The view from the Anna Livia/DCFM studio, home to The Indie Hour for the last four years.
After four years and about 200 shows, Aoife Mc has decided to reclaim her Thursday nights and will no longer be broadcasting at 9pm on Dublin City FM. I’ve said it before here but she has been directly responsible for getting me into bands like Heathers, R.S.A.G, The Holy Roman Army, Robotnik, So Cow and loads of others. The last 68 shows archived are available as MP3s right here. Much respect also to Ian Oliver who came down to the studio most Thursdays and shot pics of the bands interviewed every week.
She will however be producing a new Irish music podcast for Nialler9 every month as well as presenting our regular one as always. Who knows? She might be popping up on a different radio station’s airwaves sometime soon..
Go and give thanks.
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.
Brilliant to hear she’ll be keeping a hand in. Between hers, yours and Ken’s it’s pretty much the only new music I listen to at all.
She’ll be seriously missed – such a champion of new music!
“Go and give thanks”
I already did boss, and well deserved it is too. Shows like Aoife’s are so important and the fact that it was done on zilch budget and a lot of dedication and hard work is even more commendable.
Best of luck to Aoife, hope to hear hear back on radio really soon.
noooooooooooooooooooo.
Hope she’s back on the waves soon.
Really sad news this
Will be sorely missed but bigger and better things await on the horizon
Awww…poooey! that was one of the greats on that station..lookin forward to seeing your new re-incarnation!
Congratulations Aoife on a fine show and thanks for having me/us in several times. Good luck in whatever is next. Where’s that album dude? Still on rotation in my gaff…
Sad to hear, between your site, and her podcast in particular is where i found out about so much of new Irish music (having left Ireland a few years ago).
The pics by Ian Oliver were usually pretty sweet as well.
Glad to hear there will be some continuation of Aoife’s musical output.
All the best,
G
Really sorry to hear that aoifes slot on the indie hour is coming to an end. I cant thank aoife and nialler enough for all ye re support and kind comments. Hope to hear aofie back on the air soon. Great work on the blog
Jeremy
be it right or wrong the strong always rock on .. look forward to the podcasts at least it’ll be a feast for blogger beasts ..
K