Lovesick on Flirt FM (Best of 2020 Shows)

First off with a whopper year for Irish music releases, and *continued* class work from Irish female musicians ;)

Then, as Alan wasn't in for Grounded, I did a rare 2hr show. Waveforms at 11pm were helpfully doing their Irish best of 2020, so the station's Irish music ratio didn't dip!

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Current Position: Station Manager - Flirt FM 101.3
Current Position: Part-time Lecturer - NUI Galway Youth Academy
Current Position: Coordinating Committee Member at Craol
Current Position: Cabinet Member - World College Radio Day
Current Position: Co-ordinator - Irish Student Radio Network
Current Position: Board Member - TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Previously: Part-time Lecturer - NUI Galway MA in Journalism
Previously: Station Assistant at Flirt FM
Previously: Cashier at HMV Group
Previously: Volunteer at Flirt FM

Summary of other experience

• Complied successful application for Community Radio Licences 2006 & 2016
• Certified QQI trainer
• Trainer in Community Radio at CRAOL Féile & Campus Connections events
• Designed CRAOL QQI Trainers Handbook: Level 4 in Community Radio
• Editor of multiple documentaries, radio plays & features, including Sound & Vision projects
• Responsible for Flirt FM graphic design, including logo
• Responsible for Community Radio Ireland re-branding and graphic design

Specialties
Scheduling, compliance, editing, training, licence application, graphic design, HR.

My Last Ever Wedding Cake

Until the next one. Only for Michelle and Kelvin would I break my promise. My sister Clare made the cakes (lemon drizzle, chocolate biscuit and Victoria Sponge, if I remember correctly). I was a huge ball of stress making this, as I wanted it to look brilliant for them, and the fondant was prone to sweating, even with the windows open in a cold kitchen. Anyway, onwards and Up!wards.

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Best of 2017: Irish)

There was nearly 130 songs on the Lovesick longlist for Irish tracks of the year. You can check out 70 of them at the Spotify Playlist below. And here's 14 of the biggest earworms out of them, along with an interview and song from Aaron from Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon.

My First Attempt at Macarons

Teal-tinted, but plain macaron flavour, with ganache. These turned out perfectly. The next time I made them was a disaster. Beginner's luck!

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Castlepaulooza All-Irish)

I've gone all out for this episode, because Flirt FM 101.3 is on hols until the 30th of August from this Saturday... It's got Castlepalooza acts, Dublin Podcast Festival & Metropolis Festival 2017 news, an MS Paint masterpiece, and it's all Irish music too. I even take 30 seconds to freak out about LCD Soundsystem tickets :')



Search Party Animal - Enemies   [IR]
Ganglions - Fallow
Beauty Sleep - All In   [IR]
Liza Flume - What we Called Love
Rosa Nutty - Sea Salt   [IR]
Hvmmingbird - If Love Was Enough   [IR]
Elaine Mai - Colour of the NIght   [IR]
Wastefellow - Wonder   [IR]
Floor Staff - Saviour   [IR]
Aik J - Suite Life   [IR]
Le Galaxie - Streetheart   [IR]
Le Boom - What we Do (Mix & Fairbanks Remix)   [IR]

Michael Davitt: Our Land

3 part series about land reformer Michael Davitt, written by Gerry Conneely, produced by Iaro Productions and funded by the broadcasting Authority of Ireland form the television licence fee for air on Midwest Radio. I recorded and edited this series of radio plays.

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Best of 2016)

A breakneck rattle through some of my favourite things of the year... from podcasts to gigs, EPs to tracks.



James Vincent McMorrow - Get Low
Proper Micro NV - REVIVE
MMOTHS - Deu
Kieran O'Brien - Bigger than You
Carriages - Moving Parts
Hiva Oa - Seskinore
Sampha - Blood on Me
Disclosure - Like I Do
Boxed In - Forget
TooFools - Touch
Chance the Rapper - All Night
Hare Squead - If I Ask
Daithi - Falling for You (ft. Sinead White)
Dan Deacon - Change Your Life (You Can Do It)

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Club Lonely Edition)

I chat to Mitch from Mitch Presents: Club Lonely at the Blue Note and play a selection of tenuously heartbreak related songs. No country ballads, but cheese, techno and prog tho. 💋💔



Lindstrom & Christabelle - Lovesick   
James Blake - Limit to your Love   
Solange - Losing You   
St Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart   
SertOne - Not in Love (Remix)   
Tiga - Don't Break my Heart   
Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Kris Menace Remix)   
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart   
Sub Sub - Ain't no Love Ain't no Use   
Krystal Klear - My Love is Burning   
Friendly Fires - Lovesick   
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers   

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Best of 2015)

The last Lovesick on Flirt FM of 2015, featuring a podcast review with Alan Meaney, Ailbhe Jagodic & Eoghan Holland, and tracks from Weiss, Solar Bears, Not Squares to name but a few.



Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best   
DBFC - Leave my Room   
Not Squares - Simpler Vibe (ADULTROCK Remix)   
Le Galaxie - Streetheart   
Jack Garratt - Chemical   
Solar Bears - Man Plus   
Weiss - Mr Constable   
Ailbhe, Eoghan, Alan - Podcasts   
Julio Bashmore - For Your Love   
Para One - Elevation   
Radiohead - Bloom (Jamie XX Rework pt. 3)   

Lovesick Best of 2014

The last Lovesick on Flirt FM of 2014. Featuring TV On The Radio, All Tvvins, Daithí, Years & Years, Fight Like Apes and more, including gig of the year.

