Listener comments!

Thu. 3/26/09 7:23pm From: Sean O'Daly

First Irish comment of March 27th 2009 Woo Hoo, I mean Sham Woo Hoo

Thu. 3/26/09 7:28pm From: Stab City Sam

hey WFMU listeners back in Ah Mere I kay - Tis time ye's all do what I say. And that is make a limerick - a rhyme - five lines at a time....and put it in the comments below............but leave out Woo Hoo and Dell though -ya know

Fri. 3/27/09 5:07am From: BillyJam

Greetings from Limerick for WFMU second live from Ireland remote broadcast. Today's live broadcast is 7PM to 10PM local time (Daylight Savings doesn't kick in til Sunday morning over here) where with co-production from WFMU supporters Johnny Doobs and Shane of Cheebah we are doing today's "Put The Needle On The Record" right in the heart of downtown Limerick out of Dan Syke's Viva Music Studios at 46 O'Connell Street with a ton of guests lined up. Invited on today's show include Limerick drum & bass act Code, Nora Ni Murachu (organiser of the city's Tweak Electronic Arts Festival), True Blood Souljaz from Shannon, Brigadier JC, Vince Mack Mahon (Deviant, Jimmy Penguin, Mikey Fingerz and Tweek), MC Moley + Side2Shoes, Lineage, Wexford emcee Rob Kelly, Rubberbandits, Paul Tarpey (Cheebah), Jay Red, DJs A2DF & Lenny, and Jimmy Lyons. Others will probably stop by too......Thanks to all the folks involved in today's WFMU European transmission + shout out to all the WFMU listeners/supporters in Ireland, back in the States, and everywhere else

Fri. 3/27/09 7:17am From: ALF of Hip Hop Slam

What's the story about the two doors at the top of the playlist Billy?

LaterZzzz!
ALF

Fri. 3/27/09 8:32am From: billyJam

hey ALF - that is the door (one on left) to the studios on O'Connell St. Limerick where today's WFMU broadcast is transmitting from

Fri. 3/27/09 12:41pm From: Limerick Leader

don't forget the after party (no cover) at the Wicked Chicken Limerick - flyer left in playlist with whose spinning......and grinning....and winnning

Fri. 3/27/09 2:53pm From: Cecile

Hey, Billy! Have a great show! The comments gang will be over in a few...

Fri. 3/27/09 3:01pm From: Cecile

Limerick in the house! The cyber-world in the house!

Fri. 3/27/09 3:01pm From: Pearlÿ Sweets

Here comes the party.

Fri. 3/27/09 3:01pm From: Timi Dz

what up all.....I made it today!!!! Yeah Yeah

Fri. 3/27/09 3:01pm From: north guinea hills

what, no billy/bryce remote freeform a capellas?

(turn up yer mike, billy)

Fri. 3/27/09 3:04pm From: Ken

Billy - left channel coming in very weak.

Fri. 3/27/09 3:08pm From: BillyJam

am working on it now Ken.....keep me updated

Fri. 3/27/09 3:14pm From: jeff m

Scott fixed it Billy.

Good to go.

Fri. 3/27/09 3:17pm From: Lisa M

Hey Billy! Sorry I have mised the show, have been working off site for the last month. Missed the tunes!!! Back in office, wait thats not good:-)

Fri. 3/27/09 3:18pm From: Cecile

cool stuff so far

Fri. 3/27/09 3:19pm From: still b/p

Well...someone said we oughta...so:

On Friday a Jam King named Billy,
Hit the auld sod to show 'em the drilly,
They rose from their seats
At the Erin Go Beats,
As he sham-wowed and shamrocked 'em chillll-eeee!

Fri. 3/27/09 3:33pm From: north guinea hills

the choir in the background grounds the beats suavely....

Fri. 3/27/09 3:36pm From: GP

Billy J....
Bringin us style
from the Emerald Isle.

Fri. 3/27/09 3:37pm From: Sean Daily

Not even close to frist comment! Woo hoo!

Fri. 3/27/09 3:37pm From: Cecile

good chill stuff to get stuff done to

Fri. 3/27/09 3:43pm From: Cecile

NICE!
I wasn't expecting the Spanish to show up on this track.

and, yay, Vince!

Fri. 3/27/09 3:48pm From: Parq

The grand tradition of Eirin-Hispanic relations continues.

