The Sigla Blog

“The creation of our music takes place in a lot of separate places - with seven members contributing equally, the basis of different songs can be formulated in loads of spaces! But the one I think that ties us all together is the kitchen in the house in Terenure where we did most, if […]

“Our place in Portrane is my favourite place to make music. We have a small apartment that we converted to a practice room in Portrane in North Dublin, on a peninsula, with an estuary on one side and the Irish sea on the other. Portrane is a quiet place because it doesn’t lead anywhere, […]

“My rehearsal room for the last 10 or so years was an an unused dance studio in a 16th century mansion house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I guess at one point it had been a youth club or the like, as it’s walls were covered in pages of Smash Hits! […]

“I usually write music at home in my box room. I live in a quiet cul-de-sac in Baldoyle with (other people’s) kids cycling up and down outside in Spiderman costumes. Musical ideas, when they come, usually come quickly enough. Then I play them over and over and over, until the music, and […]

“I mainly make music at my space in Dundrum where all of my equipment and instruments are. It’s a good-sized room in a house away from the main road, so it’s pretty quiet. It’s not a traditional studio space. There’s no real sound-proofing and only limited acoustic treatment and most importantly of all, it has […]

Dan Le Sac:
“To be honest, because most of the work I do is on a laptop, I can do it pretty much anywhere. My favorite place though is pretty much any room of my house. It’s a tiny little brick-built terrace in Reading. We own very little furniture but have a lot of mess, and […]

“The absolutely best place for Ungdomskulen to create music is in our organic rehearsal space. But just as important to that place is the discussions, the laughter and general awesomeness in our lives leading up to being there, in a physical form, experimenting and jamming out songs to come. This makes the song-writing process ripe […]

“My basement is my favorite place to make music. It functions as a studio, percussion storage space and label warehouse, so I’m never short of things to hit. It’s where the most recent Cougar and Youngblood Brass Band records were recorded as well. It’s quite small, with a low ceiling and the limestone foundation of […]

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“Anywhere spacious and peaceful is ideal for making music. If it has good light all the better, which is why my time in the resident studio at the Model Niland Gallery in Sligo this year was such a pleasure. I’m finished up there now but while I was there my productivity increased ten-fold. It’s a […]

“Last year I cleared out over a century of dust from my attic. There was no floor as such, just shards of slate and loose rubble and dust… lots of dust piled in between the floor joists and at the eaves. Some roofers came around and cut a rectangular hole in the side of the […]

Tonight, Fionn Regan supports Lucinda Williams at Tripod, so if you’re heading along to see the multiple Grammy winner, go early. Around the time of the Mercury Prize, I interviewed him and - whether it’s a self-conscious thing or not - he’s not your usual straightforward interviewee. Garreth commented recently about including more interviews (oh, […]

“For me the only place I can create music is in my house, because that is where all my equipment is set up. I usually write electronic stuff downstairs at my desk, and guitar songs upstairs, staring out of my window. I live in a small house, with a bedroom upstairs and a kitchen/sitting room/studio/angry […]