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Aidan in a new music video: Barry McCormack, "Distant Shores" (x)
Aidan in another Barry Mccormack music vid.
A video for Barry McCormack's song 'Lived Through This Before' starring Aidan Gillen; from the forthcoming album 'Mean Time'.
Music vid with Aido.
Let Me Tell You a Tory – Barry McCormack live in the Dublin Conservative Club – Friday 21st October 2016
To mark the release of his sixth album The Tilt of The Earth, arguably Dublin’s finest storyteller, Barry McCormack chose to play the launch gig in the unfamiliar surrounds of the Dublin Conservative Club. The club is located on Camden Row just down from Whelans. I knew of its existence previously because I always park around the corner on New Bridge St when I go to Whelans. It turns out the venue itself has the feel of an old working man’s club. Maybe it had seen better times, when Dublin was the second city of the empire, but you couldn’t see the Bullingdon Boys heading there for a night out now.
As we all got settled in after an opening set from Mary and The Pigeons Barry took to the stage accompanied by many of the musicians that helped him record the new album with Stephen Shannon over the past 12 months or so (John Hegarty - Keyboard and Guitar; Joss Moorkens – Drums; Michael Murphy – Bass and Gary Fitzpatrick - Banjo, Accordion and Backing Vocals). They started with album opener All the Things You've Done which sounded a little less Krautrock than it does on the record but still with banjo to the fore. This was followed with Take The Blows which describes a trip to Greystones in one of the verses. Referring to the rather indifferent review of the new album in the Irish Time Barry explained that he was going to teach the expression “Damning with Faint Praise” to his English class on Monday. One of the many self-deprecating comments of the night.
The Tilt of The Earth has plenty of the type of “Dublin songs” we’ve come to expect from Barry including A Long Way Away and Chinese Barman which followed. Particularly memorable was Gates of Hell which mixed banjo riffs with tales of fornicators and Satan. After five new songs Barry dipped into his back catalogue for Never Leave The House from Cut Throat Lane which came with warning for any members of Generation Snowflake in the audience. He went back one album further for I Remember Kent Station which kept faith with the themes of drunkenness and indolence.
Returning to the new album he credited the Come Here To Me! blog with inspiration for The Back of the Pipes and explained the provenance of the pipes – the old Dublin water supply running through Dublin 8. Dr. Brian Cox got plenty of mentions during the night and Barry assured use the science on display in A Little Knowledge had been peer reviewed. A couple more detours into the back catalogue via Worse Things Happen at Sea, which has always been a favourite of mine, and the sing along melody of Small Mercies. They finished the main set with The Great North Road which deals eloquently with christenings, ley lines and young turks.
The band returned for gentle run through of album closer The Fellowship of the Open Road which lost nothing from the lack of brass which finesses the recorded version. Barry only returned with John Hegarty for the second encore. John laid some great electric guitar over Waiting On Joe where the saw and banjo are on the version from Barry’s second album Last Night As I Lay Wandering. For the final song Barry went all the back to his debut We Drank Our Tears for the stunningly simple After This Low. A very fine night indeed. Hopefully there will be some more shows in the coming months.
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Spook of The Thirteenth Lock play Triskel Christchurch on April 12 with support from former Jubilee Allstar Barry McCormack. The video is the first from their new album, The Brutal Here and Now. Much acclaimed, the band are doing some rather innovative and wonderful things with Irish music. If Tortoise were from Dublin and had a passionate interest in traditional music them...
And the critics have agreed...
"the best tunes are wrapped in the kind of guitar blizzard mostly associated with Sixteen Horsepower or early Dirty Three" - Uncut
"One of the best pieces of contemporary Irish rock music we've heard in an age" - The Irish Times
"Heart-pounding Pogues-esque moments, My Bloody Valentine's fuzzy logic, indie guitar crescendos and Nick Cave's solitary confinement rock…wonderful work" - State.ie "Irish album of the year by a country mile (with hairpin bends every 15 yards), haunting doesn't even begin to describe it" - MP3 Hugger
And you can download a free MP3 from the album here...
http://thirteenthlock.net/music/songs/the-brutal-here-and-now-part-1
One of the most intriguing Irish bands around at the moment...