With Body & Soul packed up for another year and the festival faithful recharging the batteries ahead of Castlepalooza, here's one act well worth catching amidst the tent-hopping and punt-taking in Tullamore.
Dundalk man Jim O'Donoghue Martin trades as Video Blue, and the nostalgia high of that name is enhanced by his grá for the guitar melodies and keyboard confessionals of way back when.
Recorded in his bedroom in East London - the perfect setting for its small hours-into-dawn drama - Love Scenes is filler-free and a friend from first listen.
Whether it's ramshackle riffing or cinema-style atmospherics, O'Donoghue Martin is blessed with the catchy gene and, to borrow from one of his own lyrics, Love Scenes really comes into its own "when you're mind weighs a tonne".
For services to soul soothing and record racks, there really should be a welcoming party at the airport next time he comes home.
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