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We mark 200 episodes of the Nialler9 Podcast by taking some questions from readers about indie sleaze, our favourite music videos, best interviewees, albums and gigs of 2023 we're looking forward to, podcast influences, dream jobs, and favourite albums since Andrea and I started doing the podcast together, which was June 2018 in the episode Ye Season ( Which I've reuploaded ) - I really dropped Dr...

Episode 199 of the Nialler9 Podcast is about scarcity and rarity. Prompted by the news of a Strokes box set of 7" singles this month , Andrea Cleary talks about the particular form and use of B-sides in the streaming era, the role of singles in the ongoing vinyl revival (2022 was the 15th straight year of vinyl sale growth), and why we love vinyl so much anyway. We read Jeremy D. Larson's howlingl...

Our first podcast of 2023 with Nialler and Andrea Cleary is a warm up for the year to come. Firstly, Andrea went to the 1975 live concert in Dublin last week and has some surprising thoughts on things, as well as a bit of a gush. For the rest of the episode we are talking and sharing our favourite music of the first month of the year from Lil Yachty, boygenius, Dave Rowntree, Rozi Plain, Lankum, E...

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It's that tim...

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It’s December...

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It's December...

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey This week's p...

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey This week's p...

Slane Irish Whiskey is a trailblazing Irish Spirit that has music in its heritage. Like Nialler9, Slane Irish Whiskey is all about new adventures and making a bold choice. Next time you’re looking for a spirit that comes recommended from someone who knows their music, try Slane Irish Whiskey. Please enjoy Slane Irish Whiskey responsibly/visit drinkaware.ie. © 2022 Slane Irish Whiskey It's been ove...

October was a busy busy month for albums, so that's our major focus for this monthly episode of Andrea and Niall 's favourite music we heard of the calendar month. We've got big albums from The 1975, Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Gilla Band, The Mary Wallopers, Loyle Carner, Dry Cleaning and Alvvays. Plus Niall shares a song he heard at a club during his NYC trip. Plus, there might be a birthday q...

The last time the Dublin artist and musician Sorcha Richardson appeared on the podcast was January 2020. Her debut album First Prize Bravery was just released on Faction and thew subsequent tour ended up getting rescheduled seven times. It wasn't all bad though, the album was very well-received, picked up a Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish album of the year and won her a whole set of new fa...

It's Andrea and Niall 's favourite music of the month time. Slightly delayed of our own doing, so we're just going to pretend October hasn't happened yet. This time out, we're recommending and discussing new albums from ELIZA, Djo, Vieux Farka Touré / Khruangbin, Sorcha Richardson and songs from Bricknasty, Weyes Blood, Arctic Monkeys, Sudan Archives and Babe Ruth? All is explained thanks to Youtu...

As part of Night Moves, our Culture Night event in the Fruit and Veg market in Dublin produced by Nialler9 and Totally Dublin in collaboration with Culture Night Dublin, we put on a discussion panel talking about the current and near-future issues of night-life and late night cultural activities in the city. Here's a recording of that talk for those who could not attend, and anyone interested in D...

It's a back to school vibe of an episode this week, as Niall and Andrea return after a busy few weeks for a catchup. Andrea surprises Niall with a special milestone birthday quiz, we discuss two very different losses in music this week - Coolio and Pharoah Sanders, Andrea shares her thoughts on the new David Bowie film Moonage Daydream and the Harry Styles-starring Don't Worry Darling, and Niall d...

On this episode, we are turning the tables on ourselves and the general vibe and discussing some of our personally most hated songs, and forcing each other and our dear listeners to listen to those songs. Sometimes it's irrational, sometimes it's circumstantial, sometimes it's association, but sometimes the song is just bad, and awful, and terrible. Niall and Andrea are here for their first ever h...

It's Andrea and Niall 's favourite music of the month time. This time out, we're recommending and discussing new albums from Julia Jacklin, Elaine Howley, Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Claude and Declaime/Madlib. The songs selections include Ruby Goon, Anna Mullarkey, Arctic Monkeys, jake Xerxes Fussell and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We also discuss the Win Butler misconduct allegations surrounding...

On this episode Niall and Andrea we dig into one of the most influential dance albums of the '90s - Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole.one of the most influential dance albums of the '90s - Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole. Released in 1997, Dig Your Own Hole was the second album from Tow Rowlands and Ed Simons, an album that brought a UK number 1 with Setting Sun featuring Noel Gallagher on...

It's a Renaissance deep dive. Andrea and Niall are with episode 182 of the Nialler9 Podcast, and we are going on in on Beyoncé's seventh album Renaissance, an LP heavily and obviously inspired by black American house music, culture and ballroom (as well as her late cousin Uncle Johnny, a man she credits in the liner notes of the album for introducing her to sounds and subcultures). On this episode...

It's monthly music recommender time. Andrea and Niall are here with the songs and albums that have made the sunny summer month of July hotter than it already was. This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from beabadoobee, The Koreatown Oddity, Beyoncé and Gwenno. The songs selections include Jessie Ware, Sorcha Richardson, Aoife Nessa Frances, Lil Silva, Sarah Crean and Gilla Band....

Hot Podcast Summah! This week, Niall and Andrea are looking at the contenders for song of the summer 2022. From Beyoncé to Harry Styles to Drake to the outsider bets, we look at the big seasonal hitters. What is a song of the summer anyway? We pick our personal favourites of the year (or not) and look at our summer songs of the past, and yes, I force Andrea to pick some upbeat songs for the episod...

This week, Andrea and Niall and delving deep into the life, times, music, controversies and talent of one of the last great pop stars - George Michael. One of the biggest selling artists of all-time, George Michael came to fame through the pop band duo of Wham! before going on to one of the most successful and creative solo artist careers of the last 40 years. From 'Hotel Tropicana' to 'Faith' to...

It's monthly music recommender time. Andrea and Niall are here with the songs and albums that have made their month a bit brighter. This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Confidence Man, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Automatic and Robocobra Quartet and songs from Julia Jacklin, Anna Mieke, Ailbhe Reddy, Madison Cunningham, Dry Cleaning, Sworn Virgins and Courtney Barne...

It's been a few weeks since Andrea and Niall were able to pod because of holidays, festivals and the summer season. So it's a more casual episode this time around with Niall sharing his experiences from week 2 at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Andrea making a rare festival visit to Body & Soul Festival. There's also Forbidden Fruit chat and our Nialler9 Discord community weigh in our their e...

It's monthly roundup time. Andrea and Niall are here with the new music recommender episode. This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Kevin Morby, OliveyOlive, Just Mustard, Porridge Radio, Angel Olsen and songs from Kieran Hebden, Mallrat, Beverly-Glenn Copeland, Wet Leg, Cormac Begley and Beth Orton. Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spoti...

It's a big episode. As it always is when it comes to an artist like Kendrick Lamar. Mr Morale & The Big Steppers, Lamar's fifth album, the Compton rapper's first album in five years, is out almost a week now and Niall and Andrea spend an hour and 40 minutes discussing this cerebral, personal, conceptual album in depth. The album is a therapy session and a morality play, seeking breakthroughs,...