MALLRAT RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE ‘ROCKSTAR’

MALLRAT aka 22 year old, Brisbane-native Grace Shaw, returns today with new single ‘Rockstar‘. Premiered on triple j this morning, the track was written and recorded in her part-time home of Los Angeles, and is a collaboration with songwriter/producer Tommy English (Kacey Musgraves, Carly Rae Jepsen).

Inspiration can clearly be heard from ’90s dream folk icons Mazzy Star, the hazy indie rock that populated the legendary soundtrack to The OC, and Shaw’s teenage idols Violent Soho. Sludgy, lethargic guitars and muffled, low-fi drums underpin the steady softness of her vocals as she sings some of the most spectacular lyrics of her career — aspirational, boastful, humble and heartbreaking all at once:

Maybe I’ll fall in love with a rockstar,
We’ll be married forever,
I’ll forget all about ya, one day.
Maybe when I’ve won all the Grammys,
and I’ve got my own family,
I’ll forget all about ya, one day.
 

Of the release, she shares: “I feel like ‘Rockstar’ reminds me of a mix between Lana Del Rey, Kacey Musgraves and Violent Soho. All through my teens (and obviously still) I loved the early Violent Soho albums self-titled and Hungry Ghost – those two albums I’ve listened to a lot and I think that’s seeped its way into the track. A lot of the songs I’ve been writing lately have been me realising my power. 

I wrote the chorus first, it has a completely different attitude on its own, but when you listen in the context of the verses and the really aggressive guitar outro it completely flips the perspective of everything. When I wrote the rest of the song a year later, I was feeling a lot more sure of myself. It’s interesting how time can reframe things that you still think and are still true but just give them a whole new house to sit in. I’ve always thought of myself a whisper singer and not even a very good singer, but when I listen to the chorus of ‘Rockstar’ it reminds me that I have more range than I probably even give myself credit for.”

In the five or so years she’s been on the scene, Mallrat has established herself as one of the country’s best-known and most-loved singer-songwriters. Having emerged as a starry-eyed teen from Brisbane with hip-pop tracks like ‘Uninvited‘ and ‘For Real‘, her career transformed with singles ‘Better‘ and ‘Groceries‘, and with collaborations like ‘UFO‘ with Allday and ‘Nobody’s Home‘ with Basenji. An undeniable talent, her mammoth 2019 hit ‘Charlie‘, revealed an entirely new side to her songwriting. Delicate, relatable, human and imperfect, the track catapulted her to the top three of the triple j Hottest 100, and helped secure her first appearance on US television. 

Mallrat is currently deep in the process of writing and recording her debut album. Stay tuned for more, coming soon.

‘Rockstar‘ by Mallrat is out now: Stream/buy it HERE 

www.lilmallrat.com

Releases debut album ‘Making Sand’

Irish singer-songwriter Padraig Jack released his debut album Making Sand on 25 September. Making Sand was recorded in London and produced by music industry legend John Reynolds (Sinéad O’Connor, Damien Dempsey, Shane McGowan). The album includes the lead single ‘Minnie’ which was released to excellent reviews both in the UK and Ireland, as well as ‘Streetbed Ridden’, the single released back in March that tackled the issue of homelessness.

The album title is taken from the track ‘Making Sand’, which is in Padraig’s view the most meaningful song on the album, as it is inspired by Padraig’s home island of Inis Mór in the Aran Islands. The island’s landscape is rugged and scattered with bronze age stone ring-forts, ancient monasteries and churches founded by saints. ‘Making Sand’ attempts to capture a sense of the awesome historical and cultural importance of the islands while acknowledging that despite all the history and current societal activity, the inhabitants of the Island are ‘just making sand out here’ and only passing through.