Fri. 3/27/09 3:49pm From: still b/p

The 16-color monitor I'm sentenced to currently gives Vince's image an Obama-Hope-poster aesthetic. Yes, we can sop big soda.

Fri. 3/27/09 3:50pm From: Cecile

not meaning to toot my own horn, but I sent that to Mr. Jam earlier this week.

Fri. 3/27/09 3:51pm From: DJ dcass

Shenanigans from Kiltimagh! Congrats for bringing the brilliant Limerick & Irish talent to the masses Billy! Hope 'n' Word!

Fri. 3/27/09 3:53pm From: johnny cake walker

uh.. the irish spanish hiphop is just bad... one of the rare times I have had to turn off FMU

Fri. 3/27/09 3:58pm From: ALF of Hip Hop Slam

What a nice day here in D.C. to use a.......SHAMWOW!!!!!!

Fri. 3/27/09 4:03pm From: Carmichael

Hey Billy,

I'm from Wexford, listening from California, the Connacht of America. Scratch.

Fri. 3/27/09 4:06pm From: Tall Paul

Yo Bill, sounds like you are having the craic down there.
Big up Vince Mack McMhon and Jimmy Penguin keep up the good work. Checking out the show now.

Fri. 3/27/09 4:12pm From: Lisa

This sounds fonky Billy! As always a great show so far! This is helping me work faster over here,lol.

Fri. 3/27/09 4:13pm From: porkchop

YEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! BillyJams straight outta Limerick!!!! clear sweetness rooted down in the mamma-land that made-jah. Shouties Irelanders.

This chop of pork will be dropping in and out today--work to do so i can't be with you. cheers to all ya alls at behind the big black door.

PS-saw Nurse With Wound last night--my brain bled just a little bit...I think Im back to normal again-hmmmmm

Fri. 3/27/09 4:19pm From: Cecile

Grandmas and Captains first.

Fri. 3/27/09 4:20pm From: odanrot

god damn - that was goo-goo-gud

Fri. 3/27/09 4:21pm From: sahak

yo billy jam....is it safe to comment now?

Fri. 3/27/09 4:27pm From: Timi Dz

Is it safe....IS IT SAFE!!!!!

Fri. 3/27/09 4:27pm From: oneshotbangbang

go moley!

Fri. 3/27/09 4:28pm From: goats.ie

yo Billy, less of the HASH talk, I am sure the FBI and the CIA are listening and will tip off the GARDAÍ, and ye will all be busted !!

Fri. 3/27/09 4:30pm From: endfindead

so weird hearing my tune being played via New York and back... big up the Doobs!

Fri. 3/27/09 4:37pm From: steph

Ah this is great guys...feels very exciting knowing it's all going on inside a studio in town, makes ya proud to be a Limerick blow in!

Fri. 3/27/09 4:41pm From: djspiderman

lovin the live limerick cuttin slick n quick,,

i been away for a while -- good to be back -

there was a snowboarding spidy
whos landings were mostly quite tidy
till he jumped like a joke
landed on a arm that he broke
and missed his Billy Jam friday

laying back there on the snowy ledge
busted arm - must of caught an edge
thinkin how fragile our lives
and thank fuk for BJ archives
finally got to make a WFMU pledge

Fri. 3/27/09 4:49pm From: Happy Listener

Great show guys. I was wondering if anyone else is noticing that the left channel keeps dropping in and out?

Fri. 3/27/09 4:50pm From: Parq

Put that copy of Becket's "Godot" down
And dig on this phat freestyle throw-down!
They're busting in winders
Turning brain cells to cinders
And leaving those lame MCs mowed down.

(So I'm not Myles na Gopaleen, so sue me.)

Fri. 3/27/09 4:50pm From: Bäd R☺nald

There once was a DJ named Jam
Who broadcast his show from Ireland
The tunes were so sweet, I jumped to my feet
and lost control of my seat and my hands!!!!!

Fri. 3/27/09 4:51pm From: jeff m

we had some issues very early, but my console needles are evenly mayched now

Fri. 3/27/09 4:52pm From: Happy Listener

Must be my hw, then.

Fri. 3/27/09 4:56pm From: Jessica

Just pulled up at the house: my P-Funk rumbling the floorboards, scoot inside: Limerick P-Funking the soundboard.

