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One for the U2 fans… as the promo says, “in the history of U2, Dave Fanning has always had the first play of their new single anywhere in the world. That will continue this Monday morning on the Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show…”

Watch:

So there you go… you’ll hear it there first.

(Part 3 in the series…)

Soon … one of the greatest musical acts of all time – The Prodigy … are back! – and they’re back to doing what they do best – shaking up the ‘establishment’ with some kick-ass dance tunes.

“Invaders Must Die” is the 5th studio album from the guys and it hits the streets soon (well… March 2nd) but for now, they’ve made the title track (which makes use of all sorts of cool & funky vocal effects – including a Dalek type voice – and, of course, lots of sweepy/whooshy sounds) available as a FREE download on their web site (only until Wednesday)…

Here’s a clip:

Oh… And here’s the video!:

i105-107

The new high-tech youth oriented radio station for the north-east of Ireland, iRadio’s “i105-107″ – sister station to the north-west’s i102-104, launches this evening.

It can be heard on 104.7FM and 105.0FM in Dublin (although we in Dublin aren’t actually the target market…) and on various frequencies between 105 and 107FM around the north-east and online on i105107.ie, where their countdown clock shows that there’s currently just under 2 hours to go (so it would appear they’re going live at 7.30pm). Correction: their web site went live at 7.30pm – the station launches at 8.30pm.

I wish them all the best of luck and I’m looking forward to hearing them finally take to the airwaves after what I know was many months of very hard work putting the station together.

I was involved in the ‘workshop’ section of their recruitment process myself and met a lot of really great people there. They should really shake up the market in the North-East!

[EDIT]: The live launch can be watched HERE!

Been busy lately. Worked a fair bit. Got my new laptop. Met some legends of radio (Ray Foley is a lovely fellah, by the way) and enjoyed two new stations on the air now in Dublin (a college classmate of mine is reading the news on one of them!)… oh and I’m back in this situation again (off the cigarettes – and today is day 16, coincidentally) … but anyway… I’ll blog about all of that later.

For now, why not enjoy the wonderful attraction that is … a giant panda vomiting out top quality photos on a rainbow? … Oh YES!

Here he is!

Oh, and I made this video… just trying something out. Sad, I know.

Blogging is going to be fairly “thin on the ground” here for a wee while as my laptop is basically dying.

There’s a fault with the power input section of the motherboard and it’s only charging the battery when the power is OFF. When it’s ON, the battery discharges fully within about 20 minutes and the machine shuts down. It won’t run off the mains alone. I’ve tried a few things to get this fixed myself but to no avail and frankly, as it’s over 5 years old and well out of warranty by now, it looks like it’s time to put it “out to pasture”, as it were.

Will be a wee while before I can afford to shell out for a new one though, so blogging will be light for now. For your blogtertainment (suuuuure, it can be a word…), why not check out Rick, Damien, Ken, Twenty or Ruairí? G’wan…