Author Archives: Nick Kelly

This morning.

Anyone?

Join Me In The Pines – Feels So Heavy

It came from outer space…

Bell X1‘s Dave Geraghty (top) loves a bit of homegrown retro sci-fi as he delves deep into the Irish Film Institute’s archives for his new Join Me In The Pines video which features clips from County Down filmmaker Roy Spence‘s 1975 feature Keep Watching The Skies.

Dave says:

“I was attending a documentary film festival as I had scored the music for one of the shorts. As part of the programme, there was a documentary about Roy and his film work. Upon seeing this, a light-bulb went on in my head. Roy’s pictures and my music could work brilliantly together. So, I edited his twenty-minute film into a narrative that works beautifully with ‘Feels So Heavy’.”

The result is vintage Irish sci-fi soundtracked by Dave’s funkadelic soul. Nice.

The song can be found on the album Monomania. The single launch is in Bloody Mary’s in Dublin on February 29.

Nick says: Scream a little scream…

Join Me In The Pines

Goodbye January.

As we approach the start of Spring (yeah, right!), what better way to celebrate the new season than by giving away a Golden Discs voucher worth a blooming €25.

To be in with a chance to win, simply tell me below what is your favourite song about or mentioning Spring.

Here’s mine.

The winner will be chosen by my good self.

Lines close at 9.30pm

Please include video links if possible.

Nick says: Good luck.

Golden Discs

Blackbird & Crow – A Pox On You

Greetings from our friends in the North-West.

Blackbird & Crow are Maighread Ni Ghrasta (top left) and Stephen Doohan (top right) from Letterkenny, County Donegal and this single is taken from their new album Ailm.

An intense and atmospheric journey into gothic folk noir, A Pox On You is the work of a band confidently exploring musical boundaries.

The video is by Steve McCollum (aka Bill Hazzard).

Catch them live at Dublin’s Grand Social on April 10.

Nick says: Flying high.

Blackbird & Crow

Zero Fox Given (feat. Nick Flair) – The Break Up

‘Why go to Ireland except for a stag/The land of the leprechaun, there’s far too much trad…’

Gavin O’Sullivan writes;

You might enjoy this Brexit related rap song – for the day that’s in it!!

Campaigning.

Like a boss.

He loves the squeezed middle.

Bigger than Jesus.

Name that neat, that neat, that neat jammer, anyone?

Free the lanes.

Mud?