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The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals - S3 E4 Arrivalists -Patrick M BarrettThe Panti Personals S3 E4 Arrivalists - Patrick M Barrett
Panti Bliss is in conversation with artist and musician Patrick M Barrett aka Arrivalists in this episode of The Panti Personals.
Patrick is a true blue Dubliner and his music life has stetched across several identities from his early days in the band Ten Speed Racer ( with two of his brothers) to his collaboration with Joe Chester as The Hedge Schools but now the singer/songwriter releases his solo work under the intriguing moniker - Arrivalists.
His twitter bio says it all : ‘Sings , Writes , Cares , Kind . Not Pitch Perfect. Fond of...
2022-06-1755 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals - S3 E3 Farah ElleThe Panti Personals S3 E3 Farah Elle
Panti is Aunty Panti in this episode with the uber talented Irish Libyan singer and artist Farah Elle. They met five years ago on Pantisocracy when Farah was just emerging and now with her debut album coming out later this year Farah is back and sharing her music, her story and what keeps her joyful. Farah in Arabic means joy or happiness, and while Farah has experienced a lot of turmoil in her 27 years she shines with light and love. She came to Ireland with her parents and siblings when she was just...
2022-06-0354 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals - S3 E2 DáithíThe Panti Personals S3 E2 Dáithí
Panti Bliss is with the Ballyvaughan native, and electronic meets traditional music artist Dáithí, in this episode of The Panti Personals. Dáithí grew up in the heartland of Irish traditional music in Co.Clare, he was playing the fiddle by the age of six and his grandfather was the legendary concertina player Chris Dorney, but while his music draws on that well, and his own sense of place, his artistry is shaped by digital tools. He had a viral hit 'Mary Keane's Introduction' (2015) sampling an audio recording of his grandmother talking about...
2022-05-201h 02
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S3 E1 Pauline ScanlonThe Panti Personals Season 3 Episode 1 Pauline Scanlon
The Panti Personals is back for a new season of conversations and first up is the singer Pauline Scanlon whose new album 'The Unquiet' is a collection of songs inspired by the traumatic life of her mother Eileen. Pauline comes from the Dingle Gaeltacht but has made Headford, Co Galway her home, along with her husband and fellow musician, Eamon Murray and their young daughter Kitty. Pauline performs two of her songs live for the Queen with the accompaniment of guitarist Caoimhe Hopkinson Byrne.
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Pauline pe...
2022-05-0657 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S2 E8 - XonaTo close Season 2 of The Panti Personals we've a man that Panti Bliss can look up to, even while wearing high heels! It's 6 foot 7 Afro Irish soul singer and songwriter Xona - aka Jordan Onubogu. Xona was born in Lagos but calls Mullingar home, and has now made London his address. He tells the story of how he changed his name to his middle name Jordan, when he came as a ten year old, to Ireland, and started school.
Then, he wanted to fit in and to be the same as all the other children but today, as a confident...
2022-02-1854 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S2 E7 Edel MeadeEdel Meade is a jazz singer turned contemporary folk artist. She hails from Clonmel but has made Limerick her home and her latest album ‘Brigids and Patricias’ tells the stories of what it is to be a woman in Ireland from myth to misogyny; with songs about the true, though still unbelievable story, of Bridget Cleary, whose husband burnt her to death saying he believed she was a changeling, and a powerful spoken word piece called’ Long Way to Go’ about gender violence, which chimes with an Ireland which has just mourned Ashling Murphy.
With the announcement that Feb 1, St Brigid’s...
2022-02-0446 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S2 E6 Zapho & Senita AppiakorangThe Panti Personals S2 E6 Zapho & Senita Appiakorang
To mark the beginning of a new year of twos our Queen, Panti Bliss, is with a winning twosome, two boss women from the X Collective, co founder Zapho, aka Ele Breslin and her fellow singer and songwriter Senita Appiakorang. The X Collective is a coming together of new Irish music talent and ambition, founded by Beslin and her partner Emily Shaw, and is now a creative, collaborative network of about 100 artists, musicians, singers and writers across the country. Zapho and Senita came together with Toshín, Gemma Bradley and Chloe Agnew to...
2022-01-2153 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S2 E5 Niamh ReganFor our final show of 2021 we've a warm hearted conversation with the acclaimed Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan, who shares stories of love and loss, grief and re-found happiness with the Queen confessor, Panti Bliss. Niamh comes from Kilrickle, a small village near Loughrea, and her debut album Hemet was nominated as best album in both the Irish Choice and the Irish Folk Awards.
Hemet is named after the Californian homeplace of Niamh's husband Wesley Houdyshell, who is himself a musician and whose family are the fun force behind the band Hippie Cream. (We hear a clip from their song All the...
