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The GoCom(pletely) Soufflé · formerly the award-winning Jazz Soufflé
A doctor once prescribed egg whites and jazz. It seemed like reasonable advice. What followed was an archive of over 200 episodes — broadcast live, recorded in spare rooms, and kept going through a Dark Night of the Soul in the wilds of County Galway. Jazz has never tasted quite the same since.
Skip to the archive ↓It began with a visit to the doctor. The sardonic grin had somehow morphed into a sarcastic sneer and something had to be done. The prescription was unorthodox: egg whites and jazz. From this unlikely clinical encounter, the Jazz Soufflé was born.
The more truthful version: during an undergraduate degree undertaken in his mid-sixties at what is now the University of Galway, Stan was invited onto a friend's radio show. Live in the studios of Flirt FM — housed in a hidden substructure beneath the campus — he fell back in love with radio, as he had in the 1960s as a child. He immediately asked the station manager for his own show. She laughed and invited him to join the queue.
Several months later she asked if he knew anything about jazz. "Yes, I suppose," he mumbled. "Would you like to run the jazz show?" He didn't take any convincing. The show began as Drivetime Jazz, Fridays at 4pm — when there were still people around the studio to help with the mixing desk. Once he'd learned the ropes it moved to an evening slot, became The Jazz Soufflé, and in time JazzSo — award-winning Jazz Soufflé. At the end of 2019, management invented an award for Best Show by an Alumni. A small field, admittedly. But the award became part of the name.
Then COVID hit. All presenters were required to email their shows into a studio that was now off-limits. Everyone had to learn a Digital Audio Workstation, build a physical studio in a kitchen or a handy broom cupboard, and get on with it. A steep learning curve. For Stan, the Soufflé recorded in those circumstances became, he often says, the only thing that kept him sane.
Then an interim dark night of the soul in the east of County Galway. A few sporadic episodes emerged from that period. A welcome return to the city eventually transpired, along with the end of COVID and the invasion of Ukraine.
Somewhere in this, a community radio station — GoComRadio.ie — came into the picture. As if by magic, the GoComSoufflé appeared. Both shows ran weekly for a while, then fortnightly on alternating weeks, then the two merged after a fashion: the content was the same, but the badging was different. Last broadcast March 2025. Not finished — resting.
The show has worn several names over the years. Each one marks a different chapter — a different studio, a different frequency, a different version of the same obsession.
Episodes split by show — click any title to open the player. Episodes marked unavailable are being located and will appear as the catalogue is completed.