The HeadStuff Podcast

To celebrate International Women's Day 2018, music editor Andrea Cleary hosts a special episode of the HeadStuff Podcast. Andrea chats feminism, pop music, and the Irish music scene with some of the journalists, musicians, DJ's and critics making a positive impact on the Irish music industry right now. Guests include Emma Langford, Maija Sofia, Claire Beck, Zara Hedderman and Louise Bruton. Featured Songs: Closed Book by Emma Langford and Flowers by Maija Sofia Subscribe to The HeadStuff Podcast for future episodes, once-off documentaries and much more on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn or where ever you get your podcasts.

PJ comes up with a revolutionary way to hide an embarrassing situation in science class.

On this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we welcome Niall McCann, writer and director of the new documentary Lost in France. I'm joined in studio by HeadStuff Film Editor Peter Morris to chat with Niall McCann. His documentary Lost in France is wonderful, so we talk about that, but we also delve deep into subjects […] La entrada 43. Niall McCann | Writer, Director, Documentarian se publicó primero en Headstuff.

I know, I know, we've been neglecting you, and we're still undecided as to the overall direction of this podcast, but we just had to make an episode for Oscars 2017, so here we are. If you listened to our InHouse Oscar podcast from last year you'll know that these roundtable affairs are booze-fuelled, fun […] La entrada InHouse #6 | Oscars 2017 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

I first became aware of Barry Crimmins when he appeared on the WTF! with Marc Maron podcast, his story was also on another podcast I listen to, which I can't remember right now. He talked about being raped and abused as a child, and about challenging AOL to stop allowing online paedophilia in their chatrooms. […] La entrada 42. Barry Crimmins se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Yes, that Saul Williams. And yes, I can barely contain myself. Saul Williams is thusly described on Wikipedia: Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor. He is known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop, and for his lead roles in the 1998 film […] La entrada 41. Saul Williams + Lingo se publicó primero en Headstuff.

I was absolutely thrilled to talk to uber-talented DJ, musician, producer, all-round-sound-head, Kormac. I have been a big fan of Kormac for well over a decade. I was charged with organising the Graduation Party for my year in college, and when it came to booking a DJ, I booked Kormac – which I have no […] La entrada 40. DJ Kormac se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Aine Cahill drops into HPN studio this week to talk about lots of things. It eventually ends with puke in a pint glass but there's a journey before all that. We talk about growing up in Cavan, how she got into music (and out of sport), about how she writes songs, who she has done […] La entrada 39. Aine Cahill se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Richie O'Donnell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His previous documentary, The Pipe was released to great acclaim and has now been followed by ‘Atlantic'. The latest documentary is ambitious in scope with Ireland, Newfoundland and Norway as the locations and with an interactive website and social media campaign behind it. We talk about how he […] La entrada 38. Richie O'Donnell (Atlantic) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

On this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we're basically trying to figure out if any of the candidates in the US Election will be able to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I'm joined by Gordon and Paul who host their own podcast called Those Conspiracy Guys. They bring some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the candidates, and […] La entrada MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN? – InHouse #5 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

We have the wonderful Wyvern Lingo on the podcast this week. They first came to prominence by their association with Hozier, supporting him on his tour and doing backing vocals with his band (Karen also sings on the hauntingly beautiful duet ‘In A Week‘). Since then they've released two EPs, done loads of headline shows […] La entrada 36. Wyvern Lingo se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Kevin Barry is one of my favourite writers, so I was suitably excited about this episode. Meet your heroes, that's what I say. He's a lovely, brilliant and funny man and I genuinely would have happily sat talking to him for many more hours. If you're not aware of Kevin Barry, he's one of Ireland's […] La entrada 35. Kevin Barry se publicó primero en Headstuff.

We sit down with John Connolly, author of the Charlie Parker series of crime thrillers, and the wonderful The Book of Lost Things. Dave Hanratty, HeadStuff music editor, is on co-host duties. John Connolly episode: This conversation does begin with curtains, and I don't mean that it has a grand opening like a theatre show, […] La entrada 34. John Connolly se publicó primero en Headstuff.

