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Niall and Andrea with episode 216 of the Nialler9 Podcast and our monthly new music recommender for the month of May 2023. On Episode 216, there are some "face eggs"-themed albums from Water From Your Eyes, Eyes Of Others and Caoilian Sherlock along with song choices from Gurriers, Blur, Kieran Hebden + William Tyler, Bricknasty, Buck Meek and two oldies from The Fall and Glasser. And for those of you who appreciate our usual Succession talk, this week, there is a 40 minute BONUS EPISODE available on the Patreon for subscribers only, where we discuss the Succession finale episode. * Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A reappraisal of the career of Cass Elliot, formerly known as Mama Cass, of The Mamas & Papas. For this week's episode (#215), Andrea Cleary, takes the lead for a deep dive into the life and times of Cass Elliot, the late-60s singer who recently went viral when a Tik-Tok user used her song 'Make Your Own Kind Of Music' on a meme with Nicolas Cage / Pedro Pascal from the film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The song's virality has lead to a reappraisal of the legacy of the singer, whose established narrative can now be seen through a lens of fatphobia and unfair treatment of women in the industry and society at large. Andrea takes us through her life and times on this fascinating episode. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nealo is a Dublin rapper and artist who is a regular on this site since first appearing in 2018. 2020's All The Leaves Are Falling was a Choice Music Prize-nominated debut album, an album exploring loss, friendship, family and the ties that keep us searching for home. Fresh from the release of new song 'Forest' with Morgana of Saint Sister on vocals, Nealo is teasing a new album at a later date, and along with last week's guest Celaviedmai, is playing at The Hennessy Hip-Hop House at Body & Soul Festival this summer. We've been talking to Nealo about getting him on the podcast for a long time, so we're delighted to finally bring him in with Niall and Andrea. On this episode we discuss what Nealo has been up to by asking him about some songs that are inspiring him and he loves right now, along with chats about making and releasing music in 2023, sobriety, going to see Post Malone, and possibly controversial opinions about Taylor Swift. Listen to the chat, or read the abbreviated choices on Nialler9. The Hennessy Hip-Hop House announces its lineup at Body & Soul Festival this June 16th to 18th at Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath. Denise Chaila, Gemma Dunleavy, Kojaque, Fabio & Grooverider and The Outlook Orchestra (A/V Show) are among the headliners for the Hennessy Music Trail and The Hennessy Hip-Hop House has an extensive lineup of hip-hop to celebrate the genre’s 50th year in tandem this year. Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Galway rapper Celaviedmai is one of our favourite up and coming rappers and collaborators as she has shown adeptness at moving between rap, house, drill, Amapiano and Afrobeat in her music so far. Mai is an artist with ambition and exciting plans on the horizon including a set at The Hennessy Hip-Hop House at Body & Soul Festival this summer. It was great to have Mai in to pick 5 songs that have influenced her craft and one current banger she can't get enough of, and trail some future plans for Celaviedmai. Songs featured: Celaviedmai - Go Down Low ---- The songs Mai picked : Doechii - Crazy Azealia Banks - Luxury Missy Elliott; Ludacris - One Minute Man (feat. Ludacris) J Dilla; Common; D'Angelo - So Far to Go JAY-Z; Kanye West; Otis Redding - Otis Doja Cat - Get Into It (Yuh) ---- Celaviedmai; - Known Better Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s the monthly episode with Niall and Andrea discussing songs and albums we loved from the last month, and some older. On Episode 212, there are albums recommended by Feist, Kara Jackson, Benefits and Tom Trago, along with choice songs from Anna St. Louis, Laurie Shaw, Beabadoobee + Clairo and two oldies. Plus a bit of listener feedback about last week's AI episode, some book, TV and film recommends and a bit about the Ed Sheeran / Marvin Gaye copyright case. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Show notes: Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Did Ed Sheeran ACTUALLY Plagiarize Marvin Gaye? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 210 of the Nialler9 Podcast is a two-hander. We are talking about the last of the enigmatic crooners who played the same festival - Coachella - and got on very differently. Firstly, Andrea takes the lead on recounting and speculating on what exactly was / is going on with Frank Ocean's set at Coachella at weekend 1 this past Sunday. Ice rinks, ankle injuries, long silences, unfocused showmanship, and a man who really didn't seem to want to be there did he? His subsequent cancellation at weekend 2 in the Indio Valley late last night confirms that. Fans felt duped. Then there's Jai Paul, who played his first ever live show at Coachella, and has announced his first ever shows in venues in London and New York. Niall takes a us through a short history of Jai Paul's career, the Myspace beginnings, the leaked album, the Paul Institute, his brother AK Paul, collaborations with Big Boi, Lorde (possibly?) and yes, there's Ed Sheeran covering 'Jasmine'. Don't hurt me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 209 is a chat with our pal, journalist, author, playwright, DJ and wheelchair user Louise Bruton. Louise has recently restarted her Legless In Dublin platform on a paid Substack (free to disabled people), where she is "covering