Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
Ok, the above video ‘Been so Long’ isn’t on the new Vetiver* album of covers, but I’m very excited to say that Vashti Bunyan (featured in this clip) is. She sings on ‘Sleep a Million Years’, a Dia Joyce track. The album features recordings of tracks by Norman Greenbaum (he of ‘Spirit in the Sky’ […]
Chris Cunningham made two stunning but controversial videos for Aphex Twin in the 1990s. ‘Come To Daddy’ made it to number 35 in Channel 4’s Most Scary Moments, mainly for the image of an oversized demon figure bellowing at a nice little old lady. In ‘Windowlicker’, Richard D. James (one of the best things to […]
“I make my music at The Saltlands. It’s a studio that I spent all summer building with a few friends in DUMBO Brooklyn. It’s in the basement of an enormous old factory building and I’ve had a rehearsal space there for the last five years. We got our haz-mats on and put up walls, […]
“My music begins with me alone in my bedroom. It’s a square room in a high-ceilinged Victorian house. I work on a computer at a pine desk, programming and arranging until my fingers freeze (there’s no heating). When I’m not at the desk I lie on the floor, or I perch in […]
Last week, The New York Times
Am currently loving the video and first single from Irish act Robotnik, the brainchild of Baldoyle boy Chris Morrin. ‘People Walk Away’ is released next Friday April 4th and is taken from his debut album Pleasant Square, due for release on May 9th. Check out his myspace page for more tracks.
“My favorite space USED to be my own apartment bedroom. It was three separate apartment bedrooms, in three separate apartments because they comprise the spaces where I recorded The Throne…. Those spaces have since been replaced by the basement of our drummer’s family home (in Bethesda, Maryland), where we get together to practice and form […]
“My favourite space to create music in is hard to define. It can be one of many spaces, but the most important space is the space that is my own head. If that space is furnished properly then I’d be happy to work on the roof of Clery’s. I get a lot of my ideas […]
Curses. I have literally just found out that Jean Michel Jarre is giving two performances at the National Concert Hall next Tuesday and Wednesday. He’ll be playing the Oxygene album in its entirety, using up to 50 analogue synths. The above video is for ‘Oxygene IV’, one of the earliest and most recognisable pieces of […]
After picking up the Guardian yesterday for the third installment of The Great Poets series (Sylvia Plath, with a wonderful intro from Margaret Drabble), I spotted this this story:
“For men across Europe there is now an alternative to waiting in line, wrestling with a telephone operator or double-, triple-, quadruple-clicking on an unresponsive website. Yes, […]
One of the bands that remind me most of my time in college are Stereolab. Everyone was listening to them obsessively and fawning over their gorgeous skewed rhythms, all Gallic flourishes and breathy vocals. Well, most of the boys were fawning over singer Laetitia Sadier, but she wasn’t just a pretty face. A great lyricist, […]
“I mostly get the best ideas while walking, traveling by train, or in an elevator. Therefore I always have something to write with with me and I whistle or sing sketches on my mobile phone. I even had situations in a supermarket kneeling in the floor and making very fast sketches of a score for […]