Nialler9

The best albums of 2021

Part one of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts is here, and Niall and Andrea Cleary are talking their favourite albums of the year.10 albums each with a lot of crossover are up for discussion including albums from Self Esteem, For Those I Love, Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, Saint Sister, Dry Cleaning, Japanese Breakfast and more.It's a long one so get settled.Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Next episode, songs of the year.This episode of the Nialler9 Podcast is brought to you by Irish audio tech brand OneSonic, who are having a Black Friday sale @ Onesonic.com.Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistAndrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adele has some big feelings on 30

On this week's Nialler9 Podcast, Andrea and Niall are talking about Adele.“Mummy's been having a lot of big feelings recently”With her fourth album 30 smashing all records again, we review the record which primarily focuses on Adele's divorce and the aftermath it had on her and her family's life. With Greg Kurstin, Inflo, Ludwig Göransson and Max Martin among the names on the boards, is 30 all it's cracked up to be? Does Adele have anything new in the tank? Is Adele the last great Diva singer, who can bring The big VOCAL ™?We look at the impact and influence that Adele has on Spotify and how she has actively shunned Tik-Tok, the ITV special and read out some Guardian reader reviews.This episode of the Nialler9 Podcast is brought to you by Irish audio tech brand OneSonic, who are having a Black Friday sale @ Onesonic.com.Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nialler9 Podcast: Taylor Swift, Red and Pop Culture Feminism

On this week's Nialler9 Podcast, Andrea is joined by Amelia Cullen of the Lately podcast on the Tall Tales network for a full episode discussion about Taylor Swift.With Taylor now two albums deep into the re-recording of her masters with a newly recorded version of the 2012 album Red.We explain why Taylor is recording new versions of her albums in the first place, why Red has launched a thousand stan theories, why a red scarf is a hot button issue and how Taylor and pop culture feminism intersect. Andrea asks, is Taylor a problematic fav?Also, Kelly Doherty drops in to share the wild stan theory involving a extensive Powerpoint presentation.This episode of the Nialler9 Podcast is brought to you by Irish audio tech brand OneSonic, who are having a Black Friday sale @ Onesonic.com.Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Voyage back to ABBA

It's an ABBA special!40 years on from their last album, the Swedish pop legends ABBA have released their ninth studio album Voyage. We discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our favourite music of October

Our end of the month episode is our time to reflect the albums and songs Andrea and Niall loved this past month.We talk the big album of the month - Prioritise Pleasure from Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem. Why it's getting 5-star reviews across the board and whether it's justified.There are explorations of albums from two Mayo musicians Maria Kelly (The Sum Of The In-Between) and Elaine Mai (Home).Plus, discussions of songs from Radiohead, CMAT, Spiritualized, Real Lies, Denise Chaila, Caleb Kunle, Fred Again and Negro Impacto.Plus a chat about anxiety and apprehension about gigs and clubs being back.This episode of the Nialler9 Podcast is brought to you by Irish audio tech brand OneSonic's MXS-HD1 wireless noise cancelling earbuds. Use the code Nialler20 for 20% off at Onesonic.com.Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Horror film scores with Matthew Nolan | Púca Festival

Episode 153 of the Nialler9 Podcast is a Halloween / Samhain special!*On this episode we are talking about scoring horror movies and experiences.Our guest joining Nialler and Andrea are Matthew Nolan who is the composer who has made spooky scores for Púca Festival's outdoor installations at Slane Castle this week both on the castle itself with projection mapping as Double Take Projections, and its eerie woodlands as Oíche Shamhna Whispers. More on Púca's musical offerings here.Nolan is a founder of the post-rock band 3epkano who formed in 2004. The band were known for composing and performing live scores for classic silent films like The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Faust and Nosferatu. Matthew shares eight pieces of influential music with us from horror film scores as listed below, and takes us through why they resonate with him. Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedMatthew's choicesMica Levi - Lipstick to Void - Under the Skin (2014)Jerry Goldsmith - The Dome - Logan’s Run (1976)Eduard Artemyev - CoH - Mirror (1975)John Carpenter - Halloween Theme (1978)Krzysztof Komeda - Lullaby from Rosemary’s Baby - Rosemary’s Baby (1968)Simon Fisher Turner - Isle Of Species - Nadja (1995)Stuart A Staples - TheBox - High Life (2018)Jóhann Jóhannsson - Forging The Beast - Mandy (2018)You'll also hear Matthew's score for Púca Festival at the end.* It wouldn't be a Halloween special without a spooky incident, and this week, Andrea's podcast cut out at 13 minutes in so we're using backup audio for some of this.... 👻Last year's Halloween special: The devil in music, a short history of horror soundtracks & spooky tunesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistAndrea has a new podcast - My Favourite AlbumSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Utopia - reimagining a new future after reopening with Una Mullally

