The Point of Everything

Eoghan and Ciara talk new Irish albums: The Altered Hours - The Altered Hours Anamoe Drive - Thank God It's Friday Eamon Brady - Half Light Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy - Cosán Casta Seán Mac Erlaine & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - Old Segotia They discuss recent live shows and the rise of Madra Salach, plus new tracks of the week: Cypress, Mine! - Spellbinding Fred Again.. ft Reggie - Talk of th...

Cork-based band Ways of Seeing released their second album The Inheritence of Fear on October 10. Singer and guitarist James O'Donnell talks about his long road to the album, from starting out alongside Eoin 'Talos' French a decade and a half ago to Dear Desert before a years-long estrangement from music. We talk about how he came back to music, his health issues such as losing his voice and tinni...

Dublin producer Rory Sweeney released his second album Old Earth on October 24. Written between Dublin, Manchester, Letterkenny and Sligo, the record draws on Stone Tape Theory - the idea that ghosts and hauntings are echoes imprinted into the land. Old Earth explores memory, history and the esoteric in the information age, and features a stacked cast including RÓIS, Saoirse Miller, Risteárd Ó hAo...

Dublin-born, Cork-based artist Laura Elizabeth Hughes released her debut album Knots & Echoes on October 3. Having started out by uploading Lana Del Rey covers to YouTube, Laura released a steady stream of singles over the years, collaborations with Cian '1000 Beasts' Sweeney and co-wrote one of Ireland's entries to Eurovision. It's all led up to her debut album, a blend of spoken word with folk f...

Shannon-based rapper God Knows released his debut solo album A Future of the Past on September 26 via Narolane. We talk about his journey from serial collaborator to solo artist - though with his longtime collaborator Murli and his family by his side. He talks about how he has changed - or not since Rusangano Family, his experiences with the music industry that get aired on the record, his family...

Eithne Ní Chatháin aka Inni-K released her fourth album Still a Day on September 26 via Green Willow Records. She describes it as her most sweeping and emotionally charged work yet, moving with a deeper gravity and startling clarity. Working with producer Seán Mac Erlaine (synths, woodwinds) and Matthew Jacobson (drums, percussion), Eithne wrote the album in the aftermath of a breakup. She says: “...

This special episode of The Point of Everything pays tribute to the late Eoin French aka Talos, who passed away in August 2024 at the age of 36. A brilliant musician, Talos released three albums - Wild Alee in 2017, Far Out Dust in 2019, and Dear Chaos in 2022 - as well as a posthumous EP with Atli Orvarsson called Sun Divider and posthumous album with Olafur Arnalds, entitled A Dawning. He was al...

Eoghan and Cíara talk about Sounds from a Safe Harbour, which took place in Cork over the weekend, preview new albums coming out of Ireland over the new few weeks, plus new track recommendations

Ronan Kealy aka Junior Brother, returns to The Point of Everything to talk about his extraordinary third album The End, released September 5 on Pete Doherty’s Strap Originals label. The album was recorded almost entirely solo, with only a guest appearance from Lankum’s Ian Lynch on Uilleann pipes, but its sound is expansive and band-like, rooted in Irish tradition while reaching into something str...

TRM (formerly known as The Redneck Manifesto) release their sixth album Grushy via Dublin's Ten Spot Records on Friday, September 5. Comprising seven tracks, they say they found a new creative surge - a different pulse yet from the same wellspring - when making the album. Currently a three piece (though swelling to six when playing live), Niall Byrne, Matty Bolger and Richie Egan have been playing...

Throwing Shapes are Méabh McKenna, Ross Chaney, and Gareth Quinn Redmond who release their self-titled debut album on WRWTFWW on September 5 - a hypnotic, texturally rich exploration in sound. Led by the striking timbre of the Irish wire strung harp, the album weaves intricate instrumental tapestries with ambitious electronic synthesis and arrangements. Eoghan talked to the three members of Throwi...

Recorded live at Love is a Stranger at Ballyvolane House, Co Cork, Eoghan and Cíara induct the first four Irish albums into the TPOE hall of fame. 01:20 Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 08:20: Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History 15:10: Gilla Band - Holding Hands with Jamie 23:50: Villagers - Darling Arithmetic

Recorded live at Cork Opera House to mark 30 years since the untimely death of Rory Gallagher, this special episode features Gerry McAvoy — Rory’s longtime bassist and musical companion. Gerry played alongside Rory for 20 incredible years, from the early 70s through to 1991, bringing Irish rock to international stages and sharing bills with the likes of Rush, ZZ Top, and Fleetwood Mac. We trace Ro...

