IN THE heart of Limerick Docks, Dec Pierce’s Block Rockin Beats, Hermitage Green and James Blunt will put on a show this August. At the launch of Live at the Docklands in Dolans, we caught up with Hermitage Green, who have just released a new single. Speaking of the new track, Driftin, Barry Murphy, bass player and vocalist, said: “The new sound is quite different to what we've done before. A lot more electronic, a little bit wilder, a little bit darker.” The song was inspired by the father and son who died last year after diving aboard the Titan submersible to see the Titanic wreckage. “That struck me as one of the craziest things I'd heard in our time where a billionaire would take his son and bring him down to the bottom of the ocean for no real reason other than to see a wreckage of a ship and then to go get killed. Being a new father, it struck me as very dark. The song started with that, and it's a little bit about father son relationships,” said Barry. Driftin will be featured on Hermitage Green’s next album. Dermot Sheedy, who plays the Bodhrán, explained: “There'll be an album coming after the summer. There's a lot of good time party bangers on it, that's going to be the main focus, but we're going to be releasing a lot of new music between now and September.” READ MORE: Chance meeting at Queen concert brings Scottish choir to Limerick With their next album, the Limerick lads will continue to explore the electronic sound, after being established as an indie-folk band. "We're quite open within our set as to what type of a song we do. We had a sort of a rave section of the set that we just naturally kind of progressed with synth and harmonica, it grew into this big rave bit and we were like ‘This is really cool’,” said vocalist and guitarist Darragh Griffin. The quintet were recently on tour in Australia. According to Djembe, banjo player and vocalist, Darragh Graham, there is a certain uniqueness to playