Pat Shortt’s Music From D’Telly Episode 7, Sunday 30th December, 8:30 pm, RTÉ One
One of David Gray’s earliest television performances features on tonight’s episode of Music from D’Telly. Back in 1982 Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke, best remembered as the proto synth duo Yazoo, talked and performed on what was their very first television appearance courtesy of RTE’s ‘Anything Goes’. Ace reporter Nick Coffee braved the wilds of the west of Ireland for his 1976 ‘Next Stop’ report on aspiring super-group Tarzan and The Monkees while an early ‘80’s ‘Evening Extra’ profile of Rod Stewart featured RTE presenter Carolyn Fisher in hot pursuit of the former Faces superstar.
Pat Shortt’s Music From D’Telly Episode 8, Wednesday 2nd of January, 6:30 pm, RTÉ One
The final programme in the current series features some sparkling singing as both Ed Sheeran and Michael Bublé dazzle and delight on their respective ‘Late Late Show’ debuts. Singer-songwriter Sinéad Lohan displays her considerable interpretive skill as she excels on Bob Dylan’s ‘To Ramona’. RTÉ reporter Pat Butler and singer Jimmy Crowley check out the delights of an ‘early house’ pub on the River Lee for a 1983 edition of ‘Evening Extra’, and the late and much missed Bill O’Herlihy can be seen exploring the wonders of Cork fiddlers from his 1966 report for the magazine programme ‘Newsbeat’.