'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
On April 10, 1999, I was in the producer’s chair in Studio 4 in RTÉ while we aired a special episode of a live Saturday night chat show called Kenny Live, hosted by Pat Kenny. The show was paying its respects to the late actor and comedian, Dermot Morgan, who died unexpectedly the previous year... Continue Reading →
In this guest post, documentary maker and writer, Ken Sweeney, explains the background to his recent Radio Nova documentary about The Trashcan Sinatras, which is nominated in the IMRO Radio Awards 2024. This piece is accompanied by a companion piece by Colm. The pieces were written together, from two perspectives, about the same subjects. https://soundcloud.com/ken-sweeney-991302946/the-trashcan-sinatras... Continue Reading →
A version of this post originally appeared on-line in conjunction with Sir Henrys 2014. I first met The Frank And Walters in Cork in the summer of 1990, back when I was rapt and ready to roll into the breach on their behalf, whatever the job. The years since have taken all of us to places... Continue Reading →
Dublin band A House played it’s last ever live show in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Friday, February 28th, 1997. I wrote about that night - it was far more than just another show, I felt - in my Sunday Tribune column the following weekend, on Sunday, March 2nd and, as was customary for me at... Continue Reading →
It was Eamonn Crudden of the Dead Elvis label – among numerous other things – who first turned me onto the Wednesday Works imprint, a small mail-order project that was run by a young dairy farmer from his front-room in Curraghmore, outside of Elphin, Co. Roscommon. At the time – the summer of 1996... Continue Reading →
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