Rigsy and Stuart were joined in studio by Charlene Hegarty to chat about some of their favourite new tracks including…
– Communion Girls
Charlene: “It’s just a great track…I’m really excited for the album. I’m a big Elliot Smith fan so the minute I heard that track and watched the video along with it, I was hooked.”
Stuart: “It’s like a strange dream of a record... it’s just pure art.”
– Holding Me Down
Charlene: “I just think it’s a great track…He had a sold out show at the Belfast Nashville Festival a few weeks ago and I think you can hear on the track that he took some influence from Foy Vance.”
Rigsy: “There’s a real edge there… It’s definitely is a grower.”
– Heavy Echo
Stuart: “That album has a silent partner which is Phil Kieran from Glengormley and I think he’s done wonderful things for them, he’s brilliant. He’s a very curious artist… I like almost everything he does.”
– Twisted Arrow
Charlene: “Where do we start on this one? He’s only gone and got Kim Deal involved to do vocals on it and everyone’s been terribly excited about it…I do believe she recorded her part in a recording studio in Dayton, Ohio and sent it to Belfast and mixed it down into this great track. He’s done very well.”
Rigsy: “There was no tease, there was no build up to this…the track was delivered to us and there we go…Belfast band with Kim Deal! What a lovely record.”
Stuart: “The Ballymena/Dayton, Ohio crossover…that’s unchartered territory!”
– These Days
Rigsy: “Four young gentlemen from Bundoran and this is one of the tracks from their debut EP. It shows the spectrum of their EP…big choruses, big voice on all of those tracks.”
– Southern Century
Charlene: “What a great, infectous, spirited track from Fermanagh’s funeral punk band Cadaver Club. I just found it really fun and dark at the same time.”