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The HeadStuff Podcast
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The HeadStuff Podcast is a long form conversational style interview podcast. Alan Bennett from http://HeadStuff.org hosts the podcasts and chats to interesting people about their lives, creativity, and all sorts of everything. Guests so far include: Jarlath Regan, Josie Long, Annie Atkins, David Rawle, Olaf Tyaransen, Paul Murray, Karl Spain, Stuart Clark, Al Foran, David Moore, Fight Like Apes, Mary Morrissy, Anderson, B. Dolan and Buddy Peace.
Episodes
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The HeadStuff Podcast | International Women's Day 2018 Music Special
To celebrate International Women's Day 2018, music editor Andrea Cleary hosts a special episode of the HeadStuff Podcast. Andrea chats feminism, pop music, and the Irish music scene with some of the journalists, musicians, DJ's and critics making a positive impact on the Irish music industry…
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Dubland Science Clip
PJ comes up with a revolutionary way to hide an embarrassing situation in science class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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43. Niall McCann | Writer, Director, Documentarian
On this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we welcome Niall McCann, writer and director of the new documentary Lost in France. I’m joined in studio by HeadStuff Film Editor Peter Morris to chat with Niall McCann. His documentary Lost in France is wonderful, so we talk about that, but we also delve...
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InHouse #6 | Oscars 2017
I know, I know, we’ve been neglecting you, and we’re still undecided as to the overall direction of this podcast, but we just had to make an episode for Oscars 2017, so here we are. If you listened to our InHouse Oscar podcast from last year you’ll know that these roundtable affairs are...
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42. Barry Crimmins
I first became aware of Barry Crimmins when he appeared on the WTF! with Marc Maron podcast, his story was also on another podcast I listen to, which I can’t remember right now. He talked about being raped and abused as a child, and about challenging AOL to stop allowing online paedophilia in…
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41. Saul Williams + Lingo
Yes, that Saul Williams. And yes, I can barely contain myself. Saul Williams is thusly described on Wikipedia: Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor. He is known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop…
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40. DJ Kormac
I was absolutely thrilled to talk to uber-talented DJ, musician, producer, all-round-sound-head, Kormac. I have been a big fan of Kormac for well over a decade. I was charged with organising the Graduation Party for my year in college, and when it came to booking a DJ, I booked Kormac – which I...
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39. Aine Cahill
Aine Cahill drops into HPN studio this week to talk about lots of things. It eventually ends with puke in a pint glass but there’s a journey before all that. We talk about growing up in Cavan, how she got into music (and out of sport), about how she writes songs, who she has done […] La entrada…
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38. Richie O’Donnell (Atlantic)
Richie O’Donnell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His previous documentary, The Pipe was released to great acclaim and has now been followed by ‘Atlantic’. The latest documentary is ambitious in scope with Ireland, Newfoundland and Norway as the locations and with an interactive website...
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InHouse #5 | MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?
On this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we’re basically trying to figure out if any of the candidates in the US Election will be able to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I’m joined by Gordon and Paul who host their own podcast called Those Conspiracy Guys. They bring some of the conspiracy theories...
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36. Wyvern Lingo
We have the wonderful Wyvern Lingo on the podcast this week. They first came to prominence by their association with Hozier, supporting him on his tour and doing backing vocals with his band (Karen also sings on the hauntingly beautiful duet ‘In A Week‘). Since then they’ve released two EPs, done...
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35. Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is one of my favourite writers, so I was suitably excited about this episode. Meet your heroes, that’s what I say. He’s a lovely, brilliant and funny man and I genuinely would have happily sat talking to him for many more hours. If you’re not aware of Kevin Barry, he’s one of…
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34. John Connolly
We sit down with John Connolly, author of the Charlie Parker series of crime thrillers, and the wonderful The Book of Lost Things. Dave Hanratty, HeadStuff music editor, is on co-host duties. John Connolly episode: This conversation does begin with curtains, and I don’t mean that it has a grand...
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InHouse #4 | Oscars 2016
We had some trouble this week! Conor, who produces and engineers The HeadStuff Podcast had his van broken into. And then, after a day, it got broken into again! On both of those days we had planned a recording session. Poor aul Conor was a broken man, so we did what we could. Some of […] La…
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32. Stephen Fingleton and Martin McCann (The Survivalist)
Stephen Fingleton and Martin McCann team up for the ‘masterful’, ‘captivating’, ‘phenomenal’, ‘powerful’, ‘Mad Max-in-the-countryside’, BAFTA-nominated film that is The Survivalist. Stephen Fingleton is an award-winning writer/director from Derry. His previous work includes Insulin, Magpie, SLR…
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31. Michael Kinirons (Strangerland)
Michael Kinirons is an Irish filmmaker whose short films, (Lowland Fell, I Can’t See You Anymore) have been selected for loads of international film festivals and won international awards. He co-wrote Strangerland with Fiona Seres which stars Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving and Joseph Fiennes. Set in…
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30. Rick O’Shea
Rick O’Shea joins us on The HeadStuff Podcast to speak to us at length about his sexy voice, and how he has won awards for it. It’s very important that we understand that he has won awards for having a sexy voice. After we applaud him on his sexy voice, we talk about his comedy […] La entrada 30....