areas of access and disability, reviews and personal essays that champion disabled people and educate non-disabled people". It came after Louise had grown exhausted by being a source of free advice for others working in the live music industry who would ask her for an answer about access, a quote for media, or put the burden of the answer on her, so she is charging for that knowledge. We talk to Louise about the current issues with accessibility at venues. It was eye-opening to hear Louise share her experiences of venues, that are on the surface , accessible, but the inclusivity stops there - with the experience of the gig itself often an afterthought - involving restricted views, bad sight lines, and a limit of one friend to keep you company. In the last few years, music communities have done much to address inclusivity, gender balance and making spaces more welcoming, but it appears that wheelchair users like Louise are still left wondering when they will be included to the same level of access to the live music experience. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed * Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Show notesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 208 is a dive into the world of boygenius and their debut album the record. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus came together as boygenius in 2018 with a debut EP on Matador. The EP combined their collective tones of tones of country, melodic folk, indie and singer-songwriter strands together, before they all went off to make another solo record - Phoebe Bridgers made Punisher (2020), Lucy Dacus made Home Video (2021) and Julien Baker put out Little Oblivions (2021). A week after Punisher came out, Phoebe sent Lucy and Julien a demo of “Emily I’m Sorry” and asked if they could be a band again. Julien made a Google Drive folder called “dare I say it?”, and everyone flooded it with potential songs. It lead to a debut album recorded in January 2022, which was released last week. We review the record and discuss the songwriter's collective cohesion and style together and apart, how their bond of the trio is integral to the band, whether it gels for us and if this is a great record, as many reviews have said. We also look at the "sad girl" trope often attached to this kind of female-lead music, and ask AI to write us a Phoebe Bridgers song. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed * Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Show notesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the monthly episode with Niall and Andrea discussing songs and albums we loved from the last month. March has given us a jam-packed month of albums to get our ears around, including: Lankum - False Lankum Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Ailbhe Reddy - Endless Affair JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume... Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V Plus songs from Krea, Kneecap, Sorcha Richardson covers The Killers and an electroclash classic. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed * Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Show notesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A second episode this week as it's a timely chat with MayKay, the vocalist, singer-songwriter and Other Voices presenter who is returning to her original role as lead vocalist with the band Fight Like Apes. The band split up in 2016 after releasing three albums Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion (2008), The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner (2010) and Fight Like Apes (2015) along with a series of EPs. Flapes as they're affectionally known, were one of the first buzz bands out of Ireland in the online era, bursting onto the scene with ‘Lend Me Your Face’ and deflating a scene in which singer-songwriter had a chokehold on things by bringing a sense of pop culture fun with synth-pop and alternative, punk rock energy and catchy hooks. Ahead of the band's big comeback show at 3Olympia Theatre on Friday March 24th, I spoke to May Kay about what it's like to return to the well of the past, which songs hit different, how the London and rehearsal show went, and how she views the band's time in the spotlight now. We also talk about MayKay's trip to Palestine last year, and the plight of the Palestinian people who have lived in an apartheid state for the last 75 years, and why it's so important to hear the Palestinian people's own everyday stories of living under occupation and oppression. ACLAI is an Irish gym founded by Ainle O’Cairealla’in in Palestine. Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) Fight Like Apes' vinyl albums on Rubyworks / Alcopop Records. Listen to the Nialler9 Podcast on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed * Support Nialler9 on Patreon & join our Discord community Show notesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of the Nialler9 Podcast, Niall is joined by No Encore's Dave Hanratty for a chat about Meet Me In The Bathroom, the recent documentary about the New York City music scene of the early 2000s. The film by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern is based on the oral history book of the same name by Lizzy Goodman and is concerned with the rise of New York rock and indie stalwarts like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture and Interpol. From The Moldy Peaches' early open mike night performances where they meet folk songwriter Karen O and The Strokes just as they are about to hit it big, Meet Me In The Bathroom is a fun nostalgia trip into first 10 years of indie-rock in New York through the aforementioned bands, and how it spills out into the world. Dave