Beat goes on: Radio Otherway provides an outlet for Cork DJs
Colm Motherway in the Radio Otherway studio in Cork.
To say that Cork city has had a long and distinguished history of community-based radio would be quite an understatement. From the storied days of the 1980s pirates, to the likes of Radio Friendly and later FreakFM, to recent online services like Room101 and Irish Radio International, the city’s culture has found room to develop on its own terms by creating its own broadcast spaces for DJs to lay out their vision and frames of musical reference, away from the stultification of formats and playlisting.
Against the backdrop of the Covid crisis and last year’s lockdowns stepped Radio Otherway, a decidedly DIY service run by Cork DJ Colm Motherway, continuing in that spirit of making space for music in hard times. Unlike its predecessors that used 'traditional' radio technology and occupied a slot on the MW or FM bands, this station is an internet-only service.
