A couple of weeks back had the pleasure of talking to one of my oldest friends from back in the day. The highly talented fashion photographer Evan Doherty. Evan can be easily described as one of Ireland leading fashion and commercial photographers. He has stacked up a fantastic portfolio of work that counts enormous brands such as H&M, Jameson Whiskey, Bulmers and RTE, and high-class models and celebrities such as Ros Purcell and Conor McGregor, to name but a few, as clients of ...
About five weeks ago, I had the fantastic opportunity to talk to an artist who I'm following at the moment—the fantastic collage artist Sorcha O Higgins. Before we sat down to do a zoom call, I had never met Sorcha before, so it was fun to interview her and learn more about her work. The images she creates are fun, colourful pieces that are full of humour. They pop from the page when you see them. Check Sorchas work out by following the links below. She works with many other mediu...
About two-week ago, I had the chance to catch up with one of my longest and closest friends, the legend who goes by the name of Barry Lennon. I've known now Barry since primary school days and as long as I have known him, Barry has also been involved with and pushing forward various exciting and creative projects. Currently, he is the Director of the enormous nationwide event called the ''Irish Youth Music Awards''. The IYMA'S are a youth music education programme. Its main a...
A few weeks ago now, I was delighted with the chance to talk to a good friend and all-around legend, Eoin ''Fuz'' Reilly. I've known Fuz for a long time now. He was never too far away when we both played in Galway with numerous bands back in the day. He's a great guy and someone who has a big heart, who now finds himself in one of the most exciting bands coming out of Ireland at the moment, Slyrydes. Having released a string of excellent singles over the last while, the band has ...
Just towards the end of February this year, I had the pleasure of having a great chat with the legend that is ''Midnight Wayne''. Midnight Wayne, also known as Wayne Soper, used the front of the brilliant Dublin band ''The Hot Sprockets''. The Sprockets were a tight-knit gang in the truest sense of the word. They looked great and had the tunes to back it up. Together for nearly 15 years, the band released three studio albums and toured extensively all over. Just over two years ago, the...
About six weeks ago, I enjoyed having a fun chat with the fantastic Lana Mcghee towards the end of February.One half of the tremendous clothing range with a difference ''Beannantees''. Along with Bessie mate Ciara Gallagher, the duo have set up a fun clothing range that, in their own words, is '' a range of empowering apparel for Wild Irish Women (or whoever the hell wants to wear them)'' The designs are fun and have a lot of humour to them. But the girls also donate a percentag...
Before Christmas last year, I met up with Dublin based producer Dan Doherty down at his recording studio, ''Darkland Audio''. Located in the creative hub known as ''The Chocolate Factory'' Dan has worked hard over the years to set up and create one of the best new studios in the city. And I was delighted that he took time out from his busy schedule to allow me to come down have a chat. Dan and I go way back. We were in various bands together (Sickboy / Ghost Estates) for ten plus...
Back at the beginning of the year, in mid-January. In the depths of winter and lockdown 3, I had the pleasure of having a lovely, funny and engaging chat with the fantastic Dublin based artist Leah Hewson. Leah is a mover and shaker at the moment in the modern art world in both Ireland and abroad, and I was delighted that she gave me her time. Her style is abstract geometrical patterns and textures and bright, vibrant colours. She is influenced by studies of human behaviour and the unco...
Late last year, around September, I sat down with the multi-talented, all-round legend Garr Cleary. Garr is multi-talented and is always up to something. He is a cameraman by trade but is also a musician and a lecture in Dublin TU. He is full of energy and always has a million and one projects on the go, and I was grateful that he took time out to have a chat. We touched on a wide range of topics over some home-cooked apple crumble and had a good laugh in the process. Enjo...
Hello, welcome to a new podcast called 'Life's Questions, Answered''. My name is Colm Giles, and over the next while, I'm going to be sitting down and having conversations with various guests who are all one way or another creative people The aim of the podcast is too to have enjoyable and funny conversations with cool and interesting people. Simple !! I will be using my own version of the Proust questionnaire to get our guests to open up and have fun. The first guest we h...