On this week’s show we are really excited to be covering the Forbidden Fruit Festival. It’s happening this Bank Holiday weekend 2nd - 4th June, in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin.

Later this evening from 6pm on RTE Digital 2XM…

Listen online: http://www.rte.ie/radio/ on DAB or on your TV on UPC CH 944

We’re chatting to the man behind the impressive musical line-up, Declan Forde of POD.

And also joining us in studio are Little Green Cars. They’ll be playing a few tunes, and letting us know what’s in store for the future and what they think of their Meteor Choice Music Prize nomination.

Sleep Thieves - Islands (Go to sleepthieves.bandcamp.com and listen to the EP in its entirety now!)

Little Xs For Eyes - In the Light

The Original Rudeboys - Travelling Man

Alabama Shakes - Hold On

Marina And The Diamonds - Primadonna

Niki And The Dove - Tomorrow

Mini Mix:

Jessie Ware 110%

Alex Clare - Too Close

Galway arts centre

www.Galwayartscentre.ie

Eye of the storm A solo exhibition by Siobhan McDonald.

Curated by Aoife Tunney

Opening at the Galway Arts Centre May 25th, 2012 6pm

‘In Siobhan McDonald’s work a circle is drawn logging the moments of calm, when the Earth’s core is rumbling, building towards the moment of chaos in the eye of the eruption, to the time of intensity in the quiet of the aftermath of the explosion. Movement is engulfed by many types of stillness: a monument to evolution.

Siobhan McDonald’s work explores the idea of studying ‘nature’. Her recent works have been triggered by the eruptive nature of the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull since 2010, alluding to tensions between chaos and entropy, and between the teleological and the merely random. For this exhibition, Eye of the Storm, she employs geology as a language to conceive an understanding of time and our relationship to a constantly evolving environment, juxtaposing new artworks in poetic relation with historical and geological artefacts. 

Eye of the Storm is comprised of several elements, including a series of paintings and drawings made with the process Eninka, a technique devised by John Cage in the 1980’s, where fire becomes fossilized in the paintings surface. In this process McDonald seeks to create works that connect both the artist and the viewer with a primordial state of chaos, contained in the moment of explosion. Aircraft pieces, collected from a crash-landed, abandoned 1950’s DC3 Dakota plane, found on the site of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, are sculptural readymades which map the fallen metal bird and its continuing erosion. The artist attempts to physically embody the energy that comes from the Earth’s core, by making works either at the site of the volcano, or in the studio. The objects in this show are works that record the artist’s interpretations of nature, human presence in geological time and the durational process of decay as cycles pass.

Alongside the visual components of the exhibition, McDonald collaborated with artist Slavek Kwi on a sound piece, Implodex Tremoranti 20:16 based on original Eyjafjallajokull data (from the Icelandic Meteorological Office by Sveinn Olafsson) and field recordings by Siobhan McDonald taken in August 2011. Other explosive sounds are derived from the archives of Slavek Kwi. Slavek Kwi is a sound-artist, composer and researcher interested in the phenomena of perception as the fundamental determinant of relations with reality.’ 

Visit www.siobhanmcdonald.com now for more information on her work

Bit late getting this up! My apologies!

// DUBLIN

Love In The Title by Hugh Leonard

Room To Move Theatre Company

Running until Jun 2nd so you’ve a few days left to get along to this!

On nightly @8 pm

Tickets: €15 / 12 (concs)

‘Following their sold out production of Brian Friel’s Lovers in 2011, Room To Move Theatre Company are back. Three generations of Irish women meet at the site of Clough-a-Regan in the countryside outside Limerick. Katie (aged 37 in 1999); her mother, Triona (aged 30 in 1964); and her mother’s mother, Cat ( aged 20 in 1932) discuss their lives, loves and relationships in this fantastical meeting across the ages. As they enthuse, bicker and argue they try to understand each other and ultimately their own place in the world. Following their huge success with Brian Friel’s Lovers last June, Room to Move Theatre Company return to the New Theatre with their second production. Hugh Leonard’s hilarious and thought provoking play examines issues of motherhood, family and sexuality throughout Twentieth century Ireland. A gem from one of Ireland’s leading playwrights.’

www.projectartscentre.ie

With Forbidden Fruit coming up next weekend for the Bank Holiday make sure you know exactly who’s playing on what day!

