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00:00Hello and welcome back to the 24th edition of Other Voices here in...
00:35We've got so much good stuff on the show tonight from St James's Church and all around town, including Dove
00:41Ellis and Florence Road.
00:42We have an incredibly special performance from Iruk, Duran Naher and Michael D. Higgins, accompanied by Miles O'Reilly.
00:48In the Imra Other Room, we're going to see a performance from Moyo.
00:51But right now, to kick it all off, this is Ambo.
01:00I want all my droves to land a punch, I want chimney smoke from the house I dug to blow
01:08around the graves I know.
01:12I want a razor cut and a pipe is best, and an old tattoo across my chest.
01:19I want to sell my books, let a Sunday flee young children there to laugh at me.
01:27I call the great divide, my home beneath the shed, and I know I own between the eyes, land and
01:39sea of the years, and I search for Thee.
02:13I call the great divide, my home beneath the shed, and I know I own between the eyes, land and
02:26sea of the years.
02:27The years that I search for Thee.
02:31Thee.
02:32Thee.
02:34Thee.
02:38Thee.
02:44Thee.
02:47Thee.
02:48Thee.
02:49Thee.
02:51Thee.
02:51Thee.
02:52Thee.
02:53Thee.
02:54Thee.
02:54Thee.
02:54Thee.
02:55Thee.
02:56Thee.
02:56Thee.
02:57Thee.
02:57Thee.
02:58Thee.
02:59I call, great divide my own, beneath the shed
03:06I know I own, between the eyes and the sea of the air
03:15I call, great divide my own, beneath the shed
03:21I know I own, between the eyes and the sea of the air
03:32I want to ride on a hundred cup
03:36I want all my jokes to land a punch
03:40I want chimney smoke from the house I dug
03:44To blow over the graves that I know
03:50I want to ride on a hundred cup
04:20Hey, I'm living
04:29Hey, I'm living
04:37Hey, I'm living
04:42Hey, I'm living
05:06Hey, I'm living
05:11Hey, I'm living
05:15Hey, I'm living
05:21Hey, I'm living
05:24Hey, I'm living
05:29Hey, I'm living
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06:01Hey, I'm living
06:21Hey, I'm living
06:28Hey, I'm living
06:34Hey, I'm living
06:40Hey, I'm living
06:43Hey, I'm living
06:53Hey, I'm living
06:59Hey, I'm living
07:05Hey, I'm living
07:08Hey, I'm living
07:11Hey, I'm living
07:11Hey, I'm living
07:11Hey, I'm living
07:11Hey, I'm living
07:14Hey, I'm living
07:18Hey, I'm living
07:22Hey, I'm living
07:23Hey, I'm living
07:24Hey, I'm living
07:41Why won't you figure it out?
07:43Why won't you figure it out?
07:43Figure it out, figure it out
07:46Why won't you figure it out?
07:48Figure it out, figure it out
07:51Why won't you figure it out?
07:53Figure it out, figure it out
07:56Why won't you figure it out, figure it out, figure it out?
08:06Starting to extend
08:11It's as good as it'll go
08:15I'm so glad that you haven't figured it out
08:20Figure it out, figure it out, figure it out
08:53Go
08:59Please give your warmest other voices dingle West Kerry welcome to Dove Ellis
09:36From your grace, the Sadist fails the red lane Rallying, tallying, each head and each fight down
09:54But must I really lost a new day? The first bullet The harrying, carrying nightmare
10:08It's all that you saw that you did So take the words of your treasure to fight
10:23Yes, I'm down and at you come All the feet are going in and out, in and out, in and
10:33out
10:38One nights, are you smelling them now? Lights all closed, all cities lock you up
10:51With the magnets and the pigeons That in my love, they step your way
11:01Even when I'm stuck nowhere in my bed
11:10Yeah, nightmare Is the end of the day
11:20So take the words of your tragic friend Yeah, dancing out and at you come
11:35All the feet are going in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out,
11:41in and out
11:42Oh, all the running the lights, are you smelling them now?
11:52Oh
12:04To the back teeth
12:07To the front teeth
12:10To the splitter
12:15To the penthouse
12:18To the dish
12:22To their back
12:26To the hackmits
12:28To the milk deal
12:33To the back teeth
12:37To the clean up
12:40To the cut-eye
12:43To the coffee
12:47To the stare-tow
12:52To the dark teeth
12:56To the cracked teeth
12:59To the sand
13:08To the black teeth
13:10To the black teeth
13:13To the black teeth
13:44To the black teeth
13:51To the black teeth
14:13To the brown teeth
14:14To the black teeth
14:17And you have to be able to cross the divide.
14:21But poetry, poetry is something else as well.
