Friday, May 29, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Bands we've had on

Heres a list of the bands we've had on the show to date

Peakin Trippers

www.myspace.com/peakintrippers



A Plastic Rose

http://www.aplasticrose.com/

Travega

www.myspace.com/travega

Padraig Rushe

http://www.padraigrushe.com/






Bailer

www.myspace.com/bailerband

VIC

http://www.myspace.com/vicrockmusic

The Amazing Few

www.myspace.com/theamazingfew


The Myterious Chords

http://www.themysteriouschords.com/





Second Nature

www.bebo.com/secondnatureireland

Donna Dunne

www.myspace/com/donnadunneblues

John Pointer

www.myspace.com/johnpointer



Aortal

www.myspace.com/aortal



Citizen

www.myspace.com/citizeninfo

GrĂ¡ Don Ceoil
Baby Jenx

Floyd Soul and The Wolf

www.myspace.com/floydsoul

Le Galaxie

www.myspace.com/lemusicgalaxie

Liz Seaver


www.myspace.com/lizseaver

Jimi Cullen
Dirty Epics



Markus Nylund

http://www.myspace.com/nylundmarkus




David Oliver

www.myspace.com/davidolivermusic

The Eskies

www.bebo.com/Eskies

Steve Duffy

www.myspace.com/steveduffyraw

Vasco Junior

http://www.vascojunior.com/

LikeKings
www.myspace.com/likekings

Matt Lane

http://www.myspace.com/mattlaneband

ReClaim

www.myspace.com/reclaim


Audium
www.myspace.com/audiumcollective


Colm Lynch

http://www.colmlynchmusic.com/
www.myspace.com/colmlynch

Aslan

http://www.aslan.ie/

www.myspace.com/aslanireland





Primrose

www.myspace.com/theprimrosepath
Suddyn

www.myspace.com/suddyn
http://www.bebo.com/suddyn

Christine Deady
www.myspace.com/christinedeady


Eric Eckhart

http://www.ericeckhart.com/

http://www.myspace.com/ericeckhartmusic Fiona Melady

www.myspace.com/fionamelady

Ham Sandwich

http://www.myspace.com/eathamsandwich

The Mighty Stef

http://www.myspace.com/themightystefband

Red Kid

http://www.redkid.info/

www.myspace.com/redkidtheband.com

Messiah J and The Expert

http://www.messiahjandtheexpert.com/

www.myspace.com/messiahjandtheexpert

The Dirty 9's

Bravado

www.bebo.com/bravado-band


The Aftermath
http://www.myspace.com/theaftermathband Kiernan McMullen

www.myspace.com/kiernanm


Jezzebelle

http://www.jezzebellemusic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/jezzebellemusic


Dark Room Notes

www.myspace.com/darkroomnotesireland Dave Geraghty
http://www.davegeraghty.com/

www.myspace.com/davidgeraghty

http://davidgeraghty.bebo.com/

ITO
www.itoband.com
www.myspace.com/itoband

More as we get them!!!!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Meteor Awards Nominees

Best irish band

  • The Blizzards
  • Fight Like Apes
  • Republic of Loose
  • The Script
  • Snow Patrol 

Best irish male

  • Damien Dempsey
  • Duke Special
  • Mick Flannery
  • David Holmes
  • Jape (Richard Egan) 

Best irish female

  • Tara Blaise
  • Lisa Hannigan
  • Gemma Hayes
  • Imelda May
  • Camille O’Sullivan 

best irish pop act

  • Boyzone
  • The Blizzards
  • The Coronas
  • The Script
  • Westlife 

best irish album

  • Fight Like Apes – Mystery Golden Medallion
  • Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew
  • Messiah J & The Expert – From the Word Go
  • The Script – The Script
  • Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns 

Best irish live performance

  • The Blizzards
  • The Coronas
  • Fight Like Apes
  • Republic of Loose
  • The Swell Season 

Non Voting Categories

Best irish folk traditional

  • Damien Dempsey
  • Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
  • Colm Mac Con Iomaire
  • Eleanor McEvoy
  • John Spillane 

Best international band

  • AC/DC
  • Coldplay
  • Elbow
  • Killers
  • Kings of Leon 

Best international male

  • Chris Brown
  • Nick Cave
  • Bon Iver
  • James Morrision
  • Kanye West

Best international female

  • Beyonce
  • Duffy
  • Lykke Li
  • Pink
  • Rihanna

Best international album

  • Coldplay - Viva la Vida
  • Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
  • The Killers - Day & Age
  • Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
  • Take That - The Circus

Best international live performance

  • Leonard Cohen - IMMA
  • Coldplay - The O2
  • The Killers - Marlay Park
  • Kings of Leon - Oxegen
  • Bruce Springsteen - RDS

Monday, January 12, 2009

Project 10 to the 100th

  • Google's offering ten millions dollars for the idea that makes the world a better place for as many people as possible....




    Heres just some of the ideasThe Open Mic's listeners came up with and texted to 53104

    Use dogs that are put down in pounds to feed people in developing countries
    Give one seed to every house to plant one tree
    get professional footballers to sell their shirts after every match and then give the money to charity
    Give Fianna Fail 10 million to leave Government
    Hook excercise bikes in gyms so people can generate electricity for the National Grid
    Stop paying celebrities so much
    Send all long term prisoners to the poor countries to do hard manual labour.

Monday, December 8, 2008

A look inside The O2!!!






















FM104 got an exlcusive look inside the new O2 venue!!!












Some Facts






The new seating capacity of The O2 will be in excess of 14,500 seats
The roof of The O2 has the most up to date acoustics design in Europe. Audiences will be treated to acoustics never before witnessed in an Irish venue
A total of over 5,000 tonnes of steel, 13,000 metres of duct work, 7,000 metres of pipe work and 270 kilometres of cables were used to construct the new venue
There are 3,500 light fittings in the venue
There are 250 toilets in the venue
A total of over 100,000 blocks were used to construct facilities and new walls in The O2
At the peak of production there was in excess of 140 electricians working on The O2
A number of the roof trusses used in construction required a total of three mobile cranes each in excess of 150 tonnes to place into position