Last Year A DJ Saved My Life
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsI’ve always loved music (who doesn’t?!) and during the peak lockdown of early the Covid Times™ I got guilelessly and guiltlessly into the random “30-day music challenge” choices that friends, family, and faceless internet chums were posting. I wanted to hear more about what they chose and why… and I really wanted to have something I could talk about on Zoom calls that would actually be worth the oxygen (memes are no fun when you talk about them!) And lo, a podcast was born. Ta-da!
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Episodes
Episode 6: Declan Murphy
July 09, 2021 06:45 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBThis week's guest is Declan Murphy. A finance wonk, part-time poet, full-time provocateur and one of my very, very best friends. For many year, our nights out at the end of a busy week were something I relied on to help blow off some steam and looked forward to, always. Having been kept apart for almost two years now because of the seemingly never ending Panini… well, let’s just say I’m very much looking forward to the next one. However, our conversation about Declan’s music choices for ...
Episode 5: Rohan Young
June 21, 2021 02:21 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBRohan and I have been friends since the dawn of time. Or the mid-'90s for those of you who remember them. We’ve been through so much together, and have lost almost as many hours talking about music, as we have every peak, trough, scandal, semi-remembered night out, and revenge plot in our private lives. Being able to capture a tiny bit of it for the podcast is a total treasure to me. I loved hearing about Rohan’s determinedly optimistic pop choices almost as much as the convening of our...
Episode 4: Mark Congiusta
June 12, 2021 05:32 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBWillkommen, bienvenue, and welcome to Episode Four. This week I’m super excited to chat with one of the loveliest, funniest, smartest and most gloriously irreverent people on this planet; my lovely chum, Mark Congiusta. (Fair warning, this one's sweary. Oops!) Mark made the terrible mistake of hiring me waaaaaay back in 2010. He knew it was a terrible mistake because he left the agency and moved to the other side of Ireland a mere three months later. No, he really did. (None taken, Mark). ...
Episode 3: Lorna Begg
June 04, 2021 16:07 - 49 minutes - 67.3 MBThis week’s guest is the brilliant Lorna Begg. Since I've known Lorna chats about music have never been too far away. Nor have we ever been far from a festival or a gig, or planning the next ones. Lorna worked in music PR for many years, and has the stories to go with it... but you'll have to buy her a pint or two to get those! No Lorna works in marketing at a multinational software company, making amazing things happen for her teams all over the world. To say that Lorna's choices are...
Episode 2: Rowan Manahan
May 28, 2021 06:40 - 58 minutes - 80 MBThis week’s guest is the inimitable Rowan Manahan. Rowan describes himself as author, careers consultant, and presentation skills demon, a.k.a. “insultant;” I prefer to describe him as a raconteur and human ray of sunshine. We have long geeked out about music together — ever since we first met while speaking at the same conference — and I’ve always been bowled over by the vast array of wonderful stories Rowan has. It was no less the case when recording this episode. We can't play the m...
Episode 1: Intro
May 21, 2021 03:59 - 4 minutes - 5.57 MBHello and welcome to Last Year a DJ Saved My Life. Part music podcast, part person journal, part love letter to what it is that music gives us. Especially when we most need it. . Each week (or thereabouts) I'll be speaking to some of my favourite people about the how music helped them to get through the pandemic and what music in particular they leaned upon. We'll also be chatting about how music has soundtracked their lives in general and some of their favourite songs to turn to when the...