Five months later, here I am. Picture that person who walks into a room of people and awkwardly waves. That's how I feel having returned to my blog. My first creative venture. A lot of my followers on social media and people I've met in the last few 3 or 4 years know me because of this little space on the internet. They...

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How have the Aran Islands provided inspiration for the EP 'Oileáin' The Ushmush project is an identity trip for me, my father is from Inis Oirr, I spent the first four or five years of my life on the island. For a long time, I would have rapped or sang in English, with an American twang, started in that style, then progressed to...

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YOU PREVIOUSLY MADE MUSIC UNDER THE NAME ‘A DREAM, THE NIGHT’. WAS THERE A REASON BEHIND THE NAME CHANGE? I tried the whole duo set up for a long time, had multiple members coming in and out. Now seemed like the right time to go down a solo route. ‘A Dream, The Night’ was always more of a band name, so that’s where...

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I can't help thinking of how this series is also dedicated to all the men in this country who lost their lives to suicide, their stories are not just statistics. I was trying to remember why I decided to begin this project and I stumbled across a song titled 'I'm Going Somewhere (But I'm Not Sure Where) by Buí, a Belfast based music...

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