14:25It's that space that is allowed of the unrealised fullness of humanity, as far as I see it.
14:32There's a kind of intimacy that can be accessed in poetry through its distillation,
14:39but also in relation to the extra step beyond the rational.
14:44And I have always a sense that it has into, it's how it is connected in the end that is
14:50important,
14:51because the purpose in the end is for people to hear it and to be willing to change.
14:57Of possibility, in memory of John O'Donoghue,
15:02from that wider space that is imagination,
15:06is made possible a visual beauty that dazzles and ensnares.
15:12Deep in that space lies, too, in unreleased expectancy,
15:18versions of a world on bone,
15:21sending shards of light and colour
15:23that make an invitation to something truly human.
15:29They lodge in memory,
15:31making an inheritance of possibility not always realised.
15:35and in that sight yielded up by memory to spirit at the end.
15:42It is these shafts and unrealised suggestions that endure at the end,
15:48making a rich legacy of possibility.
15:54Of weakest link.
16:18Moyo, welcome to Other Voices.
16:20Tell me about your music, then.
16:21How long have you been making music?
16:24I would say I've been making music now around five years.
16:28Okay.
16:28I started off initially as a record producer,
16:31so I was just behind the boards,
16:33just doing all the production stuff,
16:35working with some artists from Ireland,
16:38and at the same time, I also started writing.
16:41So, like, but I would do it in secret,
16:43because I wasn't ready to show anyone.
16:45It was kind of just for myself,
16:47and I wasn't expecting to be an artist.
16:49I was very comfortable being a producer.
16:52Behind the scenes, yeah.
16:52And eventually, I think I was just writing and writing,
16:54and I got to a stage where I felt as if I had something to say,
16:58and I felt, oh, I think I should release some of this music.
17:02Yeah.
17:02Then, that's how it kind of started, yeah.
17:05You took a trip to Cincinnati for you
17:07Every day's a Saturday
17:12Smoke a crowd with marijuana
17:14But you still got a lot to say
17:20And even in the winter
17:22You just wait for the summer day
17:27What you gotta learn
17:29Is you still got a lot to say
17:33You still got a word to play
17:39The lights turn
17:41The blind is deep
17:45It's great
17:46Baby, you dare
17:51Time
17:53The blind is free
17:58With me
18:00But every time
18:05I am happy
18:08The blind is free
18:09And you can't leave
18:11But every time
18:11And your daddy
18:15You took it late to say to Simon, but you still got a lot to say
18:23And I wonder where you got your clothes, I've never seen the fabric frame
18:31But what you gotta learn is you still got a word to play
18:36You still got a word
18:39Brighter, it blinds me every time
18:50Time
18:53It's frightening, it blinds me every time
19:04Time
19:05Time
19:07Time
19:07Time
19:09Time
19:10Time
19:37Florence Rode, welcome to Other Voices.
19:41So, for those who don't know, the name is as a result of the school that you all went
19:45to together, right?
19:46Florence Rode.
19:46Okay.
19:47And where was this school?
19:48It was in Bray, Clos de Rocheen.
19:51It's a girls school.
19:52And then in 2021, I think, our music teacher was putting on a Christmas concert.
19:57Right.
19:57And he said, girls, why don't you go play?
19:59We just did a cover of Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish.
20:03And we're like, okay, something's going on here.
20:05This is kind of good.
20:06You being friends, like genuine friends, must make such a difference to these experiences.
20:10As they happen.
20:11Oh my gosh.
20:11It's just, we have the best fun.
20:13Like, I couldn't imagine doing it with anyone else.
20:15We laugh all the time.
20:17Everything is funny.
20:18And I think we keep each other sane as well.
20:20And also safe if anyone's feeling down or something.
20:23We check up on each other and make sure that everyone's on the same page, which I think
20:27is very important when you're in this wild journey.
20:29Totally.
20:29Definitely.
20:56That's so cool.
22:43I know you want it
22:46I cry over nothing
22:59Some of the contacts
23:02Wish I could feel you in my head
23:07Now there's ghosts in my kitchen
23:10I'm not even listening
23:13So I can feel you in the air
23:19I cry over nothing
23:22Some of the contacts
23:25Wish I could feel you in my head
23:31Now there's ghosts in my kitchen
23:34I'm not even listening
23:37I swear I can feel you in the air
23:44I swear I can feel you in my head
23:47So I can feel you in the air
23:55I swear I can feel you in my face
24:24Swim, swim, swim, caught up in the chaos
24:31Holding my hands, fingers locked, and you touched only the key
24:41Swim, swim, swim, take a step out of the eye
24:47Caught my arm in it, luxury my skin, and let the sting linger
24:55And let the sting linger
25:00And let the sting linger
25:03Start falling
25:06Were they always there?
