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The Point of Everything

The Point Of Everything

The Point Of Everything is a podcast based out of Cork that tackles the biggest issues in the music world, near and far, every week. Expect chat, music, and interviews every week

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01:12:57

TPOE 277: Autre Monde

The Point of Everything ·

2023/09/21

Dublin four-piece Autre Monde (Paddy Hanna - vocals, Mark Chester - guitar, Padraig Cooney - bass, Eoghan O'Brien - drums) have just released their brilliant second album Sensitive Assignments. On this episode of the TPOE podcast, Padraig and Eoghan talk about creating the album in the studio with Gilla Band's Daniel Fox. We go through the record track by track and we also discuss the state of Popical Island, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2024 and is putting out Autre Monde's album. Buy

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01:17:17

TPOE 276: A Litany Of Failures

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2023/09/13

A Litany of Failures is a compilation of Irish independent music that began with a four-track EP in 2016 and has grown into more than 20 songs for Volume IV, which has just been released. Put together by Danny Carroll, a solo artist in his own right, and Stevie Lennox, guitarist in Belfast's Junk Drawer, alongside Paul O'Connor (Licehead), it's a showcase of some of the wealth of talent spread across the country. We talk with Danny and Stevie about how A Litany of Failures began, how the

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00:53:42

TPOE 275: Maija Sofia

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2023/09/06

Maija Sofia released her second album True Love on September 1 via Tulle Records. I talked with her in Maureen's in Shandon as part of Cork Podcast Festival in August - it's a track by track of True Love, going through the songwriting process, inspirations, saints and influences that make up the record. You can get it at https://maijasofia.bandcamp.com/album/true-love Maija launches the album at Whelan's, Dublin on September 28. Tickets: https://singularartists.ie/show/maijia-sofia/

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01:00:12

TPOE 274 Brigid Mae Power

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2023/08/16

Galway-based singer/songwriter Brigid Mae Power released her fourth studio album Dream from the Deep Well on June 30. Here, she talks through the album track by track, as well as discussing her previous album Head Above the Water, released during the pandemic in 2020, the art of covering songs by the greats, and her album-making process. Brigid Mae Power Irish tour dates: October 5: Whelan's, Dublin October 6: The Chapel at Griffith College, Cork October 22: Roisin Dubh, Galway Buy the album:

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01:23:03

TPOE 273: Rich Gilligan

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2023/08/09

Ahead of his appearance at Another Love Story 2023, Dublin photographer Rich Gilligan talks about his journey over the past two decades, how he found a calling and a career in the skate parks of Ireland and eventually further afield, how he got into portraiture and his way of working - he's shot the likes of Timothy Chalamet, Elizabeth Strout and Cillian Murphy, as well as Irish acts including Villagers, Damien Dempsey, Pillow Queens and Gilla Band - how you've got to really really want it to make a

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00:42:18

TPOE 272: Ezra Williams

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2023/07/26

Ezra Williams fka Smoothboi Ezra released their debut album Supernumeraries in June 2023, a collection of introspective songs that hit hard. We talk through it track by track, whether they're a more confident person at the end of it. We also talk about moving to Cork for art college, playing Glastonbury, supporting Pillow Queens and lots more. Buy Supernumeraries on Bandcamp: https://ezrawilliams.bandcamp.com/album/supernumeraries

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00:51:45

TPOE 271: Krea

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2023/07/19

Krea aka Karen Cowley is one third of Wyvern Lingo, the Choice Prize-nominated group who are currently on hiatus. Krea has just released her debut EP, The Callows. Here, she talks about the band's hiatus and how her solo project started up, before we talk through the EP track by track. Cowley was awarded the prestigious Music Bursary by the Arts Council, as well as a residency at the renowned Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. It was during this residency that she dedicated her time to crafting

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00:49:50

TPOE 270: Caoi De Barra

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2023/07/12

One third of Wyvern Lingo, Caoi De Barra released her debut solo EP Thicket at the end of summer 2022 after the Choice-nominated band announced they were going on hiatus earlier in the year. Fresh off a European and UK tour playing drums with the Grammy-nominated Allison Russell, Caoimhe talks about her new single Treehouse and her second scooter tour of Ireland. Treehouse is about the housing crisis, which De Barra says leaves her feeling trapped in a perpetual state of adolescence, where the

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01:21:14

TPOE 269: Anna's Anchor

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2023/07/05

Anna's Anchor aka Marty Ryan and friends release their fourth album The Merries on Strange Brew Records this Friday, July 7. On this episode of the podcast, Marty talks about moving from Limerick to the US for a PhD a couple of years ago, a scary accident that happened to him that led to the idea for The Merries - he suffered a head injury, with memory loss and long term issues an initial concern - and then we go track by track through the new album. Completed by Brian Scally on drums and Clare

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00:42:54

TPOE 268: Natalia Beylis

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2023/06/28

Sound artist Natalia Beylis released a brilliant collaboration with Cork cellist Eimear Reidy earlier this year, entitled She Came in Through the Window to Stand by the Door. Ahead of her appearance at MusicTown in Dublin on July 27, Natalia talks about sound recording in rural Leitrim, how her live show comes together, finding sounds around the house, and what's next. Natalia Beylis plays alongside Anna Mieke, Adrian Crowley and Aoife Wolf on Thursday, July 27, in the depot @ the complex for

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00:51:31

TPOE 267: 50 Greatest Irish Albums of all Time (with...

