The official video for Passenger, taken from Lisa Hannigan’s album Passenger – http://bit.ly/PW8stb
Directed by Myles O’Reilly
All clips taken from the Arbutus Yarns produced Lisa Hannigan Diaries
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Lisa Hannigan :: Passenger (Official HD Video)
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Deaf Joe Harney :: Live From A Big Room
http://www.myspace.com/deafjoeharney
Deaf Joe Harney performs Burrowings, Bellynoises and Winters Glow live with his band in Christchurch Cathedral Waterford, July 2012. Directed by Myles O’Reilly. filmed by Myles O’Reilly and Simon O’Neill.
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Culture Night :: Dublin 2012
I spent an evening out at Cultutre Night with a runny nose and a headache and this is what I saw. Thanks to Simon O’Neill for backing me up. Featuring the music of Nanu Nanu and the Cantairí Avondale Choir.
Featuring music from Nanu Nanu http://nanunanuband.com
and the Cantairí Avondale Choir http://www.cantairiavondale.com
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The Staves :: Mitchelstown Caves :: Icarus
The Staves perform Icarus live in Mitchelstown Caves, Ireland. Directed by Myles O’Reilly. Filmed by Myles O’Reilly and Simon O’Neill. Sound by Bob Jackson. An Arbutus Yarns film in association with Cork Opera House, Carraig Productions and Mitchelstown Caves.
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The Waterboys :: Spiddal Reunion
There was magic in the air at Park Lodge Hotel in Spiddal on September 2012 as the town welcomed back the legendary Waterboys for two special reunion gigs, which were attended by fans from all over the world.
Mike Scott and The Waterboys spent six months in Spiddal in 1988 when they recorded their iconic Fisherman’s Blues album. In his recent memoir, Adventures of a Waterboy, Mike Scott referred to the impact the village had on his life and music.
However, their first ever formal concerts in Spiddal were in September 2012, when Mike Scott, Steve Wickham and Anto Thistlethwaite reunited for a memorable day and night.
These concerts were organized by the Spiddal based Strange Boat Donor Foundation to raise funds for the National Commemorative Garden in memory of organ donors. This is being planned for Salthill.
Hundreds of visitors from Ireland, Europe, the US, and from as far away as Australia and South Africa attended the concerts — in fact some fans attended both the first one at 4pm and the second at 8pm. Erwin Rademaker, who traveled from Holland, has attended Waterboys concerts since l985 and described the Spiddal gig as “the best”.
Other musicians also performed, including the well-known composer Charlie Lennon who played on Fisherman’s Blues,and singer Eleanor Shanley, who released the Waterboys’ song Strange Boat in 2008 to raise awareness of organ donation.
The event came to a rousing and emotional finale when the musicians came together for the song, Saints and Angels in memory of local man Éamonn Goggin, whose organs were donated following his death six years ago.
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Through The Keyhole
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Encounter at the Cello Biënnale
A Film by Myles O’Reilly featuring Ernst Reijseger and music of Trio Reijseger Fraanje Sylla.
In 2009 I first watched the film by Werner Herzog ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ and for the first time heard a film score composed by cellist Ernst Reijseger. Recognized for his efforts with jazz drummer Gerry Hemingway, as well as numerous other roles as a session man and leader, Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger is also known for his avant/classical/world music proclivities and his collaborations with Harmen Fraanje and African vocalist Mola Sylla under the moniker Reijseger Fraanje Sylla. In this film Ernst teams up with Harmen Fraanje and singer Mola Sylla as well as forty year long session partner Franky Douglas and steel pan virtuoso turned bass guitar player Leslie Joseph.
Click to view slideshow.Directors Note ::
When I heard the music from Herzog’s ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ and ‘White Diamond’, the sound track titled ‘Requiem For A Dying Planet’, immediately it became my album of the year and my own personal sound track. Like tinted sunglasses, everything looked better with it on. Also around the same time my music producer friend gave me a loan of a HD video camera to see if I’d take an interest in filming my own music videos. I was an active musician/writer and had been for fifteen years but it was in hearing the marriage of Ernst Reijseger’s compositions to moving images that everything changed for me. With years of experience working in a photolab, wanting to be a photographer and trying to be a successful musician I found before me a craft that would marry all three skills I understood so well. So without permission, I used Ernst Reijseger’s ‘Requiem For A Dying Planet’ over my first home made movies. It was such a tremendously enjoying and gratifying experience that I haven’t put the camera down since.
In 2010, a year after posting my home videos illegally using the music of Ernst Reijseger I shockingly received an e-mail from Ernst himself! He had seen the home video I made and instead of report me to his publisher he wrote me this short message..
Makes me want to be there.
Would love to come over and play in some of the scenes shown in the film..
