Texas-born, Laois-raised, London-based artist Kean Kavanagh returns to talk about his debut album The County Star. An introspective work, it finds him examining all those sides of his being: USA, Ireland, and London as he adopts the dual persona of a cowboy county star/GAA county star. Kean, who many will know as a close collaborator of Kojaque (they co-founded Soft Boy Records) released his debut project Dog Person in 2020. He suffered a vocal injury on tour with Kojaque in 2022 and had to undergo vocal therapy and relearning how to sing. It's something he examined on the 2023 EP Wrestling Music. It is also inherent on this album.
We talk about all this and more in a 40-minute chat. We talk about community, traditional music and GAA, making videos with Kojaque starring comedian Peter McGann, collaborating with Karma Kid and Baz Kaye in making the record, and why he's not counting Dog Person as his debut release.
Buy The County Star: https://heaven-sent.ochre.store/
Kean on TPOE 192: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DaEf882Y1VjoWBQVeuTOP?si=ecbf6ddd8c2046bb
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TPOE 354: Beyond the Pale review (with Ciara Byrne)
Eoghan and Cíara chat about their weekend at Beyond the Pale and the difficulties the music festival faced in the week preceding it. There's also music news, review of Kean Kavanagh's debut album The County Star, and new track recommendations.
0:00 Intro and Beyond the Pale review
18:51 Music News
21:00 TPOE Album Club: Kean Kavanagh - The County Star
27:48 New track recommendations
Links for music discussed
Kean Kavanagh - The County Star: https://heaven-sent.ochre.store/
Kez - In The Arms https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kez11/in-the-arms-2
Laurie Shaw - Please Can You Cut That Out (And Stick It In My Almanac) https://laurieshawofficial.bandcamp.com/album/magnetosphere
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TPOE 353: Junk Drawer
Eoghan is joined by Stevie and Jake Lennox of Belfast’s Junk Drawer, who released their second album Days of Heaven on June 6 via Pizza Pizza Records. Formed in 2015 alongside Brian Coney and Rory Dee, Junk Drawer blend Weezer-esque riffs, shoegaze and indie rock.
Fresh off an eight-date tour of Ireland with Cola and M(h)aol, the brothers reflect on the DIY logistics of putting it all together, the origins of the band and the evolution of their sound, working with producer Chris Ryan, what it means to make "weird, cosmic Ulster music", playing SXSW, the Belfast music scene and lots more.
Buy Days of Heaven: junkdrawerbelfast.bandcamp.com.
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TPOE 352: TPOE Album Club M(h)aol - Something Soft (with Cíara Byrne)
Eoghan and Cíara return to chat about the music news, including new albums by Altered Hours, Big Thief and Cate Le Bon, discuss Pulp and Iggy Pop coming to Dublin, dive into our first TPOE Album Club with post-punk band M(h)aol's second album Something Soft, discuss new albums coming out this week, and finish with two track recommendations.
04:34: Music News and Upcoming Releases
14:39: TPOE Album Club: M(h)aol - Something Soft
31:06: Recommendations and closing thoughts
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TPOE 351: Favourite Festival Acts, CMAT, Morgana, and Orla Gartland (w/ Cíara Byrne)
Cíara Byrne (Golden Plec, The Thin Air, Irish Examiner) joins to run through music news (Grizzly Bear are back, Basic Income for the Arts, Sufjan Stevens), recent gigs by Morgana and CMAT, new releases and our favourite Irish festival sets as festival szn 2025 kicks off
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