We had some trouble this week! Conor, who produces and engineers The HeadStuff Podcast had his van broken into. And then, after a day, it got broken into again! On both of those days we had planned a recording session. Poor aul Conor was a broken man, so we did what we could. Some of […] La entrada Oscars 2016 – InHouse #4 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Stephen Fingleton and Martin McCann team up for the ‘masterful', ‘captivating', ‘phenomenal', ‘powerful', ‘Mad Max-in-the-countryside', BAFTA-nominated film that is The Survivalist. Stephen Fingleton is an award-winning writer/director from Derry. His previous work includes Insulin, Magpie, SLR and Shirin. Martin McCann is an award-winning actor from Belfast. His previous work includes the Stephen Spielberg/Tom Hanks produced The Pacific, Clash of the […] La entrada 32. Stephen Fingleton and Martin McCann (The Survivalist) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Michael Kinirons is an Irish filmmaker whose short films, (Lowland Fell, I Can't See You Anymore) have been selected for loads of international film festivals and won international awards. He co-wrote Strangerland with Fiona Seres which stars Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving and Joseph Fiennes. Set in a middle-of-nowhere Australian town, Strangerland is about a family finds their dull […] La entrada 31. Michael Kinirons (Strangerland) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Rick O'Shea joins us on The HeadStuff Podcast to speak to us at length about his sexy voice, and how he has won awards for it. It's very important that we understand that he has won awards for having a sexy voice. After we applaud him on his sexy voice, we talk about his comedy […] La entrada 30. Rick O'Shea se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Roslyn Fuller joins Conor and I on this week's episode, and we have Jonathan Victory on co-hosting duties. Roslyn Fuller is a columnist, lecturer in democracy and international law, author of the book Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose, and she's currently running in the 2016 General Election in the […] La entrada 29. Roslyn Fuller (Do We Have Democracy?) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Tommy Pallotta is an American film director and producer who has produced films like A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life and directed films such as American Prince and, his latest, The Last Hijack. We sat down to talk to him in the IFI, and the resulting podcast reveals a clever, laid-back and honest man. To be […] La entrada 28. Tommy Pallotta se publicó primero en Headstuff.

In this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we have a little bit of trouble explaining what Timi Ogunyemi does. Timi even struggles himself. The reason we know him and love him is because he's a fascinating person, he's a popular blogger and Twitter guy, he's incredibly warm, sound, cool, stylish and funny. Dave Hanratty, our […] La entrada 27. Timi Ogunyemi se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Please Subscribe to The HeadStuff Podcast by clicking your favourite coloured box there at the side –> Gearoid Farrelly is one of Ireland's best comedians and he also hosts a wonderful podcast called Fascinated. And we're delighted to announce that Fascinated will now be hosted on HeadStuff.org on our shiny new podcast network, which we're […] La entrada Ep. 26 | Gearoid Farrelly se publicó primero en Headstuff.

It's the end of the year, in fact it's the very last HeadStuff Podcast of the year, so we decided to talk about the year in movies. 2015 was a good year for movies, so we talk about what the best films are, which films made the most money, the flops, the worst movies of […] La entrada 2015 Movie Round Up – InHouse #3 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Conor and I are joined on the second InHouse episode of The HeadStuff Podcast by Dave Hanratty (HeadStuff Music Editor); Louise Bruton (HeadStuff, Irish Times); Colm O'Regan (Hotpress); and Dean Van Nguyen (Pitchfork, NME). We talk, in no uncertain terms, about Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Beck, U2, The Corrs, Hozier, Sam Smith, Prince, Girl Band, […] La entrada 2015 Music Round Up – InHouse #2 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

In part 2 of the live HeadStuff Podcast, Kevin McGahern and Andrea Farrell talk about how supportive their parents are, gender equality, abortion and the obviousness of the need to repeal the 8th. We play a terrible gameshow type thing which features, word association, “finish the Google suggestion” and a 2 minute story by each […] La entrada 23. Live Podcast with Kevin McGahern and Andrea Farrell (Pt. 2) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