2021-12-3152 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals : S2 E4 - NealoPanti Bliss in conversation with the hip hop artist Nealo ranges from dog love to Dublin, from leaving law to following his heart, and from becoming a Dad to why cannabis should be legal. Nealo performs three of his songs, with his good mates Rachel MaCauley and Adam Shanahan, live for the Queen, and shares how lockdown brought time to write, but also time to assess relationships and future.
Nealo (aka Neal Keating) hails from Clonsilla and began his music and stage career with the hard core punk band Frustration but after a sideways trip into law he found his...
2021-12-171h 00
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S2 E3 - SivePanti Bliss is with alt-folk artist Sive in this episode of The Panti Personals. A proud Naas native Sive’s voice and music is transformative, often called ‘dream folk’, and beyond her creative and artistic life she uses music and song as a community musician in choirs whose members include those with dementia and care home residents.
During lockdown, while some of us were binging on Netflix, she co founded a social enterprise called Embrace Music, using music to make a positive difference in the world, and wrote a song cycle for the hospice movement ‘Murmurations’.
She’s a climate warrior or w...
2021-12-0356 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals - S2 E2 - Ye VagabondsThe Panti Personals - S2 E2 - Ye Vagabonds
Panti Bliss is with Brían and Diarmuid Mac Glionn, otherwise known as Ye Vagabonds, the multi-award winning harmonising brothers who hail from Co Carlow but whose music, songs and story are dipped in the waters of their mother's homeland, Arranmore Island in Co Donegal. Ye Vagabonds picked up best band at this year's RTÉ Irish Folk Awards as well as best folk track for their version of "I'm A Rover' and with Panti Bliss they share the roots of their music and how the Cobblestone Pub in Smithfield, ( which was un...
2021-11-191h 15
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S2 E1 - Dani LarkinThe Panti Personals S2 E1 - Dani Larkin
'For me music is medicine' says Dani Larkin.
The Panti Personals podcast is back and in this first episode of a new season Panti Bliss is talking with folk singer-songwriter Dani Larkin, who comes from the tiny townland of Madden in the border county of Armagh. Dani shares her Gemini fascination with duality, and how being queer, and coming from a conflicted borderland, has shaped her. She's worked in conflict resolution, using music, across the world, including a period spent working in Israel and Palestine which she says has left a lifelong...
2021-11-0552 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S1 E8 : Jerry FishThe Panti Personals with Panti Bliss and Jerry Fish #ThePantiPersonals
Panti Bliss is with the definitive showman Jerry Fish for this episode of The Panti Personals. To some he's best known as the frontman and driving force of the hit 1990s band 'An Emotional Fish' to others he's the creative magic behind 'The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow' at the Electric Picnic Festival (remember festivals?!). Born in Dublin, he was raised and shaped by London's South End, where the streets were, he says, tough and he was surrounded by a multi-cultural migrant community. from Ireland, the Carribbean and Asia. He came bac...
2021-08-0657 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S1 E7 Elaine MaiThe Panti Personals S1 E7 Elaine Mai #ThePantiPersonals
For maybe the first time in our Pantisocracy world Panti Bliss gets to chin wag with a fellow county woman, electronic composer, singer and musician Elaine Mai. Elaine grew up in rural Mayo on a farm until she was eleven and moved to town. She came out in college at University College Galway and met her future wife Roisin there, as well as starting to explore her musical journey which eventually led her to electronic music. In those days there were few women leading in that genre and she had no role mo...
2021-07-2353 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S1 E6 : Bronagh GallagherThe Panti Personals S1 E6 Bronagh Gallagher
#ThePantiPersonals pantisocracy.ie/bronagh-gallagher
The original Derry Girl Bronagh Gallagher, is the guest with Panti Bliss is this episode of The Panti Personals. Bronagh, an old friend of Panti's, began her film acting and singing career on a high as Bernie in Alan Parker's classic, The Commitments when she was just 17. Her film appearances include Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and Albert Nobbs and she is currently filming the TV series Brassic in Manchester. Bronagh's work life splits between acting and singing and during the pandemic she collaborated with Dave Stewart on the track...
2021-07-091h 10
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals S1 E5 : Adrian CrowleyAdrian Crowley, the man whose voice Panti Bliss describes as ‘the deepest, darkest pint of Guinness pre smoking ban’ is the guest in this episode of The Panti Personals. Adrian is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, and composer whose ninth album ‘The Watchful Eye of the Stars’ is just out. Adrian was born in Malta to a Maltese Mum and an Irish Dad, and after a few early years in Cameroon, he grew up in Barna, Co. Galway.
These days he lives in Dublin with his French born wife and their two children, Max and Alice. In this intriguing, conversation with Panti, A...
