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2023 live - in review

1. Marina Allen - Workman's Club, Dublin, Feb 9 2023

2. John Douglas - Coughlan's, Cork, Feb 10 2023

3. Fixity - Plugd, Cork, Feb 11 2023

4. Susanna - Triskel Christchurch, Cork, Mar 18 2023

5. m(h)aol - Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Apr 13 2023

6. Pete Doherty - Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Apr 15 2023

7. CMAT - Cyprus Avenue, Cork, May 13 2023

8. The Bonk - Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, May 19 2023

9. Lankum - Cork Opera House, May 20 2023

10. Richard Dawson - Whelan's, Dublin, May 26 2023

11. Boa Morte - National Sculpture Factory, Cork, June 16 2023

12. The Chills - Whelan's, Dublin, June 22 2023

13. Sun & Sea - Millenium Hall, City Hall, Cork, June 24 2023

14. Ana Palindrome - Griffith College, Cork, July 14 2023

15. Junk Drawer - Coughlan's, Cork, July 15 2023

16. Robert Forster - Cyprus Avenue, Cork, July 26 2023

17. All Together Now - Waterford, Aug 4-6 2023

18. Max Porter & friends - The Pavilion, Cork, Sept 8 2023

19. How to be a dancer in seventy two thousand easy lessons - Everyman Theatre, Cork, Sept 9 2023

20. Elaine Malone - The Green Room (Cork Opera House), Cork, Sept 10 2023

21. The National - Campo Pequeno, Lisbon, Oct 6 2023

22. Brandee Younger - Triskel Christchurch, Cork, Oct 27 2023

23. Tandem Felix + Ana Palindrome - Coughlan's, Cork, Nov 17 2023

24. Rachael Lavelle - Coughlan's, Cork, Dec 7 2023

25. John Francis Flynn + Trá Pháidín - St Lukes, Cork, Dec 9 2023

 

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Playlist 545 - Best of 2023: Part 1
1. Ella Ronen – Truth (BB*Island)
2. Pierre Bastien & Michel Benabila – Stray carrier pigeon (Pingipung)
3. Hochzeitskapelle + Eddie Marcon – Itsuko Manika Watashitachi (Alien Transistor)
4. Gratin Carnival – City of silver and blue (Alien Transistor)
5. Henrik Lindstrand – Tumlare (One Little Independent)
6. Minwhi Lee – Borrowed tongue (Alien Transistor)
7. Sufjan Stevens – Will anybody ever love me (Asthmatic Kitty)
8. Marta del Grandi – Snapdragon (Fire Records)
9. Mitski – Star (Dead Oceans)
10. Rachael Lavelle – Let me unlock your full potential (Rest Energy)
11. Nuria Graham – Fire Mountain, oh sacred ancient fountain (Primavera Labels / New Deal / Verve Forecast & Universal Music Spain)
12. Arborist – Dreaming in another language (Kirkinriola Records)
13. Boa Morte – Hard to know (Gare du Nord)
14. Naima Bock – Lines (Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction)
15. Modern Cosmology – A time to blossom (Duophonic UHF Disk)
16. Slow Moving Clouds – The house must burn (bandcamp)
17. MD Pallavi & Andi Otto – Song for broken ships (Pingipung)
18. Flaer – Follow (Odda Recordings)
19. Tony Njoku – Lost forever (Moshi Moshi Records)
20. August Cooke – Shed with me (Poets Studio)
21. Spirit Fest – Lost & found (Morr Music)
22. Colleen – Subterranean-Movement III (Thrill Jockey)

 

