Christmas Tree Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes with bourbon vanilla buttercream icing, hand-piped white chocolate shapes, chewable (as opposed to the the old school filling-rending) decorative silver balls and Dr. Oetker writing icing tinsel.

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_Best_of_2011 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

TV on the Radio - Second Song
M83 - Midnight City
Hooray for Earth - True Loves
Little Dragon - Nightlight
YACHT - Dystopia (The Earth is on Fire)
Siriusmo - Einmal in der Woche Schrien
Friendly Fires - Chimes
SebastiAn - Kindercut
The Subs - Don't Stop the Music
Nouveaunoise - Believe
SBTRKT - Ready Set Loop
Modeselektor - Berlin
Tenaka - Open Out

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20111123 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Robot Koch - Nitesky
Caribou - Kaili (Walls Remix)
Luasa - Jane
Tenaka - Alaska
The Field - Is This Power
Luke Abbott - Whitebox
Jacques lu Cont - Reload
Humans - Bike Home
Not Squares - Don't Do Nothing
Bloody Beetroots - Church of Noise
Scroobius Pip - Astronaut

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110126 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Playlist 2011-10-26

1: Kavinsky - Nightcall
2: Justice - Ohio
3: Justice - On'n'On
4: Modeselektor - Pretentious Friends
5: The Glitch Mob - Warrior Concerto
6: Unknown - Darkside
7: Not Squares - Smith & Carlos
8: Labyrinth Ear - White Gold
9: Cant - Too Late, Too Far
10: Siriusmo - Einmal in Der Woche Schreien
11: Zongamin - Azzazza
12: Fukkk Offf - Rock Paper Scissors
13: The Subs - Hannibal & the Battle of Zama
14: Beat Torrent - Scars

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20111005 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Siriusmo - High Together
Candice Gordon - I See a Demon
The Asteroid Galaxy Tour - Around the Bend
No Diavolo - Holy Night
TEETH - Flowers (Gross Magic Remix)
Sepalot - Rainbows
How to Dress Well - Suicide Dream 3 (Solar Bears Remix)
Vacationer - Gone
Birdy Nam Nam - Jaded Future
The Juan MacLean - Everybody Get Close
Karlsson Winnberg - The Dance
Telex - Moskow Diskow
Cassius - Youth Speed Trouble Cigarettes (Don Diablo Remix)
Surkin - Ultralight

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110921 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

TV Girl - Baby You Were There
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Same Mistake
Is Tropical - Lies
Metronomy - Everything Goes My Way
Tenaka - Open Out
Nouveaunoise - Believe
Modeselektor - Berlin
Son Lux - All the Right Things
Little Dragon - Little Man
Slow Club - Where I'm Walking
Datarock - Roller Coaster
Noah and the Whale - Life is Life (Yuksek Remix)
Depth Affect - A Million Buzzing Locust
Modeselektor - Grillwalker
Justice - Audio Video Disco

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110831 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

M83 - Intro
TEETH - Flowers
Little Green Cars - My Love Took Me Down to the River
The Naked and Famous - The Sun
The Rapture - Children
Housse de Racket - Human Nature
Jape - The Oldest Mind
ASIWYFA - 7 Billion People All Alive at Once
Hooray for Earth - Same
Space Art - Love Machine
No Ceremony - Hurt love
Lorem Ipsum - An Astral Body
SBTRKT - Ready Set Loop

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110803 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Bonobo - Kiara
Glasser - Apply
MNDR - Caligula
Matthew Dear - I Put a Smell on You
WU LYF - Dirt
Friendly Fires - Lovesick
Suuns - Arena
SebastiAn - Ross Ross Ross
SBTRKT - Pharaohs
Cassius - 99
The Subs - The Face of the Planet
Calvin Harris - Disco Heat
Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers (Dave Sitek Remix)
Hudson Mohawke - Octan

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110727 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Playlist 2011-07-27

1: Architecture in Helsinki - Escapee (Lo-Fi-Fnk Remix)
2: The Knocks - Sunshine
3: Jonathan Johansson - Blommorna (Niva Remix)
4: New Navy - Zimbabwe
5: Zola Jesus - Vessel
6: The Glitch Mob - Drive it Like You Stole It
7: Hudson Mohawke - Fuse
8: Panda Bear - Slow
9: The Black Ghosts - Diamonds
10: The Rapture - Sail Away
11: Jacques Renault - Marilyn's Gold
12: Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
13: Grace Jones - Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix)

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110713 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Playlist 2011-07-13

1: Jim Jones - Believe in Magic
2: YACHT - I Walked ALone
3: SebastiAn - Embody
4: Lo-Fi Fnk - Boom
5: Black Light Dinner Party - Small Boxes
6: Gold Panda - MPB
7: Hercules and Love Affair - Painted Eyes
8: Noah and the Whale - Life is Life (Yuksek Remix)
9: The Rapture - How Deep is Your Love
10: Spector - Never Fade Away (Debukas Remix)
11: PUNKSTATIC - M_xTAPE6

Flirt FM Basic Info Flyer

This flyer was designed as an introduction to Flirt FM, Galway's Student Radio Station to be used at open days etc. Produced in a print run of 5,000 it was crucial that the information on the flyer date as little as possible. The schedule did not include any specifics and the contact info was limited to the general station e-mail address.

