Friday 29 March 2024

Sat 30 Mar - Bring Your Own Hammer

Bring Your Own Hammer brings historians and composers together to create new and original song cycles based on historical sources and to re-interpret song material rooted in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and of the Irish Diaspora. Interview with Dr. Richard Mc Mahon one of the two historians behind the project in association with Dimple Discs. The album is dedicated to Cathal Coughlan who was the first contributing composer.

Wednesday 27 March 2024

Sat 23 Mar - Anatolian Rock

 Anatolian rock with tracks from 1960s and 1970s explosion. The Istanbul domestic rock music scene remained popular until the 1970s when political changes led many of its leading figures to leave Turkey and the modern music to become more Arabesque and melancholic. There has been a revival in recent years of Anatolian rock.

Friday 15 March 2024

Sat 16 March - alternative St Patrick's day music

Alternative St Patrick's Day music with tracks from Cathal Coughlan, Bring Your Own Hammer, Sinead O'Connor, Michael O'Shea, Langam, and responding to requests received from members of the UK-Irish artist community. 

Friday 8 March 2024

Sat 9 March - Rachael Ball, Graphic Novelist on narrative in the graphic novel

Rachael Ball, graphic novelist and educator in discussion about narrative, invention and writing with pictures. Her first graphic novel 'The Inflatable Woman' (Bloomsbury) was one the Guardian's Best Graphic Novels of 2015 and was a breakthrough work in changing landscape and possibilities for the British graphic novel. She teaches workshops on creating graphic novels at the House of Illustration and the City Lit and more recently Arvon Online as well as mentoring at the LDComics Residencies and being a London co-ordinator for LDComics.