The first live HeadStuff Podcast with comedian and host of RTE's Republic of Telly, Kevin McGahern, and comedian Andrea Farrell (also oft-spotted on Republic of Telly) was recorded in Sober Lane D4. Kevin and Andrea do a reading of the finalists of The Lacomic Cup, and Kevin, who judged the final, announces the winner of […] La entrada Live Podcast with Kevin McGahern and Andrea Farrell (Pt. 1) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Mars One bad boy Joseph Roche joins us on The HeadStuff Podcast to run his mouth about all things sciencey in typical bad boy fashion. We talk about Irish Nobel Prizes, Mars, the Carl Sagan/Brian Cox Effect, Barack Obama, science education and communication, the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, and just loads of cool stuff. We […] La entrada Episode 21 – Joseph Roche se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Le Galaxie are a Dublin based, electronic, synth pop band. They are great. Mick Pope, the beardy front man sat down to talk to us on The HeadStuff Podcast. Mick Pope is very interested in movies, so we ended up talking a lot about movies. We talked about Spectre, and other Bond films, The Martian, […] La entrada Episode 20 – Le Galaxie se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Tara Flynn is an absolute legend who appears to be a fan of HeadStuff, which is just very tremendously cool. She joined us on the podcast, but she also wrote this properly excellent article for us. An apology about the first minute or two of the interview, Alan's mic wasn't working, but you can hear Tara […] La entrada Episode 19 – Tara Flynn se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Arthur Mathews, legendary writer of Fr. Ted, Toast of London and Big Train, as well as many other great things, is our very special guest on The HeadStuff Podcast. We talk to him about all sorts of things including Mad Men; working with Graham Linehan, Pat Shortt, John Hamm and Matt Berry; comedy, writing and […] La entrada Episode 18 – Arthur Mathews se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Ken Early, the flame-haired flame-thrower of truth, sat down for an old chin wag on The HeadStuff Podcast, and, unsurprisingly we ended up talking about sport a lot. I like talking about sport, and Ken Early is my favourite voice in sport journalism, so, logically, it was fun. We also talk about literature, and how […] La entrada Episode 17 – Ken Early se publicó primero en Headstuff.

In part 2 of the B. Dolan and Buddy Peace episode of The HeadStuff Podcast we talk about music streaming services, politics, rap, Dolan's new album ‘Kill The Wolf', touring, maybe a little more Kanye, and much more. Also, B. Dolan does a freestyle rap and we're all very excited about it. If you're enjoying […] La entrada Episode 16 – B. Dolan and Buddy Peace (Part 2) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

B. Dolan joined us on The HeadStuff Podcast and we were ridiculously excited about it, and he didn't let us down. He brought his friend and DJ Buddy Peace. Paddy and Conor were also in on it. Dolan and Buddy (now our buddy) were dead sound, and very generous with their time, so much so that […] La entrada Episode 15 – B. Dolan and Buddy Peace se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Roger Garcia is the Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, he's a writer and film critic and a film producer. Roger Garcia is also responsible for the Asian Film Awards Academy, Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum Project Market, and more stuff too. Basically, he has a lot going on. Roger Garcia is […] La entrada Episode 14 – Roger Garcia se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Anderson is a singer-songwriter from Dublin. You may have seen him in his viral video where he shows the place that he built his own studio (literally with bricks and cement and stuff), recorded his entire debut album, ‘Patterns', on his own, and then went door to door around Dublin selling it. It's a lovely […] La entrada Episode 13 – Anderson se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Mary Morrissy agreed to be a guest on the HeadStuff Podcast and I was suitably delighted. Mary is one of Ireland's finest writers with all of her books, The Rising of Bella Casey, The Pretender, Mother of Pearl and A Lazy Eye, receiving critical acclaim. She was one of my tutors on the Creative Writing MA in UCD and […] La entrada Episode 12 – Mary Morrissy se publicó primero en Headstuff.

