@gatetheatredublin.bsky.social I work next door and I’m happy to help with any testing that is needed for sound system set up to help improve sound quality for deaf people #HelpUsHear. Something that I’ve written about here: noisysilence.ie/2026/01/05/g... #Accessibility
Sennheiser hearing loop system. Theatre in the background.
To Kill a Mockingbird in the Bord Gáis Theatre. Telecoil is a bit staticky. Have headphones to put into the Sennheiser receiver as a back up. Let’s see how it compares to Auracast in the Abbey #HelpUsHear
Auri Auracast Bluetooth receiver- like a small black flip phone. cable connected via 3.5mm jacks to Cochlear MiniMic 2+
My Cochlear N8 is Auracast-enabled, but the firmware to support it isn’t out yet. I connected via MiniMic. Tried connecting headphones to the Auracast receiver too- sounded great. In the future, anyone that wants to will be able to pick up the sound desk output on compatible headphones #HelpUsHear
New post on Noisy Silence. How to get great sound at gigs and theatres if you have hearing aids or a cochlear implant. noisysilence.ie/2026/01/05/g... #accessibility #HelpUsHear
A woman with short dark hair dangles a string of bells in the air, wearing a dark top and large round pendant.
Lisa O’Neil in Vicar St. tonight. The superstars in @foggynotions.bsky.social sorted me out with getting connected to the sound desk 🙌 #accessibility #HelpUsHear #CochlearImplant
Interval in the show. Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings🤯 In my Tennessee Mountain Home is being cast into my head via my TV streamer. I don’t have to listen to the overwhelming crowd noise & I control the volume. 🙌🙌 #Accessibility win #CochlearImplant #HelpUsHear Thank you @aikenpromotions.bsky.social
Interval in the show. Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings🤯 In my Tennessee Mountain Home is being cast into my head via my TV streamer. I don’t have to listen to the overwhelming crowd noise & I control the volume. 🙌🙌 #Accessibility win #CochlearImplant #HelpUsHear Thank you @aikenpromotions.bsky.social
Photo of setlist for Black Country, New Road. Person sitting on the top deck of the bus. Trinity College is outside the window. BCINR 3 Olympia Dublin, Ineland Tuesday 16th September 2025 Big Spin Salem Sisters Horses Cold Country Socks Dancers Ballad of El Goodo Goodbye Mary Nancy Besties Forever Howlong Happy Birthday 70-75 Mins Approx No Encore
Amazing Black Country, New Road gig in the Olympia. 🤯 Many thanks to Canice at the sound desk for giving my cochlear implant a direct feed & to Paddy for letting me try out the fantastic sound/vibe vest. 🤘 #accessibility #HelpUsHear
Two men shaking hands in front of a sound desk. One man is wearing a cowboy hat. The other has a TShirt that says Tome Sham
A lot of that positivity is a result is sharing my story on noisysilence.ie, being lucky to be able to help others in a similar situation & advocating for better #accessibility for people with hearing loss, eg the #HelpUsHear campaign to make gigs more accessible (thank you @cmatbaby.bsky.social 🙌)
WhatsApp screenshot Walk of Life Girls and boys Love will tear us apart Blitzkrieg Bop Sgt Peppers Pale Blue Eyes Waiting for the man Losing my religion End of the world as we know it You shook me all night long Burning Love Mariners revenge song Back in black Immigrant song Back in the ussr Where are your kids tonight American pie Christmas is here to stay At last N17 Atlantic City Handle me with care 13:43
Playing in a session like this was magical, particularly when music once felt like it was becoming out of reach. Rough sense of some of the (pretty eclectic) setlist. Definitely missing a few songs that I didn’t know. #HelpUsHear
Man standing in foyer of 3Arena in Dublin. There are purple led ring lights overhead. A sign says concierge. He’s wearing a cochlear implant.
Back at the 3Arena and gettin plugged in for The Pogues Red Roses for Me gig 🙌🙌 #CochlearImplant #HelpUsHear
Many thanks Emily! I document my experiences of sudden hearing loss & severe tinnitus in the Noisy Silence Blog. Story so far: deaf, tinnitus, cochlear implant, auditory rehabilitation, gigs again, and the unexpected twist (finding Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill) #accessibility #HelpUsHear
👋 I write about recovery after sudden hearing loss & severe tinnitus at noisysilence.ie I also try to spread awareness about cochlear implants and accessibility for dDeaf people in the arts, particularly getting plugged into the sound desk at gigs #HelpUsHear
Two men at a gig with thumbs up. The man on the right is wearing g a cochlear implant.
Sorted. Yet another super sound sound engineer. Thank you Richie! Thank you Fontaines DC. Thank you Ross from the 3 Arena. Ear plugs in. Let’s go! 🤘🦻it’s so easy for promoters, venues and artists to #HelpUsHear 🙌
Cochlear MiniMic 2+ connected to a 3.5mm to XLR cable. The stage in the background has “fontaines dc” in white lettering over it. Purple spotlights light the stage. The eager beavers are up the front.
Waiting to get plugged in at The Fontaines in the Point (3Arena for you younglings). 😁 #CochlearImplant #Accessibility I have a few connection options. Will document how I get on below. dDeaf people go to gigs too! #HelpUsHear
Screenshot of Fontaines DC song Romance playing on an iPhone. The image is of a face superimposed on a pink heart-shaped helium balloon. Romance Fontaines D.C. Alternative • 2024 - d Dolby Atmos • 1l Lossless • Play x; Shuffle Perhaps more so than any other Irish band of their generation, Fontaines D.C.'s first three albums WE MORE 1 Romance • I Starburster B 3 Here's the Thing
Doing a bit of prep for Fontaines DC Fri night. It’s fantastic when a band/venue say they’ll do their best to get me connected to the sound desk 🦻 #Accessibility #CochlearImplant #HelpUsHear
Screenshot of tweet Photo of two men embracing in a stadium after a concert. One wears a cochlear implant. 12:17 Post Brian Cleary @clearyb1| Spectacular night at Bruce Springsteen last night. Huge thanks to @aikenpromotions & the sound team for getting my #CochlearImplant connected to the desk. Stereo @springsteen again! Special thanks to Brandon, another super sound sound engineer! #HelpUsHear @rteliveline 05:58 • 20/05/2024 From Earth • 324 Views Add another post
Screenshot of a tree. Pictures of a radio receiver pack and a MiniMic 2+ Brian Cleary @clearyb1| Amazing #accessibility standards from @coldplay and @mcd_productions in @CrokePark this evening. Serious kit provided to improve concert experience & beam crisp, clear sound to my cochlear implant with no crowd noise #HelpUsHear #ColdplayDublin #ColdplaycrokePark Subpack 144 ALT ALT 19:45 • 30/08/2024 • 46K Views Ia View analytics 42 Reposts 8 Quotes 788 Likes 17 Bookmarks
Me too. I’m a noob/don’t feel that I was part of any particular group, but I told my story of sudden hearing loss & connected with many people. I miss those connections.🤞 that’ll grow again. I was getting some traction on describing & advocating for accessibility at gigs. Starting again #HelpUsHear
Direct Message from Twitter. Amazing supportive artist responding to an accessibility request cmat @cmatbaby my new album "Crazymad, For Me' out now!! Joined March 2017 • 23.6K Followers Saturday, 30 September hiya! just sending on details about your implant to my sound engineer. is there any details we need to know? what model/make do you need for the show ?
Tweet screenshot Photo is of two men embracing bin a stadium after a concert. One is wearing a cochlear implant Brian Cleary @clearyb1| Spectacular night at Bruce Springsteen last night. Huge thanks to @aikenpromotions & the sound team for getting my #CochlearImplant connected to the desk. Stereo @springsteen again! Special thanks to Brandon, another super sound sound engineer! #HelpUsHear @rteliveline 05:58 • 20/05/2024 From Earth • 324 Views
Cafe photo. There’s a bag labelled ZEIT FÜR BROT. In Front of the bag, there’s an echo plate scroll pastry/sweet bread.
Tweet screenshot with a photo of a Google maps route from the west of ireland to Berlin taking 23h 11min 12:24 Brian Cleary @clearyb1 About to leave for cochlear implant surgery in Berlin. Advised not to fly after inner ear surgery, so it's a pretty long drive. Hopeful that this returns some hearing to my deaf side and alleviates the tinnitus Will be off work & might be quiet for a while. #SSNHL 16:36 • 25/11/2022 from Earth ill View Tweet activity
This time 2 yrs ago I was isolating prior to a long drive to Berlin for cochlear implant surgery. I could not have guessed at how the whole things would have worked out. 🤯 gigs, advocacy, refocusing everything, writing, better hearing, & a huge uplift in quality of life #HelpUsHear #CochlearImplant
Two male panelist’s sitting among a Victorian autumnal picnic scene. The panellist on the right is wearing a black cochlear implant.
Three men and two women huddle together while posing for a selfie. Brian Cleary, Paul McKinley, Paul Murray, Miriam O’Callaghan and Eileen Walsh (who took time out from promoting Small Things Like These to support this charity endeavour - what a star !). They are in the Rotubda Pillar room, an old ballroom ringed by marble pillars.
V grateful to Miriam O’Callaghan for hosting an amazing launch of #GibbetHill Eileen Walsh’s reading was spine-tingling. Felt like I was reading it again for the 1st time. The audience reaction to this lost story was overwhelming. rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/ #writing #BramStoker #HelpUsHear
Band onstage at Sally Long’s in Galway. The lead singer is wearing a garish TV test signal themed jacket. There’s a keyboard player, guitarist (acoustic), guitarist (electric) and the rhythm section (drums/bass). There’s a great audience.
Same band as before. Lead singer is saluting the crowd.
Gig #2 this weekend. My old friend, Jimi McDonnell & The Strolling Homes in Sally Long’s, Galway. Cochlear implant plugged in. Super-sound sound engineer again tonight. 👏👏👏👏👏#accessibility #HelpUsHear
Woman dressed in black on stage playing a sunburst vintage acoustic guitar. She’s flanked by two vintage Gibson style acoustic guitars. There are red up lighters on the stage behind her.
Man in a black T-shirt outside a music venue holding a vinyl record “Muireann Bradley”
Spiritual gig experience in Liberty Hall last night. The sound sound engineer (Lucas) plugged me into the desk. Jonny Dillon blew my mind. Muireann Bradley was absolutely sublime Solo acoustic blues with wizard-level finger picking worked so well with the #CochlearImplant #HelpUsHear noisysilence.ie
Third time meeting the same super sound sound engineer - he’s wired me into the sound desk at Adriane Lenker, Tom Jones & CMAT. Absolute legend #HelpUsHear
Screenshot of noisysilence.ie “Stereo Dreams. Oh Gaudi! Photo by Carl T. Bergstrom 05/02/24 I dream in stereo. I only realised this lately.” Picture is a chambered nautilus, half-section, black and white photo illustrating the spiral structure.
New post on noisysilence.ie today. It covers dreaming in stereo, #CochlearImplant advocacy with CIICA and getting plugged into the sound desk at concerts. #HelpUsHear Many thanks to @carlbergstrom.com for the Nautilus image!
