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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', 'T...

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 subsc...

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...

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,...

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 s...

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...

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 event...

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 ap...

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 c...

A few weeks ago, Myself and Andrea took a day trip to Galway city to visit the Black Gate Cultural Centre. In 2020 both Andrea and I were big champions of Niamh Regan’s debut album Hemet which was released on Black Gate’s label, Indeed, we talked to Niamh on the show that summer, and the record went onto receive a Choice Music Prize nomination last year. Last year the Black Gate venue was streamin...

There's been a lot of talk in Andrea and Niall's circles this week about the ethics of having a Spotify account in the wake of the Joe Rogan / Neil Young flareup. So we thought we'd finally get one of our old pals, Liz Pelly, a NYC writer who has written extensively about Spotify and streaming issues in recent years on to discuss the ethics, morality of the issues that people are talking about whi...

It's a new year, but the same old us. Andrea and Niall kick off 2022 (yes, we did a bonus episode last week but the duo are back) with a sense of rejuvenation and a bag of songs and albums to enthuse about. We are talking albums from Bill Fay, Mitski, Silverbacks and an old 1988 favourite from Womack & Womack. There are songs from Boy Harsher, Last Apollo, Soichi Terada, Pillow Queens, Earl Sw...

Sunil Sharpe and Robbie Kitt of The Give Us The Night Campaign join us to talk the modernisation of the licensing laws and the open consultation which close to the public this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the final part of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts, and as tradition, it's the one where and Niall and Andrea Cleary get loose. With wine and whiskey coffee in hand, we nominate winners in increasingly esoteric categories, aka shoe-horn things into an episode so we can talk about them. What was the best sax solo of 2021? What were our favourite live gigs? Best song discov...

It's part two of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts, and Niall and Andrea Cleary are talking their favourite songs of the year. We pick 10 songs each with a single crossover, and discuss songs from SZA, Self Esteem, Big Thief, Snail Mail, CMAT, Saint Sister, Overmono, BadBadNotGood and Andrea makes the case for Torres being wronged by the music lists. Support Nialler9 on Patreon...

Part one of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts is here, and Niall and Andrea Cleary are talking their favourite albums of the year.10 albums each with a lot of crossover are up for discussion including albums from Self Esteem, For Those I Love, Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, Saint Sister, Dry Cleaning, Japanese Breakfast and more. It's a long one so get settled. Support Ni...

On this week's Nialler9 Podcast, Andrea and Niall are talking about Adele.“Mummy's been having a lot of big feelings recently”With her fourth album 30 smashing all records again, we review the record which primarily focuses on Adele's divorce and the aftermath it had on her and her family's life. With Greg Kurstin, Inflo, Ludwig Göransson and Max Martin among the names on the boards, is 30 all it'...

On this week's Nialler9 Podcast, Andrea is joined by Amelia Cullen of the Lately podcast on the Tall Tales network for a full episode discussion about Taylor Swift. With Taylor now two albums deep into the re-recording of her masters with a newly recorded version of the 2012 album Red. We explain why Taylor is recording new versions of her albums in the first place, why Red has launched a thousand...

It's an ABBA special!40 years on from their last album, the Swedish pop legends ABBA have released their ninth studio album Voyage. We discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our end of the month episode is our time to reflect the albums and songs Andrea and Niall loved this past month. We talk the big album of the month - Prioritise Pleasure from Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem. Why it's getting 5-star reviews across the board and whether it's justified. There are explorations of albums from two Mayo musicians Maria Kelly (The Sum Of The In-Between) and Elaine Mai...

Episode 153 of the Nialler9 Podcast is a Halloween / Samhain special!*On this episode we are talking about scoring horror movies and experiences. Our guest joining Nialler and Andrea are Matthew Nolan who is the composer who has made spooky scores for Púca Festival's outdoor installations at Slane Castle this week both on the castle itself with projection mapping as Double Take Projections, and it...

This week's episode is a long form conversation with journalist and writer Una Mullally about the central ideas behind the Utopia series, concocted with and author, lecturer and a workers’ rights advocate Conner Habib. Utopia at the National Concert Hall is a series of five speculative and aspirational events happening from today Wednesday October 20th until Sunday October 24th which will feature...

This week's Nialler9 podcast with Niall and Andrea, is inspired by the sharp rise of London producer PinkPantheress and her sampling garage, drum & bass and pop music of the 2000s-era, which she has labelled the "new nostalgic".I referenced a book last week, in our conversation with Jenn Gannon, Simon Reynolds’ 2011 book  Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Retromania argues t...

On this week's Nialler9 podcast, Niall and Andrea are joined by Jenn Gannon to talk about a recent piece she wrote for the publication Rogue Collective called Girl powerless: Why the 90s and 00s weren’t as empowering as they seemed (available on subscription).Jenn's piece was inspired by watching the recent Channel 4 two-part documentary Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain, which as well a...