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DAN HEGARTY WITH KEITH MOSS IN THE 2FM SESSION Monday June 18
A recent addition to the Reekus roster, Keith was awarded the accolade ‘Young Songwriter of the Year’ by IMRO on his debut.
Starting out as a solo performer, Keith has gone on to play with a number of bands through the years, on guitar,bass, and backing vocals, performing in a wide variety of venues at home in Ireland and in the UK. His solo performancies have seen him share the bill with the likes of Brianna Corrigan of The Beautiful South, tour with Rodrigo & Gabriella, and play both Wheatfield and Mountjoy prisons. His debut single on Reekus, ‘The War Outside Our Door’ came out in March, and this session was with his full band.

DAN HEGARTY WITH SLEEPTHIEVES IN THE 2FM SESSION Tuesday 19 June
Most of this went out live leading up to Camden Crawl but 2 more songs were recorded and the whole session was remixed with new/more vocals. Since 2009, Sleep Thieves have gained both a solid following and picked up good vibes from their initial 4 track EP It was Only A Satellite, and debut album Heart Waves (2011).
Dan put them fifth in his ‘Albums of 2011’ and they were third in The Tickets ‘Breakthrough Artists of 2011’

They landed an IMTV Award nomination for Best Group following their video release of the song ‘Hope Is Dead’.

DAN HEGARTY WITH ANE BRUN IN THE FIVE-TRACK SHUFFLE Wednesday 20 June
Ane Brun is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, born in Molde, Norway in 1976. Since 2003 she has recorded eight albums. She has lived in Stockholm, Sweden since 2001, where she writes, records and runs her own label (Balloon Ranger Recordings) when not on tour.

She moved from her home town in 1995 and spend the next few years moving between Barcelona, Oslo and Bergen. In Bergen she began writing her own material while at university (jumping between courses in Spanish, law and music) as well as making a living working in record shops and bars.

Her most recent album is ‘It All Starts With One’, which say her visit Ireland earlier this year. She has supplied Dan with the tracks for this week’s Five-Track Shuffle.

DAN HEGARTY WITH SINEAD O’CONNOR LIVE AT ICELAND AIRWAVES 2011 Thursday 21 2012
To make up for the cancellation of her current tour, we have a fine show from the annual event in the Icelandic capital, Rejkavik.

Sinead O’Connor was recorded by RUV – Rás 2 in the Fríkirkjan, Rejkavik Oct. 14, 2011, for the Eurosonic Partnership of the EBU