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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Mad Scientists Of Music – February Update

    Artist Highlight – (John Leach, Siam Collective / Gamepak) John Leach is the man behind psychedelic rap collective Siam Collective (pictured). Out of costume he looks like Damon Albarn circa 1996, and talks like the charismatic head of a hip hop fuelled electronics cult. Along with A4 Sounds’ Andrew Edgar, MarQu VR and ‘Jeff Jeff… Read more

  • New Live Show – Threat Detection

    Radiomade is a facinating web based Dublin radio station. They ‘hit the headlines’ as they say in the yellow press, late last year with a successful effort to beat the world record number of consecutive interviews. Last July a similar stunt saw station proprietors Jack & Dan host 24 DJs in 24 hours. Point is… Read more

  • Coming Soon

    Ainesh Sharma is an under confident, over intellectual Indian-Irish twenty something. Ainesh has always been a victim of circumstance; working jobs he didn’t enjoy and failing to live up to his potential. Now sacked from his factory job and thrown out of home by his disappointed parents, Ainesh is forced to train as a psychotherapist.… Read more

  • The World You Think You Live In

    Experimental short documentary piece I made a while back. The narration was adapted from an unpublished short story called ‘The Wedding Tree’. The story was later adapted into a radio drama for Newstalk. I talked about the ideas behind this story in an Ignite talk at Mindfields a couple of years back called ‘The Nuts… Read more

  • I Don’t Need No Stinking Rehab!

    This is actually the original track before they vocoded it. I founded the masters in a trashcan in Camden. Update: Switched to vimeo version because of a bogus and illegal Youtube takedown notice from Universal Music Group. This despite Youtube’s own advice to dispute illegitimate takedown notices. In this case I disputed the initial illegitimate takedown… Read more

  • Brendan Baker (Love and Radio) Talk

    The ever clued in Colm Coyne gave me a heads up about a fascinating radio event in Brooklyn last month:  ‘Ears Forward‘ @ JACK performance space in Clinton Hill. Brendan Baker, sound designer / musical collaborator on Nick van der Kolk‘s award winning radio show ‘Love & Radio‘. I’ve been a huge fan of this (too… Read more