Jiggy- Takara

Robbie Harris writes:

The new one from Jiggy…rippling waves, ocean swells and pristine beaches, surfing the Wild Atlantic Way.

Jiggy

Takara?

Oliver Cole & Niamh Farrell – These City Lights

A moving duet written and recorded to help raise awareness on repealing the Eighth Amendment.

Oliver writes:

The song looks at the issue from the perspective of a couple who find themselves having to travel to the UK to access safe medical care.
We get to see from their point of view how this feels and how it impacts on them personally.
The song is a duet as I really wanted to represent both the male and female viewpoint in a realistic and sympathetic way.

Oliver Cole

Áirc Damhsa – Tuatha Dé Danann

Edwina Guckian writes:

At our dance club – Áirc Damhsa Dance Club – we regularly hear about traditions and the way people used to dance years ago Vs today.

One child questioned why we only ever hear about the dancers from a 100 or more years ago? What about Cú Chlainn or Queen Meabh, how did they dance? And this is what inspired our latest work. Enjoy!

Music: Jiggy

Video location: Mount Allen Organic Farm

Áirc Damhsa Dance Club

The Kerbs – Creep

Alt rock from Foxford, County Mayo featuring Mark McHale (vocals and guitar), Alex Stupar (lead guitar) an Noel Gallagher* (bass) andK evin Holmes (drums).

Taken from The Kerbs’ debut EP, I Am Zeus’, out in Summer

Thanks Elaine Wynne

* Not the Oasis one, we are reliably informed.

John Blek – Salt In The Water

Nominated for song of the year in the International Folk Awards and taken from Catharsis Vol.1, the third solo album from Cork-based songwriter.

John Blek

A Scene From JAWS –You

Declan writes:

‘A Scene from JAWS ‘burst through the thriving Cork music scene in this video, performing their upbeat dance-punk single, You…

A Scene From Jaws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtsL_BRRe3E

Jesse John Heffernan – Don’t Leave Me Like That

Jesse John writes:

We tried to show three stories revolving around three couples from different demographics and how heartache effects them all the same….

Jesse John Heffernan

The Concerned – Show Some Concern (1985)

Kevin Jenkison writes:

A long-forgotten Irish charity supergroup that included Christy Moore, Linda Martin, Mary Black, Gerry Ryan and Pat Kenny is being remembered by aid agency Concern Worldwide – as it thanks them and many other celebrities who have supported its work over the years.

The Concerned, made up of over 40 Irish stars, had a number one hit in March and April 1985 with the song and music video ‘Show Some Concern’ – a catchy anthem with lots of big hair and a very 80s saxophone solo.

Concern’s one and only charity song – which was written by Paul Cleary from The Blades and produced by award-winning composer Bill Whelan – was the brainchild of the late Gerry Ryan and Paul Cleary’s then manager Mark Venner

Dave Fanning, Pat Kenny, Gerry Ryan, Linda Martin, Christy Moore, Mary Black,Twink (Adele King), Maxi (Irene McCoubrey), Maura O’Connell, Freddie White, Eamon Carr, Johnny Duhan (who wrote The Voyage), Dave King (now singer with Flogging Molly) and Barry Lang are among those singing their hearts out in the video, which was filmed at the legendary Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Dublin.

Clannad, The Blades, Stockton’s Wing, Toy with Rhythm, Golden Horde and Sligo group Those Nervous Animals were among the Irish bands who assembled for the recording.

Concern

John Ryan – Despair Not Lies

A protest song about the homeless crisis.

John writes

I didn’t sit down to purposely write this song but recently the ever growing and seemingly endless homeless crisis, I think, is on everyone’s mind. Focus Ireland‘s statistics from January 2018 tells us there are 9,104 people without a home, and this, in a country of means…