• Watch: Morning Veils – Hiveless Bee

    December 30, 2016 - By 

    Let it be known: we have a lot of time for Cork outfit Morning Veils. With their swirling, hazed-out dream-folk, the band – comprised of Aisling O’Riordan, Elaine Howley of The Altered Hours and Roslyn Steer – have commanded our attention from the get-go, despite maintaining a low-key presence online. But, as with others of their ilk, that furtive quality lends to the rapt quietism of their sound, not least on their single ‘Hiveless Bee’, which now boasts a suitably lo-fi video courtesy of Camila Sobral. Released a year ago today, the track is taken from the band’s Dan Walsh-produced Her Kind. Check that out…

  • Watch: Morning Veils – Lady In Red

    October 30, 2015 - By 

    Lending itself very nicely to their furtive and chimeric craft, Cork outfit Morning Veils keep a pretty low-key presence online. Comprised of members including Elaine Howley of The Altered Hours and Roslyn Steer, the band’s tagline on Twitter is “forgotten folk and other stories”, a little offering of insight that firmly nods in the direction of the band’s yearning new song ‘Lady In Red’. Conjuring the likes of early Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, Pod-era Breeders and the more ruminating tracks on Queens of the Stone Age’s self-titled debut, the single – recorded by Dan Walsh – will feature on the band’s forthcoming debut album, Her Kind, which be…

  • Cork Music Trail: Ones to Watch

    November 18, 2014 - By 

    It would seem that MTV have remembered what their (previously-orphaned) acronym stands for, turning their attention away from mouth-breathing reality-show nonsense, and on to music, of all things. With the announcement of the Shepard Fairey-directed Rebel Music calling attention to youth subcultures around the world and the transcendent tunes that soundtrack their lives, the idea hits that the floundering music-channel grandfather has either finally realised the error of its ways and is earnestly trying for relevance, or has just been subject to the law of diminishing returns. Either way, the cable & satellite success story of the 1980s wobbles its way to Cork…