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The podcast where Aoife Barry and Lauren Murphy finally get around to watching, reading and listening to stuff we wanted to get around to watching, reading and listening to.
Our theme song is The Cinema Bell by Land Lovers from their album Confidants - you can buy the album here: https://landloversmusic.bandcamp.com/
All pics taken by Aoife Barry
Our theme song is The Cinema Bell by Land Lovers from their album Confidants - you can buy the album here: https://landloversmusic.bandcamp.com/
All pics taken by Aoife Barry
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It's 2022 already (yikes) and we've got our first episode of the year. We chat about:
Why Yellowjackets should be your new TV obsession
Why the sitcom The Cockfields is a hidden gem
How the series Gomorrah holds up
What makes Licorice Pizza so great
Why you should check out the books We Were Young, Aisling and the City and Breaking Point.
And we have a bonus chat about the Choice Music Prize at the end.
Enjoy!
What to watch/read/listen to this month?
We're back!
We have reviews of:
Sally Rooney's new book Beautiful World, Where Are You
Albums from ABBA and Low
TV series Squid Game, Succession and Dave
We're back! Looking for some great film/TV/books/music to check out - and some to avoid? This month we take you through all the below, including sneak peeks of the new Villagers album and forthcoming film Censor:
Film - Netflix's 'Fear Street' trilogy
Film: Censor
Film - Bo Burnham (Netflix)
TV: This Way Up S2 (Channel 4)
TV - 'Escape at Dannemora' and 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'
TV Feel Good (Netflix)
Book - 'Earth Abides' by George R. Stewart (1949)
Books: Mrs Caliban (reissue)
Music - Villagers - 'Fever Dreams'
Welcome to another month of Get Around To It! Some strong feelings and some mixed feelings about our picks this month:
MUSIC
Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade
Virginia Astley
Laurie Shaw
TV
Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Netflix)
Line of Duty finale
Mare of Easttown
FILM
Nomadland
BOOKS
Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age
Gabriel Byrne – Walking with Ghosts
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
Boy do we have some great recommendations for you this month...
FILMS
Minari
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
MUSIC
For Those I Love
Floating Points & Pharaoh Sanders
Dry Cleaning
TV
Your Honor
Line of Duty
BOOKS
Corpsing by Sophie White
Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy
Welcome to March! Here's what we've been enjoying lately - and what we've got complicated opinions on...
TV
Motherland
Ghosts
Behind Her Eyes
Lupin
FILM
Gas Food Lodging
VMDIFF
News of the World
Judas and the Black Messiah
BOOK
A Crooked Tree
MUSIC
The Weather Station – Ignorance
Happy 2021! We're back with an episode CRAMMED full of reviews for tv shows, books, films and albums we think you should check out.
TV:
The Boys
Call My Agent
The Investigation
Films:
The Vigil
Pieces of a Woman
The Assistant
Books:
Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
Redder Days by Sue Rainsford
Thin Places by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
Music:
Gabriel Ólafs
Haruka Nakamura
Arlo Parks
We're back with more tips on what to watch, read and listen to in November and December...
TV: Small Axe, The Queen’s Gambit, The Twelve, Save Me
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Film: Rebecca, Saint Frances, On The Rocks
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Books: Solar Bones, -Summerwater
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Album: Serpentine Prison – Matt Berninger; I Can Go With You - Sam Burton
We're back with another monthly episode - if you haven't checked out our episode with Sinéad Gleeson, check out our feed.
This month we discuss...
TV:
Emily In Paris
The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
Trapped
BOOKS
By Patrick Freyne, Niamh Campbell, Delia Owens, Doireann Ni Ghriofa
MUSIC
Niamh Regan's 'Hemet'
Transmissions: The Music Of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
FILM
Host
Rialto
We're delighted to have author and editor Sinéad Gleeson on the episode this week. She tells us what she's been getting around to lately, and gives us an insight into her new short story anthology, The Art Of The Glimpse.
Among her picks:
Music: CMAT, Roisin Murphy, Denise Chaila
Books: Strangers by Rebecca Tamas; Recent Irish books by Elaine Feeney and Patrick Freyne; Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell
TV: Lovecraft Country, The Third Day
Film: Rialto
Find her on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/sineadgleeson. Author photo by Bríd O'Donovan.
Stephen Rennicks is the man behind the music on all of Lenny Abrahamson's films - like Garage and Frank, as well as his recent TV work on Normal People. On this week's episode we chat to him about his career, working in film, his directorial ambitions and more.
Plus - Aoife and Lauren chat about the Irish films Frank and Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe.
And as always, we give out a code for you to watch an Irish film on Volta.ie for FREE.