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Playlist 546 - Best of 2023: Part 2
1. The Toads – Nationalsville (Upset The Rhythm)
2. Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X (Fire Records)
3. Me Lost Me – Eye Witness (Upset The Rhythm)
4. I Dreamed I Dream – The Bass (bandcamp)
5. Tandem Felix – There’s a new sheriff in town (bandcamp)
6. Terry – Gold duck (Upset The Rhythm)
7. Immaterial Possession – To the fete (Fire Records)
8. Lael Neale – I am the river (Sub Pop)
9. Death and Vanilla – Looking glass (Fire Records)
10. Trá Pháidín – m’anam go b’ea (bandcamp)
11. Nagasaki Swim – Sleep (Excelsior Recordings)
12. Nighttime – Veil (Ba Da Bing Records)
13. Symbol Soup – Overdressed (Sad Club Records)
14. The Notwist – Exit strategy to myself (Live from Alien Research Center)
(Morr Music)
15. Aoife Nessa Frances – Automatic love (Partisan Records)
16. Spencer Cullum feat Erin Rae – Betwixt and between (Full Time Hobby)
17. BMX Bandits – Long forgotten summers (Tapete Records)
18. Holly Blackshaw – March rain (Tompkins Square) (Imaginational Anthem Vol XII: I thought I told you – A Yorkshire tribute to Michael Chapman)
19. Andersens – Fuyu (Alien Transistor) (Glitzerbox #2 compilation)
20. Les Imprimés – It’s over (Big Crown Records)

 

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Playlist 547 - Best of 2023: Part 3
1. Saeko Killy – Sun shower (Tapete Records/bureau b)
2. Hiro Ama – Ultramarine (Silent Way)
3. Robert Forster – It’s only poison (Tapete Records)
4. The Bonk – The stars look great (bandcamp)
5. Nation of Language – Sole obsession (Play It Again Sam)
6. Decisive Pink – Destiny (Fire Records)
7. Sprints – Up and comer (City Slang)
8. POZI – Pest control (PRAH Recordings)
9. Chalk – Asking (Dutch Tilt)
10. m(h)aol – Nice guys (Tulle)
11. Martin Rev – Dreams (bureau b)
12. The Umlauts – Dance and go (PRAH Recordings)
13. Ghost Woman – Yoko (Full Time Hobby)
14. Christian Cohle – Another life (bandcamp)
15. Special Friend – Bete (Skep Wax Records)
16. Surprise Chef – Rosemary Hemphill (Big Crown Records)
17. Sally Anne Morgan – The center (Thrill Jockey)
18. Cormac O Caoimh – A good place for you (bandcamp)
19. Craig Fortnam – Ruins in time (Believers Roast)
20. Pierre Daven-Keller feat Arielle Dombasle – Salvaje corazon (Deluxe World) (It’s a Deluxe World compilation)
21. Lomond Campbell – Infinite spin (One Little Independent)
22. Pieter Nooten – Beauty June (Rocket Girl)
23. Swans – Michael is done (Mute/Young God Records)

 

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Playlist
1. Laetitia Sadier – Panser L’Inacceptable (Duophonic Super 45s)
2. Penny Arcade – Jona (Tapete Records)
3. Chalk – Claw (Nice Swan Records) (playing Oslo, London, Mar 21 2024)
4. Graham Reynolds feat Marta del Grandi – Linger in silence (Fire Records) (playing Earth, London, Apr 27 2024)
5. The Gentle Spring – Dodge the rain (Skep Wax Records)
6. William Doyle – Now in motion (Tough Love) (playing Deaf Institute, Manchester, Mar 24 2024)
7. Yosa Peit – Shelly (Fire Records)
8. Richard Hawley – Two for his heels (BMG) (playing Olympia Theatre, Dublin, May 24+25 2024)
9. The Pheromoans – Downtown (Upset The Rhythm)
10. Crumbs – You’re just jealous (Skep Wax Records) (playing Wharf Chambers, Leeds, May 31 2024)
11. Mikado Koko – Piano in a cage No. 2 (Caliban Sounds)
12. Astrid Sonne – Staying here (Escho)
13. Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden – Postcard greetings (Thrill Jockey)
14. Avice Caro – At the end of the day (It’s the end of the day) (Nice Swan Records)
15. Brainstory – Hanging on (Big Crown Records) (playing The Blues Kitchen, Manchester, May 28 2024)
16. claire rousay – Head (Thrill Jockey) (playing Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Jun 1 2024)
17. Daniel Pickard – Heartbeats the flaw (Daniel Pickard)
18. Serge Gainsbourg – Bonnie & Clyde (Fontana Records)
19. Lou Lyne & The Blue Almond Project – Elsie’s song (bandcamp)
20. Henrik Lindstrand – Hvid (remodelled by Alva Noto) (One Little Independent)
21. Hilary Bow – Clambering soul (bandcamp) (playing St Lukes, Cork, Apr 20 2024)
22. Fixity – The monk in the moon (Kantcope) (playing Gaza Fundraiser, Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Mar 24 2024)
23. I Dreamed I Dream – The Bass (bandcamp) (playing Gaza Fundraiser, Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Mar 24 2024)
24. The Last Sound – Intervals (Cruel Nature Recordings)