Greetings
ernst reijseger
Constantly inspired by Ernst on Youtube and especially his workshops to help very conditioned students of Cello to feel and find their own way with the instrument, I remembered recently that I had his e-mail address so sent Ernst a short message to ask could I make a small piece of film about him. Encounter at The Cello Biënnale is the result of three years in training in a new craft for me, training to follow the subject with my ears as much as my eyes, to feel and invent my own way with my instrument and practice an ethos un-wittingly installed in me by listening to Ernst for the first time three years ago. I hope Ernst, that this in some way repays you for my theft 
For more information on the Trio Reijseger Fraanje Sylla visit www.reijsegerfraanjesylla.com
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Other Lives :: As I Lay My Head Down
http://otherlives.com
Other Lives perform ‘As I Lay My Head Down’ live at PIAS Nights in the Iveagh Gardens Dublin 2012. Directed by Myles O’Reilly. Cameras Myles O’Reilly, Simon O’Neill and Stephen Mogerley.
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Mick Flannery :: Boston
Mick Flannery performs ‘Boston’ live from the Olympia Theater, Dublin.
http://www.mickflannery.com
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Villagers :: My Lighthouse :: A Young Hearts Run Free event
Villagers Conor O’Brien wearevillagers.com is joined by Rhob Cunningham to perform My Lighthouse from Villagers forthcoming sophomore album release ‘Awayland’ at the music event Young Hearts Run Free to help raise money for the Simon Community, Ireland http://www.myspace.com/youngheartsrunfreeevents
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The Strypes :: Blue Collar Jane
The Strypes perform ‘Blue Collar Jane’ at the music event ‘Young Hearts Run Free’ to help raise money for the Simon Community, Ireland. Filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly.
The Strypes are 4-piece rhythm and blues band hailing from Cavan, Ireland, formed in 2011 by Ross Farrelly (lead vocals/harmonica), Josh McClorey (lead guitar/vocals), Pete O’Hanlon (bass guitar/harmonica) and Evan Walsh (drums).
The group has spent the past 18 months launching their explosive R&B assault on the clubs and festivals of Ireland, the UK and Europe, viciously hammering out a no-nonsense blues repertoire drawing from the songbooks of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Slim Harpo and more with the passion and venom of British blues groups such as Dr. Feelgood, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones and The Animals.
Having already been met with critical acclaim from greats such as Jeff Beck and Paul Weller and been tipped by NME as the No. 1 new band to watch, it seems things can only get better for The Strypes.
http://thestrypes.com
http://www.myspace.com/youngheartsrunfreeevents
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The Greatest Busk On Grafton Street
Screenshots from ‘The Greatest Busk On Grafton Street’ Coming Soon.
Bono, Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan, Sinead O’Connor, Liam O’Moanlai, Declan O’Rourke, Paddy Casey and many more join in a busking christmas celebration in aid of The Simon Community, Ireland.
Click to view slideshow.
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Lisa O’Neill :: Dreaming :: Live in Whelans
Lisa O’Neill and band perform ‘Dreaming’ live in Whelans on December 21st 2012 http://http://www.myspace.com/lisaconeill
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Conor O’Brien :: Mysteries of Love
Villagers Conor O’Brien performs his interpretation of a song written by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti for the film Blue Velvet, Mysteries of Love. Performed live on Donal Dineen’s Chritmas Eve Radio Activity 2012
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Katie Kim :: Pause
Katie Kim performs Pause from her sophomore album ‘Cover and Flood’ live on Donal Dineen Christmas special ‘Christmas Radio Activity’ broadcast of 2FM on Christmas Eve 2012
Katie Kim – Cover And Flood
Written by Ian MaleneyIt’s fitting that a child’s voice opens ‘Birds Fly Low’, the first track on Cover & Flood. The young voice is pretty much unintelligible as its word-less roving melody emerges from the noise surrounding it. It’s off kilter and intriguing, innocent and unknowable. Eventually her phrases repeat and it begins to become familiar, though no more understandable than ever before. The space it exists in increases in size and density as we slowly zoom out like a camera, gradually losing the details in the distance. It is in this way that it serves as the perfect opening scene for what unravels as an irresistible and mysterious immersion in aural mis-en-scene.
By the time ‘Charlie’ – the first song proper – starts, the prologue has done its job and you’ve already found your feet in this very particular landscape. The loops of ominous notes and spare percussion maintain their swamp-footed waltz throughout as the delicate and unnerving vocals creep over the top. Modal scales on brass tickle the edge of the picture. Snake rattles and chants slither out of the background for snatched half-moments of exposure before a major chord appears from the fog, the curtains get drawn back and before you know where you are, it’s morning. You feel a weak ray of sunlight on your cheek. It’s disarming. You’re confused and happy to be out of it. You know you’ll go back though; it’s a charming underworld, enticing and dangerous with its edge-of-earshot temptations.
