8Radio

mvt

Seems 8radio is back on at 105.2fm again-great to see & hear

Max Headroom

mvt wrote: »

Seems 8radio is back on at 105.2fm again-great to see & hear

Been on since friday...great to hear an real guitar based rock station back on irish radio, seeing as we dont have one....at least for now...;)

To Simon...We REALLY need this back on FM sooner rather than later.....nova are getting away with murder..

Declan A Walsh

There's already a thread dedicated to 8Radio:
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057157564

Max Headroom

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

There's already a thread dedicated to 8Radio:
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057157564

doesnt hurt to remind people tho....;)

California Dreamer

Max Headroom wrote: »

doesnt hurt to remind people tho....;)

But Nova plays rock music!!!!!

Max Headroom

California Dreamer wrote: »

But Nova plays rock music!!!!!

:D:D:D:D...ur funny..

Tabnabs

Found it by accident and it was the first time in a long time that the radio stayed on in the car instead of streaming off the phone. Excellent station.

Declan A Walsh

Tabnabs wrote: »

Found it by accident and it was the first time in a long time that the radio stayed on in the car instead of streaming off the phone. Excellent station.

It's nice to have an alternative alright.

As I said already:

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

There's already a thread dedicated to 8Radio:
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057157564

Max Headroom

Bump.......:)

Max Headroom

Live every day...:)

kelzer

Does anyone know the bitrate 8Radio streams at from their TuneIn/app? Is there a site for all Irish stations and their stream quality?

fryup

nationwide or just dublin?

kelzer

fryup wrote: »

nationwide or just dublin?

I am listening in Dublin

Max Headroom

External Live Stream
FormatBitratehttp://8radio.serverroom.net/listen.plsaac....64

kelzer

Max Headroom wrote: »

External Live Stream
FormatBitratehttp://8radio.serverroom.net/listen.plsaac....64

Hmm so not so great sound quality then. Disappointing.

fryup

fryup wrote: »

nationwide or just dublin?

kelzer wrote: »

I am listening in Dublin

i mean is it just online or can it be tuned in the old fashioned way?

Max Headroom

No word of it on FM ..for now anyways....usually pops up here when theyre on FM at the odd weekend....

Declan A Walsh

Given the pandemic situation, it's probably easier to continue online only at the moment.

SimonMaher

Hello all,

Apologies for the delay in getting back on this one. Planning to do some FM weekends later in the year but of course dependent on the Covid situation. For now, online as normal and with live programming every weekday from 11am. Good time for audience, bad time for revenue!

A poster above was looking for a higher quality stream option:

https://cassl.rcast.net/stream/60888/

That's 128k MP3.

Simon

Max Headroom

Hey Simon..any chance of some older indie stuff and more punk/new wave/electronica.....the new disco pop stuff does my head in...(50 something).:D

Declan A Walsh

You might want to check out Steve Conway's A to Z of Great Tracks on Wednesdays at 8pm and repeated on Saturdays at 10am.

This has been running since January 2014 and just now he will be finishing the letter X and moving on to the letter Y. Only a few weeks left! And no, I have not been following it every week since then! For starters, I did not have a smartphone device all that time!

Max Headroom

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

You might want to check out Steve Conway's A to Z of Great Tracks on Wednesdays at 8pm and repeated on Saturdays at 10am.

This has been running since January 2014 and just now he will be finishing the letter X and moving on to the letter Y. Only a few weeks left! And no, I have not been following it every week since then! For starters, I did not have a smartphone device all that time!

Imagine that was a short show......:P

Declan A Walsh

Max Headroom wrote: »

Imagine that was a short show......:P

He started X about half-way in last week and had one more to play at the beginning of this week! So, he went from W to Y across two shows!

Incidentally, he pointed out last year that songs beginning with the letter T took up a much longer period to do than any other letter. That was because of all the songs where the first word begins with "Th" especially "The"!

Declan A Walsh

I was listening last night to the A to Z of Great Tracks. Steve Conway said he expects to get to Z in September! Of course, there are a lot of song titles beginning with the letter Y, when you take into account all those song titles starting with the word "You", which he is in the middle of at the moment!

Genghis

Just popping on to congratulate Simon and the full team on this station. Love the variety of music, focus on Indie, esp Irish Indie.

During lockdown I am listening to this daily, its great to hear actual shows with real, professional, knowledgeable presenters on a niche online station. Also, am well impressed with all the work on the website and app, the listen back service, etc.

Please keep it up!

Haven't heard much (any) advertising, so no idea how ye do it!! If ye ever look for patreon / subscribers, I'm there.