Padraig Jack (O Flaithearta) was born into a musical family from the Aran islands. His dad is the songwriter Barry Ronan and he is the nephew of the Irish poet and Aosdána member Mary O’Malley. A native of Inis Mór which has produced writers Liam O Flaithearta, Máirtín Ó Direáin and Breandán Ó hEithir, Padraig is proudly bilingual both as a conversationalist and a songwriter.

Padraig Jack’s songwriting heros include James Taylor, Van Morrison, Shane McGowan, Sandy Denny, and Jimmy McCarthy. He seeks to develop his own songwriting style in the Irish language also and in this regard, takes inspiration from Enya, Kíla, John Spillane and Peadar Ó Riada.

Padraig’s lockdown was a lot more productive than most people could claim! He set up his own home music studio as well as negotiating a publishing deal with Beautiful World and Downtown Publishing whose roster includes Ryan Tedder, Joan Baez, Ray Davies and John Prine.

Padraig will be gigging in the coming months, both solo and as a guest with Damien Dempsey. For those who can’t travel to see him, Padraig will be celebrating the launch of his album with a special Christmas livestream from his website in December, stay tuned to www.padraigjack.com

       Track listing:

1. Let It Shine
2. Mathew
3. Streetbed Ridden
4. Making Sand
5. Minnie
6. Black Drapes
7. Hello Mum
8. Long Goodbye
9. Fighting Irish
10. Smaointe Cailte

See Padraig live:

30 Oct             Maritime, Bantry (with Damien Dempsey)

1 Nov               The Venue, Ratoath (with Damien Dempsey)

14 Nov             Judge Roy Beans, Newbridge (with Damien Dempsey)

20 Nov             Crescent Concert Hall, Drogheda (with Damien Dempsey)

27 Nov             Róisín Dubh, Galway (solo concert)

29 Nov             Workman’s Club, Dublin (solo concert)

13 Dec             Online Special Christmas livestream, tickets from www.padraigJack.com

 ‘Light Me Up’

Taken from their No 1 album

True Love Waits

The Coronas’ thirteen-year journey has definitely been unique. With a handful of multi-platinum selling albums and a huge home fan-base, they were just about to embark on a six-month world tour when a certain unfortunately-named virus tried to spoil the party. Thankfully, the band are back with a new single, new album, rescheduled dates, and a point to prove.

‘Light Me Up’ is the new single from the forthcoming album True Love Waits co-written with True Tides frontman Cian McSweeney. The song is a celebration of enduring love, through the good times and bad. It flips from atmospheric to anthemic and builds to a boisterous, gospel finish featuring Cian on backing vocals. Lead singer Danny explains, “‘Light Me Up’ is about being grateful to have someone in your life who believes in you when you’re struggling with self-doubt. I suppose post-lockdown it’s become even more topical – how lucky we are to have loved ones to lean on when the world seems to be turning upside down!”

‘Light Me Up’ precedes the band’s highly anticipated album True Love Waits which is out on 31st July. True Love Waits marks the start of what is now more than a new chapter in the career of one of Ireland’s biggest, best-loved bands, it’s more like a whole new book.

A quartet for thirteen years, last summer The Coronas became a trio when guitarist Dave McPhillips unexpectedly left. Briefly they questioned whether to continue but instead of being defeated, the band grew to see it as an opportunity. ‘When we accepted that we weren’t going to be the same band without him, it was easier to let the songs lead us in ways we wouldn’t have thought of before,’ Danny explains.

‘Rather than replace Dave, we actually contemplated ditching guitars entirely. But instead we opened ourselves up to working with loads of our talented friends, mainly because the songs warranted it, and we had an amazing young producer George Murphy who knew exactly the kind of album we wanted to make.’

‘For the first time we used real brass, there are extra guest backing vocalists, guest guitar players and our first featured duet. From early on, the guys encouraged me to use my voice differently, pushing me to try something that I wouldn’t have done previously.’

Two songs had already been recorded in Los Angeles last February, with Hozier and PJ Harvey producer Rob Kirwan, when Danny, bassist Graham Knox, and drummer Conor Egan pressed reset. But the album only really began to take shape once a raft of new songs arrived. Key to the process was Danny’s coterie of new co-writers.

