Tongue & Axe

Hosts: Lucy Kannan, Susan Kate, and Bill Sharpe with Lou Conrad

Melissa Nolan is a fabulous stage and film actress based in Dublin, Ireland. She has most recently been preparing for STRIKE by Tracey O'Flatherty. Will premiere in Samuel Beckett Theatre at Trinity College on 24-29th May.

She has been performing since she was a child. She went to a stage school called Diggs Lane, now called The National Performing Arts School. It is owned by Jill Doyle and Eamonn Farrell (Colin Farrell's brother). There, she took modern dance, singing, tap and speech and drama.

She holds an H.Dip in Theatre Studies from University College Dublin, a Licenciate Diploma in Speech & Drama from The Leinster School of Music & Drama, holds credits with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat Exam Certified - Broadsword & Unarmed Combat.

She is currently taking a Masters in Performance Drama in University College Dublin, looking at Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce and Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire through the framework of carnivalesque and the physcology of narrative. This thesis will explore the dynamics and background of people who have suffered and have been forgotten as Ireland's social and ecomonic structures were developing; those that society labelled anonymous.

http://melissanolan.webs.com/

www.youtube.com/melissanolan

http://www.piehole.ie/melissanolan

Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Lou Conrad

Geoff Koch (pronounced: Cook) joins us today from Los Angeles. He has been producing a lot, lately, for his wife, Kellie Coffey, who was Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female in 2003. Geoff stays quite busy not only as a producer, but also as a singer, songwriter, actor, screenwriter, and jingle writer, among other things! Can YOU imagine being the one to write a jingle for “Fuddrucker’s”? Or perhaps you need a way to convince your child that taking a bath can be FUN! Geoff has done it all! Let’s hear what HE has to say!

Songs featured in this episode:

Forever After

I’m Still Here

Why I’m Alive

Bath Time

Snobs

http://www.geoffkoch.com

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462307/

http://www.rocksugarband.com/

http://kelliecoffey.com

http://www.myspace.com/kelliecoffeyartistpage

http://www.tippytoetoons.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tippytoetoons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfGqOx2iDQ

Host: Lucy Kannan with Lou Conrad

In this episode, Calvin Cockrell speaks of the changes in attitudes and messages presented throughout the last few decades of what he refers to as 'the Bastard Child' of the music industry, rap and hip-hop music. Merely an introduction to the many aspects of the culture, he also briefly touches on the murders of several artists that still remain unsolved. As underground as the language within the culture, Cockrell's expertise comes from his own experiences in radio, and later as a producer and performer in gospel and R&B...

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Length: 1:05:03

Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Lou Conrad

Today, we have with us John Cusimano & James “Roto” Rotondi of The Cringe, out of New York. Remaining band members, Shawn Pelton and Jonny Matias were unable to join us today. Learn lots of secrets about band during this interview! Some fans submitted questions for us to ask the band. There are a lot of mentions of food in this interview. One of the reasons may be that John Cusimano is married to TV cooking/talkshow host, Rachael Ray. Another reason is that the guys just REALLY enjoy their food, even to the point of blind-folded TASTE-TESTING!! By the way, this interview reveals that Roto has secret, supernatural gifts. Find out what they are! In fact, each band member adds quite interesting, individual dimensions to this Rock, Alternative, Indie band called The Cringe. Listen, learn, and enjoy! Buon appetito!!

Songs featured in this episode:

No Control

Where It Hurts

Hiding Space

Poison (Rachael Ray’s current fav of The Cringe)

www.thecringe.com

www.myspace.com/thecringe

www.facebook.com/thecringe

www.twitter.com/thecringe

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Next Show: Cafe 939 at Berklee in Boston, MA 8:00 PM Thursday, April 15, 2010

Keep up with more tour dates on their websites listed above!

Also, on June 19, don’t miss The Cringe at the RR Feedback Event in Brooklyn

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Audible recommendation: James Rotondi: Consider the Lobster written AND read by David Foster Wallace

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Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Lou Conrad

Tongue & Axe is proud to present the “Master of the Universe” Himself, Fiach Moriarty, who currently has the #1 CD in Tower Records in Dublin, Ireland! Known in the music world simply as “Fiach”, this Dubliner has even seen his debut CD, ‘So I’ become the #1 Album of the Week last week on RTÉ Radio 1! When Fiach is not making music or traveling to or from gigs, he catches some well-deserved shut-eye, and gets in the occasional game of Gaelic Football. Fluent in his country’s native tongue, Fiach has also written songs in Irish, and has some of those songs included on several the “Ceol” albums which feature Ireland’s best known musicians singing only in Irish. Playing his beautiful Takamine guitar, fondly named Byoncé, Fiach plays a lot of gigs as “special guest” to his friend, Declan O’Rourke. An extremely talented musician whose #1 love has always been music, Fiach will certainly capture your attention and your heart. Now that he is being introduced to the world through his first album, he is already working on a second one, which is sure to delight music lovers yet again. Ladies and gentlemen: FIACH.

