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Now displaying: November, 2016
Nov 28, 2016

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience with Karl Spain and Kevin McGahern and the proceeds from it went to the My Lovely Horse Rescue charity. Karl Spain was born in Limerick. He has appeared on RTE in the reality show Karl Spain Wants A Woman on which he met his now long term girlfriend Rachel O'Keefe. He recently appeared on Operation Transformation on which he parted with two stone and currently writes and performs on Republic Of Telly. He also writes stand up material for Al Porter. He is constantly gigging both in Ireland and abroad from places like Dubai to somewhere else exotic beginning with D. Kevin McGahern is the presenter on Republic of Telly and Kevin McGahern's America. He appeared in Hardy Bucks as Sim Card and was the man behind the YouTube spoof documentary sensation "the who man slipped on the ice" even getting a favourable mention from Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker. He has put Gowna in Cavan on the map (not literally, that was probably done by a cartographer) and was subject of the headline in the Longford Leader, " Gowna comic lands top RTE comedy job"

Nov 18, 2016

Ralph Rolle is the drummer with Nile Rodger's Chic. I met him in the Central Hotel in Dublin for a chat last September when he was over to perform and do a cooking demonstration at the Electric Picnic music festival because not only is Ralph a drummer, he is also a cook. He is a cooker of cookies to be precise; Soul Cookies to be even more precise. Ralph has drummed with Prince, Al Green, Chaka Khan, Sting and Lady Gaga to name but a few but he still takes time out to teach and give advice to young up and coming musicians. I saw him do a drum clinic at BIMM last week and he gave some sound advice about how to make it in this business called "Show". I took a lot from listening to and hanging out with this wonderful warm hearted man. Thank you to Anne McCoy for putting us in touch. Check out Ralph at www.ralphrolle.com

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