25:12I guess I didn't care
25:21When the miracle looks my hair
25:25Oh, you're frowning out
25:28There's nothing there
25:30And it's getting harder to even see
25:32The sunny day we used to be
25:34I'll fight the earth to say
25:36You'll never do me
25:37Start falling
25:41Were they always there?
25:45I guess I didn't care
25:49I guess I didn't care
25:54Start falling
25:57I can hear them now
26:02How my ears shut
26:06Cause you screamed so loud
26:11Hurricane, gonna break, stay awake
26:15Lightning strikes, two more fights, sparking by
26:19Tornado, gonna blow, break my heart
26:23Tornado, gonna blow, break my heart
26:24Tornado, gonna blow, break my heart
26:27Star warning
26:30We're always there
26:33I guess I didn't care
26:38I guess I didn't care
26:42I guess I didn't care
26:45I guess I didn't care
26:45Star warning
26:46I can hear them now
26:51How my ears shut
26:55Cause you screamed so well
27:17Yeah, I guess IANNA
27:21Aw!
27:23Oh!
27:24Oh!
27:26Oh!
27:27Oh!
27:27Oh!
27:28Oh!
27:49So Tom, would you tell us a little bit about your growing up in Ireland?
27:52Yeah, of course. I grew up in Galway, near the village Moir Cullen there. Went to school in town and
28:00after I finished my Leaving Cert I moved over right after Covid to Manchester and went to a music university
28:06there.
28:07And did the music change when you moved to different places? Did it inform your writing?
28:11Yeah, I mean, I kind of like always made music in a pretty like introverted way. And then sort of
28:17when I went to university, things changed a lot, you know, because I kind of had to do it now
28:21in a more social, more like extroverted way.
28:24And that changed everything quite a lot for the better, you know, 100%.
28:27Sounds like it was a brave thing to do. It doesn't sound like it came easily to you. There must
28:31have been something pulling you.
28:33I was and still very much am kind of like always kind of pushing myself further and further out of
28:38my comfort zone in that respect.
28:40And, you know, that's sort of where I get most of my inspiration from. I feel like that kind of
28:43feeling. I've been slightly too deep in the water at certain points, if you know what I mean.
28:48I do because I can hear it in your music very well. Yeah.
28:52Yeah, yeah.
29:04¶.
29:05A shawl and a fire, a fire and a cave
29:12The night has many fingers, and I cannot be traced
29:19Past it like a sign, a sign that never talks
29:26A sign you think you've lived, but it's just stone with a little chug
29:33Paying out, thinking how I could be there, but here now
29:40Crying out, sign on board, oh you've been a lazy bird
30:05Seven in the ground, I put them there myself
30:11Yeah, soil holds them out, mama, I'll join them in my mail
30:18And the day is likely round, so don't reach for the sun
30:25Yeah, it might lie getting hurt, but you won't lie getting spurred
30:33And I'm thinking how I could be there, but here now
30:39Crying lost, I'm bored, oh you've been a lazy bird
30:47Giving up, smiling, enjoying crowds of the wind and air
30:54Cut them down, you'll see to me in your seat
31:07guitar solo
31:31Woo!
32:11guitar solo
32:33And your cheekbone
32:36Stares below
32:37Stares below
32:39Stares below
32:49When you're tired
32:54And your neck
33:00Stares below
33:10As we're tired of working
33:15The skin creased
33:18And I fast
33:20Cuts deeper
33:22Each night
33:32At the cusp of the evening
33:36I retire
33:39Close my door
33:41Then you bid me goodnight
33:45You bid me goodnight
33:58And you won't you come back
34:03Into my home again
34:12And you won't you come back
34:18Into my home again
34:28Sometimes when I stand back
34:33I just fool myself in
34:38Learn, learn, watch for life
34:41Last week I made a fortune teller
34:47They said three steps back
34:51There's four, four to go
34:57But I don't know
35:00But I don't know
35:00I don't know
35:06And I won't you come back
35:11And smile again
35:16And I say
35:19Won't you come back
35:23And answer my home
35:29And I won't you come
35:35And I won't you come back
35:43And I won't you come back
35:50And I won't you come back
35:53And I won't you come back
36:19¶¶
36:42¶¶
36:49We're good to go?
36:50Everybody happy?
36:51Yeah.
36:51Awesome.
36:52All right.
37:11¶¶
37:12I imagine sitting down having a cup of tea by the fireplace and reflecting is quite a rarity in 2025.
37:20Have you done much of this scenario over the last 12 months?
37:26I've drank a lot of tea.
