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Our monthly episode in which Nialler and Andrea Cleary talk about their favourite music of the month. The Best of the Month episode is now Patreon-only. Public subscribers get the first 20-25 minutes or so of the episode as a free preview. Members get to hear the whole episode on their member feeds or on Patreon direct. Discussing new albums from Oklou, Horsegirl, Maria Kelly, Puma

The composer and producer, and multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds met the Cork singer-songwriter Eoin French aka Talos after he ran a marathon in Iceland. A friendship was struck, that quickly developed into a musical partnership, as seen at Sounds From A Safe Harbour in Cork in 2023, when the festival director Mary Hickson put the pair together for a collaboration. Now six mont

Niall and Andrea are running our mouths over what’s been happening in mainstream music to this year. Episode #276 is a grab bag of topics and events in music so far from Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl Half-Time Show, the Grammys to the music highlights of 50 years of Saturday Night Live. We talk about Doechii’s live performance at the Grammys, Robyn and David Byrne performing

Episode 275 is an interview with Kittser about his electronic project New Jackson. It may have felt like a side project when it debuted with The Night Mail EP in 2011, but over the last 14 years, the New Jackson releases have been so consistent across a multitude of EPs on Permanent Vacation, Hivern, All City, Maeve and more, with last year’s second album Oops!... Pop softened th

<p><em>The Best of the Month episode is now</em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/Nialler9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em> Patreon-only</em></a><em>. Public subscribers get the first 25 minutes or so of the episode as a free preview. </em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/Niall

<p><strong>Our final podcast of the year is the fifth annual Nialler9 Podcast Awards.</strong></p><br><p>Niall and Andrea hand out gongs in categories:</p><br><p>Best live TV and web video performances, sax solo of the year, the Andre 3000 award for best guest verse, best film soundtrack, song featured in a TV show, duds of the

<h1>Episode 272, the second of our Best of 2024 trilogy of podcasts is all about the albums of the year.</h1><h2><br></h2><h2>Andrea and Niall share a selection of their favourite albums of the year.</h2><p><br></p><p>Featuring discussion and reasons for best albums from <strong>Charli XCX, Jessica Pratt, Mabe

<p><strong>Episode 271 kicks off our Best of 2024 trilogy of podcasts with a look at the songs that defined our year. </strong></p><br><p>Andrea and Niall pick a selection box of their songs of the year and talk about them.</p><br><p>Featuring songs from Charli XCX, MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee, Burial, Baby Rose, Laura Marling, Be

<p><em>The Best of the Month episode is now</em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/Nialler9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em> Patreon-only</em></a><em>. Public subscribers get the first 25 minutes or so.</em></p><br><p><strong>Episode 270 is partly a review of our

<h2><strong>Podcast 269 is all about the 23rd edition of </strong><a href="https://nialler9.com/music/other-voices/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Other Voices in Dingle</strong></a><strong> and some of the acts playing the </strong><a href="https://nialler9.com/music/jam