Seamus Fogarty: Making most of the Domino effect

Originally published in the Cork Evening Echo, November 2017

A note from the writer: Seamus Fogarty first drifted into my consciousness with the release of God Damn You Mountain (2012). Shortly after the release of that record I had the pleasure of hosting the Lost Maps Records musician in Plug’d Records*, Cork, a show that also featured Cork songwriter John Blek. A solo show, I vividly remember the silence of the rapt small room as Fogarty delivered an a cappella version of the title track itself, God Damn You Mountain. Shivers. I sometimes wonder were the people downstairs sipping on their coffee, as lovely as a piping hot cuppa is, aware of the magic being conjured a level above them.

With the release of Fogarty’s new album, Ships, I felt it as good as time as any to finally start digging through the archives of past interviews. I hope you like it.

*Plug’d 3.0? When it used to sit on the first floor of the Triskel Arts Centre, perched delicately above its wonderfully named sister café, Gulp’d. A future article in itself may be written on those heady times.