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This weekend Westlife kicked off their Irish tour dates with two sold out shows in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, proving that the boyband is one of the most enduringly popular musical creations. Music Journalist Andrea Cleary joins Dave to talk about the evolution of the boyband!

Irish Singer-Songwriter, Imelda May, chats to Dave about an album she loves – In Full Colour by Declan O’Rourke

The Galway International Arts Festival is kicking off this week and, as part of it, there’s a show happening called Muc Rí. It’s being described as like a graphic novel on stage with the atmosphere of a rock concert right in the heart of Galway. Dave chats to writer and director of the show Philip Doherty

This week will see the 45-year anniversary issue of Hot Press magazine hit the stands. Pat Carty from Hot Press talks to Dave about some of the standout interviews and content that have graced the iconic pages of the Irish magazine

Kate Bush is getting her moment in the sun with Running Up That Hill topping the charts over the past couple of weeks. She is going to be celebrated once again later this month in The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever event, happening on Saturday 30th of July in Fairview Park, Dublin. Organiser Joey Kavanagh joins Dave to tell him all about it

Politics rarely gets more dramatic than Boris Johnson’s week in Westminster. Government resignations always cause high drama. Graham Finlay, lecturer in Politics in UCD, talks to Dave about some of the most famous political goodbyes

Penguins and Otters in a Japanese aquarium refusing to eat cheaper fish, breed of spider has uncanny resemblance to face on Pringles can and Fortune Teller Mystic Veg using asparagus to predict next UK Prime Minister... It’s Aifric’s stories of the week!

At Null Stern Hotel you can enjoy a hotel room with no roof or walls, just the backdrop of the Swiss countryside. This year the creators of this hotel experience have added a new ‘anti-idyllic’ room option, which encourages guests to reflect on the current state of our world. Dave chats to Hotelier Daniel Charbonnier to find out more about it

With social media, it has never been easier to share our thoughts on artists and their music. Similarly, artists have never been as exposed to what fans think of their work. James Vincent McMorrow recently shared he’s been affected in the past when his musics been misunderstood. Dave talks to him about the impact comments can have on an artist

Laurent Garnier relives the rise of the techno music revolution he was at the centre of, as shown in the documentary 'Laurent Garnier: Off The Record'.