'Whispered Sun' video

Jimmy Monaghan came up with an ace concept for a video for Yawning Chasm and it was executed quickly and easily yesterday evening in Jimmy's front room, ably assisted by Jason Kane.

Get the Whispered Sun EP for naught here.

And now for the very special "Behind the Scene Is" bit:

Passage East

Takashi's return; "21"??

 The photos on this roll of film lay dormant in a drawer for two years with nothing but a "21" scratched neatly into the side of it. I always assumed the 21 meant "21 photos taken" but lo and behold, a fully exposed roll of 36 negatives. So who knows what it meant. Sometimes I think I do this stuff on purpose to introduce minor doubts into my future-self's life. I have actually considered doing such things in the past and for all I, with my atrocious memory, know I have gone through with many of them. It's like I'm living a self-inflicted, boring version of the movie "Memento".

Anyways that aside, I was really excited to discover the bounty contained in that film - photographs of the first house gig Paul and I organised. It was supposed to be the last Fairy Fort gig of the summer, before Takashi went home to Matsue to get going on his plan to open a café. But the gods of that crappy sort of rain that doesn't really rain but just sort of hangs around and clings to everything like a jerk had other plans and the fairy fort had to be abandoned in favour of Paul's sitting room. It was still great! And was the start of a series of really nice house gigs. Takashi's presence in Galway was short-lived but so hugely affected those he met. For me, he completely opened my eyes to the potential in everything: a discarded pipe for a bugle; a bag of crisps on the head for percussion; a field for a concert venue... It's coincidental these photos appear now, as Takashi's coming back at the end of next month and has been in touch recently about doing a tour with a few friends (Darugaries and Rokumantai). Yesss!

Some other out and aboutings:

Several seconds before (by Michelle) (though I'm possibly not right about that)

 

VHI's Behind the Music

 I just finished doing this, these are the photos I didn't use.

Looking at this photograph

Staring competition

I dropped my camera in the pub and the back popped open, hence the wonky few photos with bits missing. I was briefly, but intensely, devastated but it didn't stop me flipping dropping it again a few minutes later.




A few bits of flotsam/jetsam/treasure:

Photo by Aoife Barry