Fri. 3/27/09 4:59pm From: GP

Parq. Godot flows to Throw...not Kurtis Blow but nice and although...... Billy is rocking the isle your rhymes made me smile.

Bad Ron keep at it..LOL

Fri. 3/27/09 4:59pm From: Pearlÿ Sweets

finally done! See you guys next week!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:00pm From: GP

Yo Pearly have a good weekend

Fri. 3/27/09 5:02pm From: djspiderman

all that live scratch rap n acapellas
is makin me quite jealous
my arm is in need
to get back up to speed
so i can join in with you limerix hip hop felllas

my busted arm has been a bastad
all my records lay non skratch-ed
but now i m back for crossfade thrills
take some pain zappin pills
and wick wick wack now my arms been de plastered

Fri. 3/27/09 5:05pm From: still b/p

No famine or John Bull oppression,
Could unplug the heat of this session,
Rip the scratch, ride the spin,
If you hip-hop to sin,
Father Billy will hear your confession.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:06pm From: ALF of Hip Hop Slam

What happened to your arm Spiderman?!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:06pm From: Ken

Great show Billy! Sounds fantastic.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:09pm From: DJ Fantabulous

A wicky wicky wack, wicky wicky
wicky wicky wack.....

WORD

WE OUT Pizeace

Fri. 3/27/09 5:10pm From: Cecile

MARR-A-THON!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:11pm From: ?

hey Alf--- my first posted limerix says it all--
bad landing -broken arm- doh---
been laylow for weeks-and busy most fridays-
great to be back listening live to Billy Jam

limerix rox

Fri. 3/27/09 5:12pm From: djspiderman

forgot myname

Fri. 3/27/09 5:14pm From: endfindead

Oh my god, Rob Kelly you dodgy bastard!!! Hahahahahahah!!!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:15pm From: GP

Rob Kelly...old school style..like it

Fri. 3/27/09 5:15pm From: Ken

Hi Cecile!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:16pm From: Carmichael

Wexford's own!! Greetin's from Gorey!!!!!!!!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:16pm From: Cecile

hi, Ken!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:17pm From: nam nam

Where is all da burds at ?

Fri. 3/27/09 5:18pm From: nam nam

what is OG

Fri. 3/27/09 5:19pm From: jeff m

overgold

Fri. 3/27/09 5:20pm From: Zorge

Yea go Shane - Slient but Deadly!!!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:21pm From: north guinea hills

all of this was oh so yummy in my tummy....

pieces, y'all!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:23pm From: djspiderman

if my girlfriends name was lisa
this limerick would be true and please ya
but its not and now you know
that i really have to go
coz shes just cooked home made pizzza


great show --- peace atchall

Fri. 3/27/09 5:23pm From: GP

OG= Old Guy, as in experienced
or
OG= Orignal Gangsta ( not to be confused with Original Gangster)

Fri. 3/27/09 5:25pm From: G

and... thererfore, more generally, OG means top-notch. OG Kush = excellent bud. Do a lookup in urbandictionary.com

Fri. 3/27/09 5:27pm From: Carmichael

OG = The real deal. Not a poser, not a follower, not a rerun.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:30pm From: Bäd R☺nald

Overwhelmingly good... oh god!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:32pm From: GP

Obscure Grunge?

Fri. 3/27/09 5:33pm From: Carmichael

Oliver Gromwell

Fri. 3/27/09 5:33pm From: jeff m

anyone remember what movie overgold was from? Hollywood Shuffle perhaps?

Fri. 3/27/09 5:33pm From: Cecile

Overly Giddy

Fri. 3/27/09 5:34pm From: GP

Dont beat me for saying this this, but they sound a bit like Flight of the Chonchords

Fri. 3/27/09 5:34pm From: Cecile

I had to run away, but who are these Side2Shoes guys? they are great.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:35pm From: Cecile

GP, that is a big plus in my book. LMAO

Fri. 3/27/09 5:36pm From: GP

10-4 Cecile...I concur

Fri. 3/27/09 5:37pm From: Cecile

where can i find their stuffs?

Fri. 3/27/09 5:38pm From: Cecile

yeah, he name checked Kool Herc

Fri. 3/27/09 5:39pm From: Cecile

this is another show that makes me happy that I was around for hip-hop/rap's birth. awesome

Fri. 3/27/09 5:40pm From: Otis

Freestyle Frenzy! Loving this in Montreal!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:44pm From: Boon

Otis, my man!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:45pm From: Carmichael

GP, ixnay on the ight-flay of the onchards-chay .....