‘I co-wrote a little on the last two albums and loved it,’ says Danny. ‘This time I was up for anything. I took snippets of ideas to several musician mates, mostly around Dublin and Kerry, to see what we came up with and that’s how we hit on some of the new sounds and different song structures. When you’re five albums in, it can be difficult to write differently on your own – you instinctively return to the same patterns. With fresh input, you’re forced down new paths, and it’s also great sharing that excitement in a room when you both know that there’s something special in the idea you’ve just created together.’

The title track ‘True Love Waits’ was also written with Cian MacSweeney, frontman of Cork-formed, Dublin-based trio True Tides, one of The Coronas’ favourite bands and their recent support act. Acoustic guitar and bright synths blend to create an atmosphere of dreamy optimism, while the lyrics – ‘fuck that, take a chance’ – could as easily apply to The Coronas’ new outlook as a new relationship. Much of the song is the band’s original demo, recorded DIY in Dublin, before being completed in London with producer George Murphy.

‘We’ve never kept so much of our demos before,’ says Danny, ‘but what’s great about George is he can see the magic in a moment. There’s a spontaneity to that song which we’d have lost by re-recording it. George engineered our last two albums, so he knows us very well. He’d hone in on the vibe of what we brought him. A lot of the songs had odd arrangements and he understood straight away what we were trying to do.’

The unorthodox arrangements helped push The Coronas out of their comfort zone. The release last year of hypnotic first single ‘Find The Water’ was a shock to some, but its success told the band they were on the right path. Beginning with just piano and vocals, then breaking into an intense chant, ‘Find The Water’ soars skywards on trumpets and percussion and has Danny singing so high by the end that he’s all but unrecognisable.

Previous single ‘Cold’ may rival it for surprises. Opening on its stark, prayer-like chorus, it’s a majestic spine-chiller that shapeshifts on piano, percussion and synths. Written by Danny as a pick-me-up late one night alone in Dingle, it’s about decision-making and self-doubt. ‘How do you know you’ve made the right choice, about anything,’ says Danny. ‘In the midst of so much change, you can question every decision, but what’s the point? It’s our ‘don’t get down’ song. Have confidence and move on.’

Lyrically, True Love Waits addresses everything from a new love in Danny’s life, to looking back at past achievements with pride, to dealing with Dave’s departure.

‘Haunted’, one of two songs written with producer Cormac Butler, is a toast to a partnership – with the phrase “haunted” being Dingle-speak for “lucky”. ‘Lost in The Thick of It’ is one of the album’s highlights, a gorgeous duet with Gabrielle Aplin, written in Brighton with Gabrielle and her partner Alfie Hudson-Taylor. On the celebratory ‘Brave’, The Coronas work in a waltz. The euphoric ‘Heat of The Moment’ they describe as their Richard Curtis love song. By the end of ‘I Think We Jinxed It’, the guitars and synths soar just much as Danny’s vocals.

‘We never thought we’d make six albums, or be as excited about music as we are now. It’s great that we’re not trying to compete with anyone else. We’d rather just outdo ourselves.’

thecoronas.netFor further information contact Emma Harney / 0872807019 / emma@orchestrate.ie /www.orchestrate.ie

Release duet with Gabrielle Aplin ‘Lost In The Thick Of It’

In the midst of a pandemic we all need something to look forward to, so The Coronas’ fans can rejoice as the band are set to release a new single, ‘Lost in The Thick of It’, on Friday 15^th May. ‘Lost in The Thick of It’ is a collaboration, written and performed by The Coronas and acclaimed English singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin, and it features a melancholic piano hook, with Aplin and O’Reilly’s vocals complementing each other beautifully.

