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On this week's Totally Irish John chatted to Silverbacks about the band's new album 'Archive Material' and played two hours of the best new music.   9-10pm Yenkee Soft Satellite Pillow Queens Be By Your Side Thumper Overbite  Gurriers Top Of The Bill Junk Drawer Tears In Costa Silverbacks Archive Material Silverbacks Recycle Culture Silverbacks Rolodex City Fontaines DC Jackie Down The Line And So I Watch You From Afar Lung   10-11pm My Tribe Your Tribe I Stay Quiet Lucy Blue Postman Jena Keating Boundaries Wynona Bleach Moonsoake Uwmami x Selu Tug Of War Famous Tex Voiceover Wo ..read more

On this week's Totally Irish John chatted to spoken word artist Lyndsey Lawlor about her debut album 'Dearest Philistine' and played two hours of the best new releases from this week.   9-10pm Sprints Little Fix NewDad Say It Fontaines DC Jackie Down The Line Silverbacks A Job Worth Something No Monster Club Save The Circus Lyndsey Lawlor Calling / Art Is Pain Lyndsey Lawlor Blood On Canvas Lyndsey Lawlor The Sculptor   10-11pm 49th & Main x Chameleon Need To Feel Your Love Junk Drawer Tears In Costa Cmat Lonely Skins FC Transcendor Vendor Whozyerman The Year (….) Some Remain Tel ..read more

On this week's Totally Irish John chatted to music journalist Michael Lanigan about this week's Choice Music Prize nominations and played two hours of brand new music.   9-10pm Shibashi x Lilla Vargen Somebody New Viscose I.L.Y. Telefís x Jah Wobble Falun Gong Dancer Jape Christopher & Anthony Denise Chaila Anseo Rusangano Family Bon Voyage Ships All Will Be Two Door Cinema Club Do You Want It All? Delorentos Care For   10-11pm Peter Vogelaar Mindless Youth (Charles Webster remix) Panik Attaks Rejection Thom Southern She’s So Precious Last Apollo Reservoir And So I Watch You From ..read more

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On this week's Totally Irish John and Stephen Byrne (editor of GoldenPlec) chatted about the year that was in the Irish music scene in 2021. 9-10pm Cosha Do You Wanna Dance Senu S3 John Francis Flynn Lovely Joan NewDad Ladybird Bobbi Arlo Feel It Cmat I Don’t Really Care For You 10-11pm Varley Bubble Up Bicep Atlas Kynsy Mr. Nice Guy Orla Gartland Zombie SPIDER! I’m Fine! I’m Good! I’m Perfect! April New Conditions Sprints Modern Job Totally Irish with John Barker Sundays from 9 - 11pm ..read more

On this week's Totally Irish John counted down his top ten albums of the year and played an hour of the best new releases from this week. 9 - 10pm Kyoto Love Hotel Fortune Tellers (December) Anamoe Drive Procrastination Thumper In My Room Sorcha Richardson Petrol Station Evan Miles Always You Local Boy Reality Lyndsey Lawlor Love, Lust, Indifference & Hatred cbakl Cut Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face  Naked Lungs Database Laura Duff All Sewn Up   10 - 11pm TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2021 Elaine Mai Together Again (Home) Fears Fabric (Oíche) Houseplants No Stopping Me (Dry Goods) Soda Blon ..read more

This week's show saw John create a playlist of 25 new acts who impressed this year.   9-10pm Ra Gerra Terrified Gurriers Top Of The Bill Varley Bubble Up HousePlants What’s With All The Pine? Negro Impacto Lockdown Syndrome Fya Fox Body Chameleon Are You Still? Carrie Baxter I Wasn’t Looking For You Aby Coulibaly Chamomile Tea Lucy Blue Snow In Tokyo Aonair Bad Decisions Cabin The Parasocialite   10-11pm 49th & Main I Want You Floor Show Walls M(h)aol No One Ever Talks To Us Khakikid Shlumped Up Pastiche Bad Loser Tomike Can’t Find You Monjola Smile Chósta It’s You On My Mind Lyn ..read more

On this week's Totally Irish John chatted to alt-pop artist April about her new single and recent signing to Atlantic Records. This week's playlist featured the best new releases from this week.   9-10pm Denise Chaila Return Of The King Lucy Gaffney Heartstrings April Piece Of Me April Someone That I Made April New Conditions Amy Michelle The Bottom Of The Well Fontaines DC Big (Live at Kilmainham Gaol) Pretty Happy Sudocream Soda Blonde Tiny Darkness (strings version) Selu x Uwmami Tug Of War   10-11pm AV9 Tiger Woods Enda Gallery This Is That Moment Wallfella For Me Lyndsey Lawlor ..read more

On this week's Totally Irish John chatted to an Australian radio presenter called Milk about the Irish acts that Milk promotes on his radio show. This week's playlist featured two hours of the best new releases. Totally Irish playlist Nov 21st 2021 9-10pm Silverbacks Rolodex City TEOSE You’re Pretty Cool Just Mustard I Am You NewDad Ladybird Enola Gay Sofa Surfiing M(h)aol No One Ever Talks To Us The Clockworks Enough Is Never Enough The Murder Capital Feeling Fades 10-11pm The X Collective Ascension Lethal Dialect Salt Of The Earth Pretty Digital Three Rock Celaviedmai Upset Meri Dead Or Aliv ..read more