From ‘Southern Cross, Northern Skies’, the 5th album from singer-songwriter Rory Faithfield. 
International online release date - 8th Feb 2016.

Written for the Wine Song project at Cullen Winery, Margaret River, Western Australia.

We are akin to grapes and wine - Life turns some of us into fine wines whilst others become vinegar.

Sweet Summer Wine

From ‘Southern Cross, Northern Skies’, the 5th album from singer-songwriter Rory Faithfield. 
International online release date - 8th Feb 2016.

Rebel Songs was written the day after Ian Paisley (Northern Irish Loyalist Leader) retired and the whole culture of the Irish “Rebel Song” was beginning to feel more and more anachronistic. I saw footage on TV News of Ian Paisley laughing away with Martin McGuinness (Ex-IRA Sinn Féin politician and the current deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland). They had become known as the 'Chuckle Brothers'. 


Rebel Songs

From ‘Southern Cross, Northern Skies’, the 5th album from singer-songwriter Rory Faithfield. 
International online release date - 8th Feb 2016.

I got the title a couple of years ago when I was still living in Dublin. I was stopped in my car at the traffic lights heading north waiting to turn right from Clanbrassil Street into South Circular Road, Dublin 8, and noticed that the colour of the green arrow light for those turning left  was: Closer to blue than green.

The title ignited a process in me where all I could do was surrender to where it wanted to take me… And, it took me a while to figure out where this song was taking me, but I think it's about moving from naivety and innocence (green) to growing up and moving on (blue) and back home again (green). 

Or, in other words, surrendering to life's losses (Blue) and dealing with them so you can move on and reclaim the innocence of youth (Green).


Closer To Blue Than Green

From ‘Southern Cross, Northern Skies’, the 5th album from singer-songwriter Rory Faithfield. 
International online release date - 8th Feb 2016.

First To Fall is a song about the 1st World War Anzac's lost at Gallipoli.

The opening line inspired by a transcription of Private Ralph Scobie DCM 54th Battalion AIF: "Jack Adams ran along the top of the trench and he bawled out ‘Fix bayonets and load up’ and then he came back still running, ‘Up boys and at ‘em, keep going, there is no objective’".
From Charles Bean - WW1 Historian (‘In Your Hands’)
“the big thing in the war for Australia was the discovery of the character of Australian men. It was character which rushed the hills at Gallipoli and held on there”.




First To Fall

From ‘Southern Cross, Northern Skies’, the 5th album from singer-songwriter Rory Faithfield. 
International online release date - 8th Feb 2016.



Let Yourself In

From the second album - Blood, Bones & Soul (2002)

Rise Above

Shed My Skin

From debut album 'Nowhere, Somewhere, Anywhere' (1998)

The Awakening

Flowers

Reunion Song - Demo Vers.

I'm an Australian-Irish Musician, living in Dublin for the better part of a long time, looking for ways to say the things that can’t be said.

Although born in Sydney, and living primarily in Ireland, in later years, I also spent five years living in the beautiful South Western Australia from 2013 to 2018 before landing back in Dublin Town. 

Meanwhile, it's late 2022, and like everyone, I guess, I’m in the post-pandemic what-the-hell-do-we-do-now box. Although I've kept a low profile, I’ve been writing and developing new songs. Magic is real and flowers bloom in their own time, so hopefully, there will be results - in the form of my 6th album - soon 🤞

Please join the mailing list on my website for updates. It's a safe bet. My last mailout was in 2016, if I recall, so you won't get too many emails from me 🤣

Rory Faithfield

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