The Original Rude Boys - Travelling Man

Sleep Thieves have released their EP Islands, the title track of which we kicked off this week’s show with! The rest of the EP does not disappoint either so get yourselves over to their Bandcamp now and you can get it for yourself for E5.

As usual the Roisin Dubh in Galway has a plethora of gigs to keep your ears busy.

Fri 25th

Nanu nanu, Hipneck Blues Collective and Cogar - €8/6 – 8pm

Sat 26th:

The Original Rudeboys - €12.50/10 – 9pm

Sun 27th:

The Gandhis, A Band Called Wanda – Free – 8pm

Mon 28th:

Voodoo Fire – Free – 10pm

Weds 30th:

Late Night Gimp Fight, Dom Irrera, Danny Dowling and Barry Murphy – Comedy - €5 – 8.30pm

Ultan Conlon, Cogar and Calypso Brown as part of Strange Brew – FREE – 9pm

Next Thurs 31st:

Tera Melos, Jogging, It was all a little black and white - €5/Free – 10pm

Fri 25th:

John Blek and the Rats – De Barras – Free – 9pm

The Voodoos – Oliver Plunkett - €5 – 10.30pm

Transmitter – The Grafton Bar – Free – 10pm

Alan and The Accident – The Roundy – Free – 9pm

Hot Blooded Animals – The Oliver Plunkett – Free – 10pm

Sat 26th:

Hush War Cry – Cyprus Avenue - €9.50 – 8pm

Sun 27th:

Bronagh Gallagher – The Pavilion - €10 – 9pm

Mon 28th:

Hawkwind – the Pavilion - €27.50 – 7.30pm

Ricky Lynch - Counihans – Free – 7.30pm

Weds 30th:

The Gandhis – Album Release ‘After Autumn’, -De Barras – Free – 7.30pm

The Blue Jays – Oliver Plunkett – Free – 9.30pm

Blue Note Sessions – The Roundy - €5 – 8pm

Hi all

kicking off our gig listings on the show this week we started with Dublin. Here are some live shows not to be missed over the next week:

TONIGHT FRIDAY 25th

The Damned – The Academy - €25 – 7.30pm

Raglans – EP Launch – Whelans - €8 – 8pm

White Collar Boy – The Button Factory – Free Admission – 11pm

Sat 26th:

Gary Numan – The Button Factory - €25 – 7.30pm

Lethal Dialect – Workmans - €10 – 8pm

Sun 27th:

Liam Geddes – The Academy 2 - €11.75 – 6pm

John Sinclair and Howard Marks in Conversation – The Button Factory - €18 – 7.30pm

The Stag’s Head Raw features The Matinee Idles this week - €6/8 – 8pm

Newton Faulkner – Whelans - €22.50 – 8pm

Tues 29th:

Hawkwind – The Button Factory - €27.50 – 7.30pm

The Chieftans – Bord Gais Energy Theatre - €35/99.50 – 7.30pm

Spector – Whelans - €12

Next Thurs 31st:

Little Xs For Eyes – Tower Records Performance – Free – 5pm

Redwoods – Tower Records – Free – 6pm

New song from Passion Pit -Take a walk.

 Liking it - bring on an Irish tour!

What do you think?

Passion Pit - Take a Walk

Senekah – The Frontline

The Jezabels – Dark Storm

Gaz Coombes – Subdivider

Gold Fields - Treehouse

Beirut - A Sunday Smile (Son Lux Remix)

Mini-mix
Son Lux - Flickers (Alias Remix)
Sleep Party People - Heavy Burden (Young Midnight Remix)
St. Lucia - Closer Than This (Light Waves Remix)

The Dublin Dance Festival continues this week in the capital until the 26th of May.

The festival brings contemporary and international dance acts to various venues around the city, including the Abbey Theatre and the Project Arts Centre.

For more information and to see the festival’s full programme visit http://www.dublindancefestival.com/