Cian Ó Cíobháin’s An Taobh Tuathail, the RTÉ RnaG alternative music show of note is celebrating 15 years on air on May 1st, an impressive feat indeed.
Ó Cíobháin will be marking the occasion with a special broadcast and like in 2011, the man is asking for your favourite covers of all-time for the 15th birthday show.
You can send your requests in to him at [email protected], Facebook or Twitter. The only stipulation is it can’t have been featured before (see below for a list).
Here’s one of my favourite all-time covers of a Big Star tune by a Swedish musician Kendal Johansson, who we’ve not heard from since. It gives me shivers every time.
Full list of previously played covers
Al Green / Light My Fire / The Right Stuff [The Doors]
Balanescu Quartet / Autobahn / Mute [Kraftwerk]
Banjo Or Freakout / Archangel / banjoorfreakout.blogspot.com [Burial]
Big Ned / Paint It Black / Optimo Music [The Rolling Stones]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Tortoise / Daniel / Domino [Elton John]
Brothers Johnson / Strawberry Letter 23 / Maverick [Shuggie Otis]
Calexico / Alone Again Or / City Slang [Love]
Ciccone Youth / Into The Groovey / Blast First [Madonna – Into The Groove]
Devo / Satisfaction (I Can’t Get Me No) / Virgin [The Rolling Stones]
Emmylou Harris / Wrecking Ball / Grapevine [Neil Young]
Iron & Wine / Such Great Heights / Sub Pop [The Postal Service]
James Blake / Limit To Your Love / Atlas [Feist]
Jose Gonzalez / Heartbeats / Peacefrog [The Knife]
Joy Division / Sister Ray / Factory [The Velvet Underground]
Junior Boys / When No One Cares / Domino [Frank Sinatra]
Katzenjammers / Cars / Red Hook [Gary Numan]
Lali Puna / Together In Electric Dreams / Morr Music [Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder]
Langley Schools Music Project / Space Oddity / Setanta [David Bowie]
LB / Ashes To Ashes (Digital Spacepop Replicant) / Output [David Bowie]
Linus Loves / Hold Me Closer / Breastfed [Joy Division – Decades]
Mechanical Bride / Umbrella / Transgressive [Rihanna]
Mr Hopkinson’s Computer / Where Is My Mind? / Wonktronic [Pixies]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / The Carnival Is Over / Mute [The Seekers]
Pixies / Evil Hearted You / 4AD [The Yardbirds]
Primal Scream / Darklands / Creation [The Jesus & Mary Chain]
Rebekah Del Rio / Llorando / Milan [Roy Orbison – Crying]
Rickolus / Ceremony / iamrickolus.com [Joy Division / New Order]
Schneider Tm V Kpt.Michi.Gan / The Light 3000 / City Slang [The Smiths – Thers Is A Light That Never Goes Out]
Senor Coconut Y Sun Conjunto / The Robots (Cha-Cha-Cha) / Multicolor [Kraftwerk]
Sonic Youth / Superstar / A&M [The Carpenters]
Susanna & The Magical Orchestra / Condition Of The Heart / Rune Grammofon [Prince]
The Breeders / Happiness Is A Warm Gun / 4AD [The Beatles]
The Carpenters / I Can Dream, Can’t I? / A&M [Tamara]
The Cramps / Lonesome Town / Zonophone [Ricky Nelson]
The Fall / Lost In Music / Permanent [Sister Sledge]
The Fall / Victoria / Sanctuary Midline [The Kinks]
The Field / Everyone’s Got To Learn Sometime / Kompakt [The Korgis]
The Futureheads / Hounds Of Love / 679 Recordings [Kate Bush]
The Hope Blister / Sweet Unknown / 4AD [The Cranes]
The Kindness / Swinging Party / Moshi Moshi [The Replacements]
The Memory Band / Why / Peacefrog [Carly Simon]
The Parsonage / Love Will Tear Us Apart / Oscarr [Joy Division]
The Slits / I Heard It Through The Grapevine / End Recordings [Marvin Gaye]
The Young Gods / September Song / PIAS [Walter Huston]
This Mortal Coil / Song To The Siren / 4AD [Tim Buckley]
This Mortal Coil / You And Your Sister / 4AD [Chris Bell]
Tiga / Hot In Herre / Skint [Nelly]
Tim Chaplin / Only You / 23 Seconds [Yazoo]
Tindersticks / Here / Island [Pavement]
Wall Of Voodoo / Ring Of Fire / Domino [Johnny Cash]
Whomadewho / Satisfaction / Gomma [Benny Benassi feat The Biz]
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
