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Ken Sweeney was interviewed on the Tom Dunne show last night to promote the upcoming rerelease of the Brian album ‘Understand’ on Needle Mythology. Expect to hear mentions of Setanta Records, George Byrne, Brian Wilson and more.. Ken also recently featured on the excellent ‘To Here Knows When‘ podcast. Brian (Ken Sweeney) – Tom Dunne […]
Our favourite podcast ‘To Here Knows When‘ continues to be a joy and a mine of information. In the most recent episode host Paul McDermott has an extensive chat with Ken Sweeney of Brian who’s 1992 Setanta album ‘Understand’ is about to be reissued on Needle Mythology. Ken details his early musical life which in […]
Formed in Belfast in 1990, Chimera were Eileen Henry (vocals), Ted Laverty (guitar), Steven T. Emerson (bass) and Willie Vincent (drums). The band released two albums, Lughnasa (1993) and Earth Loop (1996). They recorded a session for Dave Fanning in 1993 and Dan Hegarty repeated the following track on his show on May 20th 2025. […]
From Dublin, Talk To Strangers were from left to right: Pat Courtney (bass & vocals), Brian Downey (drums), Joe Staunton (guitar), TP McLoughlin (avid music fan), Peter Fitzpatrick (keyboards). Joe, Brian and Pat had all featured in The Alleycats, Joe and Brian were previously in Orphanage with Phil Lynott, Pat was previously in Sacre Bleu […]
Priceless Prize (2003) Tears On A Full Moon (2003) We’ve been sitting on this MiniDisc recording for at least a year without access to a MiniDisc player. Thanks to the efforts of a couple of kind souls we are delighted to finally be able to hear and share the remaining 2 tracks of the 2003 […]
The city of Derry is still reeling from the loss of one of it’s favourite sons. Vinny Cunningham, filmmaker, cameraman, photographer and producer died a week ago today after a short illness. Sometimes described as the unofficial sixth member of The Undertones, Vinny was a long time fan of the band coproducing the definitive document […]
From Dublin, Sunbear were Paul Kelly (guitar), Patrick Moran (drums), Colin Morris (bass) and Martin Kelly (vocals & guitar). They recorded this session for Dave Fanning in 1995 shortly after the release of their debut album. Engineer for the session was Phil Cook, producer was Ian Wilson. ‘Notebook’ was a regular feature on late night […]
No stranger round these parts, Cathal Funge popped up on our radar last year with an 8 part series for RTE Radio 1 in which he “uncovers the stories behind some of the most influential Irish recording companies of the past 100 years”. Ellen O’Byrne DeWitt, Irish Recording Company, Tradition Records, Major Minor Records, Chiswick […]
Listening recently to a 2007 tape of Donal Dineen hosting Alison Curtis TodayFM show ‘The Last Splash’ threw up this little gem. Limerick’s Windings performing ‘Little Hands’ as part of an acoustic session for Donal’s ‘Small Hours’ show recorded on December 8th 2006. Windings are Steven Ryan, Liam Marley, Patrick O’Brien, Mike Gavin and Brian […]
This 1990 Dave Fanning radio interview features David Long and Rachel Tighe of Into Paradise talking about the upcoming release of their debut album ‘Under The Water’ on Setanta Records. The album was recorded in London and produced by Adrian Borland of The Sound. Dave Long recently performed at the Bobstock Festival on Cape Clear […]
Echo and the Bunnymen, Iggy Pop, Guided by Voices, Shostakovich, Laurie Anderson, A House, charts, playlists, memories all feature in a very entertaining collection of essays on music ‘You spin me round – Essays on music’ recently published by PVA Books with the support of the Arts Council. There are essays from Ciaran Carson, Brian […]
Captain Hex were Eamonn Dowd (vocals & guitar), Declan O’Sullivan (keyboards), John Lalor (bass), Damien O’Meara (accordian), Karen Coleman (vocals) and Ray McCann (drums). Lalor & Dowd were previously of The Swinging Swine. This 1991 session for Dave Fanning was engineered by Paddy McBreen and produced by Ian Wilson. Two of the tracks featured on […]
Dan Hegarty recently hosted part 1 of a documentary series ‘The Story of 2FM’s Studio 8 Sessions‘ featuring NewDad, A House, Gemma Dunleavy, Scary Eire, Soak, & Noel Gallagher. The interviews with A House and Scary Eire were of particular interest to us as these were of course Fanning sessions. Fergal Bunbury and Dave Couse […]
This is Studio 8 Sessions Week on 2FM which means session action all across the station all this week. Dan Hegarty will be playing Fanning session tracks from the archive as well as part 1 of a documentary on the sessions on Wednesday at 8pm. Dave and Dan were guests of Laura Fox yesterday on […]
From Donegal, Quarterdeck were Lorraine Walls (vocals), Billy Robinson (bass), Shaun McCarron (sax), Paul Miller (keyboards), Laurence Doherty (drums) and Mick McCarney (guitar). Mick Harvey (Cast of Thousands) fronted an earlier iteration of the band. This tape is a charity shop find so details are non existent but it does sound like a radio broadcast. […]
Hailing from Ballyporeen in County Tipperary, Gemma Hayes released her debut single in 2001 and the album ‘Night On My Side’ followed a year later in 2002. This session track ‘Undercover’ recorded for an as yet unkown RTE 2fm show in 2005 featured on The Alternative with Dan Hegarty in June 2023. Gemma is about […]
Ten Speed Racer are teasing some digital reissues from the vaults (‘Girls and Magazines’ EP for a start by the looks of the promo video). We decided to look in our own archives and have found a 2002 BBC 6Music session for Gideon Coe. In 2023 Ten Speed Racer digitally released their debut album ‘Eskimo […]
From Dublin, Guernica were Joe Rooney (vocals), Ciarán Ó Sullivan (bass), Alan Malone (drums), Derek Turner (guitar, vocals) and Ray McCarthy (guitar, synths). In 1987 Alan and Ciarán left and Derek Lee (bass) and Dara Broe (drums) joined. This session was recorded for Dave Fanning in April 1986. Guernica are currently working on a retrospective, […]
One of the most successful and at the same time overlooked of the Northern Irish punk bands, Ruefrex were formed in 1977 and released their debut single ‘One By One’ on Good Vibrations in 1979. It was to take some 4 years before they were invited to record a session for Dave Fanning which they […]
April 1st 2024 sees the return of the Willie Barrett Reunion in the Nerve Centre featuring Bam Bam & The Calling, Tie The Boy, Jim Walker of Cast of 1000s and a host of other names from Derry’s musical past and present. One act unfortunately not on the bill is Kitsch Is Rich. Winners of […]
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