PODAROONEY

Jun 16 2023 31
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Joe Rooney talks to friends and acquaintances that he’s met and worked with over twenty years in the entertainment industry; some old friends or foes that he’s worked with on and off over the years and some recent acquaintances that he has met on the road, on the set of some TV show or in a festival club bar and has cajoled or blackmailed into chatting on the mic for an hour or so. @joerooney1

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Episode 159 - Listen Back | Christy Dignam

Jun 16 2023 94 mins  
I'd heard of Aslan when I was in the band Guernica but didn't know their music and probably didn't want to as they were just another competitor. That's the way it is when you are in a band. When I first heard the song "This Is". I loved the melody and to this day I love this song. There's a line in the song "Everybody hits you with this feeling" which from what I know of Christy en

Episode 158 - The Wild Geeze

Jan 28 2022 33 mins  
The Wild Geeze is made up of Miss Lavelle and Breda from the Queer Cabaret. The duo met a year and a half ago. Miss Lavelle was running Limerick’s first monthly cabaret show ‘Chez Le Cabaret’ in the artistic Chez Le Fab, Arthur’s Quay. Breda being a comedian, did not hesitate to message and ask to be a part of a Limerick cabaret. Breda performed at the September show and br

Episode 157 - AKA

Jan 07 2022 32 mins  
Aka is an Irish cosplay performer, adventure seeker, digital creator and vocaloid dancer. She has performed at cosplay events all over Europe. She has a very popular Instagram on which she cosplays characters from anime and vocaloids in videos and stills and goes to extraordinary lengths to get inside the heads of these characters. You will find her on Instagram at @akadinosan Lear

Episode 156 - Sahar Ali

Nov 19 2021 25 mins  
Sahar Ali is a comedian, spoken word performer and blogger who grew up in Ireland and is currently living and working in Dubai. Her blog Saharcasm became her first solo show which she performed in the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017 intertwining spoken word poetry, comedy, and music in an hour long show that looked at the cross cultural relations in Ireland. Sahar currently performs

Episode 155 - Karl MacDermott

Nov 05 2021 44 mins  
Karl MacDermott was amongst the new breed of stand-up comedians in the Ireland of that era. In 1988 he helped co-found The Comedy Cellar at The International Bar in Dublin with Barry Murphy, Ardal O’Hanlon and Kevin Gildea. After appearing in his own one - man comedy show Memoirs of a Midget at The Peacock Theatre in 1989 and he had successful runs at The Gilded Balloon in The Ed

Episode 154 - Barbara Taylor

Sep 23 2021 55 mins  
Barbara Taylor has a compassionate, holistic approach to fitness based on cultivating self love, not self deprivation. At 49 Barbara has spent 32 years body building. She studied ballet from 14 years, competitive Gymnastics from 7 yrs and started weight lifting at 18. She is an avid Mountain hiker in Ireland, has completed numerous Camino's in Spain & Portugal and walked camino sol

Episode 153 - Guy Pratt

Sep 06 2021 66 mins  
Pratt's music career spans more than 30 years. He is best known for his prolific work as a session bass player, working with artists including Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Gary Moore, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Robert Palmer, Echo & the Bunnymen, Iggy Pop,Whitesnake, Womack & Womack, Kirsty MacColl and Robbie Robertson. Pratt has been a member of the Australian rock band Icehouse, and is

Episode 152 - Listen Back - Sean Lock

Aug 20 2021 59 mins  
On August 18th 2021, the world lost one of its finest comedians, Sean Lock. To pay tribute to the great man listen back to the interview Joe had with Sean in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 151 - Trevor Locke

Jul 31 2021 42 mins  
Trevor Lock is an English comedian, actor and playwright. He is noted for the circuitous and surreal nature of his comedy. He managed to come with a new form of comedy which involves audience participation in a show called Community Circle. Trevor’s new attempt at making a thing that only some people will like is similar to Community Circle and Girl v Boy but funnier and not as g

Episode 150 - Heather Turkington

Jul 23 2021 39 mins  
Heather Turkington is a dramatherapist based in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. She works full-time as a dramatherapist in an adult male mental health residential and nursing facility. Heather holds the NI Link Person role for BADth (British Association of Dramatherapists), is the NI rep for dramatherapy in AHPFNI (Allied Health Professionals Federation Northern Ireland), and is