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Other Voices - Season 24 - Episode 01
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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 jokes to laugh and punch, I want chimney smoke from the high side up to low
01:09room, the graves I know.
01:12I want a razor cut and a library's 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 ship, and I know I own the sweet eye, land and
01:39sea of the year I stood for thee.
01:58No rich man told me how to live, well I questioned him, the pause to give for a circumstance and
02:09a happenstance, well I hope we never meet again.
02:14And I call the great Divide, my home beneath the ship, and I know I own the sweet eye, land
02:25and sea of the year I stood for thee.
02:34No matter how to live, well I haven't seen a conversation about Galileo, I know I own the sweet eye
02:40of the year I stood for thee.
02:40All dates for all, stay tuned for the Dream County Jedi, land and sea of the month with the 661
02:57And the granddaddy female children, while dancing at sea of the first time we stood for thee, I think so.
03:01Amen, now we'll join the beautiful internationally, exhibit and sea of the nextảmelon, but there everyone who stands for the
03:01most delightful time.
03:01I call great thee by my own, he can share, I know I own, between the eyes and the sea
03:12of the air.
03:16I call great thee by my own, he can share, I know I own, between the eyes and the sea
03:28of the air.
03:32I want to ride on a hundred cup, I want all my jokes to land a punch, I want chimney
03:41smoke from the house I dug to blow over the graves, I know.
04:22I need to go ratings, correlate what you're keeping.
04:31It's not a good one, I don't have a good one, but I don't have a good one's just a
04:31good one.
04:31I'm leaving
04:34Hey
04:38I'm leaving
04:43Hey
04:46I'm leaving
05:06Hey
05:09I'm leaving
05:13Hey
05:17I'm leaving
05:21Well, hey
05:25I'm leaving
05:26I'm leaving
05:39So these girls
05:41actually cut their teeth
05:42playing covers in their canteen
05:44to all their schoolmates
05:45which is a tough audience
05:46I think you'll agree
05:46So yeah, please give it up
05:48for Florence Rowe
06:16Let's go
06:17I'm crazy, like I'm off to play, you say I can stay, lying on your single mattress, watching faded t
06:29-shirt, worn out, calling, starting to accept, but it's just gonna feel good, oh I'm so glad that you haven't
06:43figured it out, figure it out.
06:47Figure it out, figure it out, so I'm keeping a far, for a passenger seat of my car, wanna skip
07:02the ground, let me rise and drown, no I'm spinning, speeding, nothing's great, and wrecking, burning, thank you, baby, starting
07:13to accept,
07:17this is gonna do again, oh I'm so glad that you haven't figured it out, figure it out, figure it
07:29out, figure it out.
07:41Why won't you figure it out, figure it out, figure it out.
07:45Why won't you figure it out, figure it out, figure it out.
07:51Why won't you figure it out, figure it out, figure it out.
07:56Why won't you figure it out, figure it out, figure it out.
08:06I'm starting to accept
08:10This is good, this is good
08:15I'm so glad I knew I've been figuring it out
08:20Figure it out, figure it out, figure it out
08:36Figure it out, figure it out, figure it out
08:47Figure it out, figure it out
08:59Please give your warmest other voices
09:01Dingle, Wes Carey, welcome to Dove Ellis
09:36From your grace
09:39The sadist fails
09:42The red lane
09:49Rallying, tallying
09:51Each head and each fuck town
09:54Thought must I really lost
09:57A new day
09:59The first bullet
10:02The harrying, carrying nightmare
10:08It's all, it's just all
10:11It's a good
10:15So take the words
10:17Of your sad fight
10:23Pass them down
10:25And as you come
10:29All the feet are going in and out
10:32In and out
10:33In and out
10:37One nights
10:39Are you smelling them now?
10:45Lights all closed
10:48All cities lock you up
10:52With the magnets
10:54And the pigeons
10:55Fitting in my love
10:58They stick you in
11:00Even when I'm stuck
11:02Nowhere in my van
11:10Yeah, nightmare
11:14Is your end of the day
11:20So take the words
11:23Of your tragic fight
11:28Yeah, dancing
11:29Dancing down
11:30And as you come
11:35All the feet are going
11:37In and out
11:38In and out
11:39In and out
11:40In and out
11:40In and out
11:41In and out
11:43All the nights
11:45Are you smelling them now?