Printed on doucle-sided 250 gsm glossy A6 card, they are still in use 3 years later. Bird graphic purchased from iStock, all other artwork original.

The front image was also scaled up for a pop-up banner...

Spotify Playlist: RA Top 100 Albums 2000-2009

I've recently got hooked on Spotify, (having just streamed every track on my Lovesick summer special from the service) thanks to the recommendation of a friend. This friend happens to be from Norway, close to the origins of the music service in Sweden. It's delightful to use and if Ireland gets on board it'll be nothing short of marvellous. To thieve from Wikipedia...

Spotify is a Swedish DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independentrecord labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal.^[3][4] Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup "Spotify AB", the service had approximately ten million users as of 15 September 2010;^[5] about 1,000,000 of which were paying members.^[6] The service is, as of May 2011, only available in Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.

Thank heavens for my British bank account. Anyway, I've published my first mammoth playlist based on the Resident Advisor Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s. I hadn't heard of half the artists and thought it'd be mad decent to put together a playlist for folks like me. It's missing one track, by Shed, despite my best efforts, and there are a few substitutions by artists where nothing from the album was available. If you have Spotify, feel free to click here and catch up on a helluva-lot of recent electronic music, like I did this afternoon.

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110622 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Playlist 2011-06-22

1: Battles - Ice-cream
2: Blackalicious - First in Flight
3: The Detroit Emeralds - Feel the Need in Me
4: Graffiti 6 - Stare Into the Sun
5: The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
6: The Undertones - Here Comes the Summer
7: Wavves - King of the Beach
8: The Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
9: The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun
10: Local Natives - Sun Hands
11: The Polyphonic Spree - Light & Day
12: Caribou - Sun (Claptrap Remix)
13: Vitalic - You are my Sun
14: TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
15: Wilco - Summerteeth

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110615 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Playlist 2011-06-15

1: Xploding Plastix - Sports, Not Heavy Crime
2: Mr. Little Jeans - The Suburbs
3: Jai Paul - BTSU
4: Labyrinth Ear - White Gold
5: Tricky - Christiansands
6: Serengeti - Ha-ha
7: Stranger Day - Not Playin
8: Gold Panda - Spak Attack (Tin Can Telephone original)
9: The Toxic Avenger - Never Stop (BotOx Remix)
10: Locksley - The Whip (The Rapture Remix)
11: Wallace Vanborn - Rite Hands (One Man Party Remix)
12: Justice - Civilisation (Fking Champs Remix)

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Lovesick_20110608_Fruit by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Playlist 2011-06-08

1: Air - Chery Blossom Girl
2: Melt Banana - Picnic with Panic
3: Jon Spencer - Banana Version
4: Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
5: Tom Waits - Grapefruit Moon
6: Prince - Raspberry Beret
7: MIA - Mango Pickle Down River
8: The Apples - Attention!
9: Lemon Jelly - The Shouty Track
10: Peaches - Lovertits
11: Ratatat - Grape Juice City
12: Metro Area - Orange Alert (DFA Remix)
13: Erol Alkan & Boys Noize - Lemonade

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Airs each Wednesday at 20:00hrs on Flirt FM 101.3. Stream it live here, and check out all the previous playlists here.

FFFFruit_20110601_pt1 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

1: Manitoba - Twin
2: Amanda Blank - Make It Take It
3: Wild Beasts - Devil's Crayon
4: The Cast of Cheers - Glitter
5: Not Squares - Asylum
6: Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Inert Explosions
7: Beardyman - Smell the Vibe
8: The Phoenix Foundation - Pot
9: Freindly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
10: Solar Bears - The Quiet Planet
11: Kormac - Quackery
12: Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - I'm New Here

FFFFruit_20110601_pt2 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

1: Daft Punk - Face to Face
2: Jape - I Was a Man
3: Battles - Wall Street
4: LA Priest - Engine (Erol Alkan's Transonic Re-edit)
5: Logo - La Vie Moderne
6: Spank Rock - IMC
7: The Subs - Pope of Dope
8: Carte Blanche - Gare du Nord
9: Aphex Twin - Start as Mean to go On
10: The Flaming Lips - The Gash
11: Caribou - Sun

Make sure to check out my Wednesday night compatriot (and co-host for this special) Alan "Feed Me Weird Things" Meaney's mixcloud as below.

