Episodes
On this week's Mystery Train Sunday Service, Paul Noonan of Bell X1 joins John Kelly in studio and picks the tunes. (Repeat)
Published 08/30/20
John Kelly is joined by novelist and wordsmith Jim Crace. The author of Harvest and The Gift of Stones picks the music and puts the world to rights.
Published 08/23/20
Novelist Sara Baume climbs aboard the Mystery Train on RTÉ lyric fm for a Sunday Service special. She talks about writing and art, her new book Handiwork and picks music by Rory Gallagher, Cyclefly and Joanna Newsom.
Published 08/16/20
Every Sunday night, John Kelly presents a special Mystery Train Sunday Service where a guest picks the tunes. Tonight actress Derbhle Crotty climbs aboard and picks music by Abba, Sly and The Family Stone and Millie Jackson. (First Broadcast March 2020)
Published 08/09/20
In another memorable edition of the Mystery Train Sunday Service, John Kelly chats to Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing and Strange Hotel, about loss, the long road to literary success, training as an actor, sexism in the book industry and being a 'method novelist'.
Published 08/02/20
Author Alan Glynn joined John Kelly on Mystery Train. His novel The Dark Fields became the film Limitless starring Bradley Cooper and he spoke to John about the slow road to success and not having a plan B. His very fine music choices include Coleman Hawkins, Nicholas Britell and Ennio Morricone.
Published 07/26/20
Harpist and composer Una Monaghan climbs on board our Mystery Train Sunday Service, and talks Astro-Physics at Oxford, Brian Wilson and everything in between.
Published 07/19/20
On tonight's Sunday Service, John is joined by Ian Lynch of Lankum. The musician, folk song collector and folklore lecturer explains the epenthetic vowel and a mondegreen, and picks music by Shannon and the Clams, Portishead and Iron Maiden.
Published 07/12/20
Acclaimed poet Jessica Traynor joins John Kelly to chat poetry & plays on our Sunday Service, and she picks tunes by everybody from Vivaldi and Leonard Cohen, to Throwing Muses and Le Tigre.
Published 07/05/20
Actor Siobhan McSweeney joins John and picks the tunes for our Sunday Service. Best known as the formidable Sr. Michael in Derry Girls, Siobhan works in theatre in Ireland and London and picks music from The Slits, Molly Drake and The Sultans of Ping, of course.
Published 06/28/20
Danny Denton, author of The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, is John's guest on Mystery Train, and he picks all the tunes.
Published 06/21/20
On Mystery Train's Sunday Service John invites a guest to choose the music, and this week is joined by author Lisa McInerney.
Published 06/14/20
On tonight's Mystery Train's Sunday Service, John is joined by The Blades frontman Paul Cleary. As you might expect, his choices include The Sex Pistols, XTC and The Jam - but there's also Dionne Warwick and the best introduction to Paul Brady's Arthur McBride. He talks about the Dublin band scene of the 1970s and performing again.
Published 06/07/20
John is joined tonight by Loah (AKA Sallay Matu Garnett), a singer songwriter of Sierra Leonean/Irish origin. Loah chats about her life and music and also picks the tunes, from Kamasi Washington, Oumou Sangare and Charles Mingus.
Published 05/31/20
Tonight John's guest is artist Catherine Owens, and she'll be picking the tunes on another Sunday Service.
Published 05/24/20
Tonight John is joined for a Sunday Service by composer, producer and woodwind instrumentalist Seán Mac Erlaine, who also picks the tunes.
Published 05/17/20
John Kelly's guest this week is English folk singer Eliza Carthy. Eliza has worked with a diverse array of artists including Paul Weller, Richard Hawley, Peggy Seeger and Van Dyke Parks. She talks about her musical life and picks some fantastic music for the Sunday Service.
Published 05/10/20
On tonight's Mystery Train Sunday Service, another chance to hear John's 2018 interview with composer Gavin Bryars who talks about his approach to composition, and working with the likes of John Cage, Tom Waits and Father John Misty.
Published 05/03/20
Artist Michelle Browne climbs on board the Mystery Train Sunday Service. She chats to John and picks music by Kris Kristofferson, Lauren Hill and This is How We Fly.
Published 04/26/20
Published 04/26/20
Aaron Monaghan joined John Kelly on Mystery Train, bringing with him his choice musical selections and introducing John to the merits of a certain global country music star... He talked about rapping along to Eminem to in advance of performing Shakespeare, inhabiting characters and the irrelevance of relevance.
Published 04/19/20
Tonight John Kelly is joined by film-maker and writer Alan Gilsenan, who picks tunes by Stiff Little Fingers, Liam Clancy and Emmylou Harris.
Published 04/16/20
John Kelly is joined by singer, musician and composer Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill for a memorable Mystery Train Sunday Service that spans a varied career from Skara Brae to The Bothy Band and Relativity. Music choices include Rachmaninov, The Beatles and The Band.
Published 04/15/20
Singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley joined John Kelly on Mystery Train's Sunday Service for the chats and a selection of some delightfully lo-fi tunes including Smog, Katell Keinig and Jason Molina.
Published 04/14/20
On tonight's Mystery Train Sunday Service, John Kelly is joined in studio by the singer songwriter Inni-K, who also picks the tunes.
Published 04/13/20