Telephone Explosions – Tine Cnámh (Bonfire in Irish)
Kildare dream-pop duo Dolores Fogarty and Adrian Mee aka Telephone Explosions with a single whose “creeping bassline and ethereal vocals come just in time for the Halloween season”..
Haunting.
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The Shruggs – Potholes
Cork-based band tackles the scourge of rural road users across the country.
Finally.
Mixed by Gavin Glass.
Ciara Sidine – Finest Flower
Inspired by the “testimony of women who survived Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes”.
Ciara writes:
When I came to write ‘Finest Flower’, I wanted to honour the love that each of these women had for their children, and the bond that could not be broken….
…I’m pleased to donate proceeds from the sale of ‘Finest Flower’ to the Tuam Home Survivors Network, a group who are doing incredible work advocating for justice for the Tuam babies, and their families.”
Available on iTunes here
Finest Flower will be launched at a concert on Remembrance Day for Ireland’s Lost Children, in Tuam, County Galway this Saturday. details here.
Hozier ft Mavis Staples – Nina Cried Power
Lucky Kambhoula, of Masi the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, an independent platform for asylum seekers, and a regular on Broadsheet the Telly, appears among a host of activists and artists in the video for Hozier’s duet with Mavis Staples, which premiered at the Electric Picnic last month.
In fairness.
Silver Lines – Moogle
A new single from barnstorming Dublin busker Moogle recorded at Darklands Audio with drums supplied by Daniel Doherty and lyric video (above) by Bryan Spileers.
Terry Hackett and Aedin – Little Darling
A tender father and daughter duet:
Ten years singing with the RTE Philharmonic Choir, along with many more years involved in performance and production, led Terry Hackett to start writing his own material.
“Little Darling”, is from his forthcoming album “Kookoo City” and is a duet with his daughter Aedín about the bond between parent and child; part fact, part aspirational and part acknowledgment of not being the perfect parent!
King Kong Company – Killswitch
A new single and video ahead of a performance by the Waterford based dance music exponents at the Electric Arena at the Electric Picnic on Friday at 8pm.
Sabrina Sheehan writes:
The King Kong crew teamed up with Neil McLellan (The Prodigy) on audio production duties and Dicemen Productions for the visuals. T
he track and video explore how social media uses us while we’re using it; a dark but topical subject matter, but this is a band who are no strangers to wrestling things that lurk in the shadows.
Expect the place to go off on Friday night when this banger is belted out
Please use yokes sensibly.
DOTT – Wedding Song
Galway-based DOTT writes:
On the third anniversary of Dott members’ Anna and Evan’s Wedding Day, Dott have released a new video for Wedding Song, taken from their new album Heart Swell.
The video, by Madra Dana, is a look back at what weddings looked like before Same Sex Marriage was legal while being juxtaposed with McCarthy’s lyrics which contemplate how the Marriage Referendum has changed love and matrimony for the better in Ireland.
The band are also celebrating the launch of the album with some gigs across Ireland [details at link below]…
Billow Wood – Pushin’ and Shovin’
A new single from Indie folk male/female four-piece that “fuse a unique brand of instrumentation with multi-vocals and harmonies”.
Directed by Ciaran O’Donnell
Thanks Pete Murphy
The Riptide Movement – Plastic Oceans
Brian Scally writes:
The concept for the video is the brainchild of The Riptide Movement’s frontman Malachy Tuohy. Featuring beautifully powerful choreography from London-based Edifice Dance Theatre and dancers Carmine De Amicis and Harriet Waghorn (top), the video is a visually compelling expression of the need for change in the way we produce consume, and dispose of the inexplicable amounts of plastic globally on a daily basis…