and I chat about the film's comings and goings. Join us. Nialler9 is hosting an Indie Sleaze night on Good Friday, April 7th @ Workman's Cellar, where you'll hear most of this kind of music and more. More on Indie Sleaze from our podcast last year with Louise McSharry. Listen to No Encore Podcast. Listen to the Nialler9 Podcast on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed * Support Nialler9 on Patreon & join our Discord community Show notesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1996, the Belfast DJ and producer David Holmes travelled to New York to make a record. While hanging out in the Lower East Side and Alphabet City, Holmes and some pals, armed with a DAT recorder, dropped some acid and wandered around the city recording people for his upcoming LP. A year later, that album, a classic record - 1997's Let's Get Killed was released, which imbued a cinematic world-building dance record with audio of the characters Holmes met on the New York streets with samples of 7" records gifted to him by Terri Hooley, of Good Vibrations record shop in his hometown in Northern Ireland. Holmes would go on to make the cinematic sing as a composer for soundtracks for Steven Soderbergh that includes Out of Sight, the Ocean's Trilogy of films, alongside soundtracks for TV shows The Fall and Killing Eve. Holmes has never stopped DJing or creating, whether it's the four albums he's made with Unloved or producing a Noel Gallagher album. This podcast is the story of how Let's Get Killed bridges New York and Belfast in David Holmes' own words, in conversation with Nialler9, along with some chat about the art and organisation of DJing and news of an upcoming dance-focused David Holmes album. This conversation takes place ahead of the INY x Guinness Storehouse event on Sunday March 19th where David Holmes will be doing a public conversation with John Kelly about the record, and DJing alongside his old pal Billy Scurry. We've some tickets to the sold out event on Insta. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed * Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Show notesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

February was a short month but there was lots to love (and talk about). It's the monthly episode with Niall and Andrea discussing songs and albums we loved from the last month. Just before Andrea went off to India for the rest of the month, and after last week's Choice Music Prize special, we are chatting specific favourite new and some old music. Featuring chat about Lana Del Rey, Skrillex, Caroline Polachek, Lisa O'Neill, Bully & Soccer Mommy, Feist, Ugolino, Chósta and Tangerine Dream. It's Episode 203. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed * Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Show notesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist The Dubstep essay Andrea mentioned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this two-hour episode, Niall and Andrea are joined by writer and journalist Una Mullally, to discuss the 10 nominated albums in this year's Choice Music Prize Irish album of the year 2022 category. 10 nominated albums are in the process to be pored over by 11 judges, and they are.. CMAT – If My Wife New I’d Be Dead A self confessed global pop star from Ireland Ciara Mary Alice’s Thompsons country pop debut album. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia The third album and the third nomination for the London-based Dubliners Fontaines DC? Will it be 3rd time lucky? Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector The second album from Dublin foggy psych-folk artist on Partisan Records. Just Mustard – Heart Under Dundalk five-piece alt-rock band on Partisan Records, who have three albums on this year’s list. Dermot Kennedy – Sonder Second album from Ireland’s biggest songwriting pop export of the last 5 years? Possibly The Mary Wallopers – The Mary Wallopers Dundalk’s finest purveyors of craic, divilment, and drinking songs. Anna Mieke – Theatre Wicklow singer-songwriter's second album of alt-folk Pillow Queens – Leave the Light On A second album of anthemic indie-rock of “ dream blues,” on a Canadian label Royal Mountain. Sorcha Richardson – Smiling Like an Idiot A collection of guitar/synth indie-pop music, the second album on Faction Records THUMPER – Delusions of Grandeur It’s the debut from the six-piece double drumming, triple guitars rock band. While the winner album prize announced at the live event on Thursday March 9th at Vicar Street will receive €10,000 prize fund, our prize is arguably more coveted right? We give each album the once over in a deep dive and then pick the albums we want to win and the one we think is going to win this year. It's episode 202 of the Nialler9 Podcast... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 201 is a journey through some of the last 35 years in music through the medium of the sample, from the Amen break to famous sample-heavy albums to our own personal favourite sampled songs. We discuss how an obscure 1960s B-side became the most sampled song in history and helped birth genres like drum and bass and jungle. We explore the sample art of albums like DJ Shadow's Entroducing, Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, J Dilla's Donuts, Girl Talk's Night Ripper and The Avalanches' Since I Left You. And then Niall and Andrea share their favourite samples including but not limited to music from Steely Dan, Super Furry Animals, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye, Burial, Kate Bush, ABBA, James Blake, Skepta and a disco Beethoven true original. The track that kicked off the idea was Rory Sweeney and Emby's 'All My Life' which samples Kendrick's 'Backseat