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Dan Hegarty

The Alternative to Sleep - RTE 2FM (90 - 92FM) - Midnight - 2am (Mon to Fri)

About Me

I present RTE 2FM’s Midnight - 2am show on Monday to Friday. Expect to hear cutting edge independent music and some classics thrown in for good measure. Tune in and experience a musical metropolis that bridges the gaps between Tool, Public Enemy, Holly Golightly, Messiah J & The Expert, Bob Marley & The Wailers, The Kills, Ann Scott and far beyond!
I have a habit of talking about capes and Wrestling quite a bit, but aside from that I'm a pretty decent bloke!
Check out my page on the 2FM website at: http://www.rte.ie/2fm/danhegarty
PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU'RE ASKING ME TO LISTEN TO TUNES ON YOUR MYSPACE PAGE, DON'T BE ANNOYED IF I DON'T - I GET ASKED ALL THE TIME, AND DON'T GET THE TIME TO LISTEN TO EVERYTHING!

My Interests

Messing, Darts, Knitting, Doing Handstands, giving people frights, MMA and Wrestling (wathcing preferably!), dancing with pistol-hands (or Jazz hands, it depends on the situation), buying presents for my bird!!!, Going to Gigs, Kenpo, staying up late....

I'd like to meet:

Hulk Hogan, Wonder Woman, Basil Brush, William Shatner, Darth Vader, Bonnie Tyler, Bosco, Bono, Terry Wogan, Chuck D, Ken Shamrock, Paulo Coelho, Stone Cold Steve Austin, AC/DC, Sinead O Connor, Bungle (from Rainbow) and most importantly; people that love music, wrestling, and laugh in the face of fear.

Music:

Where do I start? U2, Buck 65, Saul Williams, The Immediate, Tool, The Frames, New Young Pony Club, CSS, Republic Of Loose, Warlords Of Pez, Band Of Horses, Jeff Buckley, These New Puritans, Sly and The Family Stone, Stars, The Bird And The Bee, Pop Levi, The Immediate, Noise Control, Ramones, Cadence Weapon, AC/DC, The Butterfly Explosion, Darc Mind, The Postal Service, Orbital, Stevie Wonder, Leo Abrahams, The Doors, Pugwash, Justice, Aretha Franklin, Alice In Chains, Beck, Guns N Roses, I Was A Cub Scout, Serge Gainsbourg, Crystal Castles, Echogram, Sunday Morning, Sufjan Stevens, Rob Sonic, Pugwash, Rollerskate Skinny, Jason Falkner, White Stripes, We Should Be Dead, Santogold, Ben Harper, Rage Against The Machine, Michael Franti and Spearhead, dEUS, Tim Buckley, The Prodigy, The Sundays, Gavin Friday, Bjork, Arctic Monkeys, (The Real) Tuesday Weld, Faith No More, Red House Painters, Union Of Knives, MC5, Favourite Sons, Ane Brun, People Under The Stairs, The Free Design, Edwin Starr, The Dresden Dolls, Prince, Adam and The Ants, Pearl Jam, Director, The Blizzards, Fiona Apple, The Clash, Lazyboy, The Apples, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, John Haggis, Soul Position, Queens Of The Stone Age, Fight Like Apes, Kyuss, The Living End, The Kinks, Blood Red Shoes, David Bowie, The Shortwave Set, Katell Keineg, Nirvana, Neon Neon .... the list goes on, and on and on and on....

Movies:

Star Wars, Napoleon Dynamite, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Beyond The Mat, The Naked Gun, Amelie, Almost Famous, Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Singles, Nacho Libre, High Fidelity, Apocalypto, 48 Hours, Paris, je t'aime, Wrestling With Shadows, The Shawshank Redemption, Borat The Movie, Supersize Me, Top Secret, Kurt and Courtney, Wrestling With Shadows, Last Of The High Kings, most of the James Bond films...

Television:

The Simpsons, 120 Minutes, WWE RAW, Little Britain, Mythbusters, UFC, Other Voices, TNA Impact, The A-Team, Planet Earth, the news...

Books:

Wonderland Avenue, Mr Nice, Is That It, White Bicycles, Lord Of The Flies, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Dream Brother, The Alchemist, John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes, Bruce Lee and Me: A Martial Arts Adventure, Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling, Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy, there are loads more....

Heroes:

Bret 'The Hitman' Hart, John 'The Twin' Walshe, Peter Crouch, Batman, Lieutenant Frank Drebin, Jack Black, William Shatner, Basil Fawlty, Alf Stewart (from Home And Away), and Johnny Hallyday.

My Blog

DEAF 08  Electronic Festival Fun!

It seems weird saying that its almost time for this years Dublin Electronic Arts Festival again, but yes it true, its upon us again! This years festival looks as though it going to be fantastic. ...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:08:00 PST

2fm School Of Rock 2009

Just a short note to let you know that we'll be launching School of Rock 2009 on Sunday 14th September at 2pm live on RTE 2fm. Join Larry Gogan for full details on this years prizes, the regional...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:11:00 PST

AC/DC - New Album & Tour - its True!

Hey, just thought I'd spread the good news. See below - posted on ACDC.com: 08.18.2008  AC/DC's 'Black Ice' Set For Release October 20th Columbia Records announced today the October 20th release...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:30:00 PST

Abba Go Stateside?

Ah&. Did the subject line confuse you a bit? There's no sign of ABBA reforming, which is good or bad news depending on your opinion on them. They are however on the cover of the new issue of State mag...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:26:00 PST

Metallica Vs Nirvana

This week's One On One sees two classics go to battle: it's Metallica's 'Metallica' (or more commonly known as the Black album) Vs 'In Utero' by Nirvana. They're both great albums (in fact, great...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:59:00 PST

The Prodigy interview - Take a look/listen!

Hey,The Prodigy were over in Ireland last week for the Oxegen festival, and I sat down and had a brief chat with them. It was the only one they did with Irish Radio, and you can hear it on my show thi...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:55:00 PST

U2 Vs U2

A couple of years ago, I used to have a feature on the show called 'One n One'. It pitted two classic albums against each other. I'm not sure why I stopped doing it, but it's back!   In the past,...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:52:00 PST

The Best Band You May Never have Heard Of

There's so much music around these days (this is not a complaint!) that it's pretty easy to miss stuff which you could easily love. Take me for instance; around four years ago I was sifting through CD...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:57:00 PST

Oxegen - Listen To The Bands!

This a brief one for now! If you were at Oxegen, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Between being on air and doing more interviews than I can actually remember, I got to see some great stuff. I t...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:48:00 PST

Oxegen 08  All The Best Bits!

I don't know about you, but I can't wait for Oxegen this year. Maybe this is wishful thinking, but if it didn't rain at Glastonbury last weekend, does that mean we'll have a rain-free Oxegen? Some of ...
Posted by Dan Hegarty on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:34:00 PST