New Tune Disco - 12th January - Phil Taggart
Across The Line
This week, Rigsy was joined by Phil Taggart to chat about some of their favourite new music.
Rudi – Big Time
Phil: “I just got to dedicate it to the one eyed punk trail blazer that is Terri Hooley, the man who gave musicians in Northern Ireland the hope….”
Myles Manley – Pay Me What I’m Worth
Phil: “This type of singer-songwriter music is exactly what I love…it’s a little bit off kilter, it’s not too lovey dovey…it’s kind of in the same vein as like some of my favourites Adam Green, even Daniel Johnson in there as well. I’ve got all the time in the world for this.”
The Hardchargers – Little Too Late
Rigsy: “My favourite thing of theirs to date for sure…..it’s just very, very difficult not to enjoy a kind of knees up like this.”
Phil: “It’s such a big, girthy testosterone fuelled anthem.”
Miami House Party – Kobe feat. K-19
Rigsy: “This is a silly track in the best possible way…. just ridiculously fun dance floor orientated Hip Hop with broad, broad appeal.”
Phil: “It’s good man - like the flow of the rapper. I guess sometimes when it comes to Northern Irish Hip Hop you can be turned off but obviously over the last four, five years people are proving that statement wrong and this guy’s proving that even further.”
Callum Stewart – Free
Phil: “It’s so polished, so well produced….you can’t really argue with the quality of the songwriting for somebody who’s so young.”
A Plastic Rose – This Side of Winter
Rigsy: “Brilliant track….really, really powerful stuff like proper kind of epic. It’s what you’ve come to expect from A Plastic Rose.”
Hot Cops – Nightwatch
Phil: “They’re probably the freshest new band from Northern Ireland I’ve heard in the last 24 months…so much bags of potential in there.”
Edward F Butler – Bank Heist Debut
Rigsy: “Powerful stuff…..it’s certainly something that’ll make him stand out a fair bit, very very interesting.”
Phil: “With the vocal in it and the way he sings, he kind of reminds me of John Newman…I haven’t heard anything from him in about three, four years and it’s really great to see how he’s changed over that time and obviously the new pieces of inspiration that he’s taken along the way ‘cause that’s a different songwriter than it was, when I was playing it.”
