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John D'Arcy

The Jewel Case

A weekly Music podcast
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The Jewel Case

John D'Arcy

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John D'Arcy

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The end of 2017 is nigh!  I’ve only done a couple of podcasts this year so I’ve been feeling a bit guilty.  To find some absolution I sat down for a catch up with friend-of-the-podcast Ryan McGroarty and pressed record. We talk about nostalgia,
Leonie McDonagh (aka Leonie Pony) is back for another a PODCAST TAKEOVER.  This time she is chatting to Belfast-based hijinx-co-ordinators Tumble Circus! Leonie catches some of the Tumble Circus crew at a rare moment of quiet before they put up
It’s been a while, but The Jewel Case is back!  Lately John has been neglecting his duty to interview artists working in Northern Ireland, so Leonie McDonagh (aka Leonie Pony) is staging a PODCAST TAKEOVER. In her first takeover episode, Leonie
This week I talk to composer and performer Una Lee about her upcoming show – The Undocumented Tale of Dr. G – taking place 18 May at Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast. The Undocumented Tale of Dr. G is a music theatre piece brings together Un
This week I chat to techno musicians Koichi Samuels and Liam McCartan about RESIST – a series of live events showcasing electronic music and visual artists in Belfast.  Their next show is Friday 21 April at The Black Box (tickets here). I ask K
“The best artists working now are those that are asking difficult questions.” Eoin Dara is an art curator who has been based at The MAC Belfast since its opening in 2012.  But big changes are afoot, as Eoin is about to move to Scotland to take
This week I met Moving On Music‘s Brian Carson for a preview of their Brilliant Corners festival.  The festival runs Tuesday 7th until Saturday 11th March with a string of great gigs in the realm of jazz, bop, experimental and free improvisatio
Intent Magazine and Podcast is a new venture from Belfast-based friends and housemates Fiona McDonnell and Constance Keane. The project will highlight people who make and are involved with art, music, and culture on the island of Ireland – usin
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! Whether you’re loved up, lonely or just looking for an alternative squishy-feelings playlist – have a listen to this week’s show where I catch up with journo buddy and music-nerd Suzie Mccracken. We run through some of our
Bad Fit are the baddest band in Belfast!  Their first single ‘Strong Forever’ was the baddest pop tune to come out of NI last year!  Now they’ve a new single called ‘In the City’ – and it’s particularly bad! On this week’s show I’m joined by Gr
Rayna Gellert is an Old Time American fiddler and singer-songwriter with deep roots in American traditional music that has led to her collaborating with artists such as Sara Watkins, Abigail Washburn and Loudon Wainwright III. I ask Rayna about
It’s the first episode of 2017 and it’s a good one!  I’m joined by Leonie McDonagh (aka Leoniepony) – creative powerhouse and director of Ponydance Theatre Company.  Leonie presents the solo ‘Idiom’ at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival’s Out to L
In the last episode we started the THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SONG SHOWDOWN – a knock-out bracket to decide the best christmas song ever.  We worked our way through the first round match-ups and now we’re ready to decide the finals.  My panel of gu
One year on from the first ever episode of The Jewel Case I decided to re-festive-ise my playlist and get some Christmas songs on the stereo.  This time last year I picked some of my favourite winter warmers for an intimate seasonal set.  But f
This week I caught up with Duke Special ahead of his three-night stint at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre that caps off a year-long residency at the theatre.  I find out what the Duke has been up to in 2016 and how his creative process has changed sinc
For this week’s podcast I took a trip to Edenderry Village to visit the home studio of illustrator Stephen Maurice Graham.  A few years ago Stephen decided to give it a bash as a full-time self-employed illustrator and since then he’s made big
Last Thursday Outburst Queer Arts Festival hosted the Northern Irish premiere of KIKI – a documentary film about an LGBTQ youth-of-color subculture of New York City’s Ballroom scene, made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna’s music video “Vogu
So I managed to catch up with Tim Wheeler from Ash while he was backstage at Belfast’s Mandela Hall.  Ash are back in Belfast for performance at the Northern Irish Music Prize where they’re receiving the Oh Yeah Legend award for their amazing c
Ahhhh!  Halloween is around the corner so I thought I’d make a suitably spooky mix to soundtrack my doorbell paranoia.  I’ve concocted a playlist potion of some stone-cold-rigamortis classics and some especially gruesome deep cuts.  Sweet night
This weekend a large number of artists studios in Belfast are opening their doors for Belfast Open Studios.   For this week’s podcast I met with with Rob Hilken from Visual Arts Ireland to hear about the open-day and about how VAI help support
This week’s guest on the podcast is David Holmes – one of Northern Ireland’s most interesting musical minds.   He’s the auteur of critically acclaimed solo albums  Let’s Get Killed  and  The Holy Pictures.  He’s the curator of seminal tapes  Es
Back when I had braces on my teeth and gel in my hair I played my first ever gig in Belfast at the Front Page bar.  One of the other bands on the stage that night were a couple of years older and a tonne of riffs wiser.  They were called Remain
This month PS2 Gallery in Belfast has been hosting a group exhibition co-ordinated by the Go Girl collective – a group of young, female creatives based in Northern Ireland who organise eye-catching projects that realise feminist agendas in a ve
This week I chat with the world’s most dangerous harpist Ursula Burns, taking a trip through her discography and looking towards her upcoming show at Edinburgh Fringe. ‘The Dangerous Harpist’ runs 16 – 18 August at Stand in the Square, Edinburg
This week I met with Min Kim, curator of ‘Tuning the White Walls’ – a series of sound events happening in PS2 Gallery Belfast  11 – 27 August 2016. We’re joined by one of the performers, Tristan Clutterbuck, to discuss some recent movements in
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