Fascinated with Gearóid Farrelly

Fascinated with Gearóid Farrelly


Latest Episodes

Ep 57: Queen Victoria with Jasper Rees
August 29, 2021

Jasper Rees is the author of "Let's Do It" the authorised biography of Victoria Wood. The book was written with the consent of Victoria's children following her death in 2016. Jasper wrote the book by listening to audio recordings mad by Wood herself in

Ep 56: Pop and Pride with Bright Light Bright Light
July 08, 2021

Bright Light Bright Light is welsh musician, artist and songwriter Rod Thomas. Originally from a small town in Wales, Rod has become one of our most respected independent queer artists with approval in the form of collaborations and touring opportunitie

Ep 55: Mother of Invention with Una Gibney
May 23, 2021

Ireland has always had a great reputation for rock music. In the 90s Sinead O'Connor, U2 and The Cranberries led the pack. It took a while for the explosion of bubblegum pop which was happening in the UK and Europe to hit Ireland. Una was one of the first

EP 54: Back Home with Una Healy from The Saturdays
May 16, 2021

Una Healy was a gigging singer/songwriter when she answered an ad looking for a female singer for a girlband. What followed was a phenomenal seven years in The Saturdays one of the new millennium's biggest girlbands. A string of massive hits in the UK led

Bonus Episode Teaser: Sean Smith Track By Track
April 15, 2021

This is just a teaser for the Bonus Episode that is now available to subscribers of Headstuff+. You can subscribe for 5 per month and get bonus material for each episode as well as a bonus episode each month. For this month's Bonus episode I chat to Se

Ep 53: The Undercover Pop Star with Luciana Caporaso
April 04, 2021

What a guest and what a story. These are the episodes that I love to make! Luciana Caporaso has been an undercover popstar hiding in plain sight since the 90s. Fate conspired against her for no less than five albums. This episode charts her journey from

Special Announcement
March 28, 2021

if you enjoy listening to fascinated and you would like to support the show. You can now subscribe to Headstuff+.  You can subscribe for as little as €5 a month. You can pay €5 directly to fascinated or split it among the other Headstuff shows you liste

Ep 52: Samantha Mumba Lately
February 28, 2021

Im delighted to kick off season 7 of "Fascinated" with the fabulous Samantha Mumba. Samantha is pop royalty and after an almost unforgivable hiatus she returned to music last December with a double whammy of releases. She dropped two new tracks Cool an

Ep 50: Special Kind Of Something with Kavana
September 07, 2020

In The first of a special two-part episode I chat to 90s pop star Kavana. For as long as he can remember Kavana was determined to become a pop-star and he made it happen. At the time Take That were disbanding and a chance meeting with their manager led t

Ep 51: Special Kind Of Something (Part 2) with Kavana
September 07, 2020

In The first of a special two-part episode I chat to 90s pop star Kavana. For as long as he can remember Kavana was determined to become a pop-star and he made it happen. At the time Take That were disbanding and a chance meeting with their manager led t