Vocals are great. Good songwriting too, very effortless sounding.

@chillfuly: Thanks very much!!!really glad you like it!! its available to pre order now on itunes it you want it for keeps:)

Great set at Indie lads. Nice meeting ye too. Hope ye are all recovered at this stage

We Ran From Silence

Teen Veins

Amelia Earhart Vs. The Bermuda Triangle

Space Opera

Everybody Knows by Flower Jacket © 2014
Artwork by Gabriella Abrao

Everybody Knows

Drinking alone is the second single to be released from The North Sea's soon to be released debut album. The song explores themes of alienation and separation between a couple, realising there love has waned or changed. It's about escape and times of thought and reflection.The song will be released on iTunes on the 27th of February,  with a video to accompany it in earlier in that month.


Drinking Alone

Paul McGrath is, without a doubt, one of Ireland’s greatest sporting legends. This week he joined Jarlath to talk about is journey from Dublin to Manchester United. No stone is left unturned as Paul opens up about the demons he has faced throughout his entire life. 

Paul also explains how being the ‘black sheep’ at Manchester United saw him start out as an outsider but eventually find a kindred spirit in a 16 year old Norman Whiteside (12:00). We get a rare glimpse into a chapter in Paul's life he has never spoken about before, in which he was bed bound for 2 years unable to communicate with the world (15:00).

From explaining how it felt to be on Alex Ferguson’s drop list (30:00), to being an ambassador for survival (47:00) and talking about the so-called footballing friends who stopped answering his calls when he retired (01:00:00), this episode is a fascinating conversation with a survivor the entire nation took into their hearts. 

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Paul McGrath (From The Patreon Archive): Episode 170

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1.	The Comeback   By Madlib The Beat Konducta
2.	Chanel 1 Suite By The Cinematic Orchestra
3.	Swan Lake By Blackalicous
4.	Movie Final [The Beatkonducta Vol.3] By Madlib
5.	Skanky Panky By Kid Koala
6.	Two Weeks By Grizzly Bear
7.	The Truth By Handsome Boy Modelling School
8.	Merry Go Round By Mayaan Nidam
9.	Playing Your Game By Barry White
10.	Sunny By Bobby Hebb
11.	Do's And Dont's By Boom Bip & Gruff Rhys
12.	Leaf House By Animal Collective
13.	Vitamin C’ By Can
14.	It Never Changes To Stop By The Books
15.	Codéine By Jason Edwards
16.	Balumukeno By Bonga
17.	Werewolf By Cat Power
18.	De Cara A La Pared  By Lhasa De Sela
19.	St. James Infirmary By Allen Toussaint
20.	Looking For You By Nino Ferrer


Nicolas Jaar - Dinner Chez Jeanne

'Pittura Infamante' is taken from Girls Names' forthcoming album, The New Life, OUT 18th Feb. 

Buy The New Life here - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/the-new-life/id582840781

Live
February
20th - The Menagerie, Belfast
21st - The Grand Social, Dublin
22nd - The Cockpit, Leeds
24th - Broadcast, Glasgow
25th - The Castle Hotel, Manchester
26th - Sebright Arms, London
27th - Point Ephemere, Paris
March
2nd - Sala Apolo, Barcelona
3rd - Astoria, Torino
4th - Circolo degli Artisti, Rome
5th - Mascotte, Zurich
6th - MuZ, Nuremberg
8th - Magnet Club (Karrera Klub), Berlin
9th - De Neiuwe Anita, Amsterdam
10th - Ateliers Claus Gallery, Brussels

BIOGRAPHY
Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released on 18th February, their second album The New Life is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, The New Life is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

The band’s performance at Primavera festival 2012 provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise The New Life. The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains:

“The New Life is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. Dead to Me literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, The New Life is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. The New Life is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream here - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, The New Life, stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

The New Life will be released on February 18th on Tough Love (UK) and Slumberland (US).


Girls Names - Pittura Infamante

The North Sea are a five piece from North Dublin, Ireland. Reviewers are comparing them to bands such as Editors, Interpol and Neutral Milk Hotel.

The band released their debut album “Anniversary” on Friday the 26th of June. This ten track album was recorded live to tape in order to capture their live sound, by Grammy Award winning Irish producer David Odlum at Black Box Studios in France.

Praise for Anniversary;

“Album Of The Week. Eoin Kenny's vocals similarly recall the engulfing effect of nineties UK indie's most soulbaring singers” 
The Irish Times. Nialler9 

“Four Stars ****” 
The Irish Daily Star 

"This is serious gloom-tinged indie-rock. A sure footed start" 
The Sunday Times 

“Album Of The Week. The North Sea have delivered impressively” 
The Irish Independent 

“Anniversary - 10/ 10” 
The Last Mixed Tape 

“The North Sea thoroughly deserve all manners of praise for what is a genuinely great album” 
Goldenplec.com 

“If there’s a better band mining the rich seam of post-punk individualism we have yet to hear it” 
The Irish Times, The Ticket 

“A great Irish debut album. Four Stars ****” 
The Irish Daily Mail 

“The appeal of Anniversary is immediate” 
The Sunday World


The North Sea are: 

Lee Carr – bass guitar 
Daragh Murphy - drums 
Eoin Kenny - vocals 
Shane Monaghan – guitars 
Gary Mackey - guitars

Drinking Alone

The North Sea

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