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Norman Records: Weekly Playlist

Too Cold To Hold

Top Shelf

I Bite Back

Soft Power

A Thousand Years

John on the Ceiling

Sister Ghost - Growing Pains

MM..FOOD

Rapp Snitch Knishes (feat. Mr. Fantastik)

Born To Die

Video Games

Feature #1: Shannon from the band Sister Ghost & Girls Rock School NI joins the Feature podcast to talk about one of her favourite films, Donnie Darko, and its iconic soundtrack. Originally broadcast live via Queen's Radio.

Feature #1: Donnie Darko OST

Winner of 'Best Live Act' at the 2019 NI Music Prize, Sister Ghost is the project of Derry artist Shannon Delores O'Neill. Having a background playing in bands from the age of 12, the project began with Shannon writing and demoing in her attic – singing and playing everything herself on an 8-track recorder. Playing noisy, spectral art-rock with a pop & literary heart, O’Neill marshals a diverse set of influences in a singular way – from the 'Seattle sound' to the likes of Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, Patti Smith and Kate Bush.   

Shannon has been recognised for mentoring and encouraging other female-identified musicians to perform in the Northern Irish scene, having also set up the Girls Rock! NI chapter in 2016.  Sister Ghost has garnered high profile support slots with Shellac, Pussy Riot, Petrol Girls and Le Butcherettes, as well as airplay on BBC 6 Music and a Next Wave Artist slot on BBC Radio 1.

With a debut album having been recorded in Los Angeles in 2022; equal parts emphatic and earworming, Sister Ghost’s new material is her most vital to date.

“Absolutely massive!” Jack Saunders, BBC Radio 1
"An independent force; a defiant artist" CLASH Magazine

I Bite Back

Sister Ghost

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