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  • The Far Side turns one and other blather

    November 3, 2009 @ 11:21 am | by Jim Carroll

    The Far Side marks 52 weeks on the air tonight with a two hour birthday special. I’ll be raiding the archives to rewind some of the boom tunes, new bands and favourite indiesyncratic sounds from a year of Far Side broadcasts. Tune in from 10pm on Phantom 105.2.

    Cork rocks: thanks to Joe, Stevie, Pat, Bootleg Mark and everyone else at the smashing Pavilion venue in Cork for a grand night out last Thursday at Bootleg’s first birthday party. Four damn fine bands played - Katie Kim, O Emperor, Slow Motion Heroes and The Impressionists - and I got to play some tunes too. Lovely hurling, boy.

    Bantertastic: thanks to Francois and Sunil Sharpe for participating in a fairly riotous and no-holds-barred Banter at the Twisted Pepper last Saturday night. “90s vs 00s” saw the two of them yakking - and boy, they can talk - about which decade produced the most thrilling sounds and nights out in the capital city. The bout went right down to the bell with audience giving it to the ’90s on points (or pints). You can relive the night on the podcast which will be live once the legal eagles have finished with it. The next Banter happens on November 28 and will be the pop-culture review of the decade. Full details to come next week.

    • 10 Comments »

    1.
    November 3, 2009
    11:31 am

    Congrats on 12 months of great shows Jim!

    Comment by Le Catch
    2.
    November 3, 2009
    11:41 am

    Catch - I’m just congratulating myself on remembering!

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    3.
    November 3, 2009
    11:47 am

    Congrats on the 12 months Jim.

    Anyone else catch the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on Grafton St on Sunday? They played for about an hour or so between flogging cds. Hearing War on Grafton St surrounded by grannies was a surreal experience. Seeing said Grannies buying the cds was even more surreal.

    Comment by nerraw
    4.
    November 3, 2009
    12:03 pm

    Caught them by chance on Sunday.

    It was quite surreal alright. Kids and grannies going wild everywhere.

    Congrats Jim, I’ve only recently been tuning into the show but I hope it’ll be around for many more years to come.

    Comment by higgs
    5.
    November 3, 2009
    3:25 pm

    bangers from start to finish jim, i expect nothing less. liverpool won’t be out of the champion league till tomorrow night so you should be in good form :)

    Comment by petee
    6.
    November 3, 2009
    3:31 pm

    petee - a banger fest it will be (I think)

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    7.
    November 3, 2009
    5:09 pm

    i think i might wipe the layer of dust off my radio tonight and turn it on for the first time this year

    Comment by daniel
    8.
    November 3, 2009
    7:22 pm

    Meant to ask Jim, what was the second last track you played before Slow Motion Heroes? It started off a bit like Sonic Youth but then took a Pavement direction..

    Comment by fanning sessions
    9.
    November 3, 2009
    7:29 pm

    fanning - aaaaaaaaagggggggrrrrrh!!

    It may have been this….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX6YbpJ5wM

    Or this….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe_znFhP4c

    Or something else entirely!

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    10.
    November 4, 2009
    3:15 pm

    ‘Which Way To Go’ rings a bell but I’m not 100% that was the tune I meant. Both those tunes are worthy though ;-)

    Comment by fanning sessions

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