IMRO Chats

For our first member spotlight of the year, Zara Hedderman speaks to Constance Keane and Roisín Nic Ghearailt of the 5-piece feminist post-punk band M(h)aol. Following the February 3rd release of their debut album 'Attachment Styles', they discuss the themes and experiences that are engrained within their lyricism, the wider impact of their work and their approach to the music industry a...

International touring often raises a complex range of challenges for artists, now more than ever in a post-Brexit and Covid-19 world. Moderated by radio’s Paul McLoone, this live discussion will help explore and demystify the process with advice from a broad range of voices working in the sector: Ciaran Walsh – Culture Ireland Maya Cullen Petrović – Jawdropper Music Mick Roe – Faction Records Cons...

Last weekend at the 21st birthday celebrations of Other Voices in Dingle, host Tony Clayton Lea sat down with three of the five acts that took to the stage for this year's IMRO Other Room.  How did they get on? Listen in to hear from Galway-born hip-hop/rap artist Celaviedmai, Dingle-native and ex-Walking on Cars frontman Pa Sheehy, and Corey & Fatboy of Ballymun's very-own neo-soul,...

In this month's episode of The IMRO Podcast, Zara Hedderman sits down with Conor O'Brien of Villagers. Over a cup of tea, they spoke about everything from the last twelve years and five albums of his career - including the evolution of his song-writing and artistry as a whole. 

In this episode of The IMRO Podcast, host Zara Hedderman speaks to Ronan Kealy a.k.a. alternative folk artist Junior Brother about his brilliant second album, The Great Irish Famine, which came out earlier this month.

True crime has become one of the most popular genres across film, TV, podcasting... however, there aren't many albums that come to mind that take the details of an unsolved murder and transform them to music.  In this episode of The IMRO Podcast, Dublin-based musician and songwriter Keeley Moss joins our host Zara Hedderman to share her passion for all things music - biopics, books, as well a...

On this episode of The IMRO Podcast, host Zara Hedderman joins the wonderful Paul Noonan (Bell X1, HousePlants, Printer Clips) to chat all things life, career, inspirations and most importantly, favourite desserts.

In this series of The IMRO Podcast, join our host Louize Carroll as we explore the topic of mental health and mindfulness in music.  How do we work through our own growth? How do we cope? How do we cope well? And what are the kind of things that get us through tough times in this industry? Taking us away from the statistics and numbers and placing us directly into the lived experience of people. O...

From copyright issues around songs and compositions, to machine-learning in the creation of score, this episode of The IMRO Podcast focuses on one of the most important areas of debate in music in recent years. Join host Mark Gordon, as he explores the important intersection between music and artificial intelligence (AI) with IMRO's Barry Scannell. 

Join our host Aoife Barry, for the second in our series exploring where the music industry stands with gender diversity. This time, we talk to the women in sound. With guests Lux Alma, Francesca de Buyl-Pisco & Lisa Murray.

Join our host Aoife Barry, for the first in our series exploring where the music industry stands with gender diversity. Have times changed - or do outdated and offensive stereotypes still remain? With guests Sarah Corcoran (Pillow Queens), Dani Larkin and Shiv.