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2023/06/21

John Meagher recently compiled the Irish Independent's top 50 greatest Irish albums of all time list (https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/best-irish-albums-of-all-time-ranked-the-definitive-top-50/a387395613.html). He talks through how it was compiled - more than 50 judges, a weighted voting system - some themes that emerge from the list, such as a dearth of Choice Prize winners, three U2 albums and no album released this century in the top 10, and the surprises and omissions evident

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00:59:21

TPOE 266: The Expert

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2023/06/14

Dublin producer The Expert aka Cian Galvin was one half of Messiah J and the Expert and some 15 years on since they called it a day, is still releasing top-quality albums. In 2022 he released The Overview Effect with US rapper Jermicide and this Friday releases Ritual with another US rapper, Stik Figa. We talk about his journey from the late 90s, starting out with Creative Control, on through the career of Messiah J and the Expert, how close they got to making it, and then discuss his 'second act',

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01:11:24

TPOE 265: Sir Bobby Jukebox

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2023/06/07

Sir Bobby Jukebox is the solo project from Bobby Aherne (No Monster Club) who releases his second album In The Organ Loft at Midnight on Friday, June 9, via Popical Island. We go track by track through the record, talking about influences, living in Australia (and Dublin), and so much more. Bobby is also the creator of the brilliant RTÉ children's podcast Nero's Class, so we begin by talking about that. Buy In the Organ Loft at Midnight:

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00:53:34

TPOE 264: Lorraine Nash

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2023/05/31

Kerry singer-songwriter Lorraine Nash talks about her debut album All That I Can be. We chat about her youth playing music and various instruments as her sound developed, the #WhyNotHer movement, which inspired the opening track on the album, 'SIng With Her', and we go through the record track by track, touching on slide guitar and influences along the way. Buy All That I Can Be: https://lorrainenash.bandcamp.com/album/all-that-i-can-be

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01:22:48

TPOE 263: Caoilian Sherlock

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2023/05/24

Cork singer-songwriter Caoilian Sherlock releases his long-awaited debut solo album Teenage Jesus on May 26. We go through the nine songs tracks by track, how they were created and how they chart Caoilian's growth as an artist. We also talk about his other ventures, such as bands the Tan Jackets and Shaker Hymn, as well as working with the Good Room promotions in Cork and bringing back Quarter festival in mid-July. Preorder Teenage Jesus:

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00:57:33

TPOE 262: Stephen Shannon

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2023/05/17

Stephen Shannon is gearing up to release his first album under his own name. It's called Fathoms and is out Friday, May 19, on 251 Records. But it's far from Shannon's debut release - he's made many albums over the year under guises such as Halfset, Strands, and Mount Alaska. And that's all on top of his work as a sound artist, composing scores for TV and film. We talk about all of that and his upcoming show at the National Concert Hall as part of the Metronome series to launch Fathoms. That gig is

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01:04:32

TPOE 261: The Bonk

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2023/05/10

The Bonk release their second album, Greater Than or Equal To, on Friday, May 12. Band leader Phil Christie joins to talk about making the record. Mainly comprised of tracks recorded at Big Skin in Cork City in 2017 and Ailfionn Studios in Drumcondra in late 2018, Christie teamed up with a slew of fellow musicians on this album, including Niamh Dalton on fiddle, Andrew Grant on clarinet, Ultran Lavery on organ, Brendan Fennessy on percussion and guitarist Alan Comerford. That's alongside regular The

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00:36:17

TPOE 260: No Spill Blood

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2023/05/03

Dublin-based band No Spill Blood, comprised of Matt Hedigan, Ruadhan O'Meara and Ror Conaty, have recently released their brilliant second album Eye of Night on Svart Records. Per the press release: An arsenal of analog synths and electronics alongside pounding low end strumming underpin a series of inward folding tales of a protaganist's journey within the self. An exploration of the cosmos within, an engagement with the inner recesses, bearing witness to what lies beneath the real. I talk to

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00:50:52

TPOE 259: Cinder Well

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2023/04/26

Amelia Baker aka Cinder Well has just released her third album Cadence with Free Dirt Records. From California, Baker has come to call Co Clare home - her previous record No Summer was a love letter to her adopted home. A fiddle player, it was an encounter with Lankum a decade ago that gave her the impetus to come to Ireland - and Cormac Mac Diarmada from the trad band plays on a couple of tracks on Cadence as the journey all comes full circle. On this episode of the TPOE podcast, we talk about

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00:45:59

TPOE 258: Chris Kabs

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2023/04/19

Chris Kabs is a rapper and producer from Dublin who's just released his debut EP Y NOT? He's worked with artists such as Tolü Makay, Hudis, and JyellowL, including on the latter's Choice Prize-nominated debut album 2020 Division, and with Coolio right up to about a month before his death in September 2022, which sounds like it hit him quite hard. He's signed with Roughbones, got a deal with PureSyncInc in London and brand deals with Ellesse and fashion tech company With Legacy, so he's a busy man

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