Introducing: New Entertainment Podcast – Fields of Dreams
Kinahans Downfall
Nicola Bardon
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
In 1970s Ireland, the nation's youth were craving an escape - and music was going to provide it. Over the course of the next few decades, what had been a gigging backwater was transformed into the centre of the live entertainment universe. Fields of Dreams tells the story of that remarkable change through the trailblazers who made it happen.
Narrated by singer songwriter Róisín O, this 10-part series chronicles the rise of the festival and the extraordinary local scene that saw many Irish acts touch greatness.
With stories equally hilarious and infuriating, it's a portrait of success and failure and everything in between.
The first two episodes are out now – new episodes released weekly every week. Brought to you by the producers of The Kinahans and The Stardust Tragedy.
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| 0:00.0 | I was an obsessive Father Ted fan, and so I had this genius idea of asking Artel O'Hanlon to come on stage and sing My Lovely Horse. |
| 0:10.7 | And so in a fit of absurd rock star excess, we sent a helicopter to pick him up after watching the football just so he could come sing my lovely horse |
| 0:22.4 | on stage in front of 100,000 people. Moby's album play was a global cultural phenomenon when he sent |
| 0:34.7 | a chopper to Dublin for Father Ted's Dougal on September 1st, 2001. |
| 0:40.0 | This day in 2001, with you two topping the Slane Castle bill for the second time in a week, |
| 0:45.1 | would turn out to be a high watermark in Irish Live entertainment, |
| 0:48.5 | a day when everything just clicked. |
| 0:54.0 | No, oh, no, no. Hardlo Hanlon's outrageous cameos seemed to make perfect sense in a landscape where gigs and gigging had changed beyond all recognition in just 25 years. |
| 1:17.4 | By the turn of the millennium, a gigging backwater in the cultural doll drums was now at the centre of the live entertainment universe. |
| 1:23.8 | But how did it happen? I'm singer-songwriter Rochino and you're listening to Fields of Dreams, |
| 1:28.7 | a podcast from the Irish Sun, the stories of Ireland's music and live entertainment revolution |
| 1:33.4 | since the 1970s and some of the characters, madness and mayhem which came with it. |
| 1:49.5 | Fields of Dreams is a 10-part series from the Irish Sun. |
| 1:54.5 | Episodes 1 and 2 are available this July on Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. |
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