 

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Playlist 549: days of longing
1. Daisy Rickman – Signpost to the stars (Fire Records)
2. Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom – Never work (BB*Island) (playing Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, Apr 16 2024)
3. The Go! Team – Junior kickstart (Memphis Industries) (playing The Button Factory, Dublin, Sept 30 2024)
4. Kelsey Michael – Music of the waves (Dimple Discs)
5. Ella Ronen – Truth (BB*Island)
6. Hochzeitskapelle – Silver rider (Alien Transistor)
7. Magic Tuber Stringband – Days of longing (Thrill Jockey)
8. Marie Klock – Se goinfrer de rage (Pingipung)
9. Saicobab – Nyrtaman (Thrill Jockey)
10. Martin Rev – Mari (bureau b)
11. Elsa Hewitt – Citrinitas (Tompkins Square)
12. Dumbo Tracks feat Rubee Fegan – Daughter of flood (bureau b)
13. John Hynes – In over my head (bandcamp)
14. Harry Taussig – Etude in G Major #7 (take 2) (Tompkins Square)
15. Manu Delago feat Mad About Lemon – Paintings on the wall (One Little Independent)
16. Bobby Oroza – Queen of the barrio (Big Crown Records)
17. Brainstory – Hanging on (Big Crown Records)
18. Jim White & Marisa Anderson – Bitterroot Valley Suite I: water (Thrill Jockey)
19. St Vincent – Broken man (Virgin Music Group)
20. TTSSFU – Studio 54 (Fear Of Missing Out Records)
21. Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley – Watching the starlings (One Little Independent)
22. Oisín Leech – One hill further (Outside Music/Tremone Records)
23. Six Organs of Admittance – The mission (Drag City)
24. Maya Shenfeld – Analemma (Thrill Jockey)
25. Marla Hansen – Dresden (Karaoke Kalk)
26. toechter – Epic wonder (Morr Music)
27. Thee Heart Tones – Forever and ever (Big Crown Records)
28. Jerry David DeCicca feat. Bill Callahan – Forty years in the wilderness (Tompkins Square) (James Toth Presents…Imaginational Anthem vol XIII – Songs of Bruce Cockburn)
29. Tyler Ramsey – Black pines (Tompkins Square)
30. Jerskin Fendrix – Finale and End Credits (Milan Records) (from the soundtrack of the film Poor Things)

 

