Show Notes
Joe Rooney - comedian, writer, broadcaster, and former frontman of Irish band Guernica - delivers a brilliant Teenage Wasteland across schooldays in County Meath, the 1980s Dublin music scene; and his early comedy career, including landing his iconic role in Fr. Ted.
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Cam Cole traces his journey from a four-quid childhood guitar to captivating crowds worldwide. We explore his teenage influences, from Cream to Sepultura, the evolution of his extraordinary one-man band, life on the road, American juke joints, and the heavy blues and psychedelia of his new album, Lost in Creation. Plus, that unforgettable Ted Lasso appearance.
Arborist joins Teenage Wasteland to trace his journey from growing up in Ballymena in the ’80s and ’90s to making his superb new album, Looking for Love. We explore a musical education shaped by his parents’ country records, his siblings’ dance and pop collections, and his own discovery of Britpop, Snow Patrol and The Divine Comedy. From his Pixies-loving first band, Pilgrim, comes a teenage dream realised - collaborating with Kim Deal. Mark also reflects on The Holy Innocents, becoming Arborist, and how producing Looking for Love himself compared with recording alongside Matthew E. White in Virginia and at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios.
Paddy Hanna joins Teenage Wasteland to talk Thin Lizzy, growing up in Castleknock, childhood horror films and finding his way into music through friendship, Radiohead and an Elvis Costello-inspired guitar. From the wild days of Grand Pocket Orchestra to his solo work, we trace a musical life shaped by curiosity and perseverance. At its heart is his beautiful new album, Paddy Hanna’s Bacharach Show Volume One, out November 20 via Strange Brew. Plus - sharing a stage with Burt Bacharach, and why Tom Waits’ 'Flower’s Grave' is his favourite song of all time.
In this episode of Teenage Wasteland, 'Blue Jay Way' becomes a road into the curious mythology of Los Angeles. From The Beatles and Pink Floyd to Death Grips, Frank Black and the Pixies, Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, David Lynch and Naomi Watts, Chinatown and William Mulholland - we follow a single Hollywood Hills address outward into music, movies, water, power and the city itself - and ask how one Beatles song can contain so much of Los Angeles.
Darren Morrissey and Greg Marshall left Dublin for London with two acoustic guitars, a pile of songs and not much of a plan. What followed was busking, chance encounters, beautiful two-part harmonies, two albums, years on the road - and then, after a final show in Mumbai in 2019, silence. Now Morrissey & Marshall are back. In this episode of Teenage Wasteland, we trace the story from their early days in Dublin and the move to London, through being discovered by John Reynolds, recording And So It Began and We Rise, and the strange chemistry that happens when two voices lock together.