12:04To the back teeth
12:07To the front teeth
12:12Split ties
12:14To the penthouse
12:18To the t-shirt
12:22To the layer back
12:26Of the hackmas
12:28To the milk deal
12:32To the back seal
12:36To the clean up
12:40And the cutter, and the copy
12:47To the stature
12:52And the dark fear
12:56And the cracked fear
13:00To the sand
13:03And the
13:29Michael D. Higgins, what a pleasure to meet you.
13:32Oh no, I'm delighted to be here
13:35And really to be in a community of makers of music
13:39And makers of poetry
13:41I find it very heartening and very encouraging.
13:46There's something so, I think, quietly profound
13:50About the president of a country having a poetic imagination
13:54And seeing everything through that lens
13:55And what it says to the people of the country
13:59Is that this stuff is important and this stuff matters
14:02And I think you have helped to guide the people of Ireland
14:05Closer to the truth of who they are
14:07Because of your passion and your commitment to the arts.
14:11From the time I was a child reading books
14:14The important thing was to share something
14:17And you have to be able to cross the divide
14:21But poetry, poetry is something else as well
14:24Is that it's that space that is allowed
14:27Of the unrealised fullness of humanity
14:30As far as I see it
14:32There's a kind of intimacy that can be accessed in poetry
14:37Through its net and its distillation
14:39But also in relation to the extra step beyond the rationale
14:44And I have always a sense that it has to
14:47It's how it is connected in the end that is important
14:50Because the purpose in the end is for people to hear it
14:54And to be willing to change
14:57Of possibility
14:59In memory of John O'Donohue
15:02From that wider space that is imagination
15:06Is made possible a visual beauty
15:09That dazzles and ensnares
15:12Deep in that space lies too
15:15In unreleased expectancy
15:18Versions of a world on bone
15:20Sending shards of light and colour
15:23That make an invitation
15:25To something truly human
15:28They lodge in memory
15:30Making an inheritance of possibility
15:33Not always realised
15:35And in that sight yielded up by memory
15:40To spirit at the end
15:41It is these shafts and unrealised suggestions
15:46That endure at the end
15:48Making a rich legacy of possibility
15:53A week of sleep
15:55A week of sleep
15:55Thank you
15:55A week of sleep
16:21Thank you
16:22How long have you been making music?
16:24I would say I've been making music now
16:26Around five years
16:27Okay
16:28I started off initially as a record producer
16:31So I was just behind the boards
16:33Just doing all the production stuff
16:34Working 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
16:51Being a producer
16:52Behind the scenes
16:52Yeah
16:52And eventually I think I was just writing
16:54And writing
16:54And I got to a stage where
16:56I felt as if I had something to say
16:58And I felt
16:59Oh, I think I should release some of this music
17:01Yeah
17:02Then that's how it kind of started
17:04Yeah
17:04You took a trip to Cincinnati
17:06For you
17:07Every day's a Saturday
17:12Smoke a problem, 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 is
17:30You still got a lot to say
17:32And you still got a word to play
17:35You still got a word to play
17:37The night time
17:41The blinds beat
17:45sagen
17:46Back here in timeè´–
17:53The blinds
17:56beat
17:57You can't be
18:00But every time
18:08And I was praying the Bahamas
18:10And your daddy's pretty hot today
18:16So you made this ill assignment
18:18But you still got a lot to say
18:23And I wonder where you got your clothes
18:26I've never seen the five afraid
18:31What you gotta learn is
18:33You still got a word to play
18:35You still got a word
18:39My time
18:41It blinds me
18:45Every time
18:50Time
18:51It blinds me
18:56You can't be
19:00My every time
19:04My
19:08It blinds me
19:09So you just got a word
19:21And you just got a word
19:21I just got a word
19:29And you just got a word
19:38Florence Road, 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 to
19:45together, right?
19:46Florence Road.