Feedmeweirdthings's Cloudcasts on Mixcloud

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Airs each Wednesday at 20:00hrs on Flirt FM 101.3. Stream it live here, and check out all the previous playlists here.

Lovesick_20110525 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

1: Goose - Safari Beach
2: Ladytron - White Elephant
3: When Saints go Machine - Kelly
4: Van She - Kelly (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)
5: Purity Ring - Lofticries
6: Labyrinth Ear - White Gold
7: Whomadewho - Space for Rent (The Rapture's Hush Hush Remix)
8: DJ Shadow - I Gotta Rock
9: Tom Vek - A Chore (Tom Vek Re-edit)
10: Austra - Lose It (Diamond Rings)
11: Daphni - Ye Ye

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Airs each Wednesday at 20:00hrs on Flirt FM 101.3. Stream it live here, and check out all the previous playlists here.

Lovesick_20110518 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

1: Bonobo - Wayward Bob
2: WhoMadeWho - Small Wonders
3: Chet Faker - No Diggity
4: Bon Iver - Calgary
5: The Miracles Club - Light of Love (Cut Copy Re-vision)
6: Suuns - Arena
7: Funeral Suits - Colour Fader (Crimes Against Remix)
8: Wolf Gang - Lions in Cages
9: Friendly Fires - Blue Cassette
10: Alex Winston - Choice Notes
11: Daniel Cronin - Sketchy
12: AXMusique - Somewhere Something

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Airs each Wednesday at 20:00hrs on Flirt FM 101.3. Stream it live here, and check out all the previous playlists here.

Lovesick_20110511 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

1: Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
2: The Chemical Brothers - Hanna's Theme
3: Daithi - The Dog (Tenaka Remix)
4: Starf**ker - Julius
5: CSLSX - Keep on Shining
6: Kauf - When You're Out
7: WhoMadeWho - Every Minute Alone
8: Friendly Fires - Hawaiian Air
9: Little Dragon - Nightlight
10: Digitalism - Two Hearts
11: Yuksek - On a Train (Magician Remix)
12: The Pointer Sisters - Automatic

Business Card Design

These business cards were design for the use of the Production Manager and myself. The cards differ for each person in the choice of overlaid images, which were selected by the person in question. The QR code in each case sends the recipient back to the radio station's website.

Print Run: 500 x Double sided // 85x55mm // 4/4-colour CMYK // 300 gsm semi-glossy card

Lovesick on Flirt FM 101.3

Airs each Wednesday at 20:00hrs on Flirt FM 101.3. Stream it live here, and check out all the previous playlists here

Lovesick_20110504 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It
ATV - Action Time and Vision
White Denim - Anvil Everything
Tom Vek - A Chore
Beastie Boys - Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win
Santigold & Karen O - Go
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill (Clique New Trends Remix)
Sharon Van Etten - Like a Diamond
Friendly Fires - Live Those Days Tonight
Strange Talk - Climbing Walls
Metronomy - The Bay (Erol Alkan's Extended Rework)
Modeselektor - Kill Bill Vol 4
Apparat Organ Quartet - Sirius Alfa

Craol Féile Training

Craol is the representative, co-ordinating, lobbying, training, and support group for Irish Community Radio. Each year one of the 23 member stations hosts a nationwide training conference called Féile. (Flirt FM hosted this event in 2010, for more info see the website).

Over the past few years I have been invited to lecture on Social Media (and how a community radio station can use them effectively) and Branding and Promoting a community radio station on a budget.

The topics and areas covered are summarised in the handouts below, available to download in Word format.

Social Networking Notes

Branding and Promotion Notes

The information contained on the notes was the jumping off point for a great group discussion and sharing of ideas.

Flirt Newsfeed Website Design

Flirt Newsfeed is the flagship current affairs show on Galway's student radio station, themed around trending topics, as in Twitter etc. The existing Flirt FM website wasn't the right platform to publish the multitude of interviews conducted for the show, so a separate tailored website was needed.

FlirtNewsFeed.com blind forwards to FlirtNewsFeed.blogspot.com, a skinned blogspot. Elements included in the website include;

•Mixcloud players for listening back to interviews
•An embedded webstream player for listening to the show
•A google calendar automatically updating with Flirt FM’s events on Facebook marked “attending”
•Galway weather forecast widget
•RSS feeds from Flirt FM’s Facebook posts, the Galway Independent and google’s Irish news feed

The website was designed to self-update from various sources so that there would always be fresh events and news to be found on each visit.