Gabrielle reached a mainstream audience with her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘The Power of Love’ used as the soundtrack to the John Lewis Christmas advertisement. Since then she has released three studio albums, most recently Dear Happy in January 2020.

Singer Danny gives us the story of how the song came to be: ‘Gabrielle and her partner, Alfie (Hudson-Taylor) invited me to their home in Brighton last year for a weekend of hanging out. We said we might try to write a little but it was more like a mini-holiday in my mind. We wrote a song together on which Gabrielle sang lead vocals that became ‘Lost in The Thick of It’ and I loved the demo so much I suggested adding my vocal in a lower octave and making it a duet.’

A few months later the duet was recorded in the historic Eastcote Studios in London. It will be the fourth single released from The Coronas’ new album True Love Waits set for release on 31^st July, their sixth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s No.1 hit ‘Trust The Wire’.

And yes, the band have addressed the elephant in the room: the unfortunate fact of sharing a name with a global scourge. ‘The first thing we did was tweet Corona the beer, asking them what their plan was,’ states Danny. ‘When we chat to our mates in bands who have postponed gigs and tours, I just remind them it could be worse, you could share a name with the virus!’

Pre-order ‘True Love Waits’ https://thecoronas.lnk.to/TrueLoveWaits

BEOGA SHARE THE NEW SINGLE ‘IN A ROCKET’ – WITH LISSIE

FROM THE NEW MINI ALBUM ‘CAROUSEL’ WHICH FOLLOWS ON MAY 22^ND

With an adventurous spirit and a passion for charting the road less travelled, Beoga have shown that Irish traditional music can take fresh new directions. That world-facing potential was proven by the popularity of their collaborations with Ed Sheeran on his all-conquering ‘÷’ album. Those two songs – ‘Galway Girl’ and ‘Nancy Mulligan’ – have been streamed over a billion times on Spotify alone.

Now Beoga build upon that growing profile by sharing their new single ‘In A Rocket’, a collaboration with Lissie. The track previews their new mini-album ‘Carousel’, which follows on May 22nd. It finds the band focusing on creating attention-grabbing hooks with a mix of rootsy instrumentation and elements of electronic pop production.

With vocals from Lissie and a topline written by James Bay, ‘In A Rocket’ blends Beoga’s Irish-fuelled rhythms with Lissie’s midwestern folk-pop as it looks ahead to better times to come. “Spent too long in this lonely room,” Lissie emotes, “Kicked out the locks, going to run with you / Sun’s waiting on the other side.”

Beoga commented “’In A Rocket’ is about growing, escapism and losing yourself. The idea of getting away from it all in your own metaphorical rocket, whatever that may be.”

Lissie brings a special midwestern vibe to this song that really brought it all to life for us. We wanted this song to take you away to somewhere positive and daydreamy for a few minutes. It seems apt with all that’s going on in the world at the minute.”

Lissie added: “It’s such an honour to lend my voice to this uplifting song by Beoga. I feel like the words and meaning couldn’t be more perfect for these strange and uncertain times we are living in.  Also, to have the release coincide with the first hopeful signs of Springtime feels appropriate. There is a lot of strength, resolve and optimism in this song!”

‘In A Rocket’ is the third taster to preview ‘Carousel’ following ‘Matthew’s Daughter’ (featuring Devin Dawson) and ‘Make A Mark’ (featuring Ryan McMullan). Uniting the worlds of American and Irish contemporary folk, the former features lyrics written by Ed Sheeran about his wife Cherry and is already Beoga’s second most streamed track at Spotify. Meanwhile, ‘Make A Mark’ shows their growing flair for merging the worlds of Irish trad and modern pop.

Other featured vocalists on the mini-album include Beoga’s old friends Foy Vance and Niall McCabe. Meanwhile the Grammy-nominated producer Jonny Coffer has helped the band’s fresh fusion of sounds to flourish.