SimonMaher

Genghis wrote: »

Just popping on to congratulate Simon and the full team on this station. Love the variety of music, focus on Indie, esp Irish Indie.

During lockdown I am listening to this daily, its great to hear actual shows with real, professional, knowledgeable presenters on a niche online station. Also, am well impressed with all the work on the website and app, the listen back service, etc.

Please keep it up!

Haven't heard much (any) advertising, so no idea how ye do it!! If ye ever look for patreon / subscribers, I'm there.

Thank you very much Genghis. Very nice of you to take the time to post this.

Well spotted too that our revenue via advertising has been hit very hard since the pandemic. We are almost totally reliant on revenue from the Live Music business and that is unlikely to return to any large extent before 2021 so we are exploring all options to keep the bills paid including Subs, Patreon etc.

Thanks again!

Simon Maher
8Radio.com

Declan A Walsh

I'm listening to the last episode of the first series of Steve Conway's A to Z of Great Tracks. There's only one song left now! It started in January 2014 and it's taken this long to finish! If you missed it, it's repeated on Saturday at 10am. He started the letter Z half-way through last week and it takes up all of this final episode.

Next week, Steve starts a month or so of what he calls an "Interregnum". He will be going through songs that do not start with letters (characters like brackets as well as numeric digits) - a tidying up exercise, as it were.

Then in October, he will start the A to Z of Great Tracks (Mark 2) all over again: this time newer tunes he would have missed first time alphabetically, or songs he could not get his hands on at the time, or songs he discovered on 8Radio.

So, what do you think the last track is that Steve selected?

Hodors Appletart

Cypress Hill!!!!!

what a station

no "bleeps" or Radio Edit nonsense either

great stuff

Max Headroom

Tried listening yesterday but kept stopping and buffering.....back to PR....for now...

GBX

Brilliant station! Listen to it every day. The scope of music that's played is brilliant!

Declan A Walsh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I'm listening to the last episode of the first series of Steve Conway's A to Z of Great Tracks. There's only one song left now! It started in January 2014 and it's taken this long to finish! If you missed it, it's repeated on Saturday at 10am. He started the letter Z half-way through last week and it takes up all of this final episode.

Next week, Steve starts a month or so of what he calls an "Interregnum". He will be going through songs that do not start with letters (characters like brackets as well as numeric digits) - a tidying up exercise, as it were.

Then in October, he will start the A to Z of Great Tracks (Mark 2) all over again: this time newer tunes he would have missed first time alphabetically, or songs he could not get his hands on at the time, or songs he discovered on 8Radio.

So, what do you think the last track is that Steve selected?

It was Zoo Station by U2, in case you are interested.

I wonder will Steve publish all the entries and associated stats. It would be nice, for example, to know the very first entry. And which artistes had multiple entries....and so on.

Declan A Walsh

I'm glad I happened to tune into Steve Conway's A to Z of Great Tracks tonight. It was worth it alone for A Face in the Crowd (Tom Petty), A Forest (The Cure), A Girl called Johnny (The Waterboys) and A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins)...and it's not over yet!

Max Headroom

Enjoying Mark Rileys A-Z of Punk on 6music every evening ....nostalgic..:o

Declan A Walsh

Max Headroom wrote: »

Enjoying Mark Rileys A-Z of Punk on 6music every evening ....nostalgic..:o

Must investigate that!

its_steve116

Max Headroom wrote: »

Enjoying Mark Rileys A-Z of Punk on 6music every evening ....nostalgic..:o

God save the punk!

Max Headroom

its_steve116 wrote: »

God save the punk!

I now have the polar opposite of a Mohawk....:(:(

BTW..Polar opposite , good album by Sick Puppies , check them out..

Declan A Walsh

Enjoying Indies Greatest Hits with Simon Maher at the moment. I would not normally get to hear 8Radio at this hour of the day.

Max Headroom

18:34 Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
18:31 Bess Atwell - Co op
18:28 REM - Pop Song 89
18:25 Case Conrad - Heavy metal bars
18:21 Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts)
18:17 Samantha Crain - Bloomsday
18:14 Ben Folds Five - Army
18:11 Teleman - Fun Destruction
18:08 Ladyhawke - Back of the van
18:04 Santigold - Get some
18:01 Claud - Guard Down
17:57 Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
17:52 The Go Team - World remember me now
17:50 Dutch Uncles - Flexxin
17:46 Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
17:42 Cathal Coughlan - The Knockout Artist

Best hour of music I've heard in a long time.....

