Month: July 2020

Pop – RnB artist Gemma Bradley, continues to develop her career in music with the new enchanting and seductive single ‘Obsessed’.  Returning to the spotlight after the buzz generated by her last two single’s ‘Hollow Heartbeat’ and ‘Berserk’, she is armed with her hypnotically catchy new summer single ‘Obsessed’. 

‘Obsessed’ is about being infatuated by someone to the point of no return – being oblivious to the unhealthy nature of this infatuation and the impact that might have on the person/object of the obsession.  Gemma has wasted no time in adding to her impressive repertoire to delight her eager and ever-expanding following.  

Already immersed in the highly talented and competitive Irish music scene, Gemma has also featured on the Glastonbury 2020 Emerging Talent Longlist. She is a songstress leading the way for the next generation of strong authentic female Pop stars.  

Gemma is an artist who creates a unique eclectic sound to thrill fans and critics alike. She embraces her favourite aspects of Pop music and meshes them with the finest, hand-picked sounds from R&B and Soul. Taking inspiration from artists such as Corinne Bailey Rae, Izzy Bizu, Amy Winehouse and Mahalia, Gemma has created her own distinctive brand of sweet and delicious Pop – RnB.  

Gemma has been featured on the Other Voices Music Trail in Dingle & Derry. She has played festivals such as Electric Picnic, Stendhal, Vantastival and many more. She has also been crowned as the 2018 winner of the IMRO Christie Hennessy Prize. Her distinctive sound has piqued the interest of a number of radio DJs as far away as WPPM in Philadelphia as well as earning her several slots on BBC Introducing, BBC 6 Music, and RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio Ulster.  

Gemma will be doing an Instagram live performance on Friday July 17^th 2020.

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God Creative is pleased to release his brand new single ‘Around The World’ featuring Chris Kabs. 

‘Around the World ‘ is out today.

“’Around the world’ is a warm feel-good track with a strong lyrical message and an unforgettable hook. We created this track with the audience in mind. We want to show that inspiring people with positive energy and showing love can change the world. So we created something timeless, something classic with a strong message but at the same time striking a balance by being passive by delivering a certain glow of ambience in the tracks production. We think it’s a perfect combination to convey our message and we are delighted with how it turned out. Hopefully it can inspire and give the people a big lift.”
– God Creative

God Creative has teamed up with artist and producer Chris Kabs, an influential Irish based recording artist and music producer from Dublin. Chris creates his style of music using a variety of genres ranging from Pop, Hip-Hop, Soul, Afro music and other contemporary R&B sounds.

“We both clicked when we first talked, we shared the same idea’s about delivering music that has a timeless, positive, feel-good energy to it. We’re both mature artists that both know what we want, y’know, so within no time we cooked up ‘Around the world’.. and we’re not stopping there either.” – God Creative

God Creative is a recording artist from Darndale mostly known for his musical contributions in the Irish feature film ‘Cardboard Gangsters’ landing multiple tracks across the films biggest scenes.

As part of both urban groups ‘Creative Crime’ and ‘Soundwave Legacy’ God Creative has landed tours supporting international superstars such as Nelly, Obie Trice and Coolio, to touring with Irish legend Damien Dempsey.

In 2019 God Creative released a handful of solo boom-bap hip-hop records with features from top emcee’s such as Costello and Rebel Phoenix in ‘Fingerprints’ and not forgetting the uplifting head-nodding classics like ‘Visulaize’ and ‘Just Breathe’.

2020 has been a year of growth for the Darndale artist, adopting his uplifting words and applying it to a more current sound by teaming up with the acclaimed producer/artist, Chris Kabs.

Steven Cooper is set to release his latest single ‘Move My Body (Ugh)’ on July 17th 2020. This is a bright uplifting pop dance track which you’ll want to hear over and over again.

Irish DJ and Producer Steven Cooper has been remixing music for his club sets and become a favourite among DJs and radio mix shows for his unique energetic style.

And now he’s brought you an original track with summer and fun written all over it.

