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  • irishtimes.com - Posted: November 5, 2009 @ 11:03 am

    Fresh Air

    Jim Carroll

    Fresh Air is a month-long festival on your radio where you won’t need any wellies to enjoy the vibes.

    For the month of November, Donal Dineen’s Small Hours show (Today FM, weekdays, midnight-2am) will have a different guest artist on the show to play some tunes live, have a chat and play a selection of their favourite records.

    Acts to be featured include 3epkano, Adrian Crowley, Beautiful Unit, Chequerboard, Dark Room Notes, Goodtime John, Hulk, I Am The Cosmos, Katie Kim, Kevin Blake, Niwel Tsumbu, Patrick Kelleher, Pauline Scanlon, R.S.A.G, Si Schroeder, Sunken Foal, Spilly Walker, Stefan Galt, Thread Pulls and Valerie Francis. The full night by night schedule is here.

    You can hear the first couple of Fresh Air sets – from Villagers, Roland Gomez and Stefano Schiavocampo – here.

    As part of the festival, there will be four live Sunday night shows around the country with Katie Kim as artist in residence, a different guest perfomer at each stop and Dineen on the decks and live visuals. The tour calls to Cork’s Pavilion (November 15), Galway’s Roisin Dubh (22), Dublin’s Button Factory (29) and Limerick’s Daghdha Space at St John’s Church (December 6).

    • 6 Comments

    1.
    November 5, 2009
    11:35 am

    Been listening to this for the last few nights, really good stuff but not a huge departure from his normal show. Roland Gomez was a replacement for RSAG.

    Comment by Quint
    2.
    November 5, 2009
    11:42 am

    A good idea but the acts are too samey, to be honest, in terms of their music. Be better if there was a bigger spread of musicians and styles than that sulky-indie-schmindie-singer-songwriter-out-of-tune-electronic stuff. Disappointed that there’s no trad acts here

    Comment by Macker
    3.
    November 5, 2009
    12:01 pm

    Any more updates on the MCD case Jim? Haven’t seen anything in the IT since your day 1 report. ta.

    Comment by JC
    4.
    November 5, 2009
    12:09 pm

    JC – none whatsoever. I’m not sure how the Commercial Court works but maybe they’re waiting for the forensic accountants to finish their analysis which seems to have been ongong? I’ll let you know when I hear more.

    Or if any of the legal eagles down in the Law Library who read OTR can put us wise about what’s happening, that would be great

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    5.
    November 5, 2009
    12:21 pm

    Thanks for the heads up Jim, hadn’t spotted this.

    PS On an unrelated note it’s a pity the IT blogs dont support subscription / auto-notification of article comments. E.g if there are further comments on a article you’ve commented on you get an email..

    Comment by fanning sessions
    6.
    November 5, 2009
    3:43 pm

    Also thanks sounds like there could be some great live sessions there.
    As for Trad see Pauline Scanlon.

    Comment by Eoin

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