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Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Saturdays at 6.30pm, repeated Wednesdays at 9pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

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Still In A Dream with Simon Reynolds | Culture File

Simon Reynolds has made a habit of writing books that offer to rethink the histories of popular music, such as Rip It Up and Start Again, his keywork on Post-Punk, and his story of electronic dance music, Energy Flash. Now, he's back with a highly personal history of the shapes of music from 1984 to 1994, from the hazy 'snowdrift' assaults of My Bloody Valentine, to the paraslacker aesthetics of The Smiths he calls Still In A Dream: Shoegaze Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

29 min
19 Jun

Culture File

The Comfort Zone: writer, Emma Dabiri invites Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to get with the subversive allure of Carl Anderson's Judas, and other hidden treasures in the 1973 film version of the Rice and Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1hr 6min
17 Jun

The Musical Universe of Daisy Press | CFDS

Growing up on tour with Neil Diamond gave Daisy Press a unique outlook on the magic and mysteries of music, and started a journey that leads from Indian Ragas via the 12th century chant of Hildegard von Bingen -- all the way to the engaged minimalism of Frederic Rzewski, whose work she performs at this weekend's Louth Contemporary Music Society festival, Coming Together. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

31 min
15 Jun

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A soft walk with artist, Ciara Rodgers, whose soft sculpture will scatter through the streets of Cork Midsummer; writer and performer, Day Magee on their bus stop-set performance, On The Way: An Artist's Sermon; the latest postcard from the islands from Patrick O'Laoghaire See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

30 min
10 Jun

Culture File Digital Single: Comfort Zone Pick of The Week

The Comfort Zone panel pick some things worth your time, with Colm Tóibín opting for Raphael's Young Man Carrying an Old Man on His Back (at The Met, NYC, but also on the internet); Luke Clancy bigging up The Cosmic Tones Research Trio's eponymous second album of neo-cosmic jazz; and musicologist, David Beal suggesting João Gilberto equally eponymous collection of shimmering whispery bossa, João Gilberto, from 1973. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 min
8 Jun

The Music of Docteur Nico with David Beal

The Comfort Zone: writer, musician and archivist, David Beal leads Colm Tóibín on a rumba/cha cha into the music of Congolese guitar hero, Docteur Nico. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1hr 2min
8 Jun

Orit Gat's Voice Notes | Culture File Digital Single

Orit Gat wanders the many venues of this year's Venice Biennale of contemporary, catching boycotts, footballing triumphs and work from Irish artists Isabelle Nolan, Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9 min
29 May

The Future Sound of James Holden

Culture File | 1990s teenage trance prodigy and superstar DJ, James Holden on lighting out for the territories of modular synthesizers, spiritual jazz, Moroccan ceremonial music and Live Coding.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

30 min

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RTE's Culture File

12/02/2014

Iseult O'Brien

Anyone interested in the arts, should subscribe to RTE's Culture File. It's a fantastic podcast that's not too hung up on all the mainstream cinema releases and book launches. While most other arts shows are interchangeable, this one has a character of it's own. The presenter (who's amazing by the way) uncovers all sorts of unusual events and happenings on the Irish arts scene. And yet, there's always an international angle so really anyone from anywhere can enjoy it. Thanks for this iTunes. Fan from Belgium

Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Saturdays at 6.30pm, repeated Wednesdays at 9pm on RTÉ lyric fm.