• Swimming With The Stream: An Interview With Callum Cairns AKA Little Rivers

    Photographer Ruth Kelly shoots and discusses new music, time management and sonic progression with Belfast indie folk singer-songwriter Callum Cairns AKA Little Rivers Hi Callum. First off, what inspired you to start writing music? I suppose I started wanting to write music when my dad brought Damien Rice’s first album ‘O  home. For some reason, I don’t remember listening to a lot of music growing up, so I’m pretty bad at my parents’ era of artists, but I’d never heard anything like that album and it fascinated me. Particularly because it started off my fondness for poetry. Do you have…

  • EP Stream: Little Rivers – Little Rivers

    Set for its official launch at a secret show at Belfast’s Menagerie tonight (Wednesday, June 6), Northern Irish singer-songwriter Callum Cairns AKA Little Rivers has digitally released his second – self-titled – EP. The follow-up to his 2012 debut EP, We, I, the release six-track release features single ‘I Have No Sleep’ and a live version of the poignant ‘Hold On’. According to Cairns’ Bandcamp page the EP “stems from uprooting and moving to England, the loneliness accompanying it, and the first steps following a heartbreak”. Little Rivers was produced by Cairns, Michael Mormecha and Thomas Camblin. Stream it below via Bandcamp. Little…