This is our final episode of our Volta.ie miniseries. Sponsored by Volta.ie but all opinions are ours.
The legendary Neil Jordan chats to us about the making of Breakfast on Pluto and his long career in the penultimate episode of our View It On Volta miniseries.
Plus, we discuss Breakfast on Pluto and how it holds up in 2020, and Dancing At Lughnasa, the film version of the Friel play. What's it like to watch it now? And as always, tune in for your code to watch one of these films for FREE on Volta.ie.
Sponsored by Volta.ie but all opinions are ours.
This week is all about documentaries:
Director Ross Whitaker chats to us this week about his documentary Katie, about the boxer Katie Taylor.
We chat about Katie and the doc It's Not Yet Dark, the incredibly moving documentary about filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice.
PLUS as always - our FREE code to watch one of this week's featured documentaries on Volta.ie. Enjoy!
Sponsored by Volta.ie, but all opinions ours.
We're delighted to have an interview with actor and screenwriter Mark O'Halloran on the podcast this week, for our fifth episode of our View It On Volta.ie miniseries.
Not only do we have the chat with Mark, but Aoife and Lauren discuss the films The Lobster and Viva (the latter of which Mark wrote).
Plus, we have a free code for you so you can stream one of the films in this week's category for free on Volta.ie. Nice.
Sponsored by Volta.ie but all opinions are ours.
We're back with a new monthly episode!
It features a track by the great Irish band Silverbacks (thanks folks) and we also chat about:
- I May Destroy You
- Pen15
- Relic
- Dark Waters
- Ida Lupino
- Guerilla Live
** Free movie stream on Volta.ie - code at the end of the episode **
We're halfway through our View It On Volta series, and we're delighted to have Emma Norton of Element Pictures on the podcast this week. She chats to us about one of this week's featured films, Rosie, as well as her work as an executive producer on Normal People.
Aoife and Lauren chat about the fantastic films Michael Inside (a true gem) and Rosie (a very affecting portrait of a family affected by homelessness). And you can watch one of the films for free on Volta.ie with the code we give out at the end.
Sponsored by Volta.ie, but all our own opinions.
**Free film stream for volta.ie included**
It's Female Focus week in our View It On Volta series, so we've two films directed by women which also have strong female protagonists. Yep, they pass the Bechdel Test. Phew.
We interview the director Neasa Hardiman and discuss her film Sea Fever - Lauren chats to her about everything from women in film to German expressionism.
We also chat about Kissing Candice, the debut feature by director Aoife McArdle. Plus, as always - your code to stream one of the films for **free**.
Episode sponsored by Volta.ie, but all opinions are ours.
*** FREE code to stream an Irish film on Volta.ie at the end of this episode ***
Remember how The Wind That Shakes The Barley had us all running to the cinema back in 2006? This week on our second sponsored View It On Volta episode, we take a look at the film - what it's like watching it 14 years later, how Ken Loach depicted Irish history, and more. We also chat to Maria O'Connor, who was the locations manager on the film and has lots of great anecdotes (and advice). Plus we chat about Black 47, another historical Irish film which looks at the Great Famine.
Check out all of the films in this week's category, On Location, by visiting www.volta.ie. And don't forget that free code :)Episode sponsored by Volta.ie, but all opinions are ours.
**Get your code for a free stream on Volta.ie at the end of this special episode**
Hello! We've teamed up with the Irish film site Volta.ie for 8 special episodes dedicated to Irish film. Each week we'll bring you a deep dive into two Irish films from one of eight categories (curated by The Light House Cinema's Charlene Lydon), an *exclusive* interview, and a code so you can watch a FREE film from that week's category.
This week we discuss debuts - we take a closer look at A Date For Mad Mary and Ailsa, and chat to the director of Ailsa, Rosie and I Went Down, Paddy Breathnach.
Get Around To It and View It With Volta - find out more here: https://www.volta.ie/#!/page/2493/view-it-on-volta. (This is a sponsored 8-part series but our opinions are our own.)
Happy mid-June! On this month's podcast one of our picks is the timely Little Fires Everywhere - we discuss how it highlights many of the current conversations happening around racism in the US (Black Lives Matter!). The Vast of Night is a film for you sci-fi fans and we talk about how it was made on a shoestring. We chat Ray Donovan and why it's not a big thing in Ireland, and review the new Rolling Blackouts CF album. We also recommend music from Denise Chaila, RSAG, Arlo Parks and Westerman. Plus we get around to some trashy TV with Selling Sunset and an amazing 2019 film The Farewell.
All this, plus our tips for the rest of the month (Tenet, Dating Amber, I May Destroy You, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga). And a special shoutout to a listener at the end. Join us for another month of Get Around To It.
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