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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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TPOE 296: David Hedderman

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2024/02/14

Berlin-based Dublin artist David Hedderman released his debut album Pulling at the Briars on February 9, 2024, and talks through all of it in this track-by-track interview. From the press release: Written over a 15-year period, Pulling at the Briars captures a transitional period for Hedderman during which he relocated to Berlin, Germany from Dublin, Ireland in the mid-2000s. The initial months and years were shaped by intensive periods creating art whilst cultivating a community of like-minded

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00:58:32

TPOE 295: Elaine Malone

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2024/02/07

Cork-based artist Elaine Malone released her debut album Pyrrhic on September 8, 2023. On this episode, Elaine talks through each of its nine tracks, discussing working with Cathal MacGabhainn, who recorded it; her band (Ruairi Dale, Sam Clague, James Christie), the Cork scene, supporting the likes of Mary Wallopers, Protomartyr, and Bob Mould, the problem with the term 'singer songwriter', confidence, her other bands such as Pot-Pot, and lots more. Elaine Malone plays the Metronome concert series

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00:59:43

TPOE 294: Naoise Roo

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2024/01/31

Dublin-based artist Naoise Roo released her second album Emotionally Magnificent on October 27 and brings the curtain down on the project with 'The Last Headline Show Ever Probably' at the Workman's Club on Friday, February 2, featuring special guests Paddy Hanna and Clara Tracey and support from Danny Carroll. On this episode, Naoise talks about some of the reasons why the project is coming to an end and we talk through Emotionally Magnificent track by track. Buy the album:

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01:13:24

TPOE 293: The Cope

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2024/01/24

The Cope aka Joe Furlong and David Anthony Curley released their debut album Dancer on December 8, 2023. The genesis of DANCER traces back to the isolating lockdown period, when global communities yearned for physical connection, and dance floors lay dormant. Sensing an opportune moment, the duo embarked on a creative journey to craft a musical opus that encapsulates the collective longing for communal celebration. Their aim was to provide the quintessential soundtrack for the eagerly awaited

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00:53:46

TPOE 292: The Line

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2024/01/17

Brian Dillon, one part of Meltybrains, released his second solo album under the moniker The Line on November 1, 2023. Entitled Red Blood Cells and Righteousness, it's an album full of collaborations, featuring Lullahush, Fehdah and Loah, Sarah Corcoran (Pillow Queens), Sorcha Richardson, Talos, God Knows and Murli, and lots more. On this episode, we talk through all the tracks on the album and discuss the making of it. Brian says: “This is an album built on personal relationships and

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01:01:03

TPOE 291: RF Chaney

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2024/01/10

Dublin composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist RF Chaney released his debut solo album Tropism at the end of November 2023. He says it reveals his unique ‘chamber-electronic’ compositional approach that strives to tastefully combine rich textures of synthesisers and electronic instruments with Nordic jazz inspired acoustic instrumentation of saxophones, clarinets and double bass. Tropism was composed and recorded by Chaney, who played all instruments including synthesisers, guitar, piano and

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02:06:33

TPOE 290: Best Music Of 2023

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2023/12/21

It's a special bumper festive edition of the TPOE podcast as a host of friends help us wrap up the year in music, via interviews in person, over Zoom and through voicenotes. They talk about how the year was for them in general and what they've been up to, their favourite albums, songs, and gigs, favourite Christmas song, and what we can expect from them in 2024. Running order: 4.17: Clare Sands 8.27: The Cope 22.32: Daniel Luke 27.04: Honas 35.33: Ruth Mac 48.10: David Hedderman 56.05: Julie

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01:01:03

TPOE 289: The Scratch

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2023/12/13

The Scratch, a four-piece from Dublin born from a shared love of metal and trad music, released their second studio album Mind Yourself on November 3. Dock, Lango and Jordo talk through the nine songs track by track today, talking along the way about where they fit in the trad scene, the themes across the album, including alcoholism and begrudgery, and what it was like working with co-producer James Vincent McMorrow. They also talk about covering the Pogues' 'Sally MacLennane' for Ireland 100: An

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01:06:57

TPOE 288: Super Extra Bonus Party

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2023/12/06

Super Extra Bonus Party (Gavin Elsted, Gary Clarke, Cormac Brady, Stephen Fahey) released their long-awaited third album Late Nite 99 in September, about 14 years after second record Night Horses. We talk through the album track by track, from how a mate's post-five-a-side ice-cream inspired the title to their friendship and collaborations with Nina Hynes. We talk about singing vs instrumentals and putting yourself in a vulnerable position to put yourself out there, the music industry, and lots

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00:42:42

TPOE 287: John Francis Flynn

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2023/11/29

John Francis Flynn released his second album Look Over the Wall, See the Sky on November 10, receiving rave reviews from the likes of the Quietus, which called it "an album full of generosity and insight, songs that show us to ourselves in the way perhaps only folk music can", and Stereogum, Ryan Leas hailing it as "a stunning level-up from an already fascinating artist". We talked on a cold November morning about the making of Look Over the Wall, See the Sky, influences, trad and the idea of genre,

