Seamus Fogarty: Making most of the Domino effect
Gary Meyler talks new releases, an Irish colossus and collecting sounds with Mayo songwriter Seamus Fogarty ahead of his first album release on Domino.
Originally published in the Cork Evening Echo, November 2017
A note from the writer: Seamus Fogarty first drifted into my consciousness with the release of God Damn You Mountain (2012). Shortly after the release of that record I had the pleasure of hosting the Lost Maps Records musician in Plug’d Records*, Cork, a show that also featured Cork songwriter John Blek. A solo show, I vividly remember the silence of the rapt small room as Fogarty delivered an a cappella version of the title track itself, God Damn You Mountain. Shivers. I sometimes wonder were the people downstairs sipping on their coffee, as lovely as a piping hot cuppa is, aware of the magic being conjured a level above them.
With the release of Fogarty’s new album, Ships, I felt it as good as time as any to finally start digging through the archives of past interviews. I hope you like it.
*Plug’d 3.0? When it used to sit on the first floor of the Triskel Arts Centre, perched delicately above its wonderfully named sister café, Gulp’d. A future article in itself may be written on those heady times.
