• Hyperbolex with Ray Wingnut: Rough Trade

    To INSPIRE: to fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do something, especially to do something creative. At the beginning of a new year, we probably all need a bit of inspiration. To feel inspired, to have the energy and the will to begin or to continue. For me personally, to be inspired is something that I’m always chasing. It’s not always easy to find or hold on to. But it is an energy or life source. To inspire also means to breathe in. Or in the recent first episode of This Ain’t No Disco, Dónal Dineen used a…

  • Watch: Guerrilla Sessions with Ray Wingnut feat. Lynched

    Ahead of their massive Vicar Street show on Saturday night, Lynched recently sat down with Irish music champion Ray Wingnut for the first ever Guerrilla Session. Doubling up as a radio session recorded for Spin ALT on Spin South West (check it out on Sundays from 9.45-11.45am), it’s a wonderfully paced and engrossed feature in which Dublin traditional folk quartet discussing the likes of success, compromise, and the universality of folk, as well as performing two songs, ‘What Will We Do When We Have No Money?’ and ‘The Tri-Coloured House’. The session was shot/edited by Thom McDermott; John ‘Spud’ Murphy on sound.