Mapping the Borders of The Mountain Goats
Contributor Tess Isabelle O’Regan contemplates the theme of borders present in the music of The Mountain Goats. In the first line of the third verse of International Small Arms Traffic Blues, John Darnielle, frontman of The Mountain Goats, proclaims: “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania”. You expect a certain amount […]
On the Record with Trick Mist
Entertainment editor Seán Enda Donnelly interviews Trick Mist on the release of his new album, The Hedge Maze and the Spade, a strikingly surreal mediation on loss, childhood and the future. Neuroscience suggests memories weave together our past, present, and future. The same brain processes that we use in recollection aid us in future planning […]
Beyond the Realms of Musical Composition: Historical Examples of Music Being Used as a Political Instrument
Ronan Keohane discusses examples in which music has been used for political ideological purposes and alludes to possible contemporary examples. Ever since the invention of the music telegraph in the 1890’s by Guglielmo Marconi, which helped facilitate the recording and broadcasting of music throughout the world at large, music has been an instrument used […]
So Much Is In a Name: Tim Chadwick on Identity and Self-Love in his New EP Timothy
Just ahead of his EP release, Alana Daly Mulligan talks with Tim Chadwick on his ever-evolving sound, soul-exposés, and role as Ireland’s first self-love musical icon. In January 2019 under the flickering fluorescent lamps of Crane Lane, during a time when live events were tangible realities and not just cigarette smoke-infused memories, I met […]
Hope in Dark Times: Tadhg Williams announces ‘The Hope Song’
Alana Daly Mulligan gets chatting with singer-songwriter and fellow Déisí Tadhg Williams about his upcoming release ‘The Hope Song’. Waterford singer-songwriter Tadhg Williams has had quite the year, pandemic aside. Enjoying the support of Hot Press and RTÉ Radio 1 for the release of his debut single ‘My Father’s Clouds’, coupled with the release […]
“No ranch to roam inside my room” : CMAT chats with Motley
This interview contains so much swearing that the AI transcriber cited the word “fucking” as the main supporting point – be warned. Alana Daly Mulligan talks music style and substance with self-proclaimed “global superstar”, and recognised legend CMAT. As CMAT prepared to swan through the musical saloon doors in March last year, the pandemic […]