2021-06-251h 08
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals: S1 E4 Jane Willow#ThePantiPersonals www.pantisocracy.ie
Panti Bliss is with a gorgeous young Dutch woman, singer and songwriter Jane Willow in this episode of The Panti Personals. But of course Jane's real name is Janneke van Nijnanten and much like our Queen, Panti Bliss and her homeboy Rory O'Neill, she loves the freedom a stage persona and name gives to her. There's a weird Glen Hansard theme going on in The Panti Personals as we heard how Galia Arad was inspired to come to Ireland by a Glen gig, and our Janneke took off to Dublin after hearing Glen talking about the g...
2021-06-1143 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals : S1 E3 Myles O'Reilly#ThePantiPersonals www.pantisocracy.ie
The multi-talented artist Myles O'Reilly is the guest with Panti Bliss in this episode of The Panti Personals. Myles, an artist of words, music and film, composes and releases his own beautiful, ambient music under the moniker Indistinct Chatter.
Myles is celebrated for his gorgeous music docu-videos with artists like Villagers, Imelda May, Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and of course the lovely Lisa Hannigan - whose music is our theme song.
He’s one half of the music show ‘This Ain't No Disco’ with Donal Dineen and has curated a stage at Body & Soul Festival for some...
2021-05-2855 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals : S1 E2 Galia AradThe Panti Personals : S1 E2 Panti Bliss meets Galia Arad. (released May 15) http://pantisocracy.ie/galia-arad/
Galia Arad describes herself as 'Bob Dylan meets Britney Spears' and if that doesn't make you want to listen to this episode of The Panti Personals, whatever will? Galia hails from Bloomington, Indiana, but this singer-songwriter with a comic punch, has made Dublin her home. When she's asked by taxi drivers what fella brought her to Dublin? Galia smiles and says 'Glen Hansard' but in truth it's as much Shane MacGowan's work, as Glen's. But then you'll have to listen to the podcast to...
2021-05-1457 min
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissThe Panti Personals : S1 E1 'Bressie' Niall BreslinThe Panti Personals - Season 1 Episode 1 www.pantisocracy.ie
Panti Bliss meets Bressie' Niall Breslin
* trigger warning. This episode conversation touches on mental health, and references child abuse and suicide.
Panti Bliss is breaking out of lockdown and shaping a new podcast, a child of Pantisocracy, The Panti Personals, where she gets up close (two metres anyway) and personal with someone, for an intimate conversation and a private performance.
Her first guest is a man of more hats than Philip Treacy. It's the handsome beast, mindfulness and music man, Niall Breslin, 'Bressie' of the Blizzards. This time Niall is Blizzardsless an...
2021-05-011h 10
The Panti Personals with Panti BlissTHE PANTI PERSONALS : TrailerThe Panti Personals - a new podcast hosted by Panti Bliss, started May 1 2021.
Panti Bliss is breaking out of lockdown and getting up close (well two metres) and personal. In this new podcast, a child of the multi-award winning Pantisocracy, Panti Bliss is escaping her husband, Penny the dog and Crayon the lockdown cat, to have some intimate and revealing conversations with old and new friends who also, since, they're all performers, entertain her in a private audience of one. In this season she meets the handsome beast, mindfulness and music man, Niall Breslin, aka Bressie of the Blizzards, American...
2021-04-1400 min
Athena Media - Podcast DirectoryO2 Women Mean Business Conference and Awards 2009 - The WinnersThe annual Women Mean Business Conference and Awards ceremony was held in September 2009 in the Shelbourne Hotel. Athena Media produced three short videos on the event. This third video introduces the four winners of this years awards at the event.To find out more visit www.womenmeanbusiness.com and www.athenamedia.ie
2009-10-2200 minAthena Media - Podcast DirectoryO2 Women Mean Business Conference and Awards 2009The annual Women Mean Business Conference and Awards ceremony was held in September 2009 in the Shelbourne Hotel. Athena Media produced three short videos on the event. This first video gives an overview of the event. To find out more visit www.womenmeanbusiness.com and www.athenamedia.ie
2009-10-2200 minAthena Media - Podcast DirectoryO2 Women Mean Business Conference and Awards 2009 - The SpeakersThe annual Women Mean Business Conference and Awards ceremony was held in September 2009 in the Shelbourne Hotel. Athena Media produced three short videos on the event. This second video concentrates on the three international speakers at the event, Sarah Newman, founder of needahotel.com, Michael O Doherty, co-founder of plexus Bio-Energy and Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic.. To find out more visit www.womenmeanbusiness.com and www.athenamedia.ie
2009-10-2200 minAthena Media - Podcast DirectoryWomen Mean Business Conference and Awards 2008The annual Women Mean Business Conference and Awards ceremony was held in September 2008 in the Shelbourne Hotel. Athena Media produced this short video on the event. To find out more visit www.womenmeanbusiness.com and www.athenamedia.ie
2008-11-2500 min