37:28I don't have much sitting down and reflecting.
37:31Rewind two years.
37:32I mean, this was the stuff of dreams, was it, Robbie?
37:35Totally, yeah. Complete stuff of dreams.
37:38I was a primary school teacher in Taran Yar in Dublin.
37:41I was 25 years of age.
37:43Kind of got to that stage where I was teaching for four years
37:46and I kind of accepted that maybe nothing spectacular was going to happen.
37:50But when I met these two guys, we just started playing and straight away it clicked.
37:56Then in January 24, we all decided to leave those jobs and just pursue Amble and here we are.
38:03Yeah.
38:04And on Reverie, from Schoolyard days onwards, there's a real, I think, nostalgia.
38:09Do you think your songs appeal to people who, I don't know, are missing something?
38:16I think at the start definitely when we released Lonely Island on social media, a lot of people who seem
38:22to be living in Australia and places like that were putting it over their videos and saying how much the
38:28song just felt like home.
38:30And that was lovely. Ross used to tell them to move home then, you know?
38:34Yeah.
38:35I think it's that thing as well in the album of, I always say, I'll write a song about summer
38:41in the depths of the winter.
38:42I think we all have that thing of you're just always wishing for something, basically.
38:45I think that's in the album somewhere.
38:47Yeah.
38:48And I won't hold on and I'll be arguing
38:53And I can hear your voice in my mind
39:06And I can feel the cold, cold of your hand
39:15And I'm lost
39:17And you're one of a kind
39:25And the water is not as blue as it at first was
39:33It's no longer the island of sun
39:42And mountains are taller than ever before
39:50And I know it's not a night before
40:16And you let the whole world
40:19And on your island
40:25For I was too busy
40:28And on me own
40:30For I was too busy
40:34And what I'd give
40:35Just a rope
40:36To go to you
40:43It's too late
40:45The boat was gone
40:48The walk
40:52The water is not as blue as it at first walk
40:57The water is not as blue as it at first was
41:01It's no longer the island of sun
41:10But mountains are taller than ever before
41:14Before
41:19They know it's an island for one
41:28The water is not as blue as it first was
41:36It's no longer the island of sun
41:45The mountains are taller than ever before
41:53They know it's not an island for one
42:14An island of sun
42:16Of Middle Class
43:17We're going to sing one last song and it's called Mary's Pub.
43:21Hey, one man knows it.
43:25And it's all about two people meeting on Grafton Street in Dublin and spending a wonderful, spontaneous day together, drinking
43:31and dancing and falling in love.
43:34And at the end of it she tells him that she has a boyfriend.
43:39This is Mary's Pub.
43:43She put it right between my lips and I bit down with delight.
43:50Well, I asked her, had she anything?
43:54She handed me a light.
43:57And with that light, I took a drag and I watched the world go by.
44:03You were mine and I was yours and our limit was the sky.
44:12And we watched the time go by.
44:19But I told her, ask me anything.
44:23But she asked me how to cry.
44:26And when I think of you, I know forever I will be happy as a fool because together we are
44:39free.
44:42But we cantered on by the statue where once Phil and it stood.
44:49But by Scobie being hoisted outside Mary's Pub.
44:56I never seen the light before, her air seemed so daft.
45:03And the cobbles were lit up by the enchantment of your love.
45:11And we watched time go by.
45:24And we watched the buskers play at you and lower your eyes.
46:09And we watched time go by.
46:18I told her, ask me anything.
46:22And she asked me how to cry.
46:25And when I think of you, I know forever I will be happy as a fool because together we are
46:38free.
46:41Well he swallowed down his last straw
46:44And began to feel the heat
46:47Well he gestured to their man
46:51That it was his time to leave
46:54Put a cap upon his head
46:58He thought of home in skimmering
47:01Said we were the finest couple
47:05That his eyes had ever seen
47:10And we watched the time go by
47:17Told her ask me anything
47:21She asked me how to cry
47:24When I think of you
47:27I know forever I will be
47:31Happy as a fool
47:35Because together we are free
47:38He said he may
47:42He said he must have incendiary
48:12And as she boards her plane back to her home in Amsterdam
48:18She'll study for the air before returning to our land
48:26She said she loves a man and he's stationed far away
48:33And with him, her precious love, she says, forever it will stay
48:41And we watched the time go by
48:49When I told her, ask me anything, she asked me how to cry
48:56And when I think of you, I know forever I will be
49:03Happy as a fool because together we are free
49:10Lovely, thank you
49:26What an incredible start to this season of Other Voices
49:29Coming up on next week's show, we'll have performances by
49:32Dry Cleaning, Shame, Jessie Blakemore and Doug
49:36See you then
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