Already been given early support from DJs and on Spin1038, 1Music , 9radio, Dublin City FM and Virgin Media TV Steven was recently a guest on The Elaine Show

There is a great buzz around ‘Move My Body (Ugh)’ which hits all streaming services and stores July 17th 2020.

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Galway native Me Auld Flower releases single ‘Get Out Of California’ with an accompanying video on 24th July 2020.The single coincides with a limited edition CD release of album ‘The Vaults Of Consciousness’, available on Bandcamp.

Me Auld Flower wrote the song after coming home to Ireland from the US, having lived there on and off for a number of years. 

“I’d met a lot of dodgy characters, got myself into some strange situations, and my life had begun to spiral a little bit,” he says. 

“My relationship at the time had exploded spectacularly and I ended up holed up in a country house in Connemara for my own good with a stray cat I’d just met. Each of us minding the other.

I wrote the song on a long summer’s evening, sitting in the upstairs window looking out on the back garden and adjoining churchyard. The sun was setting, the trees were full of birdsong, and the cat, who usually turned tail whenever I picked up the guitar, sat quietly on the windowsill in a kind of unspoken solidarity. 

It was a really productive and beautiful time in my life during which I wrote most of the album – a potent remedy to what had passed.“

‘Get Out Of California’ is released on 24th July across all digital platforms.

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Today, Thursday 9th July, soulful pop singer Clodagh releases the video for her single, ‘You Got Me’ – a song released in June that saw the Cork singer-songwriter enter the Irish Breakers Radio Chart and amass over 125,000 impacts on Irish radio. 

The singer, who is from Macroom in Co. Cork, has received a lot of praise for her vocal style. In addition to studying at BIMM Dublin, Clodagh has trained under renowned vocal coaches Gemma Sugrue (RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Chic, Billy Ocean, Jerry Fish, Lee Fields) and Chris Johnson (The Naked Vocalist). She herself teaches as a vocal coach when she’s not studying for her final year of college. 

“I love theory and was trying to play with more advanced concepts like modes in a context where it didn’t stand out as a modal song,” Clodagh says. “‘You Got Me‘ is about growing as a person and the struggle that can present when you have to let people go in life, that feeling of people being infatuated by a person that you shouldn’t and resisting temptations.”

Born in Rhode Island in the States, Clodagh moved back to Ireland with her father when she was very young. A big fan of Lianne La Havas, Tom Odell and Jessie Ware, Clodagh’s love for layered harmonies has already seen her compared to the likes of Lisa Hannigan and Wyvern Lingo. 

Last year, she was selected to do a residency at Attica Audio, as part of Donegal Arts Festival, with producers Tommy McLaughlin (Villagers, Soak, In Their Thousands, Ailbhe Reddy) and Rocky O’Reilly (Gary Lightbody, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Wood Burning Savages). She was also chosen for a specialist jazz course in Izola, Slovenia, where she worked with Emilia Martensson, her sister Marina Martensson (from the band Laibach) and Femi Temowo (guitarist for Amy Winehouse). 

‘You Got Me’ was be independently released on Friday 5th June 2020 on all usual platforms. Stream and download link: https://s.disco.ac/ydzbjyrzgzkc

‘Birthday Girl’ – an unsentimental love letter to the big sound of the indie pop punk axis of the 90s – will be released on Friday, 17th July by Swimmers Jackson.

The song is the third single from ‘Murmuration’, Niall Jackson’s first full length album using his ‘Swimmers Jackson’ alias, which was released in early May of this year. 

Niall says of the song: “It was borne out of a little frustration on my part that a) Nothing seemed to be moving for me, and b) I was really missing my bandmates so wanted to see if I could do this kind of song on my own.”

Playing solo around the UK and Ireland in between touring with his other bands Bouts and Sweat Threats, Swimmers Jackson was named as one of State Magazine’s ‘Faces of’ as well as one of ‘50 Things to Look forward to for 2020’ by The Point of Everything. 

