Irish duo
Greywind are making waves in their homeland.
The sibling pairing - Steph (vocals) and Paul O Sullivan (guitar) - fuse together blistering guitar-rooted songwriting with alt-pop elements.
New single Am I Asleep? continues their ascent, with the Killarney group channeling a cinematic aesthetic.
Working with producer Romesh Dodangoda (Bring Me The Horizon), they match searing, post-punk leaning guitar lines to some moments of tender emotion.
With Steph s voice echoing into the heavens, Am I Asleep? is a deeply arresting proposition indeed.
Greywind comment: During the writing process for âAm I Asleep?â, we were heavily inspired by movies. Weâve always aimed to bring a cinematic sound to our music and visuals, and we wanted to expand on that more than ever.
To this day, I still cannot believe that as fresh-faced 17-year-olds with UCAS Track accounts, we all picked our universities purely based on vibes. If you were finishing college around 2017, everyone cool was going to Manchester, so naturally, you applied to Manchester. Or, if you didn’t have the grades to go to Manchester, you applied for Man Met. Both of these unis could have placed 143rd for your chosen course but you didn’t care (as long as your mum and dad didn’t notice), because of the vibes.
A couple of years before that, Leeds was the uni of choice and everyone with an ounce of edginess filed their personal statements into that singular UCAS code, hoping to one day drop a pinger in Warehouse wearing nought but glitter, a colourful vintage windbreaker and beaten up New Balances (this was 2015, times were different).
How Brexit will affect you and your favourite bands
Despite the UK having now left the EU, there are still hundreds of question marks surrounding how Brexit will impact the live music market, and change the futures of our favourite bands…
Words: Mark Sutherland
Photos: Andy Ford, Paul Harries, Nat Wood
If you think you’re missing live music, imagine what it’s like for your favourite band.
It’s been 11 long months since most bands got to feel the rush of stepping onto a stage in front of a live crowd. And now, just as the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine raises the hopes of live music returning later this year, British bands are facing a new nightmare of post-Brexit red tape that could have serious ramifications for the European touring circuit and their ability to earn a living.
03 February 2021
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Oli Sykes lived with monks in Brazil as a form of spiritual “rehab”, after sinking into depression amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bring Me The Horizon frontman has revealed he spent a period of around a month at a monastery with his Brazilian model wife, Alissa Salls, and found himself after being in a very dark place .
Speaking to The Sun newspaper s Bizarre column, the Ludens rocker - who previously entered rehab in 2014, but for a Ketamine addiction - said: “For a while I just went into a very dark place, a place that I’ve been in before, but it was the start of a beautiful thing finding myself again.