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29. Roslyn Fuller (Do We Have Democracy?)
Roslyn Fuller joins Conor and I on this week’s episode, and we have Jonathan Victory on co-hosting duties. Roslyn Fuller is a columnist, lecturer in democracy and international law, author of the book Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose, and she’s currently...
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28. Tommy Pallotta
Tommy Pallotta is an American film director and producer who has produced films like A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life and directed films such as American Prince and, his latest, The Last Hijack. We sat down to talk to him in the IFI, and the resulting podcast reveals a clever, laid-back and honest...
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27. Timi Ogunyemi
In this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we have a little bit of trouble explaining what Timi Ogunyemi does. Timi even struggles himself. The reason we know him and love him is because he’s a fascinating person, he’s a popular blogger and Twitter guy, he’s incredibly warm, sound, cool, stylish…
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26. Gearoid Farrelly
Please Subscribe to The HeadStuff Podcast by clicking your favourite coloured box there at the side –> Gearoid Farrelly is one of Ireland’s best comedians and he also hosts a wonderful podcast called Fascinated. And we’re delighted to announce that Fascinated will now be hosted on HeadStuff.org…
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In House #3 | Movie Round Up 2015
It’s the end of the year, in fact it’s the very last HeadStuff Podcast of the year, so we decided to talk about the year in movies. 2015 was a good year for movies, so we talk about what the best films are, which films made the most money, the flops, the worst movies of […] La entrada 2015 Movie...
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InHouse #2 | Music Round Up 2015
Conor and I are joined on the second InHouse episode of The HeadStuff Podcast by Dave Hanratty (HeadStuff Music Editor); Louise Bruton (HeadStuff, Irish Times); Colm O’Regan (Hotpress); and Dean Van Nguyen (Pitchfork, NME). We talk, in no uncertain terms, about Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Beck, U2,...
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23. Live Podcast with Kevin McGahern and Andrea Farrell (Pt. 2)
In part 2 of the live HeadStuff Podcast, Kevin McGahern and Andrea Farrell talk about how supportive their parents are, gender equality, abortion and the obviousness of the need to repeal the 8th. We play a terrible gameshow type thing which features, word association, “finish the Google...
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22. Live Podcast with Kevin McGahern and Andrea Farrell (Pt. 1)
The first live HeadStuff Podcast with comedian and host of RTE’s Republic of Telly, Kevin McGahern, and comedian Andrea Farrell (also oft-spotted on Republic of Telly) was recorded in Sober Lane D4. Kevin and Andrea do a reading of the finalists of The Lacomic Cup, and Kevin, who judged the…
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21. Joseph Roche
Mars One bad boy Joseph Roche joins us on The HeadStuff Podcast to run his mouth about all things sciencey in typical bad boy fashion. We talk about Irish Nobel Prizes, Mars, the Carl Sagan/Brian Cox Effect, Barack Obama, science education and communication, the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, and...
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20. Le Galaxie
Le Galaxie are a Dublin based, electronic, synth pop band. They are great. Mick Pope, the beardy front man sat down to talk to us on The HeadStuff Podcast. Mick Pope is very interested in movies, so we ended up talking a lot about movies. We talked about Spectre, and other Bond films, The…
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19. Tara Flynn
Tara Flynn is an absolute legend who appears to be a fan of HeadStuff, which is just very tremendously cool. She joined us on the podcast, but she also wrote this properly excellent article for us. An apology about the first minute or two of the interview, Alan’s mic wasn’t working, but you can...
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18. Arthur Mathews
Arthur Mathews, legendary writer of Fr. Ted, Toast of London and Big Train, as well as many other great things, is our very special guest on The HeadStuff Podcast. We talk to him about all sorts of things including Mad Men; working with Graham Linehan, Pat Shortt, John Hamm and Matt Berry…
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17. Ken Early
Ken Early, the flame-haired flame-thrower of truth, sat down for an old chin wag on The HeadStuff Podcast, and, unsurprisingly we ended up talking about sport a lot. I like talking about sport, and Ken Early is my favourite voice in sport journalism, so, logically, it was fun. We also talk about...
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16. B. Dolan and Buddy Peace (Part 2)
In part 2 of the B. Dolan and Buddy Peace episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we talk about music streaming services, politics, rap, Dolan’s new album ‘Kill The Wolf’, touring, maybe a little more Kanye, and much more. Also, B. Dolan does a freestyle rap and we’re all very excited about it. If…
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15. B. Dolan and Buddy Peace
B. Dolan joined us on The HeadStuff Podcast and we were ridiculously excited about it, and he didn’t let us down. He brought his friend and DJ Buddy Peace. Paddy and Conor were also in on it. Dolan and Buddy (now our buddy) were dead sound, and very generous with their time, so much so that […]…
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14. Roger Garcia
Roger Garcia is the Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, he’s a writer and film critic and a film producer. Roger Garcia is also responsible for the Asian Film Awards Academy, Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum Project Market, and more stuff too. Basically, he has a…
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13. Anderson
Anderson is a singer-songwriter from Dublin. You may have seen him in his viral video where he shows the place that he built his own studio (literally with bricks and cement and stuff), recorded his entire debut album, ‘Patterns’, on his own, and then went door to door around Dublin selling it....
