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O2 Making Waves is a showcase for the best new Irish Musical talent in the country. The show features interviews and tracks from a different artist each week available free every Friday from PodcastingIreland.ie. Primary Format : Unknown Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Dublin User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Making Waves Podcasts Methings.com listings of Making Waves Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Making Waves O2 Making Waves 9th Jan '09 - Jack L Jack L, an artist as unique as Ireland has ever produced, has earned a name for himself worldwide through his dramatic interpretations of Jacques Brel. He has recently brought out his sixth album entitled 'Burn On' which includes eighteen tracks from American singer songwriter Randy Newman. Jack has concentrated on original material in four of his previous acclaimed and successful albums and has been compared to Nick Cave, a young Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits among others. L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 12th Dec '08 - Tadhg Cooke Not only does Tadhg Cooke write and perform his own music, he plays the banjo, dobra and bazouki as well. It all began with one gig in Paris. He has since secured a recording label in Japan, and has been described as 'an Irish singer who looks and sounds like nobody but himself'. His music can be classed as 'dark folk' and he's certainly a character on the Irish scene worth checking out. Catch him here on O2 Making Waves talking to Claire O'Dowd, and feel free to email any co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 19th Dec '08 - The Saw Doctors Twenty-two years ago, The Saw Doctors decided to take on the world with their uniquely Irish brand of rock and pop music. Against all odds, they won the battle, and today they are one of our most successful musical exports. After a seventeen-year break, the Tuam band has recorded a number one in the Irish music charts. They successfully chased off international artists like Kings of Leon and Pink to reach the coveted number one position, with a cover version of the Sugababes hit, ' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 5th Dec '08 - Gran Casino Fresh from winning this year's UCD Battle of the Bands competition, Gran Casino have been tipped as ones to watch for the coming future. When asked to categorise themselves in a recent newspaper interview, they found that they could not agree on a definitive genre for their music. At once described as alternative, experimental, post-rock, quasi-classical and simply pop, the group weaves its eclectic sounds seamlessly from one song to the next. Known, on occasion, to have up to f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 07th Nov'08 - Carly Sings Described as 'hard edged easy listening', Carly Sings (aka Carly Blackman) is a multi instrumentalist brought up in both Wicklow and France. While studying journalism, she decided to turn her talent to songwriting and pursue a career in music. Her debut album 'The Glove Thief' has been described as retro, bizarre and incredibly beautiful. She is a noughties girl with a wonderfully off-kilter take on modern situations. Catch her ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 14th Nov'08 - The Gorgeous Colours Revisited The Gorgeousness of five-piece indie rock band, The Gorgeous Colours, can now be heard in their self titled album which was released last month. In their nine tracks, the listener is presented with a mixture of melancholy and infectious, upbeat tunes guaranteed to leave you wanting to hear more. According to Hotpress magazine 'it would take a person with a corpse-like stiffness not to be drawn into their triumphant performance'. Today we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 21st Nov'08 - The Hot Sprockets The Hot Sprockets are one of the hardest working bands in Dublin. The past two years have seen The Hot Sprockets play over 200 gigs, with a number of high profile support slots, including The View and Republic of Loose. They're blues rock with a healthy dose of attitude; The Hot Sprockets do 'country dirt' - Dublin style. With influences from The Stooges through to Chuck Berry and Led Zeppelin, theirs is a heady brew of diverse and energetic sounds. Catch them talking to Claire O'D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 28th Nov '08 - The Amazing Few The Amazing Few play psycho pop, a unique style of energetic music celebrating the imagination! The Amazing Few are a 2-12 piece band who together have devised the liveliest music to express their unique form of storytelling. The wildly different, excitable songwriting has been compared to Frank Zappa and The Clash amongst others. It's fast, quirky and punk at heart. Fresh from headlining this year's Dublin Fringe Festival, Kieron and Dan drop by in an attempt to explain what th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 31st Oct'08 - Armoured Bear Armoured Bear frontman Anthony Noonan has been playing the drums in various bands since the age of 13. But when he decided that wasn't enough and picked up the guitar, piano and bass his world was never the same again. Armed with these tools he went solo for a while but decided the solitary singer-songwriter life wasn't for him and recorded an album under the name Armoured Bear. He then drafted in some high calibre musicians to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 24th Oct'08 - Duke Special Revisited Duke Special is back to join us on O2 Making Waves a year later, and back with a new album. 