found sounds and acoustic instruments in a folk and electronica influenced mix.

Recently, "The Lemonade Song" was chosen as Lauren Laverne's headphones moment on her BBC6 Music breakfast show. 

Additionally Introducing Mr Kellogg was featured on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone and Klang aired on national and regional BBC Introducing shows including Tom Robinson's show and BBC Across The Line.

Album tracks regularly feature on Amazing Radio.

A previous 7” release from Coney Island Sound was supported by BBC6 Music, BBC Radio Ulster, XFM, Resonance FM and Amazing Radio.

New tracks tagged #Portstewart