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Northern Irish songwriter Nick Carlisle talks about his brand new album “The Mad Decades”

Nick Carlisle talks about his brand new album “The Mad Decades”. Nick Carlisle is a composer/producer, originally from Dromore in Northern Ireland but based now in Brighton. He has been a member of various bands over the years but in 2022 he released his debut solo album and it was a soundtrack, commissioned by the QFT in Belfast, to the iconic 1922 film “Häxan”. His superb fourth album is called “The Mad Decades”, the title of which taken from a 1939 collection of short stories by the American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. He talks to Stephen about songwriting, science fiction and AI.

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2 hours, 48 minutes

Last on

Fri 14 Aug 2026 19:04
BBC Radio Foyle & BBC Radio Ulster

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Music Played

  • The Chemical Brothers

    Star Guitar

  • Klaxons

    Golden Skans

  • Say She She

    Reeling

  • Iggy Pop

    The Passenger

  • Kiwi Jr.

    Painting After Painting

  • BODEGA

    Weather Me

  • Coco & Clair Clair

    One One

  • Depeche Mode

    Never Let Me Down Again

  • Bonobo & Joy Crookes

    Always On Your Side

  • Morgana

    You Are Never Gone From Me

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Spitting Off The End Of The World

  • The Avalanches & Karen O

    Blue Shadows

  • Moses Boyd

    Say Yeah

  • The Flaming Lips

    Race For The Prize

  • 7ebra

    I Have To Buy Stuff

  • Jetplane Landing

    Brave Gravity

  • Adam Leonard

    Low Hanging Fruit

  • Stereolab

    Cybele's Reverie

  • Nick Carlisle

    Hilversum [Radio Edit]

  • Neu!

    Isi {excerpt}

  • Nick Carlisle

    Let The Moon Cry With You {excerpt}

  • Nick Carlisle

    The Mad Decades

  • Pixies

    Monkey Gone To Heaven

  • This Is Lorelei

    Oh No Now My

  • William Orbit

    In A Landscape

  • Madonna

    Drowned World/Substitute For Love

  • David Bowie

    Heroes

  • Lael Neale

    Slip Away

  • New Order

    Crystal [2015 Remaster]

  • Sailor Honeymoon

    Armchair

  • The Clash

    Janie Jones

  • Gurriers

    Nothing Happens Twice [Radio Edit]

  • Laura Veirs

    New Life Over There

  • David Kitt

    Song From Hope St. (Brookyn, Ny)

  • Bloc Party

    Waiting For The 7.18

  • Absolutely Yours

    Margaret

  • Bell X1

    Coughing Up Butterflies

  • Niamh Regan

    Leaving It Up To You

  • Man/Woman/Chainsaw

    Nosedive

  • Arcade Fire

    No Cars Go

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 Aug 2026 19:04
    BBC Radio Foyle & BBC Radio Ulster