The ‘Carousel’ title was chosen to reflect Beoga’s experiences over the past two years. They’ve navigated the murky waters of the music industry, signing and then escaping two recording contracts before teaming up with AWAL. It’s been a long and frustrating experience, but looking back they realise that they’ve been more creative than ever before. In addition to ‘Carousel’, they also have the bones of a further two or three albums in place. Everything’s set up for Beoga to reach a whole new audience.

Beoga will follow the release of ‘Carousel’ with an Irish & UK headline tour later this year.

‘Carousel’ tracklist:

1. ‘Make A Mark’ (featuring Ryan McMullan)
2. ‘Carousel’
3. ‘In A Rocket’ (with Lissie)
4. ‘We’re Blood’ (featuring Foy Vance)
5. ‘Aurora II’
6. ‘Matthew’s Daughter’ (featuring Devin Dawson)
7. ‘Homebird’ (featuring Niall McCabe)

Pre-order ’Carousel’ now Official website

Ryan McMullan releases his ‘Ruthless Cupid EP’

The Ruthless Cupid EP is an all-out attack on the most famous matchmaker of all time, Cupid- the full EP release is due out on 10 April. Ryan explains, ‘These songs reflect a handful of times where it felt like Cupid has been toying with me. Amusing himself by throwing me into situations where I’m either out of my depth, hoping for reconciliation, or unable to escape the truth that even at the end, I’m still holding on to even the worst of my attempts at love.’

The current single is ‘In A Heartbeat’ ‘was written to sum up a stage I think we all kind of go through sooner or later: the understanding that something that once was, is now no more. But even at the end knowing it still has a hold on you, so much so, that no matter how toxic it is, or how little sense it made, you’d still run back to it in a desperate attempt to salvage it’ says Ryan. The video for ‘In A Heartbeat’ has been viewed over 115K+ times.

Over the last few years Ryan McMullan has been making a name for himself as a gifted songwriter and exceptional singer. 2019 was a huge year for the Portaferry native, with the success of his single ‘Rebellion’, and ‘Make A Mark’, his collaboration with Beoga. He has toured non-stop, playing his own sold-out shows in Dublin and Belfast and playing support slots with The Coronas on their Long Way Home tour in Ireland. He also opened for Snow Patrol in the USA, Europe and Asia and stood in as an honorary member of the band when guitarist Johnny McDaid was recovering after surgery. It’s no wonder that Ryan is now being recognised as one of Northern Ireland’s biggest and brightest talents.

Ryan’s Irish & UK tours planned for April & May will be rescheduled in late Autumn, his hometown shows in Portico Theatre will be held at the end of June.

Tracklisting for ‘Ruthless Cupid EP’;

1. Ruthless Cupid

2. In a Heartbeat 

3. Some kind of perfect 

4. Outcry 

Live dates ;

Sat 27 June                 Portico Theatre, Portaferry     **SOLD OUT**

Sun 29 June                 Portico Theatre, Portaferry     

Fri. 26 June                 Kaleidoscope Festival, Rossborough House,

Sat 1 August               Indiependence Festival, CorkV

www.ryanmcmullanmusic.com

John Sheahan Releases Flirting Fiddles on 17 April

Venerable fiddle player, national treasure, and iconic Dubliner John Sheahan releases his first solo album Flirting Fiddles on 17 April. The sixteen tunes on Flirting Fiddles are both old and new including some classic favourites like ‘The Marino Waltz’ and more recent compositions such as ‘The Winding River’. The tunes have been arranged for both orchestra and string quartet as well as collaborations with fiddlers, guitarists, pianists, pipers and percussionists. John explains the title, ‘During my 50 years playing with The Dubliners, I have been flirting with different fiddle styles, which has lead to this eclectic mix of compositions. They reflect influences of traditional, swing, baroque and bluegrass.’

