The Irish Jam returns for 2021 with Melanie Simpson.

Music journalist Kate Crudgington (Get In Her Ears, The Line of Best Fit) joins Mel to pick her three favourite things this week including Kynsy’s debut EP “Things That Don’t Exist EP”, the new single from New Pagans & a compilation EP “Bangers & Breakups” to raise money for domestic violence charities in Northern Ireland.

That plus music from Fontaines D.C. & Soulwax, Cosha, A. Smyth, Elaine Mai & MayKay, Turnstiles, Adam Garrett, Eunice Janine, Wyvern Lingo, Kynsy, New Pagans, Problem Patterns, Fehdah, Sal Dulu, Tolu Makay, Smoothboi Ezra, Orla Gartland, Gerr Walsh, Mary Coughlin, Fia Moon, Nylophone, Megan O’Neill, John of the Apocalypse, Étáin, SOMEFINN, Aoife Carton & BK PEPPER.