City Scenes is our weekly dive into the music scenes of different cities around the world. Each week we’re moving through the alphabet and this week we find ourselves in Istanbul, Turkey.
Go vote: The Bertrange convivial brunch
Get people to vote while brunching: On 29 January, the municipality of Bertrange invites all their non-Luxembourgish residents. In our interview on Local Matters, mayor Monique Smit explains how this brunch is getting people to vote.
Go vote: The ZPB's project "Gemengewalen fir jiddereen"
How to vote, whom to vote for - the ZPB informs people about the upcoming municipal elections. On Local Matters, Annaïk Garin talks about their project “Gemengewalen fir jiddereen”.
LuxExpo Openair 2023 - Interview with Michel Welter From Den Atelier
In July 2023 Den Atelier will host a series of huge open air concerts at Luxexpo in Kirchberg featuring headliners Lizzo, The Arctic Monkeys, Paul Kalkbrenner and Robbie Williams. Michel Welter, Programmer of Den Atelier joned Tom on the Breakfast Show to discuss the line up and look ahead at a busy summer for live music in Luxembourg.
Go vote: Asti's project Let's vote
With an online game, the Asbl Asti wants to encourage people to vote and inform the public about the upcoming elections. On Local Matters, Marc Piron talks about Asti’s upcoming project.
Tech Layoffs & NFTs - Silicon Luxembourg On Ara City Radio
Jess Bauldry joined Tom in the Studio today for the first installment of a new collaboration between Silicon Luxembourg and Ara City Radio. Every Month we will have Silicon in the studio to discuss news from Luxembourg's tech startup and business scene.
Delano Top Of The Week
Tracy Heindrichs Joined Tom for Delano's Top Of The Week today. Up for discussion was the Rapid Recovery of Ukraine conference and gala that is being hosted by Ukraine-Luxembourg Business Club on the 30th and 31st of January.
Stand-up Comedy: Interview with Anne Klein
Luxembourgish Comedian and actress Anne Klein on Local Matters tells why she prefers working in the UK.
City Scenes Hong Kong
Each week for city scenes we take a look at the music scene of a different city around the world. We listen to some of the most famous artists from that city as well as checking some of the most exciting upcoming bands that are currently playing in the city. We’re moving through the alphabet each week, this week for the letter H we’re in Hong Kong.
Stand-up Comedy: Ben interviews the founders of Grande Duchesse Open Mic
On Local Matters, Ben interviews Aida Sghiri and Georgia Darke. They have founded the Grande Duchesse of Comedy, Luxembourg’s first all-female-run comedy club and open mic night.
Stand-up comedy: Luxembourg's two youngest comedians
For the first Local Matters series of this year, Benjamin George Coles talks to Alex Martin and Dimitri Tikaev, Luxembourg’s two youngest stand-up comedians, about how they got into stand-up and what it’s been like for them so far.
Delano Top Of The Week
Tracy Heindrichs was on the Breakfast Show today for the first Delano Top Of the week in 2023. Together with Tom she had a look at the upcoming year in Luxembourg and discussed the 2023 Luxembourg Strategie survey.
Ara City Radio Top 100 Tracks of 2022
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.