Green Rebel

In this episode, we chat with Irish artist Elaine Mai, whose atmospheric and melodic electronic music we love. We had the pleasure to see her perform at Body and Soul. She tells us a very interesting story about that performance that we both found kind of surprising. And as with all other interviews we have done, we don’t shy away from the more serious stuff like grief. In fact grief is a very big part of her quite positive and energetic EP Enniscrone, which Elaine released last year. Throughout the show, you will hear why it is that such a traumatic emotion inspires her to write happy tunes. You will also hear two of the songs from it, Enniscrone and Color of the Night, which Elaine was kind enough to let us use for the show.

We talk about what it’s it like to not have a grand plan but to take things one step at a time, how she combines her regular job with doing live electronic music and the discipline it takes but also the kindness to oneself when you don’t quite fulfill the ambitious plan.

We can’t wait to bring Green Rebel live to the Dublin Podcast Festival on October 4th. We will host a live chat with incredibly poetic and well-versed poet Stephen James Smith. You can see the full line-up and grab tickets http://dublinpodcastfestival.ie. We are on a double bill will the awesome lads from Pod Sqwod.

You can find more of Elaine's music https://soundcloud.com/elainemai

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Presented by Emily O'Callaghan and Irina Dzhambazova.
Produced by Irina Dzhambazova.
Music by Le Boom

On this week's episode, we bring you a very special conversation and performance with musicians very close to our hearts: Molly Sterling and Laura McCabe. Molly has just released her second single "Stripped Down" which you will hear performed live alongside her first single "Plain Static" as well as the song "I am but a Man."

Molly Sterling who is only 20 is a Dublin-based singer-songwriter and has been creating music for as long as she can remember. A wordsmith and songwriter by nature, her music is moulded by dark and affective lyrics, wrapped up in grounding piano riffs, and a vocal that is overflowing with exposed emotion - delivering every note and syllable with precise detail, giving the listener the feeling that it has been honed from somewhere buried and unfathomable. Laura is Molly's cellist as well as her manager and Artist Manager and Booking Agent with Frank Music MGMT.

We first saw Molly and Laura perform back in March 2017 at their very first gig together at the Cobblestone and have been following them closely ever since.

In our conversation, we cover the journey since that first gig, the experience of the band coming together and playing at festivals such as Other Voices, Hard Working Class Heroes and Vantastival among others, as well as Molly's own journey of facing her demons through music and healing through it.

You can catch Molly and Laura playing this Friday at Whelan's as part of the "We've Only Just Begun" Festival https://www.facebook.com/weveonlyjustbegunfest/ We will be there so come say hi. You can also catch us doing a live podcast during the Dublin Podcast Festival on October 4th at the Sound House where we will interview the poet and spoken word artist Stephen James Smith. We are on a double bill with the Pod Sqwod. Grab a ticket https://bit.ly/2Omz0s9

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Presented by Emily O'Callaghan and Irina Dzhambazova.
Produced by Irina Dzhambazova.
Music by Le Boom

On this week's episode, we bring you a conversation with award-winning comedian Niamh Marron, who has supported PJ Gallagher, Luisa Omielan, David Mc Savage, Foil, Arms & Hog and Gearoid Farrelly in the past.

She is rightfully called “Consistently excellent ” by Hot Press Magazine.

Niamh was 1 of 3 comedians chosen to perform in the infamous Vicar St venue for 'Dublin Does Comic Relief', and later again in the same venue alongside comic legends Eddie Izzard, Tommy Tiernan and Dara O'Briain.

In our brief chat with Niamh, recorded backstage at Body&Sould, we talked about her ability to gig multiple times a night, for 10 days in a roll, the healing power of comedy when times are tough as they have been for her as she moved to London recently and the importance of loving yourself and surrounding yourself with the right people.

You can find out more about Niamh https://www.niamhmarron.com

You can see Niamh perform at The Folly this weekend http://www.thefolly.ie/tickets/ and at the Vodafone Comedy Festival next weekend https://vodafonecomedy.com

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Presented by Emily O'Callaghan and Irina Dzhambazova.
Produced by Irina Dzhambazova.
Music by Le Boom

On this episode, Emily interviews producer Adam Fogarty and rapper Karl Mangan, aka Mango & Mathman just before their gig at The Sound House, as part of a night celebrating the launch of the new Irish film Dublin Oldschool which they starred and performed in.

We are fans of these guys here at Green Rebel for the past year and jumped at the chance to interview them. Hard working and two of the soundest people you will ever meet, Mango and Mathman made Emily's nerves slide away with their wit and good humour during this chat.

2018 continues to be an amazing year for Mango and Mathman, having played numerous gigs and festivals not least the National Concert Hall here in Dublin and also the Barbican Centre in London.

Take a look at what they do:

https://www.facebook.com/mangoxmathman/

https://www.breakingtunes.com/mangoxmathman

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Presented by Emily O'Callaghan and Irina Dzhambazova.
Produced by Irina Dzhambazova.
Music by Le Boom

On this week's episode, we chat to Dublin-based illustrator Steve McCarthy. Born in Dundrum County Dublin, in 1984. Steve left school at the age of 8, he was homeschooled from then to adulthood. Steve has never sat any kind of exam. His lack of qualifications led to some “creative” methods of securing a place in Ballyfermot college, where he studied animation.

After college Steve went to work in several small animation companies as a character designer, before quickly realizing he did not have the patience for animation and abandoned the vocation altogether. He then spent several years working every odd job in Dublin before venturing into Illustration.

Steve also did a stint in Kilkenny animation studio Cartoon Saloon, as a key background designer for the Oscar-nominated animated feature Song of the Sea. Steve returned to Dublin to focus on commercial illustration, ill-conceived art shows, and children’s books. His first book Sally go round the stars was nominated for the Bord Gais energy children’s book of the year, and his second book A Sailor went to Sea Sea Sea managed to win in 2017. Both books were a collaboration with Sarah Webb. He’s currently working on his first self-written book.

Steve feels totally comfortable writing in the third person, and we have been told via a reliable source of him attempting but seemingly failing to speak in the fifth person.

You can see his art on www.mrstevemccarthy.com

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Presented by Emily O'Callaghan and Irina Dzhambazova. Produced by Irina Dzhambazova. Music by Le Boom.