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Songs to Learn and Sing
by Paul McDermott
Thursdays @ Midnight, 103.2 Dublin City FM
Episodes
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From the Archives - Jim Rose and Preacher Muad'dib
“PT Barnan meets John Waters with women Sumo wrestling and Mexican transvestite wrestling… It’s thrills, chills and doctor pills, a ticket’s good for a seat but you will only use the edge, it’s high flying bone-jarring excitement, not since Christians were fed to the lions has there been a show...
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The High Country - Willy Vlautin Interview
Last week Willy Vlautin was in Dublin on his way to the Galway Arts Festival to do a reading with Roddy Doyle and play a gig. We had a quick chat about The High Country, the forthcoming Richmond Fontaine album. The High Country is described as "a song-novel, in which a gripping tale is spun with...
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From the Archives - The Belles Interview
Omertá the debut album by The belles was released in March 2004 and I interviewed Chris Tolle, the band’s singer and guitarist, for Songs To Learn And Sing when they were gigging in Ireland that year. Chris chatted about growing up in a small University town in the U.S. Midwest, American novelist...
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From the Archives - James Yorkston Interview
I've just finished reading It's lovely to be Here: the Touring Diaries of a Scottish Gent by James Yorkston. It's a great read and is up there with recent excellent music memoirs by Dean Wareham and Luke Haines. This tour diary is made even more enjoyable because James describes towns and venues…
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From the Archives - All's Fair in Love and Vinyl
I was at the Music, CD and Record Fair last Saturday and picked up a few gems. The record fair is staged in Dublin a few times a year and is a mecca for vinyl enthusiasts. Back in 2004 I produced a feature on the record fair for Segments, a radio show I co-produced for Dublin City FM. Segments…
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From the Archives - Mazarin Interview
Mazarin played the Sugar Club, Dublin on April 5, 2006 in support of their amazing third album We’re Already There. Before the gig I interviewed Mazarin’s principal member and songwriter, Quentin Stoltzfus. We chatted about Quentin’s background, his work with other bands in Philadelphia, his...
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From the Archives - Trashcan Sinatras Interview
The Trashcan Sinatras played an instore gig in Tower Records, Dublin on June 2, 2005. I spoke to the band's guitarist John Douglas after the performance about their fourth album, Weightlifting and the long gap between its release and A Happy Pocket in 1996. "We were way off the radar," said John,...
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From the Archives - Clayhill Interview
A number of months ago I played The Dream Academy's version of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want on the show but an even better version of the song can be found on Clayhill's 2005 Acoustic record. Clayhill's cover also plays over the final scene of Shane Meadows' This Is England.…
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From the Archives - Man or Astro-man? Interview
Birdstuff: "It's the opposite of Milli Vanilli – we're a live, loud, rowdy, rock band that is trying to make people think that the music is being controlled by a computer." Man or Astroman? played Dublin on 23 January 2000. I spoke with Birdstuff, the band’s drummer and spokesperson before their...
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From the Archives - The National Interview
This interview with the National's Matt Berninger is from November 19, 2005. The band had just released their third album, Alligator and were back in Ireland for the first time in three years. In late 2005 the band were on a bit of a role. Having signed to Beggars Banquet they had a recording...
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From the Archives - Caribou Interview
Next up from the archives is an interview with Dan Snaith, aka Caribou which was recorded in 2005 around time his The Milk of Human Kindness album was released. We are huge fans of The Free Design here at Songs To Learn And Sing so it was really sad to hear of the recent death of Chris Dedrick.…
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From the Archives - Boom Bip Interview
I chatted to Byran Hollon aka Boom Bip when he played in the Temple Bar Music Centre in Dublin back in April 2005. Blue Eyed in the Red Room was just out and we chatted about the music that Byran was introduced to as a child. “The music that was in our house was actually a lot of old country…
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From the Archives - Cocorosie Interview
I chatted to Bianca and Sierra Casady in 2005 before their debut Dublin show. Noah’s Ark, the band’s second album, had just been released and the gig that night was truly memorable for the band’s incredibly original performance. You simply didn’t know what was coming next. Earlier in the day when…
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From the Archives - Al James of Dolorean Interview
Al supported Damien Jurado on his On My Way To Absence tour in 2005. Prior to playing in Whelans I spoke to Al about Dolorean's Violence In The Snowy Fields album. The gig was spellbinding and included a fantastic version of Dolorean's Hannibal, MO, the standout track from the band's first album...
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From the Archives - Boa Morte Interview
Boa Morte have just released their second album, The Dial Waltz, so it was great when Cormac Gahan from the band came in for an interview a few weeks ago to chat about the record. Cormac picked some great music to play on the episode, including tracks by Icelanders Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hildur...
