While trying to set up a whalesong relay device (so a lonely and endangered fin whale can find a mate,) the Scholar comes across a mysterious ghost ship about to be blown out of the water by an American carrier fleet. Guest Starring Jim Elliott, Colin Chadwick, Ruth Hunter and Rachel Ní Chuinn. — About … Continued
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The Captain | Episode 2: Raise the Lucitania!
After accidentally wrecking a high-tech unmanned submarine, our heroes decide to take the world’s very first submarine, the Fenian Ram, out of mothballs in a bid to finally solve the mystery of the sinking of the Lusitania. This does not go down well with the Royal Navy. Guest starring Stephen Colfer, Teresa Coyne and Simon … Continued
The Captain | Episode 1: The Incident at Rockall!
The Scholar discovers that Rockall, that disputed gasfield-rich rock in the North Atlantic, is hollow and contains a secret undersea colony of Irish people exiled in the 60s by popular supervillain Eamon de Valera. Guest starring Tara Flynn, Donnacha O’Brien, Giles Brody and Rachel Ní Chuinn. You can listen on iTunes* or here on conorotoole.com … Continued
The Captain | Episode 0: Out this Sunday!
All three episodes of The Captain are out this Sunday at 6pm! You can listen on iTunes* or here on conorotoole.com or on your android podcast app! Just search ‘The Captain’ or ‘O’Toole Captain’ if that isn’t working. If it’s not in app’s database yet you can add the RSS manually by inputting http://conorotoole.com/feed/captain *If … Continued
Five things to see at Castlepalooza if you want to run into Conor O’Toole constantly
1. Paddy Hanna Sunday | 8pm | Centre Stage Definitely going to go see ol’ Padge, formerly of Grand Pocket Orchestra, the Prime Minister of Underappreciated Pop Music, because there’s a chance he might get real successful soon and I wanna make sure I earn that ‘old fan’ cred before it’s too late. I saw … Continued
Best albums of the whole year
These albums are the best albums of the whole year out of all the albums that there are and so you should listen to these albums and shun all other albums which are SHIT! little xs for eyes – Everywhere Else The hottest Digipak of the year! When I listen to Everywhere Else I … … Continued
Edinburgh 2015 Mk IV
So here’s a synopsis of what happened over the rest of my time at the Edinburgh festival: The old guy singing about the past who was on before our show kept running over and it was annoying! He even collected money off the audience that had come in to see me and Alison’s show who … Continued
Edinburgh 2015 Mk III
— Boil those stones! That was Alison’s advice to me yesterday morning. I’ve a bit in my new show that involves me filling my mouth with stones, so I got up this morning and collected some from the park across the road. I got a selection of sizes, but as it turns out, my mouth … Continued
Edinburgh 2015 Mk II
My bag got on the flight! As did I! After I got into Edinburgh I went to the Stand to meet Alison and Peter Flanagan. We had some nice pasta and aubergine and I drank two glasses of wine, which was seemingly too much wine. Then me and Alison and Giles [Brody] worked on our … Continued
Edinburgh 2015 Mk I
I’ve been going to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s biggest arts festival, since 2010. It’s so big and yet the scariest bits are the small intimate moments with the frequently tiny ‘crowd’, for want of a better word [like audience], at the shows us new-ish/up-and-coming/still-up-and-coming acts do. The first show I ever did in … Continued