Fri. 3/27/09 5:46pm From: Carmichael

Otis, welcome back to the Dexter Lake Club!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:47pm From: Cecile

carm, don't be a hata

Fri. 3/27/09 5:47pm From: Otis

I got so excited here that I brought out some scratch records and have been cutting over the beats and rhymes for the past 1/2 hour at home. my arms are tired. but man, you guys rocked. great show.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:47pm From: Carmichael

You figured it out .... D'oh!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:48pm From: GP

Carmichael...hehe I see that they made the "Stuff White People Like" weblog

Fri. 3/27/09 5:48pm From: Cecile

Ig-pay Atin-lay is my econd-say anguage-lay

Fri. 3/27/09 5:51pm From: Cecile

My husband got that book from Christmas from his nephew and just HATED it.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:52pm From: Cecile

I think that was funny. I think the authors of the book would have appreciated the irony.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:53pm From: Carmichael

Speaking of white people, if you get DirecTV watch Trailer Park Boys on T101. The ultimate in white trash.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:54pm From: GP

Cecie: Its really a pretty funny website because I can identify with way too many of them.

Can't get Trailer Park Boys on the telly...got to watch on YouTube or other on-line source...heard it was heelarious.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:54pm From: Cecile

I do, and I saw that. I gotta record that.

My dad does live in a trailer. It is in a grove of trees and about two times nicer than my house.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:55pm From: G

ok, a roundabout remix... :-)

Fri. 3/27/09 5:55pm From: GP

YES

Fri. 3/27/09 5:56pm From: Cecile

now this scratching is awesome.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:56pm From: Carmichael

Exactly what I heard. You can also mix in ELP's From the Beginning. Both are in Em.

Fri. 3/27/09 5:58pm From: endfindead

Check out Limerick Uncovered 1 & 2 on youtube if you want to, find out more
about Limerick!!

Fri. 3/27/09 5:59pm From: G

and tull. it's an irish hiphop tribute to OG british prog, lol

Fri. 3/27/09 5:59pm From: Cecile

Hurray! great show!

thanks enfindead, I will

Fri. 3/27/09 6:00pm From: Carmichael

Roundabout, From the Beginning and Locomotive Breath.

Fri. 3/27/09 6:00pm From: Otis

amazing freestyle turntable set

Sat. 3/28/09 1:54pm From: LINEAGE

Twas a great night, sick as dogs now back in kerry :P

Sat. 3/28/09 4:59pm From: BillyJam

Thanks for listening to this show + a special thanks to all who made it happen, especially Johnny Doobs & Shane (Cheebah) in Limerick. Also thanks to Paul Tarpey (Cheebah) + to Nora (Tweak) Plus thanks to Dan Sykes + Viva Recording Studios, The Wicked Chicken, South Central LK Clothing, Absolute Hotel, Parish Auctioneers, & Limerick Coordination Office. Thanks to everyone at WFMU including Jeff Mullan, Ken, + Scott Williams. Thanks to all the artists who made it from near and from faraway in Ireland for the session including Side2Shoes, Rubberbandits, Jimmy Lyons from Cork, Code, Dj Mecca, Galway's Vince Mack Mahon quartet (good luck with the Community Skratch Games in Galway April 8-12), True Blood Souljaz from Shannon, Rob Kelly who traveled from Wexford, Jay Red, Lineage who came up from Kerry, and everyone else in the house.......Thanks Limerick! Hope we can do it again.....peace billlyjam

Sat. 3/28/09 7:53pm From: d OO bs

Eh yo, massive shouts going out to the valiant Billy Jam for the visit and broadcast!

Just to say that all the music and beats that either me or Deviant played underneath the interviews were either Irish artists or released on Irish labels. Most of the stuff was by Limerick producers though. Here's a list of some of the stuff if people want to check 'em out.

Troubled Soul, The Optimist, Redneck Manifesto, K3bee, Mecca, Naive Ted, Heralds of Change, Declord, Endfindead, Big Benni, T-Woc, Brigadier JC, Jimmy Penguin, Blood 1, Scaryeire.