Dipole Keith

Max Headroom wrote: »

18:34 Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
18:31 Bess Atwell - Co op
18:28 REM - Pop Song 89
18:25 Case Conrad - Heavy metal bars
18:21 Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts)
18:17 Samantha Crain - Bloomsday
18:14 Ben Folds Five - Army
18:11 Teleman - Fun Destruction
18:08 Ladyhawke - Back of the van
18:04 Santigold - Get some
18:01 Claud - Guard Down
17:57 Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
17:52 The Go Team - World remember me now
17:50 Dutch Uncles - Flexxin
17:46 Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
17:42 Cathal Coughlan - The Knockout Artist

Best hour of music I've heard in a long time.....

Wow, Haven’t heard that Simple Minds song in years

Declan A Walsh

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Wow, Haven’t heard that Simple Minds song in years

Promised You a Miracle is one of those Simple Minds songs that has been largely ignored on mainstream radio and should get the odd play. Another one is Someone Somewhere. We won't even talk about their earlier songs like Chelsea Girl or American Love Song! I would love to hear New Gold Dream being played. Might request that one next time I am listening to a live broadcast of 8Radio.com.

Max Headroom

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Promised You a Miracle is one of those Simple Minds songs that has been largely ignored on mainstream radio and should get the odd play. Another one is Someone Somewhere. We won't even talk about their earlier songs like Chelsea Girl or American Love Song! I would love to hear New Gold Dream being played. Might request that one next time I am listening to a live broadcast of 8Radio.com.

Would love to hear that..........and more obscure tracks from R.E.M , Television, Magazine.....younger alternative fans need to hear these older groups...

Declan A Walsh

They are back with a temporary license run on FM:

We’re ridiculously excited to confirm that 8Radio will be back on FM from October 22nd running for 5 weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. We continue of course online 24/7 via our Smartphone apps, TuneIn and Smart Speaker. We’re celebrating 8 years of 8Radio playing Indie music to listeners with discerning musical tastes! Join us on FM or online over the next 5 weekends and tell your friends to try 8Radio for size. Thanks to our title sponsor Whelanslive.com for ongoing support and help with this FM run. You can get full details on our FM run HERE.

Declan A Walsh

An old episode of Steve Conway's The A to Z of Great Track is being relayed tonight online - songs starting with "W" - from some time last year. Up to last week, he was going through the alphabet again and was in the middle of songs starting with "B". The penny did not drop straight away when he said he had been doing this just over 6 years: he started it in January 2014, so this episode had to be during the first half of 2020!

I wonder is that a mistake or has he managed to fall behind for some reason. I will try to listen to the "repeat" on Saturday at 10am just in case the coming temporary license has changed the schedule around. It will be on FM at that stage, which could be handy.

Incidentally, last night the RDS on 105.2 FM, recently vacated by Freedom FM, said 8Radio.

turbocab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118050130#Comment_118050130

overmodulated audio on 105.2 .tuner is muting on peaks of audio chaps

KildareP

Test audio this morning on 105.2 and showing 8RADIO. There is a hiccup in the audio every minute or so, sounds like a skip on the playout system.

Nialler73

I had it on in the car for around half an hour last night. Delighted to have it back. Should be there permanently.

Declan A Walsh

I listened for a bit this morning and again this evening. It was great to have them back on FM. The ever knowledgeable Dan McDermott was on first thing and the ever cheerful Simon Maher was on this evening!

Declan A Walsh

I caught a bit of Paul Lynskey last night. He is one of the many largely unsung talents of 8Radio.com. He did a good job. Curiously, MW pirate Energy Power AM were relaying 8Radio.com last night! 

Incidentally, I heard a bit of 8Radio this afternoon, It came in loud and clear on the car radio on its Dublin frequency of 105.2 all the way up in Drogheada, Co. Louth. That's a good reach.

Conway635

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118050130#Comment_118050130

That was unplanned - a glitch in the works somewhere. The correct episode was broadcast in the repeat slot on the Saturday. I'm currently about two-thirds of the way through "B" on the second round of the alphabet.

Steve

Declan A Walsh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118121592#Comment_118121592

Thanks Steve. I have managed to get almost every week since you went back to A - almost always Wednesdays! Saturdays at 10am does not suit anymore, whereas it used to some years ago! I used the On Demand a couple of times to catch up, although I missed out on that particular one!

Keep up the good work.

On a different note, I see that Amber is still on Sunday mornings. Fair play to her. She has been with 8Radio.com since the start.

Declan A Walsh

I heard a bit of 8Radio this afternoon, I could just about pick it up near Curtlestown Woods (a bit outside Enniskerry, Co.Wicklow), but when I got to Enniskerry, it came in loud and clear on the car radio on its Dublin frequency of 105.2. To be fair, Enniskerry is just over the border!