‘Straight Outta Kanye', the first ‘InHouse' HeadStuff Podcast has Alan talking to Dave Hanratty, music editor for HeadStuff.org and Colm O'Regan journalist with Hotpress about Kanye West and the world of hip hop. The conversation is centred around Kanye, his famous rambling speech at the VMAs and his announcement of his presidential candidacy, and the […] La entrada Straight Outta Kanye – (THP) InHouse #1 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Hey look it's episode #11 of the glorious HeadStuff Podcast.  This time out, we're joined by Hot Press deputy editor, living breathing music encyclopedia and all-round charming fellow Stuart Clark who gives us a potted history on his early days as a sea-faring pirate DJ on the legendary Radio Caroline, discusses how Hot Press has […] La entrada Episode 11 – Stuart Clark, Hotpress se publicó primero en Headstuff.

This week we were thrilled to invite Paul Murray, author of ‘Skippy Dies', ‘The Mark and the Void', and ‘An Evening of Long Goodbyes', onto the HeadStuff Podcast. Noel O'Regan, writer and literature editor for HeadStuff.org joins Alan on hosting duties. Both huge fans of Paul Murray's books, they talk to him about his work, […] La entrada Episode 10 – Paul Murray se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Karl Spain is our guest on this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast. I'm joined by my long-time friend Mikey Fleming as co-host. We both met Karl Spain for the first time in about 2004, or 2005, when he was the M.C. of a regular comedy club in Limerick. We went to the show every week, […] La entrada Episode 9 – Karl Spain se publicó primero en Headstuff.

So this is an interesting episode of The HeadStuff Podcast. I saw a video a couple of weeks ago of this guy doing impressions, and I'm a man who appreciates a good impression. The story of the video was that Robert DeNiro was kicked out of his house, and he moved into Al Foran's house. […] La entrada Episode 8 – Al Foran (as Conor McGregor, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy and many more) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

David Moore, Astronomy Ireland This episode of the podcast has me sitting silently agog more than it has me asking questions but that's a testament to David Moore's astronomical quantities of knowledge on the subject (of astronomy). He covers all sorts of fascinating things such as planets, stars (the whole universe) really large numbers, telescopes, […] La entrada Episode 7 – David Moore, Astronomy Ireland se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome to episode six of the HeadStuff podcast! Joining us today are none other than the awesome MayKay and Pockets of the even more awesome Fight Like Apes, who sit down in the smoky confines of The International Bar to discuss their brand new album […] La entrada Episode 6 – Fight Like Apes se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Well, I hope you appreciate this episode… because it was an absolute nightmare. Not due to Olaf, who is absolutely lovely and very obliging, but to TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. I'm not even going to get into it, just know, that it was a hard time to get this to you. But we did it! We persevered, […] La entrada HeadStuff Podcast #5 – Olaf Tyaransen se publicó primero en Headstuff.

So we missed a week, but you'll have that, I suppose. Never mind, this week I travelled to Leitrim, with Adam the trusty producer, to have a chat with David Rawle. David Rawle, as many of you will know, is Moone Boy, or Martin Moone. Moone Boy is a brilliant sitcom written by Chris O'Dowd […] La entrada HeadStuff Podcast #4 – David Rawle (Moone Boy) se publicó primero en Headstuff.

This week on The HeadStuff Podcast, Matt and I were absolutely thrilled to talk to Annie Atkins who had just won an Oscar as lead graphic designer on Wes Anderson's ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel‘. Annie Atkins has also worked on The Tudors, Penny Dreadful, The Boxtrolls and on the latest Stephen Spielberg movie. At the […] La entrada HeadStuff Podcast #3 – Annie Atkins se publicó primero en Headstuff.

On the second episode of The HeadStuff Podcast I talk to Josie Long who is absolutely one of my favourite comedians. I also employ the chin-wagging services of my friend and co-conspirator Mikey Fleming for the beginning of the podcast. We're in the trial and error phase of the podcast, checking stuff out, seeing what […] La entrada HeadStuff Podcast #2 – Josie Long se publicó primero en Headstuff.

In HeadStuff's inaugural podcast Alan sits down with Irish comedian and podcast host, Jarlath Regan. Jarlath is the host of one of Ireland's top podcasts, An Irishman Abroad, with over one million regular listeners. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193018124?secret_token=s-AyJE8″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] If you would like to subscribe to The HeadStuff Podcast on iTunes you can […] La entrada HeadStuff Podcast #1 – Jarlath Regan se publicó primero en Headstuff.