When everything shut down in March because of Covid19, I spent a lot of time with music. I got a call from Dundalk FC supporters club who decided to do an online event to raise money for frontline workers. They invited me to take part and I took it as an opportunity to write a…
“I went to school feeling different, like something was about to change.”
It was Saturday 7th March. I lay in bed, the sun shining warmly in on me and I thought about how I’d prepare for the very strange events that were coming to us. I knew that if I actually had the same conversation going on in my head with someone around me, they’d likely…
Nearly Christmas! NCKIDS / Written by Sinéad McNally
Ring those bells, shout out loud.
It’s nearly Christmas, it’s nearly Christmas time
Ireland AM – ‘My Silent Night’, the premonition!
On Thursday the 7th of November I was interviewed by Karen Koster and Ciara Doherty on Ireland AM about ‘My Silent Night’. It was the interview I had been visualising for weeks in my head. In fact, I had already gone and bought something to wear to it, two weeks before I got a call…
Finding my sound in ‘Ship Street’
It was a hot August day. I boarded a fight from Dublin to London alone. I took out my lyric journal and started to write stuff down, as I looked over the wings of the plane. It had been a tough few years. The independency of the music business had taken its toll and I…
I saved my IVF needles to make a music video….
After multiple failed rounds of IVF treatment, I felt that it was so important to put all the negative emotions into something positive. I saved the needles from my treatments and found a way to use them in a music video. The sadness of not having a family when you are doing everything in your…
8 weeks to go……
In just under eight weeks, I will release a new song and video called ‘My Silent Night’. If the truth be told, I am nervous as hell. For me, releasing music has always been a huge buzz of anticipation, excitement and of course nerves but this time it’s a bit different. I’ve been out of…
In the land of Tír na nÓg…
Unless you are Irish, you probably won’t have heard about ‘Tír na nÓg’. Meaning ‘land of the young’ ‘Tír na nÓg’ is a Celtic otherworld and in our primary school history lessons we learn about this beautiful land in the western sea. People who lived here never grew old and there is a particular love story…
My Silent Night
For once in my life, I’m speechless. So I’ll let the images speak for themselves. The images are photos taken at the music video shoot for ‘My Silent Night’, composed and performed by me. The clock is ticking, the emptiness of failed IVF cycles and procedures takes its toll. Medical gowns, needles and despair. The…
Originality and how falling out with my own music made me appreciate it more!
So what do Groucho Marx, a difficult drumming score and CRAZY eye-lashes have in common? Well, somehow or another their paths crossed in a small, two bedroomed house on the east coast of Ireland in 2011, when I set out to create something original! 🤔 < Music ‘originality’ is highly questionable. After all, there are…