Eoghan and Cíara talk about their experience at All Together Now 2025, and two incredible performances by CMAT and Fontaines DC.

Eoghan and Ciara celebrate the 10-year anniversary of The Point of Everything podcast, reflecting on its evolution and some of Eoghan's favourite interviews. Then then preview All Together Now 2025, talking about Fontaines DC and CMAT headlining, plus the emerging Irish acts to look out for, the worst clashes and the best of the rest. Cíara then talks about seeing Billie Eilish headline 3Arena and...

Poor Creature aka Ruth Clinton (Landless), Cormac MacDiarmada (Lankum) and John Dermody (The Jimmy Cake) released their debut album All Smiles Tonight via River Lea Records on July 11. They talk about their 'other' bands before discussing how Poor Creature started, how some of the songs on the record developed (Willie-O, The Whole Town Knows), working with producer John 'Spud' Murphy, supporting/p...

Cíara and Eoghan discuss new albums by Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight, Olafur Arnalds & Talos - A Dawning, and Wet Leg - Moisturizer. Plus music chat and new track recommendations

Aaron Smyth aka A Smyth released his second album Hello Goliath via Lover Records on June 13. He joins to talk about previous band Vann Music and feeling "blacklisted" in the music industry. From there, we talk about A Smyth's journey, with a deep focus on songwriting and simply just trying to get better at it. Working with producer Darragh Nolan was key and he also became a dad - how did that aff...

Cíara Byrne joins to talk about Glastonbury 2025, in particular CMAT, Bob Vylan and Kneecap, favourite albums of the year (so far), album news, new track recommendations, gig news and more. Preorder For Those I Love - Carving the Stone: https://forthoseilove.terrible.group/ Pot-Pot - Warsaw 480km - https://potpot.bandcamp.com/album/warsaw-480km Throwing Shapes - Throwing Shapes - https://garethqui...

Texas-born, Laois-raised, London-based artist Kean Kavanagh returns to talk about his debut album The County Star. An introspective work, it finds him examining all those sides of his being: USA, Ireland, and London as he adopts the dual persona of a cowboy county star/GAA county star. Kean, who many will know as a close collaborator of Kojaque (they co-founded Soft Boy Records) released his debut...

Eoghan and Cíara chat about their weekend at Beyond the Pale and the difficulties the music festival faced in the week preceding it. There's also music news, review of Kean Kavanagh's debut album The County Star, and new track recommendations. 0:00 Intro and Beyond the Pale review 18:51 Music News 21:00 TPOE Album Club: Kean Kavanagh - The County Star 27:48 New track recommendations Links for musi...

Eoghan is joined by Stevie and Jake Lennox of Belfast’s Junk Drawer, who released their second album Days of Heaven on June 6 via Pizza Pizza Records. Formed in 2015 alongside Brian Coney and Rory Dee, Junk Drawer blend Weezer-esque riffs, shoegaze and indie rock. Fresh off an eight-date tour of Ireland with Cola and M(h)aol, the brothers reflect on the DIY logistics of putting it all together, th...

Eoghan and Cíara return to chat about the music news, including new albums by Altered Hours, Big Thief and Cate Le Bon, discuss Pulp and Iggy Pop coming to Dublin, dive into our first TPOE Album Club with post-punk band M(h)aol's second album Something Soft, discuss new albums coming out this week, and finish with two track recommendations. 04:34: Music News and Upcoming Releases 14:39: TPOE Album...

Cíara Byrne (Golden Plec, The Thin Air, Irish Examiner) joins to run through music news (Grizzly Bear are back, Basic Income for the Arts, Sufjan Stevens), recent gigs by Morgana and CMAT, new releases and our favourite Irish festival sets as festival szn 2025 kicks off

Limerick artist Laura Duff released her debut album Sea Legs on May 23. A meditation on grief, it sees her confront the death of her father and the fallout in the following months and years. “I was setting out to write Sea Legs in my dad’s memory,” she says. “It was very intentional in that way. All of the lyrical context is based around that, and his life, as well as trying to maintain some level...