Kevin Casey is joined by a five piece band. People who have lost loved ones will feel the sympathy in the songs that haven't been there in our other work.” The EP was recorded in Hellfire studios and produced American Sean Montgomery Dietz, mixed by fellow Dublin native Billy Davis. We fought with the songs to find the right sound. We wanted to get it right - for the sound to reflect the emotions we were trying to convey. Kevin says, “I wrote the lyrics about two loved ones, so the choices we made on structure and instrumentation were even more important. More stripped back than anything they’ve done before, the instrumentation, structure, and performance from the band seek to reflect the sombre, subtle feeling of the songs themselves. The EP takes on a somewhat different sound than past releases from Kevin and his band. Writing this song was allowing whatever memories I had to come out on the page, it was no struggle to write that song." Lyrically, it’s not as powerful a song, the lyrics may even seem silly, but they’re meaningful to me. The song is about “all the moments I could remember, some of the simple things that we did together. The second track is entitled “Mae” after his other grandmother with whom he had a great relationship and describes as a second mother. The song tries to convey looking forward with those fond memories rather than anger. Through the writing process, he realized that there were happy moments and that he had let his anger get in the way of. Not sure how he felt or where to go with the tune, he kept pushing himself to write, searching for particular feelings. The first track, entitled “The Show Goes On (Maureen)” is about one grandmother, with whom he thought he wasn’t that close with. In this case, it was two years later looking back that I started searching for a song.” Kevin goes on to say, “One song came out of me, and it resembled one grandmother more than the other.” He thought he should write something about the other one as well, and put all his emotions from the experience on a double A-side release. I have to live with something for a while, and only when I reflect on them is when I get around to writing about them. Kevin says, “For me, it takes a while to write about things. In January 2017, both of his grandmothers passed away within a day of each other. Kevin and his band will embark on a two-week German tour before returning to Dublin for the EP launch gig on March 27th in the Underground. The project is his first release since his debut album Magnolia Road. Long-standing regular in the Irish music scene Kevin Casey releases his third EP, “The Show Goes On.” The double A-side departs slightly from his past releases to deliver two soulful tunes about the death and memories of loved ones.
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