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DAVE FANNING Dave Fanning brings you a mix of interviews, newspaper reviews, movies and music every Saturday and Sunday Weekends, 9-11am
RICK O’SHEA Presented with Cormac Battle. Great music and infotainment with Rick and Cormac, to get you through the weekend. Weekends, 11am-1pm
DAN HEGARTY – THE ALTERNATIVE: MONDAY, JANUARY 30 TO THURSDAY, February 2: Dan Hegarty – The Alternative: Buried Treasure – ‘A Map Of The Universe’ By Blink  TRACK OF THE WEEK Originally released in 1994, ‘A Map of the Universe’ help Blink to become one of the most recognisable Irish bands of the 1990s. The album included the singles ‘It’s Not My Fault’, ‘Going To Nepal’, ‘Happy […]
TRACY CLIFFORD Pump up the afternoon slump with three hours of banter, tunes, big interviews and a bit of a laugh for your lunchtime Weekdays, 1-4pm
Dan Hegarty – The Alternative: Wolff in Session If you’re looking for something raw and mean, we have just the thing for you! Wolff have been bringing their own brand of dirty rock n roll to audiences all over Ireland for the past couple of years. Johnny performed a solo session in Studio 8, and Dan will bring you the tracks from this […]
Dan Hegarty – The Alternative: Grace Jones – Back & Forth The word icon has been misused many times when trying to encapsulate artists’ contribution to music over their career, but in Grace Jones’ case, it is a suitably fitting description. If there was any doubt of this, her two visits to Ireland in 2016 would have dispelled any confusion. Dan looks at Jones’ career in […]
Dan Hegarty – The Alternative: Youngblood Brass Band live at the Reeperbahn festival Youngblood Brass Band have been described as a ‘hip-hop riot jazz ensemble’. The ten-piece ensemble, formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 2000, but are now scattered across the US (Madison, Brooklyn, Nashville, Minneapolis, and Chicago). Dan has highlights of their set from the 2016 Reeperbahn festival on The Alternative. RTÉ 2fm, Thursday 2 February, 12midnight