The committee of Trinity FM, collecting our award for Best Medium Sized Society, at the Central Society Committee Awards in the Hilton hotel, April 11th 2007. Congratulations everybody!

Back on the air tonight..10pm to 12pm GMT, on Trinityfm – available online or on air on 97.3FM in Dublin city. Also I have a cold, so be prepared to enjoy a nasal whinny from time to time.
I’ll be playing a couple of tracks each from Joanna Newsom, Final Fantasy, John Darnielle and Tom Waits, then moving on to some electronic stuff (think Art of Noise, and Homogenic Bjork) and whatever else I can did out of our digital cupboards. Fingers crossed I’ll have a new (thus far unnamed) ‘oldtime’ …

Published in this weeks Trinity News..

Trinity FM, as all must by now be aware, is the one of the most popular, longest running and most professionally managed student radio stations in all of Trinity. Perched, like a mellifluous golden eagle of radio, mere feet below the attics of House 6, in a space once reserved for the oddly hairy, some say simian, mistress of notorious Provost Oddbilington Tidesmither the 81st; the TFM studio is a wonder of modern design and engineering. Decorated in a contemporary graffiti aesthetic, reminiscent of such …

This is a momentous week for Irish radio, for two reasons.
One, Phantom FM, everyone’s favourite career pirates turned Indy music saviors, have finally won their protracted legal case against Bob Geldolf’s proposed ZedFM, and hit the Dublin airwaves Monday. I’ve been listening sporadically throughout today and have been pleasantly surprised. Nay saying prognosticators be damned, there’s been far less Frans Ferdinand and Killers style trendiness than was predicted, and far more of Phantoms traditional mix of classic underground hits (think Rock Lobster), break through indie (Sufjan Stephens), and grunge rock …