I got to listening to Julie Feeney ahead of her appearance at the Kilkenny Arts Festival this past August. I was well aware of 13 songs and her Choice Music Prize award but the years inbeetween his first and current album, pages, seemed to pass me by.
On October 2nd (12th in the UK), the Galwegian releases Impossibly Beautiful, from pages, on single, accompanied by a brand new video as well shot by director Vittoria Colonna.
She’s also announced a few dates for late September / October in support of the release of the single.
Thursday 24 September, Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Thursday 15 October, The Sugar Club, Dublin
Friday 16 October, The Dock, Carrick on Shannon
Saturday 17 October, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Show 56 rolls around in a timely Monday fashion. Timely in the sense that it matches up with last Monday’s podcast release, albeit a day off the calendar. If you missed it during the week as well the podcast release schedule for the remainder of 2009 has been posted, at long last.
We’re still on the look out to get 100 fans via Facebook – think you can help? Pop along to the Playlist Mix Podcast Facebook page and help us on our way to 100. When we get there we’re gonna give away a couple of the albums that have been stacking up on the desk over the summer months (including a huge box of discs from Irish and UK acts).
If you want to make a submission for the 57th podcast, you’ve got until midnight this coming Thursday night to do so. You can submit your tracks via email to podcast [at] playlistmix [dot] com, or use the Soundcloud Dropbox to send us on a track. If you’re emailing in, don’t forget to include your MySpace / Bebo / Facebook / iTunes URL (whatever you’ve got), a brief biography and of course your music in MP3 format (WMA’s won’t be accepted, sorry Windows Media lovers).
This one is a recent one from The Coronas, hitting the web last week. The video is for their forthcoming single Listen Dear which drops on September 11th (this music be one of the busiest weekends for music I’ve seen in a long time), followed up two weeks later by the release of their Tony Was An Ex-Con album.
The video was shot on location in Dublin at the beginning of August. Check out The Coronas on MySpace.
Saving J, featured on the latest Playlist Mix with current single ABC are set to launch their debut album offering This City Street in Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday September 12th, the CD itself available from the Friday. Support on the night will come from Rekoj and doors open at 8pm with tickets €10 available from the venue.
The album has been a long time in the making with the band already having released five singles – Bus Stop, Valentine, Kick Off, Indication Street and ABC – in advance of the album, with all singles included. Their next single, Everybody, is set for release shortly with artwork previews available on the band’s MySpace page.
I’ve had a copy of the album here for a few weeks and it’s nice to see how the band’s sound has shaped and evolved over the past two years. For an independent band, they’re certainly not afraid to get out, do the work, clock up the mileage in the tour van and make an investment in their musical careers. Hopefully the album, when it drops, will bring them some more deserved attention.
Can you believe it’s actually here? Show 55 has been sitting on the desk for ages. Then of course, you realise that the news is irrelevant, the gigs have already happened and while the music should get a play, I’m looking for something a little current.
The summer break is over, the autumn is in and the podcast returns, the 55th release in the series, one which should hopefully see us reach for number seventy by the year’s end.
There’s the new facelift, some changes on Facebook, a new drop box for MP3s, Twitter is still there and the show returns with six acts and six tracks, as if we’d have it any other way.
The schedule for September through December will be published shortly so if you want to get your tracks in, now’s a fine time to do it. Drop an MP3 in our drop box here or email podcast at playlistmix dot com.
Tip: When uploading an MP3, please name the track in the format of ARTIST NAME – TRACK NAME.mp3 e.g. Coldplay – Clocks.mp3.
Submissions for tracks are stacked up of May / June / July thanks to the break for touring and theatre and while you can still submit tracks via email we thought it nice to offer you the possibility of uploading tracks through the site. Plus we get to hold them all in the one spot online.
While SoundCloud.com will support a number of formats (AIFF / WAVE / FLAC / AAC / OGG / MP3), it’s only MP3 we’re looking for with a minimum quality of 128kpbs stereo. Uploading the track doesn’t guarantee that it will get played on the podcast but we can say that if and when the track does get an airing, you’ll be the first to know.
Have you been keeping up to date? If you’ve been following the Twitter stream you’ll have picked up (recently) that we’re in the throws of returning with the podcast following a prolonged summer break. Four months is a long time.
Taking time to arrange some licensing and syndication matters (as well as build up a wealth of new music), the PLM is set to return, next week, for the run to the end of the year.
Fear no, oh Playlist Mix listener, we’ve not gone away, merely having an extended afternoon nap. Truth is, we’ve been up the walls here since last night with a new project – My Music – that’s slowly but surely taking off. We’ve just finished working one tour, have two more lined up for the summer for artists that you would have heard on previous podcasts (like Jeff Lang, Clive Barnes, South, The Lions Mane, Empire Social etc.).
Normal programming will resume in June when the wheels on the bus slow down enough for us to catch up.
In the mean time, don’t forget you can still access any and all previous shows from this year right here on PlaylistMix.com and via iTunes.
It’s a Monday release for PLM55. After a weekend away in Belfast, there’s a lot to do yet in the studio so it’ll be tomorrow before you get to sample PLM55.
If you’ve never been to Belfast before, give it a shot. Had a great weekend up there and would most definitely go back again.
Sundays come around too regularly at this stage of the proceedings. We’re just off two back-to-back short weeks, or at least I think they were back-to-back short weeks anyway as the days appear to be flying. We hit the 19th of April for 2009 and the 54th Playlist Mix podcast. While next week’s show is going to feature a selection (says he in hope) of Northern Irish acts, this week sees a blend of tracks from Ireland with some of the featured acts for the month along with talent from both sides of the water.
While I’m here, I should also plug a competition I’m involved in running, Busker 2009. One of my other hats with Kilkenny Music sees the promoting of a lot of music, at every level, including street-level. Busker 2009 kicked off yesterday with acts competing for a prize each da of 200 Euro. From tomorrow onwards, we’re looking for people to vote for their favourite act out of three from yesterday, the voting available here at KilkennyMusic.com.
I got to listening to Julie Feeney ahead of her appearance at the Kilkenny Arts Festival this past August. I was well aware of 13 songs and her Choice Music Prize award but the years inbeetween his first and current album, pages, seemed to pass me by. 
You can now 
Sundays come around too regularly at this stage of the proceedings. We’re just off two back-to-back short weeks, or at least I think they were back-to-back short weeks anyway as the days appear to be flying. We hit the 19th of April for 2009 and the 54th Playlist Mix podcast. While next week’s show is going to feature a selection (says he in hope) of Northern Irish acts, this week sees a blend of tracks from Ireland with some of the featured acts for the month along with talent from both sides of the water.