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01:06:37

TPOE 286: Rachael Lavelle

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2023/11/22

Rachael Lavelle released her long-awaited debut album Big Dreams on November 10. A brilliant collection of 10 tracks, the press release says: Big Dreams is an existential coming-of-age album that chronicles the journey of a young woman searching for direction and meaning in a very strange world. Inspired by sounds of everyday life and an intriguing obsession with YouTube self-help videos, the album explores romance, directionlessness, ambition and the expectations of the unsatisfied digital native

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01:04:21

TPOE 285: Tandem Felix

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2023/11/15

David Tapley aka Tandem Felix released his second album There's a New Sheriff in Town on October 20. He talks us through the nine tracks that comprise the record, becoming the pedal streel player of choice in Irish music, and how and why BJ Cole (who played pedal steel on Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer') and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer) came to feature on the record. Tandem Felix Irish tour dates: November 17: Coughlan's, Cork November 23: Whelan's, Dublin November 25: The Record Room, Limerick Buy

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01:09:48

TPOE 284: Blood Donor

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2023/11/08

Luke Reilly aka Blood Donor released his debut album Autofiction on October 6. Former frontman of the Choice Prize-nominated band Otherkin, he talks about why they decided to call it a day in 2019 and how his solo project grew out of that. During our Autofiction track by track, Luke talks about trying to improve as a songwriter, inspiration and influences, returning to work as a doctor during Covid, and how he's already planning what's next for Blood Donor Blood Donor play the Soundhouse in Dublin

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00:39:40

TPOE 283: ØXN

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2023/11/01

ØXN are Radie Peat, Katie Kim, John 'Spud' Murphy, and Ellie Myler, who have just released their debut album CYRM via Claddagh Records. A collection of six songs, there's old folk/trad tracks like 'Cruel Mother' and 'The Trees They Do Grow High', Katie Kim originals reworked, such as 'The Feast', and covers of Maija Sofia's 'The Wife of Michael Cleary' and Scott Walker's 'Farmer in the City'. On today's podcast, the band talk through the album track by track and discuss how they got together (with a

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00:54:47

TPOE 282: Andy Connolly (Naive Ted)

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2023/10/25

Andy Connolly is the host body of Naive Ted, the DJ/producer/project/character/experience who is hanging up his mask with a final show at Haunted Dancehall at Dublin's NCH on November 4. Andy talks about Naive Ted's first appearances and development as well as his own journey, from helping launch the Community Skratch Games in Galway's Bierhaus to coming to Limerick, DJing and making music with the likes of Flying Buttresses and Deviant along the way, as well as now working with Music Generation

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00:57:35

TPOE 281: Reylta

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2023/10/18

Galway singer-songwriter Reylta says she wanted her debut album Everything Unsaved Will Be Lost to feel like a Gaeltacht experience. So the recording was done in a remote cottage in Donegal which Seamus Heaney and fellow poets and creatives have frequented over the years. Producer Darragh Nolan uprooted his home studio from Gorey, Co Wexford, and brought it up to Donegal for the occasion, where a whirlwind recording process ensued. The result is an album that's funny and dark at the same time, a

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00:59:56

TPOE 280: I Have A Tribe

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2023/10/11

I Have a Tribe aka Patrick O'Laoighaire released his second album Changing of the Guard on October 6. A really lovely, warming album, it began in Berlin with producer Willi Sieger and was completed with full band in Dublin, with collaborators including Conor O'Brien. Per the press release, On Changing of the Guard, O’Laoghaire translates his everyday engagement with life into his music. At the centre of this collection of songs is our humanity, and all the weaknesses and wonders that come with it.

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00:58:08

TPOE 279: Jape

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2023/10/04

Richie Egan aka Jape has just released his sixth studio album Endless Thread, via Faction Records. Egan produced and recorded the album at RARN studio using a unique collection of ribbon microphones, tape machines and tube outboard equipment. The album was mixed by David Odlum (Sam Smith, Lisa O’Neill) and mastered by Seán MacErlaine. The artwork was assembled by M&E Sweden. "I’ve been putting all my focus onto getting into the tiny details of songs these days, there is so much joy in the details

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00:46:42

TPOE 278: Soda Blonde

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2023/09/28

Soda Blonde have just released their second album Dream Big. They say it’s a mantra – a mission statement from four lifelong friends. It’s their promise to themselves, and a message to all who come along for the ride: A reminder that life is precious, fragile, and fleeting, so we might as well dream big and hold nothing back. Here, Adam O'Regan and Faye O'Rourke talk about the first four or so years of Soda Blonde, what the recording process was like, being proudly independent, Spotify, and we talk

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01:12:57

TPOE 277: Autre Monde

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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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