The Human Recommendation - Interviews

The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on Flirt FM 101.3 in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to chat with Jenn and Dunstan from synth-heavy bilingual band Fauxcils. 

This creative duo hail from Sudbury, Ontario and have just released their third single from their upcoming album which will be a physical release also. In a very pleasant conversation, they spoke about their artistic project, the tragic passing of Jenn's brother Josh who was a friend of Dunstan too, turning devastation and grief into something positive, their love of David Lynch, making music and much more.
The interview contains two of their tracks, "Tears of Paint" and "In Light"

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to chat with Laura Balboa, a Zapotec-Mexican
immigrant who has been living in Sweden for the past thirteen years. 
Laura is an independent researcher, interaction designer, radio producer, media artist and friend.
In the recent years, she has engaged in research on how sound experimentation exists and resists in the Mexican context as the producer and host of "Bulla" Radio On Radio Nopal. She has reached the milestone of broadcasting 100 episodes and she explains the inspiration behind the project. 

(Also an accompanying written piece here)

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to chat with husband-and-wife duo Neil Bednis and Melanie St. Pierre-from Canadian indie rock group Casper Skulls. (Fraser McClean is the other member of the trio)
One of the most exciting emerging Canadian bands, these lovely folks spoke about returning to their hometown of Sudbury Ontario, raising a child while juggling recording music, challenges of touring, D.I.Y, building community around music and much more! 

Music featured includes The Science of Dichotomies from their first album 'Mercy Works' and "Dying in Eight Verses" form their new upcoming Kit-Cat which is available April 11th via Next Door Records.

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https://casperskulls.bandcamp.com/music

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to chat with Eddie Hennessy (lead vocals/guitar and lyricist) for Chicago rock band The Dead Bolts.
In a fun conversation, we spoke about Chicago, its sports teams including the next prospects for the Bulls and White Sox, the band, their sophomore
album, ‘Bèau Mondè’ and their D.I.Y drive, and more!
The interview also features their tracks '"IDCIYDC" and "Promised Land"
Steam their album and follow the band on Instagram and go catch them live!

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to chat with The Hausplants who are an exciting indie post-punk band based in Vancouver, Canada. Hailing from Iran, Mongolia, and Minnesota, USA, their sound synthesizes their diverse musical and cultural backgrounds.

In this interview we spoke about how the band got together, living in Vancouver, the local music scene, playing together in the studio versus live, releasing new music and much more, it was such a fun conversation.
The interview includes their songs "Edge of the world" and "Hypocrite"
Band website https://thehausplants.com/

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to chat with Runway Lights, a five-piece indie rock band from Dublin.
Louise O’Hanlon provides the vocals, brothers Shane and Oisin O’Neill are on guitars and a rhythm section of Colm Keenan (drums) and Ronan Parker (bass). They released their debut EP “What Defines a Villain” in 2019 to critical acclaim but further plans were delayed by the global lock down in 2020. 

They are back with a new single and album on the way. We spoke about Dublin, being a musician, the creative process, releasing music, the music industry and much more. 
Have a listen! 

Music featured 'Before The Storm' which is available on all streaming services.

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. 

But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to converse with Emile Milgrim, drummer with Las Nubes a multilingual Punk/ Alternative rock band from Miami, Florida. According to Iggy Pop, "they are far and away the hottest band in Miami, and the most socially relevant"
Emile spoke about the making of current album 'Tormentas Malsanas' which is available in Europe from SpindaRecords, their career so far,  the ups and downs of releasing music pre and post Covid, D.I.Y, music influences including The Replacements and Broken Social Scene and much more.
Episode features tracks "The weeks that followed" and "Would Be" .
Las Nubes music

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe.
But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to converse with Kat Five aka. Terry Tyldesley, who is a musician, music and tech consultant, creative technologies producer and blogger, who works with artists, entrepreneurs and organisations.

We spoke about the music industry, grass roots, making music, D.I.Y, the hope for Subvert which is a collectively owned Bandcamp successor and Generative A.I. and more. The episode features a song from Feral Five, her collaboration with Drew Five, called "Truth Is The New Gold"

Check out more on Subvert, https://subvert.fm/  and get involved!

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe.
But in this special interview side project episode, host Damien had to opportunity to converse with Julieta Heredia, who is a founding member and guitarist with Argentinian band Fin del Mundo.
Julieta talks about music, growing up in Tierra del Fuego, forming a band, being part of an underground scene in Buenos Aires and life in Argentina.

Also, their album 'Hicimos crecer un bosque' is available from Spinda Records
and watch back on their phenomenal performance on KEXP

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The Human Recommendation is a biweekly radio show on FlirtFm 101.3 FM showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe.
But in this special interview side project, host Damien had to opportunity to converse with Ferdia Gibbons from Blonde, an alternative rock quartet from deepest, darkest West Cork. Founded in 2023, Blonde comprises of Aaron Crowley, hitting the drums as hard as he can, Cathal O’Regan, playing lead bass and providing beautiful harmonies and counter melodies, Harold Paulino, shredding the lead guitar to pieces and Ferdia Gibbons, spitting out love songs whilst keeping the rhythm guitar moving

In this episode Ferdia speaks about juggling college and music, being a musician in 2025, social media and A.I and their impact on music/creativity.
Ferdia also performs a wonderful acoustic version of their first single Mariana in Irish.
This episode was recorded at Flirt FM studio, Galway and also features their second single 'La la la' and their new single 'Toast' which will be released the 11th February.

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