Bouts

Bouts – Unlearn EP

After writing, recording, releasing and touring Nothing Good Gets Away we were pretty burnt out. We took a bit of time away from Bouts but after a few months we got back together to decide what to do next. We concluded that we wanted to write some more tunes but this time we wanted toContinue reading “Bouts – Unlearn EP”

Allies Video

To mark the release of our new EP we sent the tracks to a few directors we know and asked them if they had any ideas for videos. Eoin Heaney came back to us with a treatment for “Allies” that we thought sounded really interesting so we wrote him a cheque and told him toContinue reading “Allies Video”

Pliable Me Video

As previously mentioned Bouts are big fans of music videos. They’re a great medium. Having produced our own videos for a long time we wanted to do something special for Pliable Me, one of the singles off our album. We wanted something to catch people’s attention and so we started looking around for people toContinue reading “Pliable Me Video”

Album Promotion Material

Self-releasing an album takes up a lot of time and also a good bit of money. However, it does also give you the freedom to do some interesting things and in the end it is very satisfying when you can say “Yeah, we did all that ourselves”. It also means that when that little bitContinue reading “Album Promotion Material”

Nothing Good gets Away

Recording an album is a long slog. Well, maybe it doesn’t have to be but we decided early on that if we were going to do it, we were going to do it right. We’d spend the time writing, rewriting, destroying, reconstructing and basically working our asses off until we were happy with our songs.Continue reading “Nothing Good gets Away”

Bouts Ads

In October Bouts were lucky enough to be invited to play the CMJ Festival in New York City as part of the Music From ireland showcase. CMJ is a massive events with thousands of artists making the trip over and hundreds of shows happening every day. We decided to make the most of the opportunityContinue reading “Bouts Ads”

Bouts Videos Pt. 1

All of the us are big fans of music videos. While they aren’t necessarily something that a lot of bands, particularly Irish bands, spend time on they are something that we value greatly. Our first few videos for We Tried, Barbs, Turn Away and Jittery were all self produced with the help of our talentedContinue reading “Bouts Videos Pt. 1”

After the demise of Green Lights myself and Nigel (keys) set up another band with a fellow DCU graduate, Barry Bracken. We recorded an album, New Ways of Saying No, a few months later without ever playing a gig and then emigration struck again with Nigel departing for Canada. A few abandoned line ups laterContinue reading “Bouts”