Happy Friday everyone! My guest today is singer-songwriter Daire Heffernan! From Dublin and based in Belfast, I first caught Daire preforming live at Whelan's Ones to Watch 2024 and was completely blown way by the music and songwriting and have been a big fan of her music ever since. If anybody has not heard her EP 'Wasters', released in 2022 and her latest single 'Harry', go listen to right now! I'll be chatting to Daire about her musical process, her lyrics and music, how awesome Adrianne...

Today I'm chatting with Adhamh Ó Caoimh about his new musical project 'Two Heavens', Two Heavens just released there first release of many for this year, Life Materials, a fantastic EP which came out on Spotify on the 3rd of February. I'll be chatting to Adhamh about how this musical project came about, how the songs were constructed, the Irish music scene as a whole, our love of heavy metal and getting into twitter beefs. Myself and Adhamh have been recommending each other music back and...

A very different episode to the usual show this week in that I'm gonna be chatting with my friends Milo and Milz about all things film, gaming and comic books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I am joined by Sea High and Rob from Idle Discourse! We'll be chatting about the bands latest single, Rotten Egg, which is set to be released on February 9th, their show with Jet Fuel Chemistry in Whelans main room on the 23rd of February, along with such topics as the Eurovision, who's the best rapper ever, Apple vs Windows and whole host of other random topics. This is a band I've been a fan of for a while, they truly have a unique and captivating sound as well as being phenomenal...

Today I'm joined by the Multi-talented Wicklow musician david ofmg Hailing from Arklow, Co. Wicklow, david ofmg takes inspiration from a wide variety of musical sources. From emo to dream pop to shoegaze, he has crafted a sound that is both ambient, yet catchy, with a strong emotional undercurrent. The soundscapes he creates allow the listener to lose themselves within the world of the music. This is paired with vulnerable and often quite intense lyrics, dealing with issues of mental health,...

For this episode I have a jam packed episode today in that I have all members of the fantastic band Dublin, Drogheda and Slane based band CABL (Ava, Ben, Eoghan and Luke) as well the incredibly talented photographer Matt Gorman who works closely with the band as well doing gig photography for such bands as Gurriers, The Scratch and Slowdive, to name but a few. We're here to chat about the band's EP 'See You in a Year and a Half', released at the beginning of January as well as there sold out...

Over the moon to have Marcelo (Guitar), Craig (Vocals) and Jason (Drums) of the fantastic band Uragh on the podcast! I'll be chatting with the band about how they formed, how they create their sound, Metal 2 the Masses and the bands next single, The Widening Gyre, which will be released on February 9th and will be the first single off their debut album, Maelstrom, which will be released on the 19th of April. The first time I saw this band was at Metal 2 the Masses (where they made it to the...

In today's episode I will be joined by Alex and Dylan from Ex Oh Promotions to talk about the 5 day festival they are putting on in Workmans this week, called 'The Next Big Thing 2024! With 30 artists performing, The Next Big Thing’s mission is to give a platform to the incredible breadth of talent this island has to offer. Artists such as Pauric O’Meara, Elkae, Zé, Kendino and Cell Games are all this year's lineup, amongst many others - It is certainly not an event to miss! I'll be chatting...

Starting the New Year with a bang! Today I am joined by all 3 members (Dan, Joe and Richard) of the phenomenal Cork hailing band, Skies Behind, to talk about their brand new EP 'The Spaces', which will be released tomorrow! I've had the pleasure of listening to this EP from start to finish many times and it's a serious contender for EP of the year and we're only 4 days into 2024. We'll be dicussing the EP in detail, along with a few other topics such as accidentally leaking your own EP,...

Today I am joined by Tom and Jessy of the fantastic band, Sonic Furs! Sonic Furs are a disco-esque, pop rock outfit hailing from Ireland and the US who's main goal to make music is to UPBEAT and DANCEABLE! The bands latest single, 'Roar', will be released tomorrow, an amazing song has to be listened to and seen live! It was produced by the exceptionally talented Iain Faulkner and also features Andy McGurk of A Lethal Black Ooze on bass. We'll be chatting about this new single, how the band...

Today I will be chatting with Tristan and Max of the fantastic Irish Nu-Metal band Cell Games, who have just released their latest single 'Jailbreak', which I cannot recommend enough! We'll be chatting about this brilliant new single, the bands first time playing The Siege of Limerick festival, anime, Nu-Metal (of course), the guy's Linkin Park cover band 'Fenix Park' and plenty more! Cell Games will be playing their next show in Pharmicia in Limerick along with War of Attrition and Solothurn...

My guest today is Ian Adams, an award winning Independent Irish filmmaker who's third feature length film, 'The Feature', which Ian wrote, directed and Co-starred in, recently won the Best Independent Movie award at the Underground Film Festival in Dun Laoghaire. I'll be primarily chatting to Ian about how this film came about, how it was made, some of the behind the scene stories and how it was possible to make an award winning feature length film on a budget of just €900. On top of all this...

Today I am joined by Ryan Adair (Vocals) and Dee Cleland (Guitars) of Solothurn! Solothurn are an Alt-Metal band based in Belfast which is comprised of experienced member of the Heavy Metal music scene, having played in such bands as Involution, Electric Red, Annapurna, Toska and Mondo Generator. I'll be chatting with Ryan and Dee about the band's debut EP, 'Servitude', which was released on the 17th of November. At the time of the release I had only heard the lead single, 'Sentience Fades',...

