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135. James Fearnley: Life Until 'Red Roses For Me'
Ep. 135 has Fender in conversations with The Pogues' Accordionist James Fearnley from England living in Los Angeles on the day before the 2025 LA Fire started. They go through 'Red Roses For Me' and James’ book ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Story Of The Pogues’.Conversation includes: introductions; The Low & Sweet Orchestra; Cranky George; The Walker Roaders; infomercials; ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Story Of The Pogues’; Gregory Peck’s movie "The Bravados" (1958); Brad Wood; audio book recording; James the impressionist; James Joyce; early years in Worsley, Manchester, England; moving to London; studying in Ealing Technical College which has an alumni including Freddie Mercury and Pete Townsend; life’s journey as a musician; Culture Club vs. The Nips; painting and decorating with Jem Finer (The Pogues’ banjo player); the support of Jem and Marcia; early days with Shane MacGowan and Shanne Bradley in The Nips; joining Pogue Mahone; DJ Kid Jensen and transitioning to The Pogues; recording ‘Red Roses For Me’ with producer Stan Brennan at the end of July and beginning of August 1984 in Elephant Studios, London; track by track starting with ‘Transmetropolitan’; London; Shane the Pied Piper; James’ gratitude to Shane in a letter; the hate because of the love; that incident with Allie Campbell from UB40; the anvil; Baby, Please Don’t Go; Holly Mullineaux; Sea Shanty vs. The Kesh Jig; the other band members; the Three Castles Burning Podcast; how the sound of The Pogues came into focus; goat hooves; the sequel to Here Comes Everybody; The Popes and Charlie Maclennan; John Francis Flynn; Dylan Walsh; running orders and setlists; Ted Hutt and The Walker Roaders; Marc Orrell and Dropkick Murphys, as well as other topics.Relevant Linkshttps://www.instagram.com/walkerroaders/The Walker Roaders on Spotifyhttp://www.pogues.com/Additional LinksSpotify Playlist for Episode 135https://www.amazon.co.uk/Here-Comes-Everybody-Story-Pogues/dp/0571253970https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Here-Comes-Everybody-Audiobook/B00XYKQ4XA Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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134. Rónán Ó Snodaigh: Musician
Ep. 134 has Fender Jackson chatting with Rónán Ó Snodaigh on New Year’s Eve 2024 before his performance with Kíla in Monroe’s, Galway.Conversation includes: introductions; early years; Slógadh; Coláiste Eoin (established 1969); Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers); mycelium; the lack of English in Rónán’s childhood; wanting to be a poet and a musician from leaving school; Rónán’s father Pádraig Ó Snodaigh; Coiscéim; Conradh na Gaeilge; his mother Cliodhna Cussen; being Gaeilgeoirs in Dublin in the 1970s and ‘80s; “frith Ghaeilge” (anti Irish language); Cormac agus Osgur Breathnach; a performance of ‘Dúisigí Dúisigí’; bells and the Kenyan musician Ayub Ogada; the sound of Kíla and the structures of the music; the gobsh*te power; spirituality vs. religiosity; biscuit cookie philosophy; heaven and hell on earth; performance of ‘Táimse I Mo Dhúiseacht’ based on a poem written by Cliodhna Cussen; the people lost on the island in recent decades; the kids; Malachi O’Doherty; the work Rónán has done to understand unionism; the Orange Order; Rónán’s busking in Europe; songwriting; Myles O’Reily; Brian Brody; Paul Muldoon and the makar and the troubadour; Mark French; upticks in the success of Kíla; advice to younger musicians starting out and singing “as gaelige”; driving up north with Colm and Lucas; Burntollet; Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; Hedwitschak Bodhrán; a performance of Hiúmar as well as other topics.Relevant Linkshttps://kila.ie/https://www.instagram.com/kila_official_/https://www.instagram.com/ronano.snodaigh/https://www.facebook.com/kilaofficialhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSTfl7UYUz_bilhbrq110wwhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6YtMPqKR0zhZ5OPv3RrJNx?si=4gaLJg7JRU-Xw0xB-oJfoghttps://open.spotify.com/artist/3hThC58n5Lt8GC656aSYNQ?si=-vK6evdtRYm_SGs225B_YAAdditional Linkshttps://www.coisceim.ie/https://sallinsinquirynow.ie/https://monroes.ie/collections/live Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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133. Moses Rowen: Inventor - Part 2
