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Podcast - Phil King (Other Voices)hace 697 días
 
Gentleman, innovator and music-man. As it enters into it's 6th season, Andrew Hamilton speaks to Phil King, the man behind Other Voices.

Ask a physicist about music, and she would tell you that every piece of matter in the universe has it's own unique sound. Every single thing of substance has a particular frequency or pitch at which it is completely at home and in tune. It's a a sort of mellifluous fingerprint.
This is true for rocks, trees, even people - and when you find that exact pitch, the object shows it's appreciation with a soft and gentle vibrating. It's the science behind the music and the ultimate link between the tangible and the artistic intangible.
It is perhaps, this scientific imperative that helps create a really special room for music. For a venue like St James' Church in Dingle, the music may well be, quite literally, in the walls.

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Podcast - Declan O'Rourkehace 754 días
 
In a special treat, only for CP-Interactive fans, we have a podcast interview with the Declan O’Rourke. This interview wont be available in print for more than a week so consider yourself very very lucky. Who loves ya baby…

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Podcast - Simon O'Reillyhace 786 días
 

Andrew Hamilton speaks to Liscannor’s Simon O’Reilly about his new album with folk legend Luka Bloom.

It reads like a verse from an ancient sea shanty. A lonesome grey figures, salt-torn by the wind, overlooks the dark angry waters of Liscannor Bay. Lit only by moonlight, he combs the black waves, searching for something lost - something unknown.
Then all at once, the screaming wind subsides and the music of the man starts it’s forlorn call.
Now fast forward a couple of hundred year, to an evening scene at Simon O’Reilly’s small studio in Cloghane. The black sea and wild wind remain, but inside Simon plays to a mixing desk, with an Apple Mac and pro-tools.
But just like that salt-torn grey figures, he labours alone.
Tribe is a new album featuring a collection of songs written by Simon and Luka Bloom. The unusual thing about Tribe, is that the album was written without Luka and Simon ever playing together in the same room.

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Podcast - Garrett Wall hace 789 días
 
Andrew Hamilton talks to Garrett Wall about his Spanish musical redemption and his triumphant return to Ireland.

Dublin, September 1998. As the Celtic Tiger finally begins to growl, Ireland second greatest revolution of the closing days of the 20th century bides it’s time in the fringes, silently.
It would be three full years before David Kitt’s ‘The Big Romance’ first sparks the flames. A further 12 months before Mundy would reinvent himself in ‘24 Star Hotel’ and not until Damien Rice’s O, in the heady Summer of 2003 would the transformation finally be complete.
In 1998, as the cold Dublin winter closed in around Garrett Wall, the cult of the Irish singer songwriter was nowhere to be found.
Timing, they say, is everything, and for Wall faith had conspired to deliver him slightly too early - a musician ever-so-slightly out of time.
For a musician, it’s all about the dry taste in your mouth when you get off stage, but for Wall, that taste had begun to turn sour. The only option was to leave, to travel to Spain and reach for a fresh start in Madrid.

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Podcast - Aindrias De Staichace 789 días
 
Andrew Hamilton speaks to Aindrias de Staic, modern renaissance man and darling of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Robert Frost would have found it while wondering lost in a damp yellow woods. Alcoholics, according to Tarantino’s Jules Winnfield at least, would describe it as a moment of clarity - that instant when the clouds finally clear and all possibilities flow out from your feet.
For musician and playwright, Aindrias de Staic , that moment found him while travelling in the hearts of the Australian outback. Son of Ennistymon poet and storyteller Eddie Stack, Aindrias had left Ireland in search for creativity and inspiration.
Instead his musical talent took him around the world, from Irish pub to Irish pub.
Facing down his own creative demons led him to write Around the World on 80 Quid. A one man stage show filled with music, comedy and drama. His story.
“I guess I’m telling my own story in a lot of ways. I grew up playing the fiddle, in my mid 20’s I got p**sed off with Irish pubs, that whole Riverdance scene. The more I travelled in search of music and culture, the more I got stuck in Irish pubs.
“The fiddle player in the story leave these Irish pubs and starts playing the music of the different countries that he is in. There is Romanian music, Italian music, Greek music. But he still has a bit of a problem with the drink.

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The Flaws - Podcasthace 797 días
 
FIRST you write the music. Then you get the money. And then...then you get the women. That’s how it works, right? No?
Post big-studio rock and roll, it seems, just ain’t what it used to be.
Gone are the endless bar tabs; no more the lowly assistants, only too happy to trot off and fulfill your every M&M-related need. Could it be true? Could “sex, drugs and rock and roll” be a mantra for the past?
Why not try this new vision for size? You finish up your eight-hour day — working on a building site or in an office somewhere — drive for three hours and play your heart out to a crowd for, wait for it, no money. You have a cup of coffee and then drive three hours home, ready for work bright and early the next morning.
It sounds rough, but the days of big record labels are quickly coming to an end and, if you want to make it, you have to be willing to put in those hard yards.


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Paddy Casey Pod Cast....hace 813 días
 
Ahead of his Cois Farraige appearance, Andrew Hamilton speaks to Paddy Casey about his new album and living the American Dream.

Sunday evening, and the shagging electricity has gone - again. It’s been more than 6 winter weeks now, stowed away in this tiny hamlet on the very edge of the Atlantic, and now, for the third time in those 6 weeks, a winter storm has knocked out the power.
Unpeturbed, Paddy Casey feels blindly for the carefully stowed candle and the matches. Eureka, and a quick flick returns the room to it’s former glow.
Returning to his snug beside the window, the tempest outside serves as a fitting backdrop for the composition of his finders and mouth. A gentle strum from his guitar, and the skin and bones for Paddy Casey’s latest album Addicted To Company (Part 1) begin to take shape.
Perhaps this isn’t exactly how it went down, but when Paddy Casey returns to Kilkee next week, brand spanking new album in his back pocket, he will be completing a creative journey which began in Lahinch more than two years ago.

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