Sun. 3/29/09 6:28pm From: Paul Tarpey

That was one of the best nights i have ever experianced in Limerick and a massive credit to Billy, Shane, Doobs, and Dan
for running such a tight show in the middle of what turned into a houseparty! Every bit and body was great. The photos are up on cheebahs myspace.

Tue. 3/31/09 8:42am From: john

Dang... so sorry I missed it now...

Wed. 4/1/09 8:27am From: MC Moley

Bring more change on the mic than Obama: Billy Jam & Limerick city’s Trans-atlantic Broadcast
Limerick city, boasts a long main street (O’ Connell Street), lined with Georgian terraces. Most of these houses are restored beautifully to their original grandeur as offices to local solicitors and real-estate agents. At 46 O’Connell street you will find one door with faded and flaking paint with no number or sign of life, the top floor of this building is Viva Music School.
Billy Jam rates highly in terms of Irish hip hop. His cameo in the seminal documentary Scratch and his long list of journalistic articles published in many U.S rap magazines will ensure his significance to anyone interested in hip hop’s direct transatlantic links between Ireland and America. Put The Needle On The Record is a three hour hip hop and urban culture radio show on WFMU free form radio. Billy jam presents this mid to late afternoon slot which goes out over manhattan, Jersey city, and most of New York State. Billy Jam’s eagerness to showcase Irish hip hop talent led to a series of remote broadcasts from Ireland that went out live on WFMU. This broadcast, his third from Ireland, came from a music school on the top floor of a Georgian terrace on Limerick’s main street, better known to the locals as ‘Viva’.
Put The Needle On The Record’s three Irish broadcasts are unprecedented in Irish hip hop history. They are broadcast live to New York and Jersey city and all have a similar style. Billy Jam creates a live almost house party atmosphere to bring the show to life. In the small rectangular room there were 6 turntables, 3 mics, a laptop, 3 handheld video cameras and a digital audio recorder. This footage, along with the actual radio recording in the WFMU archive (WFMU.org) will ensure that this event will not be forgotten. This article is no match for such documentation. However we can examine some of the processes that took place and their impact for those who took part in this radio broadcast.
This radio broadcast embodied a rare reversal of the tide of American hip hop. What has always been a one way flow of cultural content from the U.S to Europe was washed back to the cultural heartland. Billy Jam’s remote broadcast allowed Irish musicians to send a hip hop ‘message in a bottle’ to American shores. Billy Jam short circuited the flow of consumption and New York heard hip hop tailored to Irish specificities. The privileged few musicians who performed at this broadcast, in a post-modern way, got to send a message ‘home’.
Billy Jam was also sending a message home through this remote broadcast. Billy Jam is an Irishman who emigrated to New York three decades ago. His Irish homecoming signalled his intent to explore Irelands indigenisation of the hip hop he found in New York in 1979. His choice to return to, and broadcast from, Ireland created an electrically fluid amalgamation of factors. Billy Jam’s trip to his home country under the guise of ‘Irish hip hop boy done good’, coupled with the broadcast of a three hour show on Irish hip hop from Ireland to the birthplace of the cultural movement, New York.
Billy Jam is a very laid back presenter. For three hours the broadcasting room at Viva was full of people watching the unfolding show. DJ sets and MC interviews were in the majority and Billy regularly called upon the crowd to ‘make some noise’ for the performer in question. His ease on the mic brought the best out in a talented extended crew of Irish hip hop musicians. Only time will tell the alliances that will be made by musicians who met that night. The acknowledgement WFMU and Billy Jam showed by carrying out these remote broadcasts is acknowledgment of the fully globalised status of hip hop. Incidentally in the city that night Akil The MC from rap group ‘Jurassic 5’ also did a concert in Limerick that night, the 100 strong audience were ecstatic. Limericks ‘message in a bottle’ has landed in Jersey cit…who’s next?

Moley O Suilleabhain
31st March 2009

Thu. 4/2/09 7:53pm From: Brendan

Somethings from south Derry - http://www.muziboo.com/BennyHiFi/music?order=2

Sun. 4/5/09 10:55am From: andrew

great show ,great to see all the limerick heads plus very welcome guests - vince mcmahon,lineage rob kelly etc, thanks billy for coming to our great city and fair play to doobs and cheebah for puttin in work

Wed. 4/8/09 11:30pm From: jay red

big thanks to all :)

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