19:47Okay.
19:47And where was this school?
19:48It was in Bray, Clos de Rahim.
19:51It's a Gwels 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, like, safe if anyone's feeling down or something.
20:23Like, we check up on each other and make sure that everyone's on the same page, which I
20:27think is very important when you're in this wild journey.
20:29Totally.
20:30Just when I haven't got the except inside my phone.
20:40Not just when I'm friends with my thoughts.
20:44Not just when I'm gonna get caught.
20:49Not just when I'm inside out.
20:53Not just when I'm outside in.
20:58Not just when I'm down by the lake.
21:02Might as well have my head on a stake.
21:06It's when I'm having a blast.
21:11Dwelling around in my dress.
21:14And you say that I'm looking at my best.
21:17Fill me up to the premise.
21:20The people cheer.
21:21I guess I'll always miss you when you're not here.
21:42You said that it won't feel like it.
21:46You said that you can't dry my tears.
21:49I'm just waiting till you appear.
21:55So you can tell me things right in my fear.
21:59Talking slow and always here.
22:01Instead, I'm thinking I'm slipping out of here.
22:08I cry over nothing.
22:11I cry over nothing.
22:12Some of the contents.
22:15Wish I could feel you in my head.
22:20Now there's ghosts in my kitchen.
22:23I'm not even listening.
22:25So I can feel you in my head.
22:47I know you want it.
22:49I, I, I, I, I know you want it.
22:52I, I, I, I know you want it.
22:56I cry over nothing.
22:59Some of the contents.
23:02Wish I could feel you in my head.
23:07Now there's ghosts in my head.
23:10Now there's ghosts in my kitchen.
23:11I'm not even listening.
23:14Now there's ghosts in my kitchen.
23:15So I can feel you in the air.
23:20I cry over nothing.
23:23Some of the contents.
23:26Wish I could feel you in my head.
23:31Now there's ghosts in my kitchen.
23:35I'm not even listening.
23:38I swear I can feel you in the air.
24:16So I can't feel it.
24:24Swirl, swirl, swirl, caught up in the chaos
24:31Holding my hands, fingers locked and you touched a little key
24:40Swing, swing, swing
24:44Take a step out of the eye
24:47Grab my arm in it, last to reap my skin
24:52Let the sting linger
24:54Let the sting linger
25:00Let the sting linger
25:04Start falling
25:08Were they always there
25:12I guess I didn't care
25:21The miracle looks mighty
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 you never knew me
25:38Start warning
25:41Were they always there
25:45I guess I didn't care
25:48I guess I didn't care
25:54Start warning
25:56I can hear them now
26:00I'll help my ears shut
26:06Cause you scream so loud
26:11Hurricane gonna break, stay awake
26:15Money strikes, two more fights
26:18Sparking by
26:19Tornado
26:21Tornado
26:21Gonna blow
26:22Break my bones
26:27Star warning
26:29Were they always there
26:33I guess I didn't care
26:38I guess I didn't care
26:41I guess I didn't care
26:45Star warning
26:47I'm coming here now
26:51I'm coming here now
26:53How might you
26:54Shut your streets so loud
27:17Oh, oh, oh, oh
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, like, in town.
28:00And after I finished my leaving cert, I moved over right after COVID to Manchester and went to, like, a
28:05music university there.
28:06And 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. And that changed everything quite a lot for the better, you know,
28:26100%.
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. And, you know, that's sort of where I get most of my inspiration from.
28:42I feel like that kind of feeling. I've been slightly too deep in the water at certain points, if you
28:48know what I mean.
