Why not treat yourself to a trip in vintage carriages from the early 1960s, travelling behind a vintage locomotive to the Marble City of Kilkenny?
We will be re-creating the iconic Radio Train of years past – playing music with commentary during the trip along the line while you enjoy the journey through the landscape of the counties of Dublin, Kildare and Kilkenny. August 20th 2017 Get your tickets.
PHEVER is headed up by a collective and close-knit team of raw & ambitious talent, based in Dublin, Ireland. Setup & launched in late 2014 with an overall aim to re-introduce QUALITY back into clubbing & entertainment in Ireland & beyond and fire up the underground once again; presenting it to a global audience.
On air in Dublin around 91.6FM Phever have been on the dial for a number of years now and are one of the niche stations that fills a gap in music choice on the airwaves.
Scouting Radio is a listener supported Internet Radio station broadcasting to the Scouting Movement 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the latest news and information on events, camps and jamborees from every corner of the world.
Based in Ireland Scouting Radio has been serving scouting members worldwide since 2005.
There are loads of great records out there. Mickey Bradley has bought, borrowed and blagged lots of them since his teenage years and he’ll play as many as he can in two hours. Tune in for vintage rock, pop, and new releases, from Alice Cooper to the Clash, Dusty to the Divine Comedy, Slade to Soak.
There is no doubt that radio is popular in Ireland but percentages are great at hiding the reality. In 2008 there was a 3% jump upward in a single survey (3 months). What happened. Well hundreds of thousands of people emigrated. These young people are statistically less loyal to radio. Their older parents are more loyal. The population fell by over 250,000 as the financial crisis (which is 10 years old this week) sent our young to Canada and Australia and many places in between.
Back home the Irish Times attributed the rise in listeners to our radio audience loving gloomy talk radio about the economic crash with the troika in town. Nothing could be further from the truth. Younger less loyal radio listeners left Ireland leaving older more loyal listeners at home. The population and total available ears to hear radio fell by a quarter million and radios daily listeners increased 3% but only as a percentage!
The anniversary of the economic crash reminds us that the crash is older than the iPhone. Released June 2007 it went on sale in Ireland in late 2007. The iPhone has probably done more damage to radio audience than the economic crash. Not to the age group that emigrated and now returned and not to their analogue parents but to the next generation. The Gen-Zeds are growing up with mediated musical/audio experiences delivered by internet protocol and not served by radio transmitters. The iPhone has no radio chip enabled in the device. The next generation is gone. No new youth radio (Spin, Beat, iRadio) have come on air since the iPhone arrived and one such station has departed in this decade with the departure of TXFM (nee Phantom FM).
If an industry is in a time warp where the playlists are getting older and older meeting retirement / comeback / reunion tours of the artists they play then radio is in a decline. The percentages will hide it for a while but radio is lost on the young and it need not be so.
A reinvention can show that the old school social media that was radio has a part to play in the one to many style of entertainment so lost on the youth of today.
Broadcast yesterday evening on Near FM. Pure Phase is a radio show on NEAR 90 FM (90.3FM), in Dublin, Ireland. Hosted by David Bryan, you will experience a broad mix of psychedelic, space, progressive, kraut, shoegaze, fuzz and experimental music from Irish and international artists.
The best music is on the fringes of Irish Radio, if what is popular is the tall head, this is where pop radio is commercial and narrow minded in playlist size. Then there is a long tail that is full of exciting non popular (yes this is a good thing) great radio. And this show on Near FM is worthy of more attention while staying non pop non stop.
Pure Phase Playlist 08/08/2017 Glen Campbell : Wichita Lineman The Move : Fire Brigade / Move The Accent : Red Sky at Night The Balloon Farm : A Question Of Temperature Traffic : Hole In My Shoe / Mr. Fantasy Eire Apparent : Captive In The Sun / Sunrise Hawkwind : Mirror Of Illusion / Hawkwind Jimi Hendrix : Machine Gun / Band Of Gypsys Khruangbin : Mr. White / The Universe Smiles Upon You Mushroom : I Had Some Dreams, They Were Clouds In My Coffee / Foxy Music Tractor : Everytime It Happens / Tractor Yeti Lane : Délicat / L’Aurore
BBC Radio Ulster’s ALT meets audio producer and engineer Julie McLarnon of Analogue Catalogue in Rathfriland. She reveals how she used her dad’s garage to build her first studio, How John Peel was a big fan of the early records she produced and she gives advice on becoming a producer.
Tom McSweeney (once of the RTE parish) is a broadcaster and expert in maritime issues. He now broadcasts a monthly radio show on CRY 104 (Community Radio Youghal). The show sounds as good as it did on RTE. It is syndicated on CRAOL stations across Ireland. Tightly scripted with plenty of news, dates for the diary and maritime history.
Seascapes on RTE Radio 1 was presented by Marcus Connaughton until he retired in June 2017 and RTE correspondent Fergal Keane has taken over the microphone. The RTE show is weekly but is hidden away at 10.30pm on a Friday night.