Eoghan and Cíara chat about their weekend at Beyond the Pale and the difficulties the music festival faced in the week preceding it. There's also music news, review of Kean Kavanagh's debut album The County Star, and new track recommendations. 

0:00 Intro and Beyond the Pale review
18:51 Music News
21:00 TPOE Album Club: Kean Kavanagh - The County Star
27:48 New track recommendations

Links for music discussed 
Kean Kavanagh - The County Star: https://heaven-sent.ochre.store/
Kez - In The Arms https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kez11/in-the-arms-2
Laurie Shaw - Please Can You Cut That Out (And Stick It In My Almanac)  https://laurieshawofficial.bandcamp.com/album/magnetosphere

TPOE 354: Beyond the Pale review (with Ciara Byrne)

Texas-born, Laois-raised, London-based artist Kean Kavanagh returns to talk about his debut album The County Star. An introspective work, it finds him examining all those sides of his being: USA, Ireland, and London as he adopts the dual persona of a cowboy county star/GAA county star. Kean, who many will know as a close collaborator of Kojaque (they co-founded Soft Boy Records) released his debut project Dog Person in 2020. He suffered a vocal injury on tour with Kojaque in 2022 and had to undergo vocal therapy and relearning how to sing. It's something he examined on the 2023 EP Wrestling Music. It is also inherent on this album. 

We talk about all this and more in a 40-minute chat. We talk about community, traditional music and GAA, making videos with Kojaque starring comedian Peter McGann, collaborating with Karma Kid and Baz Kaye in making the record, and why he's not counting Dog Person as his debut release. 

Buy The County Star: https://heaven-sent.ochre.store/

Kean on TPOE 192: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DaEf882Y1VjoWBQVeuTOP?si=ecbf6ddd8c2046bb

TPOE 355: Kean Kavanagh

Cíara Byrne joins to talk about Glastonbury 2025, in particular CMAT, Bob Vylan and Kneecap, favourite albums of the year (so far), album news, new track recommendations, gig news and more. 

Preorder For Those I Love - Carving the Stone: https://forthoseilove.terrible.group/

Pot-Pot - Warsaw 480km - https://potpot.bandcamp.com/album/warsaw-480km

Throwing Shapes - Throwing Shapes - https://garethquinnredmond.bandcamp.com/album/throwing-shapes

Jameson x Mo Chara tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/jameson-connects-presents-sean-mckenna-dug-asha-ari-tickets-1441559426049

TPOE 356: Favourite Albums of 2025 so far (with Ciara Byrne)

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