Formerly a three-piece, Jackson released two EPs under the name ‘Swimmers’, (‘Swimmer’s Year’ 2013, ‘This Burning Circus’ 2015). After moving to London with no bandmates, he was left reconfiguring Swimmers songs back into solo versions. This new found confidence led to the recording of nine new songs between 2017-2019. Singles creeping out as seen fit, before the debut album ‘Murmuration’ finally sees the light of day this May 2020.

His influences include Elliott Smith, early Weezer (emphasis on early), Andy Shauf, Stephen Malkmus, David Berman, Cat Power, Villagers, So Cow, Pixies and R.E.M.

Jackson’s other acts Bouts & Sweat Threats continue to enjoy success, touring the UK, Europe, and North America, opening for the likes of Johnny Marr, Cloud Nothings, Yuck and P.U.S.A. In January 2019 he recently released a new album ‘Flow’, with Bouts.

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D Lewis is a West African/Irish R’n’B Pop Artist and has just released his new single ‘Summer Song’ ft Sabh Hanks’. Raised in Ireland from the age of 16, D Lewis has drawn on all aspects of his fused cultural background to create his distinct sound from a fusion of African/American and Irish/UK Pop Mainstream sensibilities.

With a degree in bioscience and chemistry in AIT and currently in his final year of a business degree, D Lewis wrote the song recalling a typical summer romance, with all the positive feel-good vibes that go with it. It was recorded and self-produced in Dublin, Ireland.

With fellow peers such as Chris Kabs, Tebi Rex and JyellowL garnering national and international acclaim on the music scene, D.Lewis delivers a pop energy fueled offering to the table of talent currently out there.

Drawing influences from Tinie Tempah, G.R.L to Demi Lovato and Lil Nas X, he has amassed over 300,000 streams on his Spotify channel already and the summer has only begun.

Róisín O releases her stunning  acoustic cover of Selena Gomez’ ‘Lose You To Love Me’ on Friday 10th July. Like so many artists, lockdown presented the opportunity to create and play around with songs, old and new.

“Lockdown has given me the opportunity to produce covers in new ways. I loved the sense of this Selena Gomez song, it reflected how lockdown made us look at ourselves again, even find ourselves in the things we’ve lost.”

While at home during lockdown in Dublin, Róisín shared a video of this cover from her home studio with her online followers. The reaction was huge and fans in their thousands requested for the track to be released.

Róisín is part of Irish Women in Harmony who’ve just had a No. 1 hit with their cover of ‘Dreams’ by The Cranberries. The song was playlisted on New Music Friday UK, Acoustic Covers and many more and was shared by acts like Picture This, Hozier and Laura Whitmore.

Róisín will release new original material in September 2020.

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BRIARS’ second single, ‘Even Keel’, released on July 1st, 2020 (on Unemployable Records) was recorded in Monique Studios, Cork, IE. The track, with it’s haunting hook hitting from the very top, is a strong follow up to the release of their debut single ‘There There’, which achieved airplay support from Cork’s 96FM, RedFM, Beat102-103 and RTE 2XM, Brighter than their inaugural release, ‘Even Keel’ is a nod to the follies of relationships and the impact that they leave.

BRIARS are a brand new Irish alternative folk act that sound like nobody else in the Irish scene. Their sound ranges from fragile subtlety, to raucous energy, visiting every stop along the way, always underlined with a signature twist that shows the real personality of the group.

At their core, BRIARS consists of two main writers, (Michael Grace & Paul O’Shea), but are joined in studio (as well as in a live setting) by some of Ireland’s finest musicians, often from contrasting backgrounds and styles. Drums, bass and keys/organ lay the foundation of the sound, sitting underneath an acoustic guitar, which is sometimes switched out for bouzouki or mandolin, taking a step in the direction of the accompanying melody instruments, such as fiddle, flute and whistle. All of this sits closely beneath up to three part vocal harmony, resulting in a refreshing contemporary sound, intertwined with traditional elements.

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