In more recent years, Fanning has conducted public interviews with celebrities and musicians at events ranging from The Dalkey Book Festival, to Dublin's Web Summit, to the Electric Picnic.
These include, Richard E. Grant at University College Dublin, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in Trinity College Dublin, filmmaker David Cronenberg at Trinity College Dublin, Glastonbury's Michael Eavis at the Aviva Stadium, Sopranos creator David Chase at the residence of the American Ambassador in Dublin's Phoenix Park, producer Steve Lillywhite at Core Media, and Billie Eilish at Electric Picnic.

Fanning wrote the sleeve notes for Ireland's first ever rock compilation album Just For Kicks.

Fanning has been a stage announcer at most major music festivals and large concerts in Ireland dating back to Bob Marley and The Wailers at Dalymount Park in 1980 and Thin Lizzy/U2 at the very first Slane concert in 1981.

For its first four years, Fanning was a member of the panel for the Mercury Music Prize.

From 2009 to 2013, he hosted the 10th Kerry Film Festival in Tralee.

Fanning is parodied by Oliver Callan.

His contributions were featured in both of the big-screen documentary films of Oasis and Coldplay – Oasis: Supersonic in 2016 and Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams in 2018.
In more recent years, Fanning has conducted public interviews with celebrities and musicians at events ranging from The Dalkey Book Festival, to Dublin's Web Summit, to the Electric Picnic. These include, Richard E. Grant at University College Dublin, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in Trinity College Dublin, filmmaker David Cronenberg at Trinity College Dublin, Glastonbury's Michael Eavis at the Aviva Stadium, Sopranos creator David Chase at the residence of the American Ambassador in Dublin's Phoenix Park, producer Steve Lillywhite at Core Media, and Billie Eilish at Electric Picnic.
Fanning wrote the sleeve notes for Ireland's first ever rock compilation album Just For Kicks.
Fanning has been a stage announcer at most major music festivals and large concerts in Ireland dating back to Bob Marley and The Wailers at Dalymount Park in 1980 and Thin Lizzy/U2 at the very first Slane concert in 1981.
For its first four years, Fanning was a member of the panel for the Mercury Music Prize.
From 2009 to 2013, he hosted the 10th Kerry Film Festival in Tralee.
Fanning is parodied by Oliver Callan.
His contributions were featured in both of the big-screen documentary films of Oasis and Coldplay – Oasis: Supersonic in 2016 and Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams in 2018.
Dave Fanning