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From the Archives - Adrian Crowley Interview
Adrian came up to the studio in Dublin City FM last year, upon the release of his fifth album Season of the Sparks, to chat and play some records. Since then he's won the Choice Music Award for Irish Album of the Year 2009, rereleased the album on Chemical Underground Records and played some…
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From the Archives - John Roderick of The Long Winters
When I interviewed Ken Stringfellow we chatted about Ken's work with John Roderick and The Long Winters on their second album When I Pretend to Fall (2003, Munich Records). Ken told me all about producing one of my favourite tracks off that album, Cinnamon. When I interviewed John Roderick I…
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FromThe Archives - Damien Jurado Interview
Damien Jurado has a great new album out called Saint Bartlett (Secretly Canadian). A few years ago I interviewed him when he was in Dublin in support of his sixth album, On My Way To Absence. He was a really gracious interviewee and happily revealed how he got into music: "I stole my first bass…
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From the Archives - Patrick Kelleher Interview
Patrick Kelleher came up to the studio a few weeks a go to chat about his new remix album, You Look Colder and to play some tunes on the show. The album is out now on Osaka Records and features Thread Pulls, Jape, Hulk, Hunter Gatherer, David Kitt and others remixing tracks from last year's You...
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From the Archives - Colin Blunstone of The Zombies
This interview is from January 2009. Colin Blunstone chats about his career with The Zombies and his solo records. We talked about his Neil MacArthur recordings and his trio of early 70s solo records: One Year, Ennismore and Journey. Colin was a great interviewee and I must admit that I was...
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From the Archives - Stereo Total Interview
"Underground pop - punk music, French chanson, 80s German electronic music and disco music sung in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Turkish," was how Françoise Cactus described the sound of her band when I interviewed her in 2005. Stereo Total played in Whelan's Dublin on…
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From the Archives - Dave Simpson author of The Fallen
I Interviewed Dave for the show upon the publication of The Fallen. We'd a great chat about his quest to track down all the ex-members of The Fall. I regaled Dave with my own MES encounter, which involved operating a slide projector for a Fall gig in 1997.
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Songs To Learn And Sing - Willy Vlautin Interview
Willy chatted about Richmond Fontaine's latest album We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River. We also chatted about Northline, Willy's second novel and Willy and Dan played Alison Johnson, a lovesong named after Nothline's main character. Lean on Pete, Willy's third novel has just been...
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From the Archives - A Hawk and a Hacksaw Interview
From the Archives: A Hawk and a Hacksaw were supposed to play their debut Dublin concert in October 2005 but the gig was cancelled. Jeremy and Heather were hanging around town so we went to Neary's pub and over a few scoops had a good chat about their travels in Eastern Europe and the album...
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From the Archives - Ken Stringfellow of The Posies
From the Archives: The Posies played Whelans, Dublin on July 21, 2005. It was a great show and the new tracks from Every Kind of Light sounded fantastic. Earlier that day I chatted to Ken Stringfellow about his relationship with bandmate Jon Auer and the writing and recording of Every Kind of...
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From the Archives - Calla Interview
From the Archives: Calla played The Sugar Club in Dublin on 29 April 2003 in support of their third album, Televise. I chatted to the band before the gig about how the sound of Televise had changed in a live context over the course of a few months on the road. The Texas band also talked about how…
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From the Archives - Sufjan Stevens Interview
From the Archives: I interviewed Sufjan in 2004 prior to his gig at the Douglas Hyde Gallery. Seven Swans was just out and Sufjan chats about recording the album with Daniel Smith of The Danielson Famile. Sufjan had moved to New York to complete a creative writing class but met Daniel and started...
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Songs To Learn and Sing - Willy Vlautin interview
Songs to Learn and Sing Thursdays @ Midnight 103.2 Dublin City FM From the Archives: Willy Vlautin interviewed on the show from Episode 90, 24/05/06 Richmond Fontaine - Black Road Willy Vlautin interview Part 1 Richmond Fontaine - The Warehouse Life Willy Vlautin interview Part 2 Richmond…
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Songs To Learn And Sing - The Hold Steady Interview
Photo: Boys and Girls in America by the Hold Steady Songs to Learn and Sing Thursdays @ Midnight 103.2 Dublin City FM From the Archives: The Hold Steady's Craig Finn interviewed for Songs To Learn And Sing in February 2007 before the band's performance in the Temple Bar Music Centre. Craig chats...
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Songs To Learn And Sing - Jenny Lewis Interview
Photo: Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins Songs to Learn and Sing Thursdays @ Midnight 103.2 Dublin City FM From the Archives: Jenny Lewis interviewed for Songs To Learn And Sing in 2006 just before the release of her debut solo album Rabbit Fur Coat. Jenny chats about songs from Rabbit Fur Coat,...
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