Juvenalia

Naoise Dolan, author of the Sunday Times Bestseller Exciting Times joins us to talk about Gossip Girl! It was an absolutely FASCINATING chat about watching high school-based dramas as an autistic woman and viewing characters’ behaviours through that lens. We hope you enjoy it XOXO

NB This episode was recorded in February before everything went down, we didn’t break self-isolation to do this, we are all extremely isolated. We hope you are ok.

Naoise is @NaoiseDolan on Twitter...

Music writer Dean Van Nguyen joins us to talk about the bit of pop culture that looms large in his childhood: MTV Base. In our last episode we flirted with doing a whole episode about a TV channel but this week we're going all in. We talked about Beats, Rhymes, and Life, The Lick, Jay Z vs Nas, Napster, Destiny's Child, the legacy of Jackass, and much more.  

We're still self-isolating and recording remotely so please forgive any technical hiccups or sound oddities...

Writer, broadcaster, and DJ Jenn Gannon joins us to talk about one of the foundational bits of pop culture from her youth, Interbang?! We hadn't heard of it either. Interbang?! was an Italian one series wonder that aired on The Children's Channel in the late 80s. It's hard to explain. Here's an episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7Ua38W_HM

As well as Interbang?!, we also go down a deep rabbit hole of reading the list of shows that aired on The Children's Channel...

Andy Gaffney of Be Grand joins us to talk about a film that's been very important to him since he was a mere teen, Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky. We had an absolutely fascinating chat about how films change with us, accidental arthouse cinemas, sleep paralysis, hypnosis, and the possibility (based on Sarah's coat) that we're all currently in Andy's dream.

Andy is @HiAndyGaffney. His podcast Be Grand is brilliant, Alan's been on it...

TheJournal.ie’s Aoife Barry joins us to talk about the staple of every sensitive millennial teenager’s CD collection, Jeff Buckley’s Grace. We talk about Jeff Buckley’s life and career, his influence, and Aoife’s past life as a college radio DJ.

Aoife is @SweetOblivion26. You can find her journalism at TheJournal.ie and her podcast Get Around To It on your podcast app

Alan is @alan_maguire.  Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski...

Comedian Bláithín de Burca of the Try Channel and I Don't Know Her joins Alan and Sarah to talk about arguably the funniest animated Disney film, The Emperor's New Groove. We talk about the majesty of Eartha Kitt, the Kronkness of Kronk, the impeccable comic timing, the first pregnant woman in a Disney animated movie, Tom Jones, and much more. 

Bláithín is @beingbla on Twitter. She co-hosts the podcast I Don't Know Her with Aoife O'Connor and it's very good...

Singer-Songwriter Emma Langford joins us to talk about the queen of pop-punk Avril Lavigne. There’s a lot of talk about early 00s fashion, growing up, and we wonder if maybe Avril was secretly a country artist all along.

Emma is @ELangfordMusic. Her first album Quiet Giant is out now and her next album Sowing Acorns is available to pre-order Here 

Alan is @alan_maguire...

Writer Laura-Blaise McDowell joins us to talk about how much Florence Welch, her work with Florence + the Machine, and just Florence in general, has meant to her over the years. Laura-Blaise was an absolute joy to talk to. We also talked a bit about Patti Smith and New York and it was just a good time, we all felt refreshed after it.

Laura-Blaise is @blaisinsquad...

Rachel O'Neill of the Disturbing The Peace podcast joins us to talk about Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events. We talk about seeing Daniel Handler read slash fic about  Count Olaf and Lemony Snicket, the importance of characters like Violet for girls who feel like they don't fit in with other girls, and just generally about how good and smart and funny these books are.

Rachel is @ronronzo. She hosts Disturbing The Peace on the Tortoise Shack Network...

Hello! Here's a little compilation episode of some good bits from all our episodes from the second half of 2019. It should give you a pretty good idea if Juvenalia is a podcast you might want to listen to on a regular basis...