May 2012
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“Ab Aeterno” instrumental #ForeignCities film James directed. DOP was JJ Rolfe. Produced by Fiona Kinsella & Amy Kelly. Starring Flavia Woulfe.
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Check out the only #ForeignCities film to be shot on an iPhone. Jennifer Hyland’s “Dancin’ Embers”. Great for a #summer type day!
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Take a peek at the super talented Sophie Merry’s directorial take on #ForeignCities track “Love, Come Quickly”. For this music film James had to learn how to sing the first half of his song backwards to camera. Watch and find out why (and look out for the skipping girl as a clue!)
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The #ForeignCities music film for “My Deceiver” that James directed. Shot by the super Al Hooi & starring Megan O’Riordan & Colm O’Leary. Thanks to @theBernardShaw for the location on this one!
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Check out Maciej Pestka’s confronting & powerful #foreigncities music film for the track “Icarus”. Brilliant sound design on this one too.
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Check out SNOOZE’S enchanting “In My Dream” music film created for #ForeignCities
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Check out Tom Lennon’s beautiful #ForeignCities film for the song ‘Flowers’ shot in NYC baby!
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#foreigncities now instore in Dublin.
‘Foreign Cities’ CD, DVD & 180gram Vinyl is now available in store in Tower Records & Freebird records Dublin. Go support record stores and grab a copy today!
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Check out Geppetto’s stunning #ForeignCities music film for ‘Epitaph’. Directed by Geppetto. Starring Shane Guerrini.
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#ForeignCities launch screening tonight in Dublin!
After a year’s recording & 6 months part-time filmmaking from 9 different talented filmmakers working with over 90 people to make the films a reality, the #FOREIGNCITIES music films project screens TONIGHT on the big screen in Dublin’s Sugar Club from 7.30pm. Hope to see ya there! More info at:http://foreigncities.tv/thelaunch
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In The Post!
#foreigncities vinyl, cd & DVD packs are now all in the post for FundIt.ie funders! Packs are going all ‘round the world to Sydney, aus, NYC, Ireland and the UK. (if ur a funder and have not replied to the email about your postal, we are still waiting on 15 addresses). Enjoy the tunes!!
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#ForeignCities Teaser! Get down to the Sugar Club this Thurs, May 17th and join James Cooper’s #ForeignCities Project Launch Screening. Featured hosts are For The Love Of (Ivor and Shane).
Ten different new music films will be shown by filmmakers such as Sophie Merry, Snooze, Mark Duggan, Geppetto, Maciej Pestka, James Cooper, Tom Lennon and Jennifer Hyland. Moreover the event will feature...
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Foreign Cities - Track By Track
#ForeignCities Track 5. “Dancin’ Embers”
Tempted after a few too many stiff drinks around the campfire, visions can come to any man. Especially a man who saw the edge, the darkness, the end, and then returned. She seems to be calling him in. Maybe just one more…
The feel of this boppy folk-pop song offsets a darker, more sombre, seductive undertone.
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On the radio at 9pm!!
#foreigncities on Dublin city fm 103.2 at 9 tonight. See Liam’s tweet:https://twitter.com/liam_geraghty/status/201014036761026561
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#foreigncities on Dublin city fm 103.2fm Friday...
Just Pre recorded an interview there with Liam at Dublin city fm 103.2 tune in to hear Friday from 9pm!
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Foreign Cities - Track By Track
#ForeignCities Track 4. “Epitaph”
Sometimes your dreams don’t make sense. A surreal journey of a little Carnaby Street bowler hat who sees all, a graveyard full of lovers, a dead and buried bird, and a protagonist. Who knows where that came from. More in the rock-pop style, this number features James playing as the full band, over dubbing himself 30 or more times in the studio to...
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Foreign Cities - Track By Track
#ForeignCities Track 3. “Foreign Cities”
Fight against it if you dare, but time moves everything forward. Let go or be dragged. Delay-soaked Gretsch electric guitar, close mic-ed lead vocals and a backing of distant voices provides a base for this simple, modern, hymnal style ode to searching for presence of mind.
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Foreign Cities - Track By Track
#ForeignCities Track 10. “In My Dream”
Friends and lovers. What would it take for you to tell the truth? You’re alone finally, together. You, her and the years past. Not a soul else left on the planet. Do you say it? Do you feel it? Is it still there? A glockenspiel, an Australian acoustic guitar and an old CasioTone keyboard James learnt to play on in the 1980’s provide the musical...
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#ForeignCities Track 9. “Icarus”
Some people die young. Only, they don’t die. They come back, pulled from the void at just the right time. They can never look upon the world with the same eyes again.
A vocal-heavy, atmospheric track set to music from the middle of the night.
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#ForeignCities Track 8. “Flowers”
The freedom of a coastal drive, the wind blowing bitterly and the windows down full. Scenes flash by, regular Joes become mythical characters in a story in your confused head as you drive away from lust. Love seems a long way off yet. Originally an acoustic ditty, this became a full-blown electric guitar driven ‘band’ track when James recorded an off...
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#ForeignCities Track 7. “Cry Yourself To Sleep”
We fail ourselves, friends fail us, God fails us, the spirit guides fail us. But if your faith of any sort is real, how can it ever truly fail?
A vocally raw track, inspired again by the vocal performances of Bowie’s ‘Low’ and Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ record, this piano, drums and bass built track searches for truth in that final...
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Snooze
I’ve just been lucky enough to see Snooze’s final #ForeignCities film HD edit. Awesome. Thank you boys!! Can’t wait to screen it on the 17th!!
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Foreign Cities - Track By Track
#ForeignCities Track 6. “Ab Aeterno”
There is no past, no future, only the ‘now’. And the ‘now’ is eternal, since the beginning of time.
A Psychedelic, meandering, rock-synth instrumental inspired by Doves and David Bowie’s ‘Low’ record. Originally recorded in James’ bedroom on an 8 Track tape machine in 1999 at 3am in the morning looking out over the mist of the Ku-Ring-Gai valley,...