by Chris McConaghy | Apr 24, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
Record Store Day 2013 sampler video...
by Chris McConaghy | Apr 24, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
Cover of unreleased uber lo-fi EP ‘Sorry, You Must Have The Wrong Number’. Pre OKS, this was an alt.country song cycle about getting dumped in various different ways (In a phone box, via a Dear John letter, after a blazing row – you get the idea) that sounded...
by Chris McConaghy | Mar 28, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
Early November 2012. It is 9:46 on a Wednesday evening. I am barrelling up the Northland Road having just finished work. It is a dank, dark shitty night and I can’t wait to get home. My phone rings. Its Celtronic boss and City Of Culture booking officer Gareth...
by Chris McConaghy | Mar 28, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
‘Our Krypton Son’ album launch party in Sandino’s Derry. Line up included Little Bear, Conor Mason, Adam Leonard & Invaderband, AMO and Paul PJ McCartney on DJ duties. A packed night and a great privilege. Off the chain, it was. Poster design by Fifth Limb...
by Chris McConaghy | Mar 28, 2013 | Music
‘Plutonium’ single launch gig in Sandino’s, Derry. Line up featured Conor Mason, The Wood Burning Savages, The Murder Balladeers and Paul PJ McCartney on wheels of steel. A great night. Poster design by Fifth Limb Promotions...
by Chris McConaghy | Mar 6, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
Rob, Lisa and I are stopped at a petrol station in Comber, somewhere near Belfast. Lisa has just accidently spent a small fortune on American sweets. Candy, I believe its called. I sample one of the chocolate delights. It is some sort of brittle peanut butter...
by Chris McConaghy | Mar 5, 2013 | Music, Portraits
It was about twelve o’clock in the afternoon, mid-October with the sun not shining and a hard frost nipping at the toes of the foothills. A no-nonsense Wednesday. I was wearing brown herringbone slacks, a yellow shirt, brown brogues, black and red chequered socks. I...
by Chris McConaghy | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Glassworks shoot – Photography by Lisa Byrne...
by Chris McConaghy | Feb 16, 2013 | Music
A fairground in Thomastown, Kilkenny. Summer, 2012. Teenagers looked on in detached amusement as 5 drunken musicians were thrown left right and centre on a fairground ride. Wallets were tossed in the air, fillings shaken loose and dignity took the rest of the evening...
by Chris McConaghy | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
May 2012 saw the release of our second single ‘Plutonium’ on digital download and purple 7″ vinyl. My sad hearted little space cadet offspring was backed with two other tracks; ‘Nowhere’ and ‘As I Fade Away’. Both of which were performed and...
