Podarooney

B. Dolan is an American rapper, spoken word artist, activist, screenwriter and composer based in Providence, Rhode Island. His latest album is Kill The Wolf. His other albums are The Failure, Fallen House, Sunken City and the live album We Show Up. His three mix-tapes are House Of Bees Vol 1,2 and 3. I discovered […] La entrada Episode 57 – B. Dolan & Paul Currie se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pat O’Mahony has been a radio producer on RTE for the likes of Liveline, Mooney, Late Debate and The Ryan Tubridy Show and has produced 5 documentaries for the excellent RTE Documentary On One series including The Forgotten Visit about president Richard Nixon’s visit to Ireland and A Silver Lining about emigration and The Stockholm […] La entrada Episode 56 – Pat O’Mahony se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I became aware of Barry Crimmins from watching the documentary Call Me Lucky directed by Bobcat Goldthwaite on Netflix and his interview on Marc Maron’s podcast. I was amazed that I got a chance to interview him for my podcast with the help my friend Bruce Egar in New York ahead of his shows here […] La entrada Episode 55 – Barry Crimmins se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I interviewed Jimmy Smyth in front of a live audience in Boyles Bar in Slane. I first saw Jimmy on television when I was a young fella growing up in Meath and he was playing and singing with the Bogey Boys. You could tell that he was more accomplished than the average punk musician of […] La entrada Episode 55 – Jimmy Smyth se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newcastle comedian Dave Johns is the lead actor in Ken Loach’s latest film I, Daniel Blake which won the Palm D’Or at Cannes Film Festival this year. He has appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats and on Harry Hill as God. With Eoin O’ Neill he adapted Rita Hayworth and […] La entrada Episode 53 – Dave Johns se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alison Spittle was a contestant in one of those comedy talent contests I hosted that we all enter when we are starting out but bear no resemblance to what real life comedy performing is like. It was called The Toilet Duck Awards, a reference to Father Ted, and had comedians go head to head doing […] La entrada Episode 52 – Alison Spittle se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I first heard of Feather through a Nialler9 tweet. He tweeted a link to a song called “Pit” by Ben Bix and Feather and I completely loved it. I was really interested in interviewing her and coincidentally I bumped into her at the launch of the Electric Picnic and had one of those awkward moments […] La entrada Episode 51 – Feather se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gearoid Farrelly is a vastly experienced comedian on radio, TV and the live circuit so I was surprised to hear that he has only gone professional in the last year! He has garnered rave reviews from his solo Edinburgh show “Turbulence” and has toured with Sarah Millican and wait for it …..Joan Rivers! I started […] La entrada Episode 50 – Gearoid Farrelly se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I first gigged with Neil Delamare in a little pub in the middle of nowhere up north. I remember it was a disaster of a gig and I felt embarrassed as he had been asking for a support slot for ages and eventually I relented and we drove for two and a half hours to […] La entrada Episode 49 – Neil Delamere se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The third live Pod-a-Rooney was one to remember. Jason Byrne took time off his busy schedule to drop in to the Stag’s Head and regale us with stories of his time working with PJ Gallagher in a sound and lighting hire company built over an ancient Viking well, dislocating his arm in Australia and robbing […] La entrada Episode 48 – Live from the Stag’s Head 3 se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ann Skelly is a young up and coming actress currently starring as a Rachel Reid in Red Rock the fifteen year old that has a relationship with a friend’s Dad. She is a 19 year old with a lot of opinions on the drawbacks of the educational system in Ireland and the benefits of home […] La entrada Episode 47 – Ann Skelly se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christiane O’Mahony is a harpist, comedienne, actor and playwright (why isn’t “playwright” spelt “playwrite”?) She uses the harp as part of her stand up and is very funny with it. Y’know when someone brings a harp or indeed any instrument onstage at a comedy gig there are the begrudging purists who think, “stand-up is about […] La entrada Episode 46 – Christiane O’Mahon se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Wednesday March 30th I recorded my second live podcast upstairs in the Stags Head and the bill was chock-a-block with talented artistes. First up was the band Cronin with a moving version of The Wedding Present song Octopussy. Cronin are an indie band from Leeds/Mullingar/Drumlish who have recorded with Shane MacGowan. Actress/comedian and star […] La entrada Episode 45 – Live from the Stag’s Head 2 se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One night upstairs in the International Bar Jason Byrne took to the stage and brought along a side kick or wing man. It was PJ Gallagher. He barely said a word and Jason started putting elastic bands on his head. I can’t remember what reason he gave the audience for doing this or if he […] La entrada Episode 44 – PJ Gallagher se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I first came into contact with Paul Woodfull when he was ents officer in NCAD and I was in a band called Guernica. Well I suppose if you are in a band named after a Picasso painting then the chances are you’ll get booked in the art college. I then saw him perform as lead […] La entrada Episode 43 – Paul Woodfull se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I stayed with Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan in their flat in Kilburn just around the time when Father Ted was first being shot. Indeed I was at the recording of the episode with Gemma Craven in it “And God Created Women”. So I suppose I was lucky to have met him before the explosion […] La entrada Episode 42 – Arthur Matthews se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s my first live PodaRooney! It was a cold dark winter evening all of three weeks ago in a cosy little room upstairs in The Stags Head that PodaRooney history was made. I was as sick as a dog from one of those inevitable flus that you have to get every Irish winter when your […] La entrada Episode 41 – Live from The Stag’s Head se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a comedian Joanne McNally is brand spanking new. Just out of the comedy womb she is already doing back flips never mind walking. Having taken over from Jennifer Maguire on Republic Of Telly she has been catapulted into the public eye. I was not aware of any of this when I met her first […] La entrada Episode 40 – Joanne McNally se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon Delaney first came to my attention on the RTE television series Batchelor’s Walk as one of three bachelors living together in a flat on the quays in Dublin, which ran from 2001 until 2003. Since then he has been working non stop on TV and film both here and abroad. In October 2011, Simon […] La entrada Episode 39 – Simon Delaney se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

She is one third of the Nualas and three thirds of herself – Anne Gildea. I first got to know her as Kevin’s sister (as in Kevin Gildea). I was in London with the double act The Quacksquad performing as part of the Sense Of Ireland Festival. A load of comedians were in the hotel […] La entrada Episode 38 – Anne Gildea se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices