The Thin Air Podcast

The premiere episode of the Thin Air Podcast Season 2 features Kerry's finest singer-songwriter Junior Brother.  With his debut album Pull The Right Rope recently named the Thin Air 2019 album of the year, Ronan Kealy speaks to Danny Carroll about the song's origin and recording process.  We also hear from the song's producer Chris Barry (Ailfionn Studios), as well as cellist Claire Kinsella (Lemoncello).

Music Featured:

1. The Back Of Her (2018)

2. Hungover At Mass (2017)

3. You Make A Fine Picture (2016)

4. The Back Of Her Demo (2016)

5. Parasite - Nick Drake (1972)

6. Solid Air (live) - John Martyn (1978)

7. Sprout And The Bean - Joanna Newsom (2004)

Presented & Produced by Danny Carroll

The Thin Air podcast returns with a distinguished elder statesman of indie rock - David Gedge of The Wedding Present. John Peel favourites and jangle-pop pioneers The Wedding Present emerged from Leeds in the late 1980s with their scrappy and lyrical debut album 'George Best'. A unique blend of bitter melodrama and everyday mundanity, it's an urgent record that revels in the melancholy of small town life.

From their C86 roots the band went to be bona fide indie-popstars, charting no less than 12 singles in the UK top 40 in 1992, and becoming a regular anomaly in the shiny world of Top Of The Pops. To date Gedge has released nine albums under the Wedding Present name, with most recent LP 'Going, Going...' sounding as vital and clever as their earliest material. For the Thin Air podcast, David Gedge spoke to Danny Carroll in the midst of a 'George Best' 30th anniversary tour. Looking back on the debut album, he speaks about the personal nature of the songs, the development of the band's sound and the connection between his past and present.

This week Danny Carroll meets Antrim singer-songwriter Stevie Scullion (Malojian).  From his home studio, Stevie talks about the album's title track 'Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home'.  Clocking in at nearly six minutes, the song is a Grandaddy inspired epic, featuring bubbling keyboards, strings, brass, and layer upon layer of vocals.  For the Thin Air podcast, we hear about the song's evolution, featuring an early demo, and listening to elements of the finished song in isolation.

Danny Carroll meets Dublin folk miscreants Lankum to discuss their mournfully epic song 'Granite Gaze'. Along with producer Spud, the group talk through the lyrical origins of the song, listen back to an early demo, and highlight individual elements of the song's swelling arrangement.

Yoni Wolf, singer and songwriter with the Cincinnati group Why? speaks to Danny Carroll for the Thin Air Podcast. Ahead of returning to Ireland, to play the Button Factory (September 17th) and Roisin Dubh (September 19th), Wolf chats about his early attempts at rapping, articulating anxiety and his recent attempts to convey positivity in song.

The interview was recorded at the Glasgow CCA - 8th June 2017.

Songs featured:

Singer-songwriter Paddy Hanna is joined by producer Daniel Fox in discussing his song 'Bad Boys' with Danny Carroll for the Thin Air Podcast.  The song features on Paddy's excellent second album 'Frankly, I Mutate'.

Greta Kline speaks to Danny Carroll for the Thin Air Podcast.

Song snippets featured:

1. Ur Up (Vessel - 2018)

2. Birthday Song (Zentropy - 2014)

3. Fool (Next Thing - 2016)

4. Too Dark (Affirms Glinting - 2014)

5. Too Dark (Next Thing - 2016)

6. Is It Possible/Sleep Song (Next Thing - 2016)

7. Jesse (Vessel - 2018)

8. Being Alive (Vessel - 2018)

9. Correctly demo (Affirms Glinting - 2014)

Singer-songwriter Paddy Hanna is joined by producer Daniel Fox in discussing his song 'Bad Boys' with Danny Carroll for the Thin Air Podcast.  The song features on Paddy's excellent second album 'Frankly, I Mutate'.