Maylist 2010

The year is just zooming past, exams are nearly finished and it's time for the annual Flirt Maylist; this is the playlist that signals the start of the summer proper, festival season, hopefully a bit of decent weather and some students bidding a permanent farewell to campus life (sniffle).

You can stream the playlist here, clicking on the images'll bring you to the artists' websites. My personal favourite for the weirdness is Tobacco - their artwork is bizarre in the best way. Irish acts include Cathy Davey, So Cow and Nouveaunoise, and they're all top notch!

Don't forget to check out our Podcast and Re-stream sections too!

1 / The Black Keys / Tighten Up

2 / Cathy Davey / Dog

3 / Surfer Blood / Take it Easy

4 / Love is All / Kungen

5 / So Cow / Ain't No Fun

6 / Friendly Fires / Kiss of Life

7 / Here We Go Magic / Collector

8 / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble / Spottie

9 / Ratatat / Party With Children

10 / Thieves Like Us / Never Known Love

11 / Nouveaunoise / Cinnte

12 / Crystal Castles / Celestica

13 / The Chemical Brothers / Swoon

14 / Uffie feat. Pharell / ADD SUV (Armand Van Helden Remix)

15 / Jamaica / I Think I Like U 2 (Breakbot Remix)

16 / Duck Sauce / Barbara Streisand (O God Remix)

17 / Housse de Racket / Oh Yeah (Nighty Max Remix)

18 / Fare Soldi / Stambulia

19 / Tobacco feat. Beck / Fresh Hex

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February 2010 Playlist

The dust has settled on January and "its going to be huge in 2010" lists, so we've had a bit of time to digest and ruminate. A few certain things; Delphic and Yeasayer are going to continue their ascent, Irish music is going to have another bumper year (see the 8 native acts out of 19 on this month's list for proof) and the releases for the first quarter of 2010 are going to be low key, but nonetheless rewarding.

We've distilled over 200 much blogged tracks into this year's first playlist, which you can stream and peruse here.

Don't forget to check out our Podcast and Re-stream sections too!

Artists marked [i] are both Irish, and top notch.
1 / Toro y Moi / Blessa

2 / O Emperor / Po [i]

3 / She & Him / In the Sun
4 / Sleep Thieves / City Lights [i]

5 / Yes Cadets / Rufio [i]
6 / Oppenheimer / Major Television Events [i]

7 / We Cut Corners / Toll Free [i]

8 / Cap Pas Cap / We Are Men [i]

9 / ASIWYFA / D is for Django [i]

10 / Caribou / Odessa
11 / Yeasayer / O.N.E.

12 / Monarchy / Black the Colour of my Heart
13 / Lo-Fi-Fnk / Marchin In

14 / Delphic / Halcyon

15 / New Young Pony Club / Chaos

16 / Roisin Murphy / Momma's Place [i]
17 / SebastiAn / Threnody (Capt & Cooked Edit)
18 / Lindstrom & Christabelle / Lovesick
19 / Kindness / Gee Up

December 2009 Playlist

Flirt's going off air on the 18th of December, until the 11th of January, so I hope you enjoy streaming this month's Playlist here.

Don't forget to check out our Podcast and Re-stream sections too!

Artists marked [i] are both Irish, and well deserving of your attention.

1 / Marina and the Diamonds / Obsessions (Gold Panda Remix)
2 / Candy Claws / Catamaran

3 / Ellie Goulding / Under the Sheets

4 / Vampire Weekend / Horchata
5 / Super Extra Bonus Party / Comets (ft Heathers) [i]
6 / Million Young / Youthless
7 / Frightened Rabbit / Swim Until you Can't See Land

8 / Tegan and Sara / Hell

9 / The Sounds / 4 Songs and a Fight
10 / Heads We Dance (ft Little Boots) / Work it Out
11 / You Say Party! We Say Die! / What's the Hold Up, Where's the Fire?

12 / Sleigh Bells / Infinity Guitars

13 / Adebisi Shank / Oyasumi [i]

14 / Le Corps Mince de Francoise / Something Golden (Zebra Snake Remix)

15 / Chromeo / Night by Night (U-Tern Remix)

16 / Two Door Cinema Club / I Can Talk (Crystal Fighters remix) [i]

17 / Kelis / Acapella
18 / Freeland / Do You (Antennae Remix) [i]
19 / Souls of Mischief / Proper Aim

November 2009

The move has been crazy, but finally, a new playlist makes its way to the website. Let's call it the catch-up edition...

Here 'tis. Irish artists marked [I]

1 / Lisa Germano / Prince of Plati
2 / Dragonette / Pick Up the Phone (LehtMoJoe Remix)

3 / School of Seven Bells / Iamundernodisguise

4 / Mayer Hawthorne / Ain't Gonna Work Out (Astronote El Camino Remix)
5 / Port O'Brien / Sour Milk/Salt Water
6 / The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra / Soon! [I]
7 / Los Campesinos / The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future

8 / The Big Pink / Dominos
9 / Heritage Centre / Stolen it Twice [I]
10 / The Rakes / Bitchin' in the Kitchen
11 / Yeasayer / Ambling Alp
12 / Bear in Heaven / Wholehearted Mess
13 / Channel One / Soubresaut [I]
14 / Ruairi Lynch / Trip [I]
15 / Miike Snow / Black & Blue

16 / Breakestra / Get it Right
17 / Wolfmother / New Moon Rising (YACHT)
18 / Kidda / Under The Sun (Herve's Ain't No Sunshine Mix)

19 / Ecce / Control (Pharao Black Magic Crash Course Remix)

Moving and shaking!

We've moved... mostly!
Where is it? Down the back of Áras na MacLéinn, NUI Galway on the ground floor.

The studios aren't quite ready for full operations, so we'll be playing pre-recs and repeats for the next while, but volunteers can now pre-record their shows in the new building.

What's left to do? We're waiting for internet to be installed so the webstream's down, but the transmitter's working, so go with the FM flow!

When is it open to the public? Take a trot down to the back of Áras na Mac Léinn, if we're about, we'll gladly give you the tour. The official opening date ties in with full schedule; Monday 19th of October.


In the midst of all the move chaos we had a student radio blogger from the US drop in to visit us, (making it past all the construction work and barriers!) she took some wonderful photos of the old building, and did us a top-notch write-up, which you can find on her blog Spinning Indie