Member Since: 1/15/2007
Band Members: "Southend, London, Cavan..." reads like the type-set on a Bond St shopping bag doesn't it?! More like the type-set on a builders providers' van.Lucy O' Driscoll wrote the songs on a trusty little Seagull and caterwailed them into a mic in a basement. Generally a grounded, happy person from a caring, confederate border-county town, she has herself no predilection for necro-eroticism, corvine-pogrom or stalkers but her imaginings sometimes conjure unhealthy threads in song which she ascribes to that shadow-being which some Swiss egg-head said exists in the bowels of every mind. So it tickles her pink to write a bunch of tunes about a hapless clerk who accidently kills her lover in a sex game gone wrong or a lunatic gun-toting adolescent who's a scourge on birds or a person irrationally thrilled by their lover's violence (the characters in these tunes are purely fictitious by the way and any resemblence etc etc) - she herself likes nothing better than a Saturday night in with a cup of tea and a Penguin bar.M.L. then produced and arranged the lot in a manner far beyond LOD's savvy. Played the guitars, the bass (electric and double), tippitytapped out some rimshots on a tom and a Bushmills can (empty of course) all with the precision of a 1928 Rolex. Came up with the piano bits and the harp, slid some pastry brushes around a snare, bowed some strings. Did things on an iMac. Like watching a Swiss watch maker at work it was. Very, very grateful to that man indeed.
Also, a big thank you to Aiden G at Candlelit Enemy Productions for his Mastering on So In Love and The Bitter Song.
Influences: Loss, madness, love, Patrick Kavanagh ...."the bicycles go by in twos and threes there's a dance at Billy Brennan's barn tonight, and the half-talk code of mysteries and the wink and elbow language of delight.." people, endurance, bitterness (as it's often love-turned-vinegar). The songs of Mark Schubert, the heavy western of Phillious Williams, Chet Atkins, The Carters, Karen Dalton, Odetta, Morriconi's music for everything Leone, Count John McCormack, Cat Power, Emmylou Harris, Kate Bush (inevitably), Tori Amos, Joanna Newsome and oh, the first woman of rock n roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Sounds Like: Lucy, Matt and when the tunes are played live, sounds like Mark and Wendy too.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None