Cian Thomas is a singer songwriter from Mullingar, who after five years of writing and performing original material, has released his debut single ‘Mandy’.
Born into a musical family, Cian has spent his entire life exploring all avenues of music, which led him to an extremely broad and varied spectrum of music from which he draws inspiration. These diverse influences are especially evident in ‘Mandy’, with references of The Cure, REM & The Smiths at the forefront.
The captivating track transcends genres, opening with an instant ‘ear-worm’ guitar riff, before an explosion of energy wraps itself around lyrics that rival the most tender of love ballads.
“I wrote Mandy five years ago. It’s definitely a special song for me because it’s the first original song that I ever took outside of my bedroom and actually played for people. I started playing it live and it just became part of my identity, I always got such a warm reaction from people when I played it, so I always knew it would be my first release.
I didn’t set out to write Mandy with any sort of direction in mind. I just sat down with my guitar one night and it came together very quickly. For me, the song encapsulates everything I was feeling at that time, and the excitement, carelessness and recklessness of being 20. I find it really interesting now when people tell me the different influences they can hear in the song, some of them I’ve never even heard of!”
The track was recorded with Mick Cronin in Transmission Rooms Studios in Drumlish, Co.Longford, and mixed by Martin Quinn in Jam Studios, Kells. “The song is a lot of fun to play live, and I think that energy comes across on the recording”.
Mandy is available to stream now on all platforms.
