In his first iteration Brett Flair proved to be a hugely successful character for Betfair. And while people may have had a bit of a love/hate relationship with him, he was memorable and a great brand asset. So when the Brand Team decided to refresh the creative they came to us with the simple thought:Continue reading “Brett Flair & The New Slots”
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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”
Bouts
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”
Green Lights Music
Here is a link to our very old Myspace page. It’s probably covered in dust and cobwebs but the music is still there. We have a video up too, say hello to Megaphone Bowtie
Green Lights Final Show
For our final show Green Lights played Whelans upstairs venue. It turned out to be probably our best gig ever and the poster is one of my favourites too. The photo was taken by our keyboard player Nigel at a market somewhere. It’s random and it’s a bit busy and messy but that’s kind ofContinue reading “Green Lights Final Show”
Green Lights Comic Style Posters
While I was in college I was in a band with two of my housemates. Green Lights was a ramshackle kind of band. We didn’t have the best gear and we weren’t the greatest musicians but we had fun playing music and it was pretty loud. When I was designing posters I tried to comeContinue reading “Green Lights Comic Style Posters”
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