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Playlist
1. Amy Rigby – Dylan in Dubuque (Tapete Records)
2. Marewrew – Sikata kuykuy / Snow falling from a tree (Pingipung)
3. Daisy Rickman – Falling through the rising sun (Fire Records)
4. Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom – Never work (BB*Island)
5. Pupkulies + Rebecca & Tibau Tavares – Nha badjam (Normoton)
6. claire rousay – it could be anything (Thrill Jockey) (playing Project Arts Centre, Dublin, June 1)
7. Myriam Gendron – Long way home (Thrill Jockey)
8. Oisin Leech – Malin gales (Outside Music) (playing Another Love Story Festival, Aug 24)
9. Big Brave – canon: in canon (Thrill Jockey) (playing Portals Festival, London, May 25)
10. Bjork & Rosalía – Oral (Olof Dreijer Remix) (One Little Independent)
11. Chalk feat Fears – Bliss (Nice Swan Records)
12. English Teacher – R&B (Island Records) (playing Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, Nov 12)
13. Human Interest – Shapeshifting (Nice Swan Records) (playing The Great Escape, Brighton, May 18) 14. Marcel Wave – Barrow boys (Upset The Rhythm)
15. Home Counties – You break it, you bought it (Submarine Cat) (playing Dot 2 Dot, Bristol, May 25)
16. Marina Allen – Red cloud (Fire Records) (playing The Slaughtered Lamb, London, June 21)
17. Marta Del Grandi – The best sea (Fire Records)
18. Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements – Nest of earrings (Thrill Jockey)
19. Monde UFO – Amen (Fire Records)
20. muckno – manboy (bandcamp)
21. The Last Sound – Drugged on the rugged plain (Cruel Nature)
22. Sprints – Drones (City Slang) (playing All Together Now, Waterford, Aug 3)
23. Yosa Peit – Shelly (Fire Records)
24. Jessica Pratt – Life is (City Slang) (playing Union Chapel, London, June 6)
25. Peter Beatty – Half-life (Nightjar Recordings)
26. SUN – Sun (Alien Transistor)
27. St Vincent – Big time nothing (Virgin)
28. Swansea Sound – Markin it down (Skep Wax)
29. The Music of Sound – Second light (Monochrome Motif Records)
30. Will Gregory Ensemble – Young Archimedes (Mute) (playing Hidden Notes Festival, Stroud, Sept 21-22)
31. Adrian Crowley – The white birds (Dimple Discs) (Bring Your Own Hammer)
32. Richard Hawley – Prism in jeans (BMG)
33. Penny Arcade – When the feeling is gone (Tapete Records)

 

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Playlist
1. Naim Amor – Amorsonic (Fort Lowell Records)
2. Fixity – Why wait (bandcamp) (playing The Conncert, Co Mayo, Aug 3, w/ Trá Pháidín, Junk Drawer ++)
3. Rachael Lavelle – Let me unlock your full potential (bandcamp) (playing All Together Now, Aug 2-5)
4. Louis Carnell & Nailah Hunter – fourteen (Mute)
5. Kugelschreiber – (me x u) ≠ (u x me) (WAMHO Records)
6. William D. Drake – The flickering shade (Zebedog Records)
7. Barry McCormack – We will prevail (bandcamp)
8. Boa Morte – A cloud of stars / 2122 (reworked) (bandcamp)
9. Bobby Oroza – Goddess (Big Crown Records)
10. Brian Lopez & KT Tunstall – Road to Avalon (Vacilando ’68)
11. Camille Baziadoly – Skin on fire (bandcamp)
12. Caolán Austin feat Our Krypton Son – Walking into the furnace (Only You Recordings)
13. Crumbs – 4291 (Skep Wax)
14. Daniel Pickard – Room service (Daniel Pickard)
15. Dave Guy – 7th heaven (Big Crown Records)
16. Eva May – Where does the time go (Full Time Hobby)
17. Field Music – Six weeks, nine wells (Memphis Industries)
18. Golden Bug feat The Liminanas & Vega Voga – Hi No Tori (La Belle)
19. Kelsey Michael – Gry maritha (Dimple Discs)
20. Marina Allen – Swinging doors (Fire Records)
21. Memorials – Acceptance experience (Fire Records)
22. Niall Colfer – Now you know (bandcamp)
23. Richard Hawley – Open up your door (Parlophone)
24. Richard Dawson – ogre (Weird World) (playing The Set Theatre, Kilkenny, Aug 17)
25. Marcel Wave – Something looming (Upset The Rhythm)
26. splint – Continuing endless (Nice Swan)
27. TaliaBle – Pandora’z spit (PRAH Recordings)
28. Silverbacks – Selling shovels (playing Coughlans, Cork, Oct 20)
29. Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Because)
30. Public Service Broadcasting feat Eera – People, let’s dance (bandcamp) (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Nov 4)
31. Thee Marloes – I know (Big Crown Records)
32. Ty Segall – The dance (Drag City) (playing End of the Road, Dorset, Sep 1)
33. Brainstory – Peach Optimo (Big Crown Records)
34. Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand – Our best (One Little Independent)
35. Normil Hawaiians – Big city sky (Upset The Rhythm)
36. Sufjan Stevens – Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
Part I: The World’s Columbian Exposition
Part II: Carl Sandberg visits me in a dream (Asthmatic Kitty)
37. Comet Gain – Only happy when I’m sad (Spinout Nuggets)
38. Mick Harvey – At heaven’s gate (Mute)
39. Phosphene/John Cavanagh – The embryo (Sonido Polifonico Records)
40. Magic Tuber Stringband – A dance on a Sunday night (Thrill Jockey)
41. Jessica Pratt – Life is (City Slang) (playing Stoller Hall, Manchester, Nov 7)
42. Matthew Bourne – The mirror and its fragments (The Leaf Label) (playing The Cockpit, London, Sept 30, w/ Million Seller)

