Street freaks, beat creeps, ming merchants, guerrilla trolley D’Oliers; the sweaty things George Carlin warned you not to pet. The streets are dead; Acid Granny have taken to the airwaves, another astral plane of esoteric meltiness from which to celebrate Ireland and Irishness, music and poetry.
It’s all here and more – the power of Irish milk and dairy, the taste of hot tae and the sound of 7UP before it goes flat, muck and Michael Collins and mad talented hoors from Derry to Ballydehob. Don’t forget the propaganda: “There’s nothing like fresh Offaly fish.”
Did you think one of the best Irish tracks of the year – certainly the month, if nothing else – would be buried midway through a gonzo radio segment? Neither did we, but Full Irish Every Day tickled our ears and gut. Acid Granny explain this whole radio thing better than we could ever try…
“We’ve figured out how to siphon craic out of the ether in salty chat rooms. There we melt into a glitchy hive mind and start flappin each other until we fly. That generates just about enough ideas and mental shterling to get us writing and then we bate our little backends into producing it into radio shows.
Radio Paddy is broadcasting 24/7 on FM 19.16 from 11th to 18th March.
Just three 10-30 minute episodes will go online because the rest of it would be too political and racy for the internet.
The Ecliptic Newsletter (listen here) curated a compilation of audio tours for the Lidl on Aungier Street that has a built-in museum with ancient ruins under the glass floor. We got into radio at that exact moment and submit our first show to cover that wonderful marriage of commerce and culture.”
So, there you have it. Now, is there anything to be said for another WhatsApp group? Always. If you WhatsApp Acid Granny on 089 980 1244, you can get added to a WhatsApp group where you’ll get all the latest bits and extras, “but no one will be allowed to talk unless it’s a very special occasion so the phone won’t get clogged with awful chatter.”
Here are all three instalments of Radio Paddy…