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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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• TPOE 350: Laura Duff

  Limerick artist Laura Duff released her debut album Sea Legs on May 23. A meditation on grief, it sees her confront the death of her father and the fallout in the following months and years. “I was setting out to write Sea Legs in my dad’s memory,” she says. “It was very intentional in that way. All of the lyrical context is based around that, and his life, as well as trying to maintain some level of communication. Sea Legs is inspired by my experience of navigating everything that comes with losing a parent; dealing with grief as time passes, family relationships and the physicality of death.” Sea Legs was recorded, produced and mixed by Mícheál Keating in Knockaderry, Co Limerick, with the band featuring Keating, JJ Lee and Christopher O'Sullivan. Buy the album: https://lauraduff.bandcamp.com/

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• TPOE 349: Varo

  Dublin-based traditional Irish duo Varo (Lucie Azconaga and Consuelo Nerea Breschi) released their second album The World That I Knew on May 9. A collaborative album produced by John 'Spud' Murphy (Lankum), it features some of the most acclaimed names in the Irish folk music world in 2025: Ruth Clinton (Landless, Poor Creature), Cormac Mac Diarmada (Lankum, Poor Creature), Alannah Thornburgh, Inni-K, John Francis Flynn, Anna Mieke, Niamh Bury, Lemoncello, Junior Brother, Ian Lynch (Lankum), Branwen (Rufous Nightjar), and Slow Moving Clouds, among many other musicians too. Five years in the making, The World That I Knew began a month into lockdown. Lucie and Consuelo began working on a meaningful project related to the challenging and historical times the world was experiencing, selecting 10 songs, written between 30 and 300 years ago, that speak powerfully to our present moment.“Through the passage of time, political, social and cultural contexts vary, but the core of people’s experiences remain the same,” say Varo. “Themes like loneliness, heartbreak, racism, homesickness, and human connection are universal. These songs still speak truth.” Buy The World That I Knew: https://varodublin.bandcamp.com/

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• TPOE 348: Curtisy

  Dublin rapper Curtisy released his debut album What Was The Question on May 3, 2024, and releases his new project, a mixtape made with producer Hikii called Beauty in the Beast, on May 30, 2025. We talk about both releases - marking a year of the debut album - and everything in between as Curtisy won a whole host of new fans with his searing and honest lyrics and was nominated for the Choice Prize. We talk about influences from Earl to Kendrick to horror, his crew which includers rapper Ahmed, With Love and producer Rory Sweeney, Curtisy's journey in music and the future Buy What Was The Question: https://curtisy.bandcamp.com/album/what-was-the-question Preorder Beauty in the Beast: https://spindizzyrecords.com/products/curtisy-what-was-the-question-deluxe-edition-cd Intro music: Curtisy - Wok to Blackrock Outro music: Curtisy - Milk & Honey

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• TPOE 347: Danny Groenland

  Dublin-based artist Danny Groenland (fka Danny G and the Major 7ths) released his third studio album Burning Rome on April 25. He says: "The issues I focus on with this album - climate disaster, war, genocide, division, homelessness, inequality, mental health, police brutality, institutional racism - all stem from the same root cause. Our economic system is destroying our planet. We need a complete systems change, with everyone pulling in the same direction. And we need it now. Despite the gravity of the above topics, I wanted this album to be optimistic. These songs come from a variety of feelings. Love, anger, empathy, sorrow, fear and hope. I do have hope, otherwise I wouldn’t have recorded it. I have faith in humanity. We’ve been conditioned to think that things like poverty and war are normal and will always be. It doesn’t have to go like this. I hope this music gives you both comfort in solidarity, and the energy to be the change that’s needed." Danny chats about all this on the TPOE podcast, as well as growing up in a musical family and initially playing trad music, his journey into the Dublin soul scene on the early 2010s, why and how he started Danny G and the Major 7ths, playing in a wedding band, and how and why he got political on Burning Rome. Buy the album: https://dannygroenland.bandcamp.com/album/burning-rome Danny Groenland launches Burning Rome at the Sugar Club, Dublin, on Friday, May 9: https://thesugarclub.com/tc-events/danny-groenland/

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