All year on the Breakfast Show we’ve been keeping you up to date with the best new music to come out in 2022. Our top 100 countdown of the best tracks of the year includes music by superstars that made huge comebacks this year like Beyonce, Gorillaz, Placebo and Yeah Yeah Yeahs but also our favorite underground artists like Horsegirl, Faux Real, and Special Interest.
City Scenes - Glasgow
City scenes is our weekly feature in which we check out the music scene of a different city around the world. We’re moving through the alphabet each week and so far we’ve been in Addis Ababa, Bristol, Chicago, Detroit, Edinburgh, Frankfurt and now we’re going to be looking at the music scene of Glasgow.
Homelessness: A random encounter, a personal story
For our last episode of this week’s Local Matters series on homelessness, I went to the social restaurant "Stemm vun der Strooss". I meant to ask those who live on the streets how they manage to keep up when it’s freezing out there. One man in his fifties was happy to talk, but not really interested in the questions I had for him. Let's listen to what he he wants to tell.
Lumi bow out with 'Everything Could Have Been'
Jussi and Edwin from Lumi joined Tom in the studio this morning to share their new single 'Everything Could Have Been' which in a bittersweet twist is also the band's final output as they decide to put a close to the project.
Homelessness: At the emergency shelter "Wanteraktioun"
250 beds are available at Wanteraktioun (WAK), the emergency shelter for homeless people in winter.
Homelessness: The Red Cross calls for owners to rent their properties
As it is freezing outside, homeless people quickly become the most vulnerable in society. With a new call, the Red Cross wants to prevent people from ending up on the street by signing rental contracts with potential landlords and landladies. On Local Matters, we’ve had Enes Agovic on the microphone, social worker with the Red Cross.
Delano Top Of The Week
Duncan Roberts of Delano, joined Tom in the studio this morning for the final Delano Top of The Week of 2022. They looked back over the year and discussed some of the stories that might be featuring heavily in the news in 2023.
Activism abroad: Don't forget about Ukraine
In our interview on Local Matters, Philippe Schockweiler, a journalist from Luxembourg, explains what keeps him going back to Ukraine, again and again, to report about the people behind the news. He is our second interview guest today. Before, we hear what the association LUkraine has been up to lately, with vice-president Inna Yaremenko.
City Scenes - Frankfurt
City Scenes is the feature where we examine the music scene of a different city each week. As we go along we’re moving through the alphabet from A to Z and this week we’re on the letter F and today we’re in Frankfurt Germany.
Activism abroad: Solmaz' voice for Iran
For years, Solmaz Jodairi Saber has been active for human rights in her home country Iran, even though living in Luxembourg she can't do a lot, even though for many years, little has moved in Iran. On Local Matters, she tells us about her fight against the Iranian regime.
Activism abroad: "Sleeping with Pengovsky"
"Sleeping with Pengovsky" is the name of Aljaz's blog. In our interview on Local Matters, he tells us what his perspective as a Luxembourg resident can contribute to the discourse on Slovenian politics.
Interview with Ambassador Thomas Barret
Ambassador of the USA for Luxembourg, Thomas Barrett joined Tom on the Breakfast Show to talk about the upcoming anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and why it’s important to remember those that lost their lives in what was one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war.
City Scenes - Edinburgh
City scenes is our journey through the music scenes of different cities around the world as we move through the alphabet and look at a different city each week. This week we’re on the letter E and we’ve landed in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Drug consumers: Therapy for parents with small children
A visit to the therapeutical centre Manternach, a centre for drug addictions that has recently presented their child-parent program where parents of young children receive addiction therapy together with their children.
Interview with Nada Surf
Tom caught up with Mathew Caws from Nada Surf ahead of their headline show at Den Atelier on the 11th of December. In our interview Mathew discusses the early days of the band as they started to record and play gigs in New York in the early 1990s, his relationship to playing and living in both America and Europe and his relationship to music making after over 30 years as a professional musician.
Interview With Martha Ventura From The Insight Project
The insight project is an organisation that works to combat human trafficking in Luxembourg through community action. Martha Ventura from the organisation joined Tom on the Breakfast Show to talk about the recent conference that they held at the Abbey Neimenster in the context of Orange Week, a week dedicated to raising awareness around and preventing violence towards women.
Local Matters: Abrigado's drug consumption room
For Local Matters, Claudia Allar showed us around at the centre Abrigado in Luxembourg-city, a safe space for drug users.
Drug consumption: Interview with Nadine Berndt from the Ministry of Health
In our interview on Local Matters, Nadine Berndt from the Ministry of Health told us how many people in Luxembourg use drugs, how these numbers shifted in recent years and what is been done to prevent and fight problematic drug use.
Elf On The Shelf Competition At Home From Home
Calum and Sarah from Home From Home joined Tom on the Breakfast Show to give our listeners a heads up about their festive Elf on The Shelf competition that they're running over the festive season.
Delano Top Of The Week
Tom was joined on the show by a new member of the Delano Team, Lydia Linna for Delano's Top Of The Week this morning. Up for discussion was Twitter and the affects that it's new ownership might have on the way people interact with the platform.