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Who Art Podcast? Today I am joined by Tadgh of the fantastic band, silverglass! silverglass have just released their debut single, 'Seraph', which features the artist SPOOKLET. It's a beautiful instrumental single that I really do love and have had on repeat since release day. We'll be chatting about this new single in detail, how Tadgh began the band with fellow members Adam Nealon and Eoin Keigher, the inspiration behind the music, and what the band has...

Today I will be chatting with Annie Peter of the band αnnie ∧ the ωitness, a three-piece incorporating spoken word, post-punk and art-rock influences. The band features Juan Genovese on drums, who you may know from their solo project, Jet Lag, Seamus Bradley on guitar and bass loops who plays in the Indie Rock band Trope and Annie Peter on vocals, who is a poet that has been published in such publications as The Void Magazine, Dodging the Rain and Dreich magazine.. αnnie ∧ the ωitness formed...

Today's guest is the fantastic Cork born singer, songwriter and musician, Kevin Walsh! Emerging onto the music scene in 2022 with the Autism Awareness themed supergroup Embrace the World (featuring the West End’s Caroline Kay and fellow neurodivergent nu-folk artist Emma Langford), Kevin Walsh soared straight to #1 on iTunes, #19 on the Irish Homegrown Charts, appeared on the Six O’Clock Show and headlined AsIAm’s Same Chance World Autism Conference 2022. Emboldened, he has now decided to...

Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of the Who Art Thou? podcast! Today I have Darragh, Arron and Cormac from the fantastic Experimental Black Metal band, Horrenda! This episode was recorded backstage at Lost Lane about 5 minutes after tha band finished their fantastic set supporting Rotten Sound. We'll be chatting about the band, their creativity, what they're all about and their new Single 'Handprints' and it's accompanying video which will both be released on November 15th. Big fan of...

Welcome to a new episode of The Who Art Thou? podcast! My guest today is Alexie Hagon, the creator and artist behind the stick-and-poke buisness Mimosa Tattoos. Alexie is a exceptionally talented artist, so we said that she must come on the podcast for a chat but we decided to make it a little more of interesting in that she will be giving me a new tattoo while we record - So a regular episode for myself and a very difficult one for her, requiring a lot of concentration and the ability to...

Today's guest on the podcast is Cruel Sister! I'll be chatting with Cruel Sister in depth about her second EP, 'Turgid', that contains the two singles 'Lenny', and 'Hands', and how the EP came about, the themes explored within each song, how mobile phones can impact creativity, how to scream and how to pronounce the word Turgid correctly. Recorded not long after preforming two fantastic live shows, one for Ireland Music Week in Workman's and the other supporting Sprints in the Button Factory,...

Welcome to a brand new episode of the podcast - Today I am joined by Limerick-based Grunge/Doom/Stoner band, Steiner! We'll be chatting about the band, their musical influences, their debut EP 'First Contact', which was released earlier this year as well their upcoming preformance at the first 'SHELL-SHOCK' SHELL-SHOCK is a mini festival put on by Nutshell Grunge which wil feature some of the top Grunge and Alternative Rock bands in Ireland such as Vendetta Love, Ritual Effect, Pretty LTD,...

Today I'm joined by the brilliant muscial talent that is D. Cullen. You may know him from his solo work, his band the New 52, his two performances on the Late Late Show and his fantastic album last year, Sing My Story, Tell My Song - Plenty to talk about there alone but today we'll be chatting about his new EP, 'Tiny', an 8 song EP with all songs being under 2 minutes in length, with a visual album that accompanies it that is all available to watch on YouTube now. After over a week of...

This week I'm delighted to have Emily of Vernon Jane on the podcast! We'll be chatting about their brand new second album, Chestpains & Sidepieces, which is set for release next week on Friday, October 13th alongside a hometown show on the 11th in the Grand Social, which is setting up to be an absolutely incredible night. I was able to hear the album before the recording of this episode and it's truly phenomninal. I had an amazing time going through all the themes, stories and feelings...

Episode 50 of the podcast is here! To celebrate this special milestone episode, I've brought back my good friends Rebecca and Conor of the band Sick Love to chat about their upcoming debut album, which is set to be released next year. So far the band has released three excellent singles off the album, Sucka, Holly and Orbit (which was released today!). We'll be chatting about how these singles came back and how this album was made and the incredible comeback story that it took to make...

Welcome to a new episode of the 'Who Art Thou?' podcast! Today I will be joined by Thomas, Chloe and Pierce of the band Tvashtar Paterae. We'll be chatting about their new EP, Love Songs to the Moon, which was released at the beginning of this month and is a fantastic collection of songs that kept me surprised throughout it's 26 minute runtime. On top of this we'll be chatting about how the band started out, their influences, Merzbow, the Green Giant, what is currently inspiring them and...

Welcome to a brand new episode of the 'Who Art Thou?' podcast! Today I'm joined by 2/3 members of the band that pioneered of Velourcore, the amazing Pretty LTD. I'll be chatting with Dylan and DJ about how Pretty LTD began, their fantastic new single 'High', and what the band has in store for us in the future along with upcoming shows on their tour alongside Idle Discourse. Pretty LTD 'High' - on Spotify