Photo credit: Ruth Medjber
‘Love Like This’, marks the final release among three tracks recorded at The Meadow Studios in Delgany back in June 2023. The preceding songs were ‘All Those Yesterdays and ‘The Hard Way’.
Self-written and co-produced with Alex Borwick, the song revolves around a journey – both physical and emotional – as the couple drives through scenic landscapes, listening to Springsteen on an Irish blue-sky day. The chorus, particularly the repetition of “Love Like This,” underscores the significance of the emotional connection they share. It’s portrayed as the kind of love that inspires songwriting, the kind that becomes indispensable once experienced. Overall, the song captures a romantic and hopeful sentiment, celebrating the beauty in finding the right person and experiencing life together.
Megan says “I remember uploading this back in early March, before I became a new mother, thinking I’d have time to share posts and promote a new song! How naïve! But actually, this feels like the perfect time for the song to come out because even though I wrote this before I was pregnant, now with Faye here, I really have never felt a love like this!”
The track features Paul Kenny on drums (James Vincent McMorrow, Get Well Soon), Joseph Doyle on bass (Glen Hansard, Lisa O’Neill), Sam Killeen on guitar (Kodaline, Lisa Hannigan), and Megan herself on piano, synth, and electric guitar. Mixed by Scott Halliday and mastered by Stephen Ceresia.
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Last year, O’Neill released an EP titled: Time (Thought you were on my side), featuring five songs written and recorded with producer Richey McCourt. This EP merges her folk, storytelling roots with more electronic elements and was stylistically somewhat different to previous material, highlighting O’Neill’s ability to successfully move between genres. Both singles (Wildfire and Fail Better) became top 10 charting singles and were playlisted by RTE Radio 1, iRadio, Spin 1038 and more, as well as featured performances on BBC’s Across the Line and Virgin Media’s Six O’Clock Show.
Megan’s sophomore studio album Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty was released in March 2021. Time in a Bottle, the bonus track, featured in the opening scene of hit Netflix TV Show Firefly Lane and one week later, O’Neill performed the song live on the RTE Late Late Show – charting that same weekend in Ireland across all genres. Megan’s subsequent Late Late Show performance was this past September when she performed Brian Byrne’s ‘Lay Your Head Down’, originally released with Sinead O’Connor on vocals.
Deemed a “rising star” by uDiscover and Timeout Magazine London, Megan has toured globally. She has performed at private Oscars’ parties in LA alongside Gavin James (on invite from JJ Abrams) and has had her song ‘Don’t You’ featured on ABC’s hit TV Show ‘Nashville’ (Season 3). She has opened for the likes of Sir Tom Jones, Lighthouse Family and Jamie Cullum (to name a few) and the late Olivia Newton-John was a self-proclaimed Megan O’Neill fan.
Late in 2022, Megan toured with Glen Hansard across Ireland as part of his band and took part in the famous Christmas Eve Busk on Grafton Street. She is also a member of indie-electronic project ‘Where the Waters Meet’ alongside Paul Kenny which launched in November 2022 with a commissioned piece for the Recording Academy (The Grammy Awards): their cover of ‘Bette Davis Eyes’.
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