28:48I do, because I can hear it in your music. Oh, yeah. Very well. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
29:22A sign that never talks
29:26A sign you think you've lived
29:29But it's just a stone with a little chuck
29:34Pray now, now I'm thinking how
29:37I could be there but here now
29:40Pray now, I'll sign a book
29:44Or you've been a lazy brush
30:05Seven in the ground
30:07I put them there myself
30:11Yeah, soil holds them out
30:14My world's running under my mouth
30:19And the day is likely round
30:21So don't reach for the sun
30:25Yeah, I might like getting hurt
30:29But you won't like getting spurt
30:33Hey, now I'm thinking how
30:36I could be there but here now
30:40Pray in love some more
30:44Or you've been a lazy brush
30:47Give me love, finally
30:50Join crowds of winter
30:53Cut them down, you'll see them there
30:57Do the next day
31:02Come on, we'll see them there
31:04Come on, we'll see you in the same way
32:28When you tie your hair up
32:32And your cheekbones stares below
32:37Stares below
32:39Stares below
32:49When you tie your hair up
32:54And your neck stares below
33:10As we're tired of working
33:15The skin creased
33:18And our palms
33:20Cuts deeper
33:22Each night
33:32At the cusp of the evening
33:36I retire, close my door
33:41And we have made a bigger tonight
33:50We have made a bigger tonight
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 threw myself in the blind
34:39My watch plan
34:41Last week I made a fortune teller
34:47They said three steps back
34:51They're four, four to go
34:57But I don't know
35:00I don't know
35:06I don't know
35:08And you won't you come back
35:11Into my home again
35:16And I said
35:19And I won't you come back
35:24Into my home again
35:32And I won't you come
35:35And I won't you come back
35:42And I won't you come back
35:50And I won't you move
35:52And I won't you come back
35:55In my home again
36:08Where do I run
36:21guitar solo
36:49You're good to go?
36:50Everybody happy?
36:51Yeah?
36:52Awesome.
36:52All right.
37:12And well, I imagine sitting down and having a cup of tea by the fireplace and reflecting
37:17is quite a rarity in 2025. Have you done much of this scenario over the last 12 months?
37:25Ross, I've drank a lot of tea, but I haven't had much sitting down and reflecting.
37:31Rewind two years. I mean, this was the stuff of dreams, was it, Robbie?
37:35Totally, yeah. Complete stuff of dreams. I was a primary school teacher in Tarranyar in Dublin.
37:41I was 25 years of age. Kind of got to that stage where I was teaching for four years and
37:46I kind
37:46of accepted that maybe nothing spectacular was going to happen for me. But when I met these
37:52two guys, we just started playing and straight away it clicked. Then in January 24, we all
37:59decided to leave those jobs and just pursue Ambell and here we are.
38:03Yeah. And on Reverie, from Schoolyard days onwards, there's a real, I think, nostalgia.
38:10Do 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
38:21of people who seem to be living in Australia and places like that were putting it over
38:26their videos and saying how much the song just felt like home. And that was lovely. Ross
38:31used to tell them to move home then, you know?
38:33Well, I think it's that thing as well in the album of, I always say, I'll write a song
38:40about summer in the depths of the winter. I think we all have that thing of, you're just
38:44always wishing for something, basically. I think that's in the album, somewhere.
38:47Yeah.
38:48And I roam, all along Don't be arguing
38:53And I can hear your voice in my mind
39:02And I can feel the cold, the cold of your hand
39:15Damn lost, you're one of a kind
39:24And the water is not as blue as it first was
39:33It's no longer the island of sun
39:42The mountains are taller than ever before
39:48And I know it's not a night before war
40:16And you let the whole world down your island
40:25For I was too busy, not beyond
40:34And what I give is just a roll of gold to you
40:43It's too late, the gold is gone
40:52And the water is not as blue as it first was
41:01It's no longer the island of sun
41:10The mountains are taller than ever before
41:18And I know it's not a night before
41:22And I know it's not as blue as it first was
41:36It's no longer the island of sun
41:45The mountains are taller than ever before
41:53And I know it's not an island for war
41:57But I know it's not a night before
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
48:49But I told her ask me anything when she asked me how to cry
48:56And when I think of you I know forever I will be
49:04Happy as a fool because together we are free
49:11Lovely, 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.
49:48How is that?
49:48That's it.
49:48So, what we did for you is we're going to be here
49:48We're going to be right back.
49:48And we're going to be right back.
49:48And there we go.
49:49So we're going to be right back back.
49:49And we're going to be right back on this season.
49:49And I think it was really good, it's a great one day.
49:49You
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