 

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Playlist 552 - free energy
1. Amy Rigby – Bricks (Tapete)
2. Trust Fund – Has it been a while (Tapete)
3. David Murphy – Eleanor Plunkett (Rollercoaster Records)
4. The Byrds – You ain’t going nowhere (Columbia)
5. Sandy Denny – Blues run the game (Earth Recordings)
6. Trust Fund – The mirror (Tapete)
7. Stuart Moxham – Suburban Monochrome (Tiny Global Productions)
8. Minwhi Lee – Penitentiary (Alien Transistor)
9. The Music of Sound – Inner London Lullaby (Monochrome Motif Records)
10. ERNIE – Vineyard towns (ERNIE)
11. Aislinn Logan – Stolen days (soundcloud)
12. Albertine Sarges – Stand near your fire (Moshi Moshi)
13. Bananagun – Free energy (Full Time Hobby)
14. Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek – Cool hand (Big Crown Records)
15. Les Imprimés – With you (Big Crown Records)
16. Ella Raphael – Tangled love (Fire Records)
17. Naima Bock – Feed my release (Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction) (playing Deaf Institute, Manchester, Nov 13)
18. Eva May – In my heart (Full Time Hobby)
19. Hiro Ama feat. Keeley Forsyth – Billowing (PRAH Recordings)
20. Homer feat. Kirby – Rollin (Big Crown Records)
21. Jane Weaver – Univers (Fire Records)
22. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest (Because Music)
23. Jeremy Warmsley – Dancing on the moon (bandcamp)
24. Katrina Ford – Dundalk dungeon (Violin Films)
25. Barry McCormack – Tourist (Hag’s Head)
26. Cormac O Caoimh – My harbour (bandcamp) (playing Richmond Revival, Fermoy, Oct 26)
27. Hilary Bow – Fall Fall (bandcamp)
28. Elephant – For a friend (Excelsior Recordings)
29. Field Music – The waitress of St Louis’ (Memphis Industries) (playing Union Chapel, London, Feb 8)
30. Kugelschreiber – Fuck symmetry (Wamho Records)
31. Chikiss – DKN (Bureau B)
32. Eat-girls – Unison (Bureau B)
33. Faust – Sunny night (Bureau B)
34. Tolouse Low Trax – Rushing into water (Joakim’s Elemental Edit) (Bureau B)
35. Sprints – Feast (City Slang) (playing Kentish Town Forum, London, Nov 13)
36. Ed Scrader’s Music Beat – Roman Candle (Upset The Rhythm)
37. Anadol & Marie Klock – Sonate au jambon (Pingipung)
38. Tarwater –Trapdoor spider (Morr Music)
39. What Are People For? – criminals r snoozing (Alien Transistor)
40. Organi feat Yea-Ming Chen – Pictures of your face (Alien Transistor)
41. Elaine Howley – To the test (Touch Sensitive Records) (playing St Lukes, Cork Nov 23, w/ Rachael Lavelle – Quiet Lights Festival)
42. Rats on Rafts – Hibernation (Fire Records) (playing Bello Bar, Dublin, Feb 16)
43. Sassyhiya – Boat called Predator (Skep Wax)
44. Ty Segall – Honeymoon (Drag City)
45. Will Gregory Moog Ensemble – Parabolic sleuth (Mute)