Freestyle'. Shout out to Tracklib on Youtube for some of the audio sample beds. Songs referenced on his episode, and their samples are listed here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We mark 200 episodes of the Nialler9 Podcast by taking some questions from readers about indie sleaze, our favourite music videos, best interviewees, albums and gigs of 2023 we're looking forward to, podcast influences, dream jobs, and favourite albums since Andrea and I started doing the podcast together, which was June 2018 in the episode Ye Season (Which I've reuploaded) - I really dropped Dre in it for episode #1. We also lost half the episode due to a recording error and the following week, we reviewed a 90-minute Drake album. It's a wonder, and a testament to Andrea's professionalism that she stuck around! Plus, there's chat about Rihanna at the Superbowl, hip-hop at Grammys and a small tribute to Trugoy of De La Soul. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 199 of the Nialler9 Podcast is about scarcity and rarity. Prompted by the news of a Strokes box set of 7" singles this month, Andrea Cleary talks about the particular form and use of B-sides in the streaming era, the role of singles in the ongoing vinyl revival (2022 was the 15th straight year of vinyl sale growth), and why we love vinyl so much anyway. We read Jeremy D. Larson's howlingly good Maneskin review for Pitchfork aloud, check into the Grammys from Sunday night to find that things are as they always seem to be and Steve Albini is hating on Steely Dan and it's a hoot. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our first podcast of 2023 with Nialler and Andrea Cleary is a warm up for the year to come. Firstly, Andrea went to the 1975 live concert in Dublin last week and has some surprising thoughts on things, as well as a bit of a gush. For the rest of the episode we are talking and sharing our favourite music of the first month of the year from Lil Yachty, boygenius, Dave Rowntree, Rozi Plain, Lankum, Everything But The Girl, Aphex Twin and more. More Best of the month here. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It's that time again - Andrea and Niall's personal favourite episode of the year where we award out winners in made-up categories to scratch a particular music or media itch. This year's awards include the annual best sax solo, Best guest rap (aka the Andre 3000 verse), Best Tik-Tok trend, best song discovered on a TV show, best '90s-sounding 2022 club song, Best DJ mixes on Youtube, Squeakiest song of the year, word of the year, best song discovered in a club, best live gig, sample of the year, most disappointing album of the year, worst song of the year, and our favourite movies, TV and books of 2022. EOTY Podcasts: Albums of 2022 Songs of 2022. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It’s December and we are half way through our end of year listmas podcast episodes. This week, it's the turn of the long player, and Andrea and Niall share 10 albums each from our year of listening that brightened up the days and nights, and stayed with us. There is discussion about Big Thief, Little Simz, Beyoncé, Billy Woods, Alvvays, Kendrick, CMAT, Mary Wallopers, The 1975 and more. Next week: the Nialler9 Podcast Awards! Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It's December so that means our best of podcast trilogy is back. This week, Niall and Andrea pick 10 songs of their year each featuring selections from Alvvays, Overmono, Kieran Hebden, Angel Olsen, The Mary Wallopers, CMAT, Elaine Howley, The 1975 and more. Next week: Albums of 2022. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord community Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey This week's podcast episode, #194, is about the issues around live touring for small to medium artists in a post-COVID world. Live shows have returned for over a year now, but not without unforeseen new challenges of inflation, Brexit, cost of living and increased touring costs. Added to already existing dwindling digital revenues and the toll a touring loss makes on mental health, acts are feeling the squeeze. One area where artists are looking to take the power back is on selling merchandise at live venues and festivals. A lot of medium to large venues take a 25% commission on artist merch sales by default, without providing any assistance. Some venues bring in an agency to manage merch and take the cut at source and in many venues this is a mandatory and sometimes additional cost. When it applies to support and emerging artists, it can really make the difference whether a tour makes money or not. On this episode we spoke to Canadian rapper, writer, poet and activist Rollie Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon on some of the thoughts he has shared on the live music industry. Rollie is an Edmonton-born, Toronto-based rapper and author of a new book about his life in music - Bedroom Rapper. Pemberton won the 2021 Polaris Prize - the Canadian album of the year prize - for his fifth album Parallel World. Rollie has announced a North American campaign to end the practice of venues and festivals taking a cut from the artists’ merch – in association with the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) to launch of the FAC’s 100% Venues campaign called #MyMerch. The campaign has come in the wake of FAC's UK campaign where 400 venues have now signed up to pledge not to take a cut on artist's merch sales in venues. Ireland could do with a similar list. It's a practice that was largely unknown to fans, but recently has been highlighted by Dry Cleaning, Yard Act, The Big Moon lately, and even, Jack Antonoff has weighed in. Niall and Andrea talk about how merch cuts