Landless are a quartet who sing traditional songs in four-part harmony. Lily Power, Meabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinead Lynch met in NCAD and released their eponymous EP in 2014. After an active few years gigging in Ireland and abroad, … Continue reading Homegrown: Landless
“I played instruments ― drums, piano, guitar, saxophone ― and then I began to write music on piano. It was nothing complex, kind of repetitive film score stuff, and then one day I woke up and decided that this was … Continue reading Homegrown, Aaron O’Grady
Steven Sharpe is a Galway-based singer-songwriter who cultivates a witty, unapologetic style that is difficult to describe. Continue reading Homegrown: Steven Sharpe
It seems a fair assertion to make that there is no equivalent in Dublin — or, indeed, in Ireland — to eight-piece Nova Collective, with their gorgeously breezy bossa nova melodies and the smooth-as-honey combined vocals of Luana Matos and Dónal Kearney. Continue reading Homegrown: Nova Collective
The anxiety of merely playing a subsidiary, passive role in one’s own life is something that springs to mind when Dublin solo artist Stephen Tiernan elucidates the reasons for his choice of moniker: Participant. Continue reading Homegrown: Participant
“We all just sit in a room playing bad things until something good happens.” You’d be forgiven for assuming the worst from Dublin five-piece SPIES’ own description of their creative process, but the approach seems to be working for them. … Continue reading Homegrown: SPIES
“The classical music world is very stuck in the past. It’s not the musicians, but the establishment itself looks down on other kinds of music.” Continue reading Homegrown: Ensemble
Deputy Music Editor Eoin Lynskey meets Westport surf-pop outfit Me and My Dog. Continue reading Homegrown: Me and My Dog
WORDS: Tara Joshi “Make sure you write that I’m a cat inside a man-boy’s body, Rob is an android, Aoife’s secretly a forty-year-old woman and that Jeffrey is actually a clone called Joffrey.” These are my parting words with Liam, singer … Continue reading Homegrown: Princess