Ep 133 is the second half of Fender's chat with inventor Moses Rowen.Inventor Moses Rowen picks up the timeline of his career talking about a low cost steriliser for medical equipment; his amount of inventions; patents, royalties and intellectual properties; the triangle of creative and design, the engineering and science, the human factors; the psychology around medical devices; science vs. art (part two); the design process; working with Chris Soraghan and the tracheostomy team at St James's Hospital, Dublin; the iterative process of the inventor being the producer and playing mixes back to the “band”; the release a.k.a abandoning of work; Steve Lillywhite’s regret of not having mixed Fiesta by The Pogues “better”; learning from people who a lot about one thing; being able to move fast; Galway and the west and south of Ireland being a medical capital of the world; Cook Medical; Boston Scientific; Boston Medical; Hollister IE; Stryker having the biggest titanium 3D printing factory in the world; how to find work as an inventor and advice for other budding inventors out there; non disclosure agreements; a story about Shane MacGowan; Moses seeing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with Caleb in the 3Arena; Fender chatting with Shane MacGowan at a Nick Cave gig in Alexander Palace, London; Gavin Friday being quality over quantity and his releases ‘Ecce Homo’ (2024), ‘Catholic’ (2011), ‘Shag Tobacco’ (1995); Dr.Quirkey’s; breaking new ground as someone creative; ‘Ashes To Ashes’ by Bowie; a Bono and Eddie Jordan story from 2003; Formula 1 and the Monaco street circuit; ‘Surrender’ by Bono; reversing the priority and backwards designing for the end user/client/patient; cars as well as other topics.Relevant Linkshttps://www.mosesrowen.comAdditional LinksEp. 132 Moses Rowen: Inventor - Part 1Ep133. Spotify Playlist Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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132. Moses Rowen: Inventor - Part 1
2025 kicks off with Fender Jackson interviewing Moses Rowen, inventor. Part one charts his schooling, early career and an overview of a piece of kit he designed for NASA!Conversation includes: introductions; Guggi; being an inventor; schooling vs. autodidacticism; doing a Mechanical Engineering degree in DIT (Technological University Dublin); luck; Kev; ‘No Country For Old Men’; ‘Cool Hand Luke’; working in the airport; art vs. science in music and inventing; National College of Art and Design; learning from fellow students about new technologies vs. what you learn in the classroom; working for an architecture firm in Rotterdam; open calls; gambling; designing BIMGEC (Bio-Inspired Micro Gravity Exercise Concept) an exercise device for zero gravity for NASA’s Artemis pod; dining with Coco; trail running and climbing; getting a cash course in eccentric bias from his brother Noah as well as other topics.Relevant Linkshttps://www.mosesrowen.comOverview of BIMGEC on InstagramOverview of BIMGEC on FacebookOverview of BIMGEC on TikTokOverview of BIMGEC on LinkedIn Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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131. Red Roses For Me: 40th Anniversary
Ep. 131 has Fender Jackson catching punters' reactions, thoughts and favourite songs from The Pogues' 40th anniversary gig of Red Roses For Me which took place in 3 Arena, Dublin on Tuesday, 17th December 2024. We are publishing this on Christmas Day 2024 - what would have been Shane MacGowan's 67th birthday. Happy birthday Shane. Hope you are swimming in streams of whiskey.John Naughton, Shrewsbury, England‘Boys From The County Hell’ - Kojaque, Pogues and more. (Audio recorded by @njdel1)Jimmy Johnson, Bayside, Dublin‘The Auld Triangle’ - Nadine Shah, Pogues and others. (Audio recorded by @fuiseog9682)Semele, Athens, Greece‘Streams Of Whiskey’- Fontaines D.C., Pogues and others. Audio recorded by @fuiseog9682Flo, London, EnglandSemele’s story about Mikis Theordorakis‘Waxie’s Dargle’ - Mary Wallopers, Pogues and others. Audio recorded by @fuiseog9682Luca, Italy; Callum, Dublin; Gill, DublinGerry, Amersham, Bucks, England and Emer Gilna, Laytown, Meat'Transmetropolitan'Fionn Manning, Cork City and friends‘And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda’ - Jim Sclavunos, Pogues and more. Audio recorded by @njdel1Fiachra Meek, uilleann piper‘Dirty Old Town’ - Jim Sclavunos, Pogues and others. Audio recorded by @the-master-switch‘Fairytale Of New York’ - Charles Hendy, Radie Peat, Pogues and more. Audio recorded by @alexhickey5633‘Kitty’ - John Francis Flynn, Pogues and others.NB Some of the recordings are from Pogues earlier gig this year in Hackney Empire. The audio in these recordings is mostly caught on phones. We highly recommend you see the band live for the full experience.Relevant Linkshttp://www.pogues.com/Additional Linkshttps://www.youtube.com/@njdel1https://www.youtube.com/@fuiseog9682https://www.youtube.com/@the-master-switchhttps://www.youtube.com/@alexhickey5633https://www.theirelandpodcast.com/latest-podcast/episode/9ed3bab4/29-tommy-keane-uilleann-pipe-player Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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