This week's episode is a long form conversation with journalist and writer Una Mullally about the central ideas behind the Utopia series, concocted with and author, lecturer and a workers’ rights advocate Conner Habib.Utopia at the National Concert Hall is a series of five speculative and aspirational events happening from today Wednesday October 20th until Sunday October 24th which will feature new forms of gigs and talks with improvised and experimental shows which asks questions of  audiences and artists about our future: what do you want? What do we want our future to look like."If this era has changed us, then everything needs to be different. The only option is to strive for utopia.“Una and I talked about what we'd like to see for live art and culture when things reopen, the desire to be around chaotic, loud performance, how art and music brings meaning and reflection that we've been missing, and discuss Night Dances, a recent show we both experienced at Dublin Theatre Festival, along with how we, as a society and people, have changed during this pandemic.We also talk the disconnect between people and politics, in light of the Cobblestone, student protests, Merchant's Arch and the numerous hotel developments around our city.Utopia will feature input from David Le’aupepe, Gemma Doherty (Saint Sister), David Kitt, MayKay, Daoirí Farrell, Rory Friers (And So I Watch You From Afar), Izumi Kimura, Ben Castle, Rebel Phoenix, Strange Boy, DJ Replay, Dyramid, Kate Butler, Don Rosco and No Place Like Drone. Buy tickets here.Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistAndrea has a new podcast - My Favourite AlbumSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PinkPantheress, James Blake & the ”new nostalgic”

This week's Nialler9 podcast with Niall and Andrea, is inspired by the sharp rise of London producer PinkPantheress and her sampling garage, drum & bass and pop music of the 2000s-era, which she has labelled the "new nostalgic".I referenced a book last week, in our conversation with Jenn Gannon, Simon Reynolds’ 2011 book  Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past.Retromania argues that retro revives a past that is barely over and does so with a prevalent mood of postmodern irony.Interestingly, what has happened in the last ten years is an increase in earnestness and almost wholesale dropping of irony, while new artists have continued to copy, sample and draw influence from existing music, the current generation of Gen Z's shifting priorities and attention to important facts and issues in society, marks a sea change in sensibilities.The ironic detachment of the hipster era has been superseded by a mantra of caring - expressions of truth and desire and meaning over bored detachment or non-commitment.PinkPantheress' music brings up ideas about how older generations gatekeep music, and how women and men sampling classic music is viewed differently, how Tik Tok and a lifetime of internet culture has freed younger artists to express themselves cross-genre and how being a bedroom pop artist is now a phenomenon of relatability rather than a trend of style.We also talk about the parallels between PinkPantheress and James Blake who first arrived sampling the likes of Kelis and Aaliyah, and whose electronic music went on to influence the mainstream, as Blake's own music, as heard on the just released Friends That Break Your Heart, has moved increasingly earnest itself. Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistAndrea has a new podcast - My Favourite AlbumSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spice Girls, Girl Power and 90s Ladettes with Jenn Gannon

On this week's Nialler9 podcast, Niall and Andrea are joined by Jenn Gannon to talk about a recent piece she wrote for the publication Rogue Collective called Girl powerless: Why the 90s and 00s weren’t as empowering as they seemed (available on subscription).Jenn's piece was inspired by watching the recent Channel 4 two-part documentary Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain, which as well as telling the story of the Spice Girls rise and fall, also discusses '90s Britpop culture at the time from '90s ladettes to Girl Power to how famous women were coerced into playing along to Chris Evans' leering and problematic presenting style on TFI Friday.Jenn joins us to talk about growing up in the era and the early 00s, along with discussions about body-shaming in magazines, lads mags like FHM, the marketing co-opting of the term Girl Power and the retromania of our recent past.TW: there is discussion about weight loss and eating disorders around 42 minutes in.Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistAndrea has a new podcast - My Favourite AlbumSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our favourite music of September

Our end of the month episode is all about the albums and songs we loved in the month of September.Niall and Andrea go one for one with albums from Little Simz, Andy Shauf, Cadence Weapon and Houseplants. Plus songs from HAAi, M(h)aol, Súil Amháin, Spider, Snail Mail, Kynsy and more.Plus TV, books and films we enjoyed.Listen to the episode below or Subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistAndrea has a new podcast - My Favourite AlbumSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists and content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.