The Paul McLoone Show

Cherym pronounced CHAIR M, are a young punky band from Derry, some amazing talent rocketing out of Paul McLoone's hometown at the moment. 

The band came in to record especially for Paul. They have just joined show favourites Ash, Ryan Vail, Rosborough Wood Burning Savages and a heap more being nominated for Northern Ireland Music Awards for Song of the Year 2018. 

Listen above to their session for Paul McLoone.

Join Paul weeknights 9pm for the very best in local and international alternative music.  

The amazing Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever band arrived into town a few weeks back and popped into Marconi House to record a blistering session for Paul McLoone.

The Australian 5 piece have been touring Europe extensively to promote their debut album 'Hope Downs' which has become a firm favourite on The Paul McLoone Show. 

You can listen to their session by clicking the link above.

The Paul McLoone Show Monday to Thursday, 9 - Midnight. 

Conor O'Brien and Villagers are back, the release of their latest album imminent. In fact 'The Art Of Pretending How To Swim' will be released in just 3 weeks time! 

Villagers came into record a special McLoone Session and you can listen to the tracks by clicking the link above. 

Check out the stunning new video for new single 'Hurt' here.

The Paul McLoone Show Monday - Thursday 9pm - Midnight. 

Paul McLoone picked up the phone and had a chat with Irish superstar Roisin Murphy about her latest adventure into podcasting, plus of course they caught up about her latest releases, touring and collaborations. 

Listen to their chat above, don't miss the part where she promises to takeover The Paul McLoone Show in the very near future. We cannot wait! 

Read more about the Heineken Sync Sessions here. Listen to Roisin's first episode with Groove Armada by clicking this link; 

Roisin Murphy Sync Sessions Episode One

Tom @GrooveArmada was so lovely and interesting to talk to, from jazz funk to @djHarveymusic, from making dance albums before anyone thought of such a thing, to running a festival, oh and Ibiza! https://t.co/croWxcU0y3

— Roisin Murphy (@roisinmurphy) August 20, 2018

 

Heineken® Live Your Music Presents  

The Sync Sessions with Róisín Murphy  

 A brand-new six-part podcast series which explores the power music has to bring us together with some of the world's most inspiring artists 

 

Debut episode featuring electrofunk superstar duo Groove Armada 

  

Tuesday, 7th August: International pop icon Róisín Murphy has teamed up with Heineken® Live Your Music to create a new music podcast titled The Sync Sessions. The debut episode, released today on multiple podcast apps including the iTunes and Android players, features electrofunk superstars Groove Armada. Hosted by Murphy, the show explores the music's power to connect us with new people, fresh perspectives and life changing experiences. 

 

The Sync Sessions with Róisín Murphy, a six-part podcast series with one episode released each month, sees Murphy interview international artists and take a deep dive into their own personal musical journey to date. The artists will also choose ten genre-spanning tracks that were hugely influential in their career and explore the amazing things that can happen when music brings people together – at a gig, a festival, in the studio, anywhere. These songs will then be added to The Sync Sessions playlist on Róisín's own Spotify channel for listeners of the podcast to check out.  

Everyone is raving about Roisin's new podcast. Paul McLoone caught up with her about it and so much more.

 

The Limerick natives have just released a cover version of Dreams by The Cranberries to honour their hero Dolores O’Riordan. 

Listen above to their session for Paul McLoone. 

They are playing at Electric Picnic on Other Voices Stage and also making an appearance at Fat Puppy Party on Saturday night of EP. 

All this before embarking on a big tour of the UK before returning home to play The Workmans Club Dublin on November 2nd, Dolans Limerick 3rd November and Cyprus Avenue Cork on 4th November.

We love them, and this McLooneSession is pretty purely brilliant...! 

The McLoone Sessions Wednesdays 9pm

 

Gavin Glass is one of our faves and an all round sound guy. 

He came in to record for Paul recently. Have a listen to the podcast above.

Don't forget his album is out now.

The McLoone Sessions air Wednesdays 9 to Midnight. 

 

@GavinGlassMusic playing a blinder of a set @whelanslive tonight! Well done to you sir! New Opus Pocus album available via mail order now! #gavinglass #localsonly #opuspocus #whelans pic.twitter.com/eBn5iCpxet

— Shane Alger (@AlgerShane) July 13, 2018

About his latest Album. 

Opus Pocus. What the hell does that mean? Let’s break it down. Opus is Latin for work. Pocus speaks of conjuring, and magic. We’re talking about a work of magic, which is what the new long player from   Gavin Glass surely is. A deliberate step away from his folk-rock roots into more experimental, and interesting, territory, while retaining his old school song writing nous.

We’re a long way from Gavin’s last effort, 2015’s universally acclaimed Sunday Songs. The new record is twain in two: Side A is entitled ‘Opus Pocus, Side B is ‘Algorhythm & Blues’. Gavin used the term Opus Pocus in the studio (his office for the last ten years as one of Ireland’s most in-demand record producers) to describe the relentless, oft-times impossible, artistic striving towards perfection, towards creating that magic work.

“It’s something I’ve come to realise only recently, we put too much emphasis on crafting the perfect record, the perfect piece of art, second guessing ourselves and wallowing in self-doubt. In reality, the beauty is always in the cracks, the perfection is in the imperfection, music is this great healer and Opus Pocus is about learning to embrace that idea.”

The album is mixed in a way that bleeds each song into the next, using widescreen interludes designed to tempt the listener off the beaten track and in to the long grass.

“I wanted these interludes, the music in between the music, to represent the idea of technology, and how, despite its power to connect, it can leave us feeling alone and alienated. Judged, ranked and graded by our own volition.”

The lyrical content, the equal of Glass’s compositional and production skills, ranges from the enforced maturity brought on by parenthood to the realities of city life for Dublin’s Generation Xers as middle age encroaches, and the devastation wrought by a parent disappearing in to Alzheimer’s. If you’re after some ‘moon in June’ action, seek it elsewhere, although there are a few love songs thrown in, just in case.

The two singles – ‘Break Your Daddy’s Heart’ and ‘Thirty Somethings’ – have already picked up a deservedly hefty amount of airplay from the national broadcaster, both topping the Irish radio airplay charts.

We Cut Corners recorded a gorgeous session for Paul McLoone.

It includes latest single The Specialist.

THE SPECIALIST is the lead song from the group's anticipated fourth L.P, IMPOSTORS, due for release in October, 2018. Their first three albums were all nominated for the CHOICE MUSIC PRIZE Album of the Year

Check out the podcast above and join Paul weeknights from 9 for all your alternative music needs! 

 

We're in session tonight on the @PMcLoone show on @TodayFM playing some new songs, captured by audio-alchemist @gavinblake!Tune in x

— wecutcorners (@wecutcorners) August 1, 2018

Melts  are a new band on the Irish music scene. Some of them you may know from being a part of the now disbanded North Sea!

Melts seem to have a case full of tunes to showcase and we were delighted to bring them in to record for #TheMcLooneSessions. 

You can listen to the session by clicking the press play button above. 

The Paul McLoone Show Monday to Thursday, 9 to Midnight 

#TheMusicSpecialist 

 

Hadn't heard Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever until now on @PMcLoone show, pure class, playing Whelans next month, do ya's need support then or whats the craic? @rollingbcf

— MELTS (@wearemelts) July 25, 2018

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