Songs featured in this episode:

You Dear

Stop

Too Many Years

Every Single Day

Head to iTunes to download Fiach’s debut CD, “So I”!

For a physical copy of the album, you'll find it here: http://www.essentialirish.com/product.php?intProductID=583

You can find more of Fiach at:

www.fiach.net

www.myspace.com/fiachmusic

Video of Fiach singing his “Saol Faoin Bhfód” with Irish rappers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbiiiyEd-ro

Music review of “Every Single Day” http://musicreviewunsigned.com/38.html

The RTÉ show he recently did with Manchán Magan http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arena/

Video of another Fiach great, 'Letting go' from Whelans gig and some tour stuff by the great Bob Kelly: http://vimeo.com/10526099.

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Length: 1:04:58

Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Lou Conrad

We are very excited to bring you Pat O'Connor, directly from Dublin, where she instills the love of music into the hearts of her students. She plays many instruments, including one in common with Susan Kate: the bodhrán. The love of music that Pat has shines through in her words and compositions. We also get a treat at the end of her interview, when we get to hear her own father sings Isle of Inishfree!

Song List:

The Elves March

Donal A Stor, Granny Mightn't Agree

If You're Not Half Dead, It's a Good Day

Isle Of Inishfree

Today, Susan Kate's pick for an audio book is Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. A highly adventurous, Irish boy-genius, Artemis Fowl, invites the listener to eavesdrop on his adventures. Download and listen TODAY! Get this or any o over 75,000 titles for free at http://audiblepodcast.com/sdnet

You can find Pat O'Connor at: http://www.mad4trad.eu

Length: 1:02:08

Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Lou Conrad

Read much? They do- This is for the record: Joe would NOT prefer to play video games about rock climbing when he can actually go rock climbing... Are nannies really real?... Can IRA guys really go undercover as band front men- no wait, would it be the other way around? We are not wrong to think that sooner or later someone we know is going to create a beautiful instrumental piece to go with oh, say, some NASA footage or something cool like that... If that isn't enough, they have a cd coming out in just a few weeks! This City of Takers- if you don't want your heart stolen, lock it down!

http://thiscityoftakers.com

http://myspace.com/thiscityoftakers

http://twitter.com/cityoftakers

http://youtube.com/thiscityoftakers

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Length: 1:36:01

Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Toby Sauser

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For Episode 16, Tongue & Axe is lucky to bring you St. Louis’ very own Geoff Koch (pronounced Jeff Coke). Geoff, with his eloquent gift of gab, reminisces about his time in Nashville, where he recorded his third CD with some very talented & well-known studio musicians. He also mentions that he may be getting ready to do another tour, this time in the USA Midwest Region. He might even be coming to a venue near YOU! Keep up with tour dates on his MySpace site!

Songs featured in this episode:

Oh, Tonight

Chasing After You

Pro War

Christian Boys

In addition to being able to find & download his music on iTunes, you can check out his info at:

www.myspace.com/geoffreykochmusic

www.sonicbids.com/geoffkoch

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geoff-Koch/196288163217?ref=ts

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/GeoffKoch

http://www.last.fm/music/Geoff+Koch

Length: 1:16:22

Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Lou Conrad

Guests: Phil Strangman and Paul Maguire of HUMDRUM

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Joining us for this episode are Phil Strangman and Paul Maguire of the band HUMDRUM. Discussions include personal endeavors, philosophy, previous band affiliations, and their group’s song-writing dynamic. Songs played today are: Kaleidoscope, I’m In Love With a Mermaid, Sound, and Fantasy.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/HUMDRUM/85727319293

http://myspace.com/humdrumsound

Buy the cd at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/humdrummusic

Bananas Comics at http://thecurrentonline.com

album art - ericridge.com

Michelle - The City of Takers - http://www.thecityoftakers.com - CD release April 2nd @ vintage Vinyl

Eleven Magazine - http://elevenmusicmag.com/

Sleepy Kitty - http://www.myspace.com/sleepykittymusic

Length: 1:30:19

Tongue & Axe features band interviews and their music, also panel discussions with musicians, managers, scouts, producers, fans- to talk about the industry, contracts, studio mishaps, big shows and more.