Recorded 2015

Voice and instrumentation: Daragh McCarthy

Drums: Peter Maybury

Guitar: Liam Mulvaney

Viola: Clara Grimes

Solo Female Voice: Sadhbh Ni Floinn

Shape Note Voices: Cork Sacred Harp

Sadhbh Ni Floinn, Robert Wedgbury & Lisa O’Grady

Shape Note written by: Sadhbh Ni Floinn

Mixed and Mastered by: Liam Mulvaney at Bow Lane Studios Dublin 

“I came across the work of author Emer Martin in a copy of Stinging Fly magazine that a friend left in my flat on a winter evening in 2011.

Leafing through the contents I was struck by the title “going underground” in the novel extracts section as I had previously made a film about the Dublin punk rock scene of the 90s called “The Stars Are Underground”.

Reading the character’s monologue in my kitchen I realised I was speaking it out loud, caught up in the rhythm. The words were an anger cheat-sheet; a dark history lesson. I decided to put it to music ”