Member Since: 12/10/2005
Band Website: desertedvillage.com
Band Members: David Colohan, Eddie Keenan, Neil Fitzgibbon & an army of ghosts.....
Influences: The Late Great TOWNES VAN ZANDT leaving a Galway bar in tears...CHARALAMBIDES...JOHNNY CASH singing HURT...RICHARD YOUNGS...NEIL YOUNG...PINK FLOYD...CURRENT 93 raising SLEEP HAS HIS HOUSE high into the Glasgow night on hammered piano, blasted guitars and sad litanies...W.B. YEATS...LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS...RICHARD SKELTON...PABLO NERUDA...WILLIAM BASINSKI...OPETH...ROY HARPER...TALK TALK...A-HA...RED HOUSE PAINTERS...BURZUM...ROY MONTGOMERY...When I look at the stars I hear LABRADFORD...POPOL VUH...FLYING SAUCER ATTACK...JESU...early SEBADOH...SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS...JOHNNY MOYNIHAN, The Bard Of Dalymount...ANNE BRIGGS and the way she might sing to ye...All the old sci-fi/childrens tv shows I love...especially Sydney Sager's soundtracks for CHILDREN OF THE STONES & INTO THE LABYRINTH...( Anyone got them on cd???)
Sounds Like: "Warm melancholic neofolk of otherworldly beauty. Highly recommended!" Vital Weekly"His works as Agitated Radio Pilot are timeless psychedelic folk evocations that could be just as easily be compared to Townes Van Zandt as Current 93. We're talking deeply moving stuff here that comes from a place where ego and pretension are mostly left behind. Many, many artists come to mind, yet Colohan has such a striking and personal vision that there's really no point in naming names." Kevin Moist, Deep Water Acres"The tag 'loner folk' has been thrown around when discussing a lot of Colohan's back catalogue but there doesn't seem to be very much self indulgence here, even though many of the tracks are deeply personal. Instead Colohan seems to have a preternatural sense of the elemental, those dark places we all go to take off our disguises. So many artists have treaded this ground before and seemed insincere, but Colohan's vulnerability, his human voice that presents these unadorned truths without spin or motive, makes me want to listen and believe."
Foxy Digitalis"...eerie, melancholic space age folk...Orbiting a different world to that of the static singer songwriter scene, Agitated Radio Pilot may be a voice in the wilderness but outsider music has rarely sounded so warm."
Keith Wallace, Do Something Pretty"Agitated Radio Pilot make pieces that are like marsh lands, beautiful and necessary but impossible to access, not unwelcoming but remote. You feel there is a core, unheard at the centre of these pieces. Every release by this artist enforces my view that they are one of the most important yet almost unheard currently making music."
Mark Coyle. www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk
Record Label: Deadslackstring, Deserted Village, Rusted Rail..
Type of Label: Indie