Doing requests can be difficult. I feel somewhat pressurized as to what people who request me to paint to certain songs expect to see. So, listening to Pearl Jam last week my head was far too clouded with this. What I started to do was far too constrained and thought out. I was listening to
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Never thought I’d end up painting a war scene. Like All Saints Never Eva. But…I guess that’s what happens when you get your paints out while listening to PJ Harvey’s fascinating ‘Let England Shake’. It’s interesting to know that she took inspiration from the paintings of Salvador Dali and Goya (probably The Third of May)
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Ah yes, the requests for boyfriends, girlfriends and significant others have started tumbling in. The first in with her request after the weekend is Emer Flavin. She requested me to paint listening to Ben Howard’s The Wolves on repeat. A decent song that reminded me of some of Junip’s music with tribal beats and guitar
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Well, we suppose they would still look like dogs but they might look a bit more loosened up or something. Unleashed. All that aside, since it’s December and there are only 26 days left in 2011, we figure it’s safe to mention “of the year” things. Dogs, a band from Dublin, have released one of
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I went to see a band called ‘Bouts‘ last Sunday. They were releasing a four track EP, which strives to keep a solid indie rock sound alive. Bouts released an album last year, played one gig [or close enough to that number] and then started writing new material. They didn’t give us much of a
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