work, and their issues, before we chat to Rollie about the campaign, his experiences touring last year at a loss and a previous 360 deal he signed that exploited every stream of income he had for 12 years, and his hopes for the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey This week's podcast episode, #193, is mostly about the world of live music Firstly, Niall attended the Sunday of the recent Kendrick Lamar gigs on The Big Steppers tour in the 3Arena, and Andrea went to the "men in their late 30s convention and your ex-boyfriend is here" Pavement gig at Vicar Street. We talk about the Grammy nominations where things are as problematic as ever but you know, Beyoncé is still killing it. This week's Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco, where fans for her 52-date US tour crashed Ticketmaster and were waiting for up to 8 hours in a virtual queue to no avail, has us examining the secondary ticketing market once more, where Adele tickets in Vegas are going for $22,500 for this weekend, where Taylor tickets are listed for $92,500 and closer to home on Stubhub where Elton John tickets are going for €450 and Gilla Band tickets at the National Stadium are going for double the ticket price on Viagogo that are currently listed on Ticketmaster. But wait, didn't the Irish government approve a bill to stop the exorbitant resale of tickets for events? Yeah, but venues and promoters have to opt-in, making this a very impressive invisible lasso on the secondary ticketing market in Ireland. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It's been over four years since we had Richie Egan aka Jape on the Nialler9 Podcast, pre-Andrea when Ellen Fitzpatrick was the co-host. So with Richie releasing a new electronic instrumental record called 9K Hi Volume 1 on Faction Records this week, we visited Richie (virtually) in his Malmo studio to talk about dance and electronic music, old low-bit samplers, old technology and dance music made for graveyards and walks. Richie talks about five tracks from Irish electronic artists including Or:la, New Jackson, Comte, BB84 and Donnacha Costello; and a new discovery from Naran Ratan. You'll also hear two songs from his new record - 'Eugh' and 'Secret Area'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

October was a busy busy month for albums, so that's our major focus for this monthly episode of Andrea and Niall's favourite music we heard of the calendar month. We've got big albums from The 1975, Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Gilla Band, The Mary Wallopers, Loyle Carner, Dry Cleaning and Alvvays. Plus Niall shares a song he heard at a club during his NYC trip. Plus, there might be a birthday quiz. Welcome to the audio palace... Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The last time the Dublin artist and musician Sorcha Richardson appeared on the podcast was January 2020. Her debut album First Prize Bravery was just released on Faction and thew subsequent tour ended up getting rescheduled seven times. It wasn't all bad though, the album was very well-received, picked up a Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish album of the year and won her a whole set of new fans across Ireland, UK, Europe and North America. With second album Smiling Like An Idiot and tour dates very much nailed on and happening from this week (including her biggest hometown show at 3Olympia Theatre on Thursday October 20th, and the Limelight 2 in Belfast on Wednesday October 19th, before UK and European dates), we spoke to Sorcha about coming home from living in New York to find a new community in Dublin around music in a challenging time for artists, to conversations about Oasis with Los Angeles-based producer Alex Casnoff, the difficulties of touring, drum sounds and Bowie-esque guitar solos, all through the lens of 5 songs that inspired the second album. The songs discussed are: Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change Dijon - Good Luck Big Thief - Masterpiece Oasis - She's Electric You'll also hear snippets of Sorcha's songs 'Shark Eyes', 'Archie' 'Stalemate' and 'Spotlight Television' More at sorcharichardson.com/ Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Andrea and Niall's favourite music of the month time. Slightly delayed of our own doing, so we're just going to pretend October hasn't happened yet. This time out, we're recommending and discussing new albums from ELIZA, Djo, Vieux Farka Touré / Khruangbin, Sorcha Richardson and songs from Bricknasty, Weyes Blood, Arctic Monkeys, Sudan Archives and Babe Ruth? All is explained thanks to Youtube Premium. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As part of Night Moves, our Culture Night event in the Fruit and Veg market in Dublin produced by Nialler9 and Totally Dublin in collaboration with Culture Night Dublin, we put on a discussion panel talking about the current and near-future issues of night-life and late night cultural activities in the city. Here's a recording of that talk for those who could not attend, and anyone interested in Dublin night-life. The discussion is hosted by Michael McDermott (editor of Totally Dublin) with.. Carly Heath (Bristol Night-Time Economy Adviser) Sunil Sharpe (Give Us The Night) Cllr. Claire Byrne (Green Party, Dublin - South East Inner City) Renn Miano (Origins Eile) Photo: Roisin Murphy O'Sullivan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a back to school vibe of an episode this week, as Niall and Andrea return after a busy few weeks for a catchup. Andrea surprises Niall with a special milestone birthday quiz, we discuss two very different losses in music this week - Coolio and Pharoah Sanders, Andrea shares her thoughts on the new David Bowie film Moonage Daydream and the Harry Styles-starring Don't Worry Darling, and Niall discusses the Budget, the Night Moves Culture Night event and upcoming changes to licensing laws on the cards. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, we are turning the tables on ourselves and the general vibe and discussing some of our personally most hated songs, and forcing each other and our dear listeners to listen to those songs. Sometimes it's irrational, sometimes it's circumstantial, sometimes it's association, but sometimes the song is just bad, and awful, and terrible. Niall and Andrea are here for their first ever hatefest. Join us in . Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Andrea and Niall's favourite music of the month time. This time out, we're recommending and discussing new albums from Julia Jacklin, Elaine Howley, Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Claude and Declaime/Madlib. The songs selections include Ruby Goon, Anna Mullarkey, Arctic Monkeys, jake Xerxes Fussell and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We also discuss the Win Butler misconduct allegations surrounding Arcade Fire's dates in Dublin this week, and chat about experiences at Another Love Story and the No Encore Quiz episode. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode Niall and Andrea we dig into one of the most influential dance albums of the '90s - Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole.one of the most influential dance albums of the '90s - Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole. Released in 1997, Dig Your Own Hole was the second album from Tow Rowlands and Ed Simons, an album that brought a UK number 1 with Setting Sun featuring Noel Gallagher on vocals, acclaim in the US that allowed them to build upon the success of 1995's debut Exit Planet Dust and become household touring names.\ The album, featuring the singles 'Setting Sun', 'Block Rockin' Beats', 'Elektrobank' and 'The Private Psychedelic Reel' were released the same year as Radiohead's OK Computer, The Prodigy's Fat Of The Land, The Verve's Urban Hymns and Daft Punk's Homework. Electronic music was having a moment, Britpop was waning, music was becoming less reliant on real people playing drums, samples came from hip-hop and was changing pop music, there was a whole strand of electronic music, that had spilled out of the 88 acid house era in the UK and was making a mark. Dig Your Own Hole took the pair supernova in the music world, catapulting them from the big beat scene they were associated with to a zeitgeist-capturing dance music informed by psychedelia, funk, hip-hop, soul, rock and acid house. “They take a whole new song structure, the song structure of a house record, and make a psychedelic rock record.” - Jason Bentley KCRW DJ “Britpop-with-breakbeats” - Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Simon Reynolds Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a Renaissance deep dive. Andrea and Niall are with episode 182 of the Nialler9 Podcast, and we are going on in on Beyoncé's seventh album Renaissance, an LP heavily and obviously inspired by black American house music, culture and ballroom (as well as her late cousin Uncle Johnny, a man she credits in the liner notes of the album for introducing her to sounds and subcultures). On this episode, we delve into the samples of house and bounce music on the record, deep cuts from American dance history illuminated with the help of producers Honey Dijon and Green Velvet among others for this Beyoncé album, that is pitched like a DJ mix. Andrea explores the incongruity of the millionaire/near-billionaire superstar paying homage to the largely poor ballroom and cultural communities of the late '80s and early '90s while namechecking fashion brands and promoting vast opulence. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's monthly music recommender time. Andrea and Niall are here with the songs and albums that have made the sunny summer month of July hotter than it already was. This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from beabadoobee, The Koreatown Oddity, Beyoncé and Gwenno. The songs selections include Jessie Ware, Sorcha Richardson, Aoife Nessa Frances, Lil Silva, Sarah Crean and Gilla Band. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hot Podcast Summah! This week, Niall and Andrea are looking at the contenders for song of the summer 2022. From Beyoncé to Harry Styles to Drake to the outsider bets, we look at the big seasonal hitters. What is a song of the summer anyway? We pick our personal favourites of the year (or not) and look at our summer songs of the past, and yes, I force Andrea to pick some upbeat songs for the episode. BBC Journalist Mark Savage wrote a piece in 2017 listing the key things a song of the summer needs They are: 1) It has to be simple 2) It should make you feel like you're on holiday 3) Novelty is good 4) Radio-friendly songs make bigger hits 5) It should be released before the summer 6) But it should have the word "summer" in the title Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Andrea and Niall and delving deep into the life, times, music, controversies and talent of one of the last great pop stars - George Michael. One of the biggest selling artists of all-time, George Michael came to fame through the pop band duo of Wham! before going on to one of the most successful and creative solo artist careers of the last 40 years. From 'Hotel Tropicana' to 'Faith' to 'Freedom 90' to 'Outside' to 'Fast Love' to 'Jesus To A Child', George Michael wrote, produced, played and sang on them all. George was an undeniable talent, a soulful singer, who often struggled with his fame and his life in the spotlight. He dealt with grief publicly and in private, while questions about his sexuality always hovered over his career. Taking our cue from the recently re-released Freedom Uncut documentary, produced by George before he died on Christmas Day 2016, and the release of a new box set of his seminal album Older, we delve into the backlash he received from American soul and R&B artists, his struggles with cannabis addiction, the sting operation that lead to his coming out and the best music of his career, his court case against his label, George the insightful interviewee and a focus on our favourite songs in his discography. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Cv2PwtU39HQZOEkarNSj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's monthly music recommender time. Andrea and Niall are here with the songs and albums that have made their month a bit brighter. This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Confidence Man, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Automatic and Robocobra Quartet and songs from Julia Jacklin, Anna Mieke, Ailbhe Reddy, Madison Cunningham, Dry Cleaning, Sworn Virgins and Courtney Barnett. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a few weeks since Andrea and Niall were able to pod because of holidays, festivals and the summer season. So it's a more casual episode this time around with Niall sharing his experiences from week 2 at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Andrea making a rare festival visit to Body & Soul Festival. There's also Forbidden Fruit chat and our Nialler9 Discord community weigh in our their experiences at Prima. And there's always time to talk about one of the greatest songs of all-time - 'Running Up That Hill' by Kate Bush, which as you no doubt know by now, has seen a resurgence thanks to its sync placement in season four of Netflix show Stranger Things, and promptly picked up 616 million Tik Tok plays and has gone to number 1 in the UK and Australia. Who knew a song from 1985 might become the song of the summer? You don't need to ask us twice to discuss the enduring appeal of the classic song, and why it's resonating once more. Plus, Andrea tells us her opinion on the new Beyoncé song. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Episode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Vox - How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music Linndrum famous songs Nialler9 Mix Series: Mix & Fairbanks – Linndrum mix 2016 Remixes mentioned: Patrice Baumel Edit Ashley Beedle Edit Support us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's monthly roundup time. Andrea and Niall are here with the new music recommender episode. This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Kevin Morby, OliveyOlive, Just Mustard, Porridge Radio, Angel Olsen and songs from Kieran Hebden, Mallrat, Beverly-Glenn Copeland, Wet Leg, Cormac Begley and Beth Orton. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Episode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is back Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a big episode. As it always is when it comes to an artist like Kendrick Lamar.Mr Morale & The Big Steppers, Lamar's fifth album, the Compton rapper's first album in five years, is out almost a week now and Niall and Andrea spend an hour and 40 minutes discussing this cerebral, personal, conceptual album in depth.The album is a therapy session and a morality play, seeking breakthroughs, with Kendrick sharing confessions while also speaking on the culture wars, his saviour complex and his addiction. It's the same album that explores racial, generational, and centrally, family trauma, while giving space to Kodak Black, who has pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a minor, the same topic that Kendrick unpacks here trying to break the "generational curse" while also exploring his acceptance of trans members of his family.His wife, Whitney Alford is central to the album, as is the work of German self-help author Eckhart Toll, while guests are limited but include Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Sampha Ghostface Killah, Amanda Reifer, Taylor Paige, Sam Dew and Tanna Leone.It's Kendrick with the N95 mask off.Let's dive in:Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is backAndrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's podcast is all about Andrea's favourite weird little guy and second favourite Paul - Paul Simon!Andrea takes us through her love of the songwriter's music, voice and guitar-playing, from Simon & Garfunkel to his big hit album Graceland, and the criticism, cultural boycott and art as politics argument. We focus on a handful of songs including 'The Sound Of Silence', 'Graceland', 'The Obvious Child', 'America' and 'Diamonds On The Soul Of Her Shoes'.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is backAndrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the monthly roundup of albums and songs we love with Andrea and Niall on with the new music recommender episode.This month we're discussing albums from Billy Woods, Let's Eat Grandma, Martian Subculture, Girlpool and Faye Webster and songs from Pusha T, Ailbhe Reddy, Two Shell, Soccer Mommy, SOAK, New Jackson and Robocobra Quartet's toxic wellness anthem.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is back next week.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fontaines D.C. have released their new album Skinty Fia, what they have suggested is the final part of an album trilogy, following on 2019's Dogrel and 2020's A Hero's Death, both of which we reviewed on the podcast.Since then the band have been anointed NME's Best Band In The World, have been nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album, a Brit for Best International Group and an Ivor Novello for Best Album.Skinty Fia truly marks a band apart from the jangly garage rock of Liberty Belle, they have full extracted themselves from their musical origins and in the process have become one of the biggest rock bands around, garnering praise and rave reviews. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Chatten said Skinty Fia was “largely informed and influenced by Irishness existing in England and mutating and becoming a new kind of culture in general.”Niall and Andrea give their thoughts the album, and talk about the Irishness and culture reflected in Skinty Fia, how Grian Chatten sees Dublin now, the album's sound which largely casts a dour dirgey atmosphere and what we want from a band like Fontaines D.C.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You may have heard of the term Indie Sleaze lately. A term newly coined to describe a nostalgic trend of post-Y2K era of culture and aesthetics of indie music and parties that crossed cities and continents.Niall and Andrea are talking indie-rock, blog house, nu-rave, electro-clash and the alternative scene of the years of 2004 to 2012 that gave us the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Crystal Castles, CSS, Uffie, MGMT, New Young Pony Club, MIA, Hipster Runoff, Mashups, The Cobrasnake's hedonistic flash photography, Dublin clubs like Antics and spawned an Indie Sleaze instagram account.So how are Gen Z co-opting the vibe of the era and is the Indie Sleaze trend just a Tik-Tok-enabled churn in nostalgia economy? Plus, Louise McSharry, host of the new topical news podcast Catch Up, drops in to talk about her experiences of indie, electro and alternative of that time, the fashion and the tunes she still loves, and why she wants to start a club night in the era's honour.Listen to the episode here or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we're looking at an icon.Andrea takes the lead with Niall on support to delve into the life and distinguished music career of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.Mitchell has been in the news recently, and recently showed solidarity with Neil Young by taking all her music off Spotify, having appeared on the Grammys this past Sunday, one of her first appearances in public since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015.Andrea looks at her beginnings and formative experience with adoption, her seminal album 1971 Blue, her forays into jazz and her '80s period, along with a song in the early '90s in which she directly addressed Ireland's shameful Magdalene Laundries.Mitchell proved herself to be a continuous counterculture artist, a musician who walked her own way and used her writing as a way to interrogate the world for herself, and others to understand. And of course, there's discussion of songs like 'A Case Of You', 'Both Sides Now' and 'Big Yellow Taxi' among many others.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Andrea and Niall with our monthly new music recommender episode.We are talking new albums from from Rosalia, The Weather Station, CMAT, Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Popul; and songs from Aldous Harding, Angel Olsen, Tomberlin, Amy Michelle, Spider, EFÉ, Maria Kelly with Paul Noonan and Skinner.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With many of the major Irish music festivals like Electric Picnic having revealed their lineups in recent weeks, it is time to discuss the state of gender equality on Irish music festival bills in 2022.While festivals like Primavera Sound, Ireland Music Week and Iceland Airwaves have committed to the Keychange initiative of booking a a 50/50 gender-balanced split on its festivals, many Irish events seem to be oblivious to the idea of representing women on their headliners or even aware it might be a problem. Andrea and Niall discuss the possible reasons behind the slow acceleration to more gender advocating lineups in Ireland, the defensive responses from men on the issue, the realities of booking women headliners behind the scenes and the issues around exclusivity and pay parity, why this is a systemic issue that includes the gender disparity highlighted by the Why Not Her campaign, whether Electric Picnic's one woman in six headliners is enough, and why there might be some good news happening in the field of electronic music, courtesy of international network female:pressure’s FACTS 2022 survey.Plus Reasons To Be Cheerful.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Andrea and Niall with our monthly new music recommender episode.We are talking albums from Big Thief (yes more), Cate Le Bon, CMAT, Black Country, New Road; and songs from Nilufer Yanya, Gaadge, Piri & Tommy, Robocobra Quartet, Porridge Radio, Alex Cameron, Yenkee and Teno Afrika.Plus festival, gigs and Euphoria chat.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Exploring the samples and the enduring appeal of Steely Dan's jazzy high-fidelity rock studio albums. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a tale of two albums this week. The fifth album from Big Thief (Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, 80 minutes) and Beach House (Once Twice Melody, 85 minutes). Two albums which bring up the question of artistic intention, album length, double albums and formats.Both albums had somewhat novel rollouts in advance with overloaded pre-release singles with Beach House's album split into chapters.How does length, intention, artistic vision and format affect the listening experience of both? Andrea and Niall discuss. Plus, we went to a gig! Dry Cleaning in the Button Factory. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.