A first solo album is a milestone in any musician’s career, even more so at the age of 80. John Sheahan celebrated this landmark birthday very publically last year with two concerts in Vicar Street in December, with the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins in attendance as guest of honour on 6^th. Throughout this evening, John was joined onstage by an array of musical guests, including Glen Hansard, Imelda May and Declan O’Rourke, to create a memorable musical celebration of a man who is both beloved and highly respected by his peers. The gig was recorded on the night and will be shown at 9.30pm on TG4 on 17 March.

John’s contribution to Irish music and Irish culture spans a phenomenal seven decades, including fifty years with legendary folk group, The Dubliners. He was always the quiet one in the Dubliners, or as he calls himself ‘the mortar between the bricks’. Sheahan is the one who has survived those wild days and ‘Seven Drunken Nights’, the one who is around to tell the stories and crack open his diaries to remember those times when the band would play the Royal Albert Hall in London the night after a gig in Templemore.

But John is not one to live in the past. Always playing, writing and recording, he continually creates, caught up in the eternal magic of it. He pushes himself outside his comfort zone too, publishing his first poetry collection Fiddle Dreams in 2015 to great acclaim. He still gigs regularly both abroad and at home, and even manages to find time for his favourite hobby, wood-carving. John Sheahan is an inspiration to us all, and we are truly blessed to have him and his immense talent.

Release “Haunted” taken from their forthcoming album ‘True Love Waits’ releasing 29 May.

It’s been eight months since The Coronas last released new music, and to say that the band have been busy since then is a bit of an understatement. They’ve headlined their own travelling festival, performed a run of special shows in their hometown, and released a live album, all while recording a brand-new album in London’s prestigious Eastcote studios. George Murphy, acclaimed engineer and producer (Ellie Goulding, The Specials, Mumford & Sons) has undertaken the main production duties on the album along with Rob Kirwan (Hozier, PJ Harvey) and Cormac Butler (Academic, All Tvvins).

With renewed vigour as a three-piece (lead guitarist Dave McPhillips left the band amicably late last year), The Coronas are set to continue their busy schedule right up to the album release in May. ‘Yeah, it’s been a crazy few months!’ laughs singer Danny. ‘But it’s a new chapter for us and we’re so proud of this album, we can’t wait to release it.’ The album is entitled True Love Waits and will be released internationally on 29^th May 2020. (Full track listing below.)

‘Haunted’ is the first taste of this new music for the band’s legions of fans and they will be touring extensively both in Ireland and internationally in support of the upcoming album. They’ve also just announced their own special summer date ‘No Where We’d Rather Be’, a unique festival in Killruddery House & Gardens, Bray, on the August Bank Holiday weekend July 31^st and August 1^st. The Coronas will headline both nights and will be joined by special guests Tom Walker, Hudson Taylor, LYRA, Gabrielle Aplin, Aimée, Somebody’s Child, Thanks Brother and True Tides.

29th May                               Marquee, Cork

30th May                               Saltwater Festival, Westport

27th June                               Fever Pitch Music Festival, Galway

31st July + 1st August          No Where We’d Rather Be, Killruddery House, Bray

True Love Waits

(album track list)

1. True Love Waits
2. Never Ending (On Your Side)
3. The Thick of It 
4. I Think We Jinxed It
5. Haunted
6. Cold
7. Brave
8. Heat of The Moment 
9. Find The Water
10. Need Your Presence 
11. Light Me Up
12. LA at Night

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Bring their ‘Long Way Home Festival’ to Dublin!

Over the past few months The Coronas have travelled the length and breadth of Ireland on their ‘Long Way Home Festival’ tour. Each show featured support from some of the band’s favourite up-and-coming Irish acts followed by their own headline show in which they interspersed some brand-new Coronas songs along with tunes from their beloved back catalogue. Now The Coronas are bringing the Festival home to Dublin this Christmas. As the band themselves explain, “No matter how busy we’ve been or even when we lived abroad, Dublin at Christmas has always been home for us. This year we want to do something slightly different: we want to play the venues where we honed our sound as a young band, together with some great Dublin venues that we’ve never gotten to play before.”