20141210 Lovesick Best of 2014 by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

TV on the Radio - Happy Idiot
Von Spar - Chain of Command
Fight Like Apes - Crouching Bees (Daithi Remix)
All Tvvins - You Better (Daithi Remix)
alt-J - Hunger of the Pines
Young Fathers - Get Up
Erol Alkan - A Hold on Love
Daniel Avery - Knowing We'll be Here (KiNK Remix)
Clark - The Grit in the Pearl
Caribou - Can't Do Without You
SBTRKT - New York New Dorp
Shamir - If it Wasn't True
MNEK - Every Little Word You Say (Joe Goddard Remix)
Dansson & Marlon Hoffstadt - Shake That
Years & Years - Desire (Tourist Remix)

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Fluoro/summer Edition)

Blue skies outdoors, flouro-tubes indoors. Lovesick on Flirt FM, featuring Owsey, BROODS, Caribou and lots more...
 

20140618 Lovesick (Fluoro/summer Edition) by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Bill Withers (ft. José Feliciano) - Can We Pretend?
Owsey, Resotone & Jernalism - Sometimes it Would Stop Raining Long Enough for the Stars to Come Out
Lusine - Arterial
Jon Hopkins (ft. Purity Ring) - Breathe This Air
Caribou - Can't Do Without You
Young Wonder - To You
BROODS - Bridges (HIGH HPS Edition)
NAO vs AK Paul - So Good
The Establishment - Love Like This
Daithi (ft. Young Wonder) - Ribcage
St. Lucia - Forgiveness
Falqo - I Feel Your Love
Blonde - Foolish (Joe Goddard Remix)

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Eyescream)

On what seems like the first Lovesick on Flirt FM in an aeon; Enemies, The Bedroom, MNEK and Little Dragon. That's for starters...

20140515 Lovesick (Eyescream Edition) by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

The Gun Club - Sex Beat
Enemies - Love Unlimited (SIATS Remix)
Mano Le Tough - The Sea Inside
Trickski - Pill Collins
Young Fathers - I Heard
Lykke Li - No Rest for the Wicked
The Bedroom - The Graveyard of Ambition
Shit Robot - Feels Real
Little Dragon - Ritual Union
Little Dragon - Paris
The 2 Bears - Angel
MNEK - Every Little Word (Joe Goddard Remix)
Le Galaxie - Humanise (Japanese Popstars Remix)

My First Wedding Cake

And I'd promised it would be my last, but that proved not to be true. I have even more respect for anyone that can handle that much white fondant without getting fluff on it. Anyway, was delighted to make a two tiered (chocolate Coca-Cola cake and Victoria sponge) cake for Adelina & Mihai.

Last-minute Lorax

A last-minute Lorax birthday cake for my housemate. So last minute that I decorated it on my bed while her birthday party was on. Would you belive me if I told you it only took 25 minutes to do? Well, it's true and it turned out really well! (Victoria sponge with raspberry and buttercream btw).

Sparky the Seal

My friend Ashling wanted to make a cake to support Galway Seal Rescue. We used Sparky the Seal (recently resuced from a diet of chips in the canal next to the Róisín Dubh).

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Treetrunks)

With NEW Kobina, Little Dragon, Lorn and OOOLD Kym Sims, Gary Low and a gig guide.

20140219 Lovesick Treetrunks by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

4Hero - Les Fleur
Blooms - If I
Kobina - Girl It Should Be
Cashmere Cat - With Me
Lorn & Dolor - One for Barta
Go Wolf - Voices
Little Dragon - Klapp Klapp
Broken Bells - After the Disco
Arthur's Landing - Love Dancing
Jacques Renault - Piano's on the Beach
Gary Low - I Want You (CC Wants to Sway Edit)
Kym Sims - Too Blind to See It
Friend Within - The Cause   

Lovesick on Flirt FM (Shark Cage Diving)

New TV on the Radio, F**k Buttons, HAIM and loads of other good stuff for the start to the bank holiday weekend. As for the shark? I'm going shark cage diving over the holidays. Understandably the creatures have been on my mind as a result. [Edit; the weather was awful and I couldn't go. Phew].

20130731 Lovesick / Shark Cage Diving by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Ásgeir - King and Cross
bAnoffee - Ninja
The Naked and Famous - Hearts like Ours
HAIM - The Wire
TV on the Radio - Mercy
Hot Chip - Dark and Stormy
Joe Goddard & Boris Dlugosch - Step Together
White Collar Boy - SUU (Frank B Remix)
Daithí - Chameleon Life (SertOne Remix)
Mount Kimbie - Slow (Druid Cloak Club Cosmic Remix)
F*ck Buttons - The Red Wing
Disclosure - You and Me (Flume Remix)

Lovesick on Flirt FM (ft Artist Solar Bears)

I was like a four year old on Christmas morning when the radio edit of Get Lucky popped up in the middle of doing my show. Also loads of new stuff and Solar Bears :)

20130417 Lovesick Solar Bears by Paula Healy on Mixcloud

Colder - Crazy Love
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
f y f e - Lies
Deptford Goth - Feel Real
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Burrato Remix)
Bonobo & Erykah Badu - Heaven for the Sinner
Daft Punk - Get Lucky (ft. Pharell)
Solar Bears - Crystalline
Solar Bears - Twin Stars
Gold Panda - Brazil
Young Wonder (ft. Sacred Animals) - Time