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12. Mary Morrissy
Mary Morrissy agreed to be a guest on the HeadStuff Podcast and I was suitably delighted. Mary is one of Ireland’s finest writers with all of her books, The Rising of Bella Casey, The Pretender, Mother of Pearl and A Lazy Eye, receiving critical acclaim. She was one of my tutors on the Creative...
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InHouse #1 | Straight Outta Kanye
‘Straight Outta Kanye’, the first ‘InHouse’ HeadStuff Podcast has Alan talking to Dave Hanratty, music editor for HeadStuff.org and Colm O’Regan journalist with Hotpress about Kanye West and the world of hip hop. The conversation is centred around Kanye, his famous rambling speech at the VMAs and...
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11. Stuart Clark, Hotpress
Hey look it’s episode #11 of the glorious HeadStuff Podcast. This time out, we’re joined by Hot Press deputy editor, living breathing music encyclopedia and all-round charming fellow Stuart Clark who gives us a potted history on his early days as a sea-faring pirate DJ on the legendary Radio...
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10. Paul Murray
This week we were thrilled to invite Paul Murray, author of ‘Skippy Dies’, ‘The Mark and the Void’, and ‘An Evening of Long Goodbyes’, onto the HeadStuff Podcast. Noel O’Regan, writer and literature editor for HeadStuff.org joins Alan on hosting duties. Both huge fans of Paul Murray’s books, they...
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9. Karl Spain
Karl Spain is our guest on this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast. I’m joined by my long-time friend Mikey Fleming as co-host. We both met Karl Spain for the first time in about 2004, or 2005, when he was the M.C. of a regular comedy club in Limerick. We went to the show every week, […] La entrada...
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8. Al Foran (as Conor McGregor, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy and many more)
So this is an interesting episode of The HeadStuff Podcast. I saw a video a couple of weeks ago of this guy doing impressions, and I’m a man who appreciates a good impression. The story of the video was that Robert DeNiro was kicked out of his house, and he moved into Al Foran’s house. […] La...
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7. David Moore, Astronomy Ireland
David Moore, Astronomy Ireland This episode of the podcast has me sitting silently agog more than it has me asking questions but that’s a testament to David Moore’s astronomical quantities of knowledge on the subject (of astronomy). He covers all sorts of fascinating things such as planets, stars...
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6. Fight Like Apes
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome to episode six of the HeadStuff podcast! Joining us today are none other than the awesome MayKay and Pockets of the even more awesome Fight Like Apes, who sit down in the smoky confines of The International Bar to discuss their...
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5. Olaf Tyaransen
Well, I hope you appreciate this episode… because it was an absolute nightmare. Not due to Olaf, who is absolutely lovely and very obliging, but to TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. I’m not even going to get into it, just know, that it was a hard time to get this to you. But we did it! We persevered, […]…
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4. David Rawle (Moone Boy)
So we missed a week, but you’ll have that, I suppose. Never mind, this week I travelled to Leitrim, with Adam the trusty producer, to have a chat with David Rawle. David Rawle, as many of you will know, is Moone Boy, or Martin Moone. Moone Boy is a brilliant sitcom written by Chris O’Dowd […] La...
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3. Annie Atkins
This week on The HeadStuff Podcast, Matt and I were absolutely thrilled to talk to Annie Atkins who had just won an Oscar as lead graphic designer on Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel‘. Annie Atkins has also worked on The Tudors, Penny Dreadful, The Boxtrolls and on the latest Stephen...
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2. Josie Long
On the second episode of The HeadStuff Podcast I talk to Josie Long who is absolutely one of my favourite comedians. I also employ the chin-wagging services of my friend and co-conspirator Mikey Fleming for the beginning of the podcast. We’re in the trial and error phase of the podcast, checking...
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1. Jarlath Regan
In HeadStuff’s inaugural podcast Alan sits down with Irish comedian and podcast host, Jarlath Regan. Jarlath is the host of one of Ireland’s top podcasts, An Irishman Abroad, with over one million regular listeners. [soundcloud…
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The HeadStuff Podcast is a long form conversational style interview podcast. Alan Bennett from http://HeadStuff.org hosts the podcasts and chats to interesting people about their lives, creativity, and all sorts of everything. Guests so far include: Jarlath Regan, Josie Long, Annie Atkins, David Rawle, Olaf Tyaransen, Paul Murray, Karl Spain, Stuart Clark, Al Foran, David Moore, Fight Like Apes, Mary Morrissy, Anderson, B. Dolan and Buddy Peace.
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