New Claddagh Records signing Niamh Bury has released her debut single, Beehive. We asked her the BIG questions . . .
Over the past six months, Niamh has collaborated and shared the stage with acts like Ye Vagabonds, Martin Hayes, Myles O'Reilly, Niamh Regan and Cinder Well and earlier this year, she was selected by Dermot Kennedy to play with him in a gig at one of Dublin’s favourite pubs, The Long Hall, as part of Guinness’s Live and Rising campaign.
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She has performed at St. Patrick’s Festival, Body & Soul, Quiet Lights, and Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival.
Niamh is also one of the chief organisers of the traditional singing session The Night Before Larry Got Stretched, which takes place in The Cobblestone pub on the last Sunday of every month and whose founders include members of Lankum.
Speaking about Beehive, she says, "It’s about the overlapping of myth, folk wisdom, and science. It was inspired by a passage from a book I was reading about a tribe in the Amazon who say that the human brain is like a beehive - at once chaotic and intricately ordered."
Tell us three things about yourself . . .
I know every word to Jesus Christ Superstar. I won a gold medal in the North Dublin hurdles final when I was 12. I'm currently going through a big Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall phase.
How would you describe your music?
Rainy car drive music where the sun comes out in the end.
Who are your musical inspirations?
Neil Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Bright Eyes.
What was the first gig you ever went to?
Alicia Keys in the Point in 2001. I bought a t shirt, which I'm raging I no longer have.
What was the first record you ever bought?
B*Witched
What’s your favourite song right now?
Ponta de Areia by Wayne Shorter.
Favourite lyric of all time?
"I don't want a home, I'd ruin that, home is where my habits have a habitat." - Fiona Apple.
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Maybe Way Over Yonder by Carol King.
Where can people find your music/more information?
My website.