This mode continues for the rest of the album, variations on a theme showing the endless depth of shadows and all the scattered beauty a glimmer of light can illuminate. It’s an album of bits and pieces patched together, each imbued with the same sense of wonderment at unknown things. The sounds are small, more often than not, and the smallest elements seem as important and as loved as the greater swathes of sound to be found in the longer songs. ‘Pause’ is one of those longer, more obviously finished songs, a melancholic wash of heavy piano chords surrounded by swells of strings and the saddest of harmonies. Again it’s in waltz time, a rhythm that suits the mood of the album as a whole. The songs that employ it come across like memories of old dances with someone loved held close. ‘Pause’ is the close up, the tear running down the cheek, wrinkles around the eyes captured in heart-breaking detail. “I saw entry lines around your face, they’re new and show where someone tool your place,” go the opening lines and that sense of displacement and loss permeates the song to its core. It’s the saddest moment here, a genuine pause before the light seeps back and the sepia tones are washed out in favour of something a little more colourful.
The colour comes first from the surprising marimba tones of ‘All Living Things’. From here to the finish, the patterns become clearer and the songs run together almost as one. The bed of each track is a darkness of chord, a harmonic heaviness that pervades almost every second of listening. While this feeling slowly makes its way into your bones, it’s the melodies that will rouse and stun. The moment on ‘Heavy Lightning’ where the falling vocal meets the sliding guitar note searching for the sky. When she says the word “Johanna”. When the drums first hit in the distance of ‘Dimmer’ and the vocals rise to meet them, a sound like some noble act of unknown bravery in the dawn light. ‘Fake Your Death’ walked the line between light and dark with a whistler-friendly melody relaying the darkest of thoughts, “I’ll make your bruises hurt better than your heart does”.
The part where the voices fade on ‘Your Mountains’. ‘Little Dragons’ lives somewhere between trip-hop and Throbbing Gristle. The way ‘Habits’ closes things out with the simplest of melodies, building from alternating and impossibly high piano notes to tiny swells of noise, never rising beyond a whisper and keeping the vocals out front. “I’m OK with it,” she says at the death and the toy piano keeps those two notes going until the end. There are twenty songs on Cover & Flood, twenty pieces of sound patched together to form an overwhelmingly beautiful whole. It’s a myriad of tones and shadows, an experience that rewards close listening as much as it is great to fall asleep to. It’s as deep as you want or need it to be. New elements peek their way out of the dusk with each new listen and old, forgotten ones eventually return with all the joy that accompanies a meeting with an old friend. It’s an album made for the four sides of vinyl it will appear on, with each flipping of side or changing of disc further building the ritual around listening to it. Noisy, small and half-hidden, it makes no grand gestures or sweeping statements. It is an album confident in itself, as it should be. It will seek no gratification, though it deserves to find it. When Katie Kim’s first record, Twelves, came out, it felt like a one-of-a-kind experience, a moment in time. Cover & Flood is all that her début was and much, much more. It’s stronger and more assured, with every minute detail bearing signs of the loving touch of its creator. A singular achievement and an important record.
Cover & Flood is available digitally now via Bandcamp or on double vinyl from Flaming June Records.
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Rufus Coates and The Blackened Trees :: Crossover
Rufus Coates and the Blackened Trees are an original folk/blues band from Co Meath. Formed at the end of 2011
The band is set to release debut EP “The Crossover” in March 2013
Their sound has been described as rootsy, dark and authentic and with the ability to bring the listener on a journey by creating atmosphere and imagery
Filmed at Roundwood House in Co.Laois roundwoodhouse.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rufus-Coates-the-Blackened-Trees/243289912381557
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The Staves :: Mexico :: Live at Whelan’s
The staves perform Mexico live from Whelans in December 2012.
View more of The Staves on Arbutus Yarns
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Lisa Hannigan :: O Sleep :: The Fumbally Café
Lisa Hannigan performs O sleep from her sophomore album Passenger live at The Fumbally Café in Dublin as part of the Happenings.ie event, The End Is Nigh, on December 21st 2012.
Visit Happenings.ie to find out about more Happenings events!
View More Lisa Hannigan on Arbutus Yarns
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John Smith :: Town to Town
Taken from the new album GREAT LAKES released 25/03/13.
March/April UK tour on sale now, see johnsmithjohnsmith.com for more details.
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Dj Koze feat. Caribou :: Track ID Anyone? (Fan Video)
A Video by Donal Dineen. Assisted by Hector Castells and Myles O’Reilly. Edited by Myles O’Reilly.
Dj Koze feat. Caribou “Track ID Anyone?”
Amygdala, the new album from Dj Koze sees release on March 26 in the U.S. via Koze’s label, Pampa; along with Snaith, the record features appearances from Apparat, Matthew Dear, and Milosh, aka one-half of R&B deconstructionists Rhye.
Pampa Records
http://www.residentadvisor.net/record…
http://www.facebook.com/pamparecords
http://www.discogs.com/label/Pampa%20…
DJ Koze
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/djkoze
http://www.facebook.com/djkoze
http://www.discogs.com/artist/dj+koze
http://www.myspace.com/djkozeakaadolf…
Caribou
http://www.myspace.com/cariboumanitoba
https://twitter.com/caribouband
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/car…
http://www.facebook.com/caribouband
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