Dave Fanning Dave Fanning on RTE Gold

Last night's show from Dave Fanning featured only music from 1978,
absolutely fantastic!
@rtegold.bsky.social #RTEgold
www.rte.ie/radio/gold/c...

Oh!

Fine Young Cannibals did some fine songs

haven't heard much about them or from them for a while

I think @jconnollybooks.bsky.social played one a while back on #ABCtoXTC on #RTEgold

Oh

Noosha Fox!

this is on #RTEgold right now ...gosh, how much I wished for replay on Top Of The Pops

...top tune too; youtu.be/f98DOYcfIJ4

For anyone wanting to avoid news and chatter today, follow my lead and tune your radio (app) to RTE Gold! @rickoshea.bsky.social and Co. won't be commenting on current affairs - but will be playing great music!
#RTEGOLD

Hue and Cry's Labour of Love on #RTEgold now!

what a tune

#HueAndCry

@rte.ie what on earth is happening with the radioplayer for android?

#RTEgold is playing two stations at once??

I forgot to say

every Saturday on #RTEgold

but you can 'listen back' to all the shows here: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/a...

Tonight's show finished with this:
#NewWave #Punk #1980s #MDANT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiZ...

Crikey

forgot about this beauty from #PrefabSprout

John Connolly played it last night on #RTEGold #ABCtoXTC
www.rte.ie/radio/gold/a...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlb4...

Excellent #Waterboys / @mickpuck.bsky.social version of The Passenger being played by John Connolly on #ABCtoXTC on #RTEgold right now: rteradioapp.page.link/e8epiNsadeSN... 

phenomenal version!!

ABC to XTC with John Connolly - RTÉ Gold For one hour each week, ABC TO XTC explores the years that gave birth to punk and post-punk, new wave and British ska, New Romantics and the pioneers of modern electronic music.

IF...
you like Punk, New Wave, 70s & 80s music
there is a brilliant 1 hour a week show on #RTEgold presented by a colleague of @rickoshea.bsky.social

It is on at 5pm Irish/GB time & 6pm EU time

you can listen back to all of the shows here: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/a...

thank you #RTEGold for reminding me of this absolute classic from #SimpleMinds

RTÉ Gold The Greatest Hits of All Time

and #RTEgold can be found here for free

www.rte.ie/radio/gold/

earlier in the evenng on #JohnConnolly's #XTCtoABC also on #RTEgold was a new version of this classic

/5

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng7q...

Proper Kitchen Disco tonight while washing up,

with the help of #RTEgold

screenshots from my phone linked to two serious Anker bluetooth speakers

[is #RTEgold on BlueSky yet @rickoshea.bsky.social ?]
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Just updated the website on the back of #ForTheRecord series #2 for #RTEGold and ahead of a new #RTERadio1 project - watch this space.
In the meantime, have a good nosey here: www.patomahony.ie

two hours of incredible 80s indie / alternative rock on #RTEgold tonight from #DaveFanning: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/c...

a few from Echo & The Bunnymen including The Cutter, of which I have the original 41 years old vinyl...
[41 years ago ...'sake!]

'Vinyl Fetish'

#RTEgold have just played the song that *was* going to be my #VinylFetish on BBC 6 music

when Huey Morgan finally called me I had changed my mind & went for First Choice: This is The House Where Love Died

Alas #BBC6music didn't have my version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3uQ...
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and now Aztec Camera following Orange Juice...

my youth!

#AztecCamera #RoddieFrame #OrangeJuice #EdwynCollins #RTEgold #DaveFanning

Great to hear Dave Fanning on his 80s show on RTÉ Gold start with a selection of Prefab Sprout #RTEgold #PrefabSprout #DaveFanning rteradioapp.page.link/3ogLuu1W2SWm...

nothing better!

The Mighty Wah!