The Dublin Christmas Tour starts with an intimate show in the Sound House on 4^th December, then on to Whelan’s on 6^th December, The Academy on 8^th December and The Olympia Theatre on 12^th December, three venues where The Coronas have had some amazing gigs in the past. They end the tour in Vicar Street on 23 December which will be a first for the band! Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am on Friday 13^th September 2019.

This tour of Dublin will cap off a very successful year for the band. The single ‘Find The Water’, taken from their upcoming sixth album, topped the airplay charts throughout the summer. Their ‘Long Way Home’ Festival gigs in Cork, Limerick, Belfast and Galway were sold out and upcoming gigs in Wexford and Kilkenny had second dates added, all of which are now sold out. The band are due to head to New York in November where a fourth date has been added to their The Mercury Lounge residency due to the phenomenal demand. 

Even though the band adores playing abroad, there’s always something magical about a Dublin gig. With shows planned in London and Cologne and the New York run all upcoming, and the new album to finish in London and LA, all before Christmas, the band signed off on their recent post about the Dublin shows simply…

“We can’t wait to come home.

Love Danny, Conor, Knoxy and Dave.”

Long Way Home Festival visits.

18 October                  Sligo Live presents at Knocknarena Sligo IT

19 & 20 October         Spiegeltent, Wexford

1 & 3 November         The Hub, Kilkenny

4 December                Sound House, Dublin

6 December                Whelan’s, Dublin

8 December                The Academy, Dublin

12 December              The Olympia Theatre, Dublin

23 December              Vicar Street, Dublin

29 December              INEC Arena, Killarney

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Join Me In The Pines release their new album ‘Monomania’ 30 August

And announce Irish tour this October

David Geraghty is most well-known as a founding member of Bell X1 but in recent years he has been exploring a new solo direction under the moniker “Join Me in the Pines”.

JMITP release their highly anticipated second album Monomania on August 30^th 2019. Monomania brims with David’s distinctive vocal and songwriting style but this time he has ventured into an edgy 80s synth-pop world with hints of funk, conjuring shades of Prince, Bowie, Grace Jones and Donna Summer. The album was mixed by the masterful Ross Dowling (James Vincent McMorrow, Talos, Brian Deady) and will be released on Decal Records. In advance of the release, renowned Irish music blogger Nialler9 will exclusively premiere the video for ‘She Steps Into The Light’ on Thursday August 1^st.

David is the writer, singer and guitarist for Join Me in the Pines, and is joined on stage by Marc Aubele (BellX1, The Walls), Mick Major (Bon Ton Rouler) and Tim Donovan (Neosuperviatl, BellX1). Recently, the band were invited to open for the legendary Hall & Oates at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens and Cork’s Marquee, and for the wonderful David Gray, also at Cork’s Marquee. This summer they also wowed audiences at Vantastival, Forbidden Fruit and Kaleidoscope, steadily growing their fanbase, and will cap it all off with a slot at Electric Picnic on August 30^th.

As a member of Bell X1, David has released seven studio albums to date. In addition to this, Geraghty released two solo albums under his own name. In 2014, David decided to delineate his solo work by giving it a new name, and so “Join Me in the Pines” was born.

David is a five-time Choice Music Prize nominated multi-instrumentalist and composer. In recent years, his solo output has caught the ear of film directors, allowing David to turn his talents towards composing for film and TV. His first project, a short film called The Crush, went on to be nominated for an Academy Award. Subsequent projects have won at Athens, Baton Rouge, Galway and Berlinale film festivals.

Join Me in the Pines will follow up Monomania’s release with a tour in October. These dates are:

Fri 11 Oct        The Commercial – LIMERICK

Sat 12 Oct       The Black Gate Theatre – GALWAY

Fri 18 Oct        Coughlan’s – CORK

Sat 19 Oct       Lost Lane – DUBLIN