'I Never Thought This Day Would Come' is an inspirational, bright and energetic collection of new sounds from this charasmatic performer. He said he wanted to do something different, and different it is. The new album continues to defy genre and to embody influences old and new. Listen in here to a Duke Speciality interview with Claire O'Dowd at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 10th Oct'08 - The Dagger Lees With a voice that would knock your knees up into your armpits at a live show and a wonderfully dirty bluesy edge to their music, The Dagger Lees have loudly announced themselves on the Irish music scene. With their debut single going in to the Irish Indie charts at No.5 and their music already featuring on an American motion picture, their progress promises to be every bit as pleasing as their sound. Some compare them to The Von ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 17th Oct'08 - Robotnik Robotnik is very far from your average musician. He lives in a world far removed from ours where he conjures up madcap notions and ideas and turns them into songs and videos. His refreshing zest and innovation deserve the ever growing audience to which they're finally being exposed. With some heavy influence from early Beck and elements of Eels and Sparklehorse thrown into the mix, Robotnik charges forward ambitiously with his own brand ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 20th June'08 - The Red Labels A four piece Dublin band, The Red Labels have frequently been referred to as an indie-rock band trying to control the relentless punk sound within. In the last handful of months the Red Labels have successfully seized the ears and imaginations of music fans throughout Dublin and the nation. Recent gigs include breathtaking live shows at such ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 27th June'08 - Alphamono Alphamono began in 2005 when founding member Paddy McGovern began musically experimenting using an MC 505 and a Roland synthesiser to create his earliest four-track recordings. Since then, both his musical and technical acumen have developed thanks to his studies in electronic music production and sound engineering. Drawing on melodies from a bygone era when The Beatles and The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 4th July'08 - Wyvern Lingo The last thing prodigious new Irish band Wyvern Lingo would ever do would be to conform to a stereotype. They may be a band composed of three girls, but they are most definitely not a "girl band". With the girls syphoning their inspiration from such rich and diverse sources as Led Zeppellin, Aretha Franklin and Jeff Buckley, they have successfully crafted a musical style that is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 11th July'08 - Colm Lynch Since releasing his critically acclaimed album "A Whisper in a Riot", in 2006, Colm Lynch armed with just his severely overworked acoustic guitar and searing vocals has been bringing his music to an ever expanding audience. Now, with a new band in rehearsal, a new album in the making, a new single ready for release, Colm Lynch is preparing to launch an all-out assault on the nation's eardrum's and airwaves.Catch them on O2 Making Waves at www.podcastingireland.ie and ema ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 18th July'08 - Le Galaxie High energy, electro rock group, Le Galaxie are a 4 man band consisting of Michael Pope and Anthony Hyland on guitar, Alastair Higgins on drums and David McGloughlin on bass. A regular to the stages of many of the best venues across the country such as Whelan's and Crawdaddy in Dublin, Dolan's in Limerick and The Roisin Dubh in Galway, Le Galaxie have recently released their second single "We Bleed the Blood of Androids". They've received rave reviews from the likes of Sta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 25th July'08 - Alyanya Alyanya's Myspace biography only contains two words; "I Am", yet these sparse syllables manage to speak volumes about this bright young woman's enchanting musical direction. A native of Dublin, Alyanya first laid her hands on the ivory of a piano at age seven and has since gone on to study jazz at the Newpark College of Music as well as travelling the globe to showcase her music and art (didn't we mention that she also paints?) in such far-flung destinations as Australia, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 1st August'08 - Nova Static Nova static are an alternative rock act based in Laois, described as "one of the best original acts in the county". Having existed in some form for a number of years, the current line-up of Dara, Daniel, Brian and Stephen all came together at the tail end of 2006. Making their live debut in February 2007, the band has followed an upward trajectory ever since; quickly developing a more mature sound; appearing regularly at venues around the country; securing support slots ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O2 Making Waves 8th August'08 - Summer Compilation This is O2 Making Waves, a channel of the best new Irish music and artists on the planet - available every Friday on podcastingireland.ie. As you already know, we here at O2 Making Waves work around the clock to bring you all the best in new and upcoming Irish music through our popular weekly podcasts. We recently decided that it would be a great idea to put together a bit of a compilation podcast, to show off a couple of the best new bands who've been kind enough to drop i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website