The Story of The Blues

#PeteWylie #Wah #TheMightyWah #RTEgold

I often, mostly, listen to #RTEgold during the day: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/
whenever I hear a good tune I make a quick screen grab

Boz Scaggs never fails to impress me
especially as a part of this song/ chord progression has been sampled many times: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLFA...

For The Record: Joe Rooney Joe Rooney: Actor, comedian and one-time aspiring singer with 1980's Dublin post-punk outfit, Guernica, anyone who’s followed the career of the man most still know as Fr Damo from Channel 4’s Father T...

#ICYMI Sunday's #ForTheRecord with #actor & #comedian #JoeRooney is now up on #RTEGold beside its Extended Mix with added #ElvisCostello #Thumper & #HotChocolate. There are #recordcollection tales of fronting a band, annoying neighbours, his late mother's impact and more: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...

For The Record : Evelyn Cusack Evelyn Cusack: Recently retired Met Éireann Head of Forecasting, music has always been an important part of Evelyn's life and her small but carefully curated collection includes Laurie Anderson, Echo ...

#ICYMI Sunday's #ForTheRecord with ex-meteorologist #EvelynCusack is now up on #RTEGold as is its Extended Mix. Initially releuctant to take a trip down memory lane, by the end she admitted how much she really enjoyed the ride.
#music #vinyl #CDs
#LISTEN: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...

In the penultimate #ForTheRecord of series #2 I rifle through retired meteorologist #EvelynCusack's small but well-curated #recordcollection. You'd be right to predict a riot of high #music pressure accompanied by soaring #story temperatures (yeah, soz😏) this Sunday at 6pm on #RTEGold.

For The Record: Paul Flynn Paul Flynn: Chef and owner of The Tannery Restaurant in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, the majority of Paul's record collection dates from a specific period of his life with only a few recent discs to his ...

#ICYMI, Sunday's #ForTheRecord with The Tannery in Dungarvan's #PaulFlynn is now up on #RTEGold. Its Extended Mix there is even better. There was a cool musical #snap or five, lots of vinyl #crackle and some very cheesey #pop. 😎
#LISTEN: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...
#music #radio #CDs #LPs

For the Record: Fachtna O Ceallaigh Todays guesst is Fachtna O Ceallaigh - best known for managing, amongst others, The Boomtown Rats and Sinead O'Connor at various points in his lengthy music business career.

#ICYMI Sunday's #ForTheRecord (plus its Extended Mix) with #music-biz guru Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh is now up on #RTEGold. There was soul, reggae, hip hop, trad and great #recordcollection tales.
#radio #records #albums #singles #vinyl #CDs #LPs #45s
#LISTEN: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...

Almost there. Episode #5 of this second series of #ForTheRecord is at 6pm on #RTEGold where I check out the #recordcollection of former #BoomtownRats, #SineadOConnor and #Bananarama manager, Fachtna O Ceallaigh. Expect #soul, #reggae, #hiphop, #trad and more.
www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...

This week on #ForTheRecord I nosey round the #recordcollection of former #BoomtownRats, #SineadOConnor and #Bananarama manager, Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh. Expect a fascinating mix of soul, reggae, hip hop, trad & more, Sunday 6pm on #RTEGold.
#music #radio #vinyl #CDs #LPs #records

For The Record : Niamh Kavanagh Niamh Kavanagh: Singer of Ireland's winning Eurovision Song Contest entry in 1993, Niamh is still regularly recording and performing. Her wide-ranging record collection, some of which she has inherite...

#ICYMI Sunday's ab fab #ForTheRecord with 1993 #Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh is now up on #RTEGold alongside its longer Extended Mix with even more #recordcollection #music and #stories.
#records #radio #vinyl #CDs #LPs #45s #singles
#LISTEN: www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...

The man behind some of #ThinLizzy's most iconic album covers and *that* #CheGuvera poster, @jimfitzpatrick.bsky.social, is my #recordcollection guest on #ForTheRecord Sunday at 6pm on #RTEGold. There'll be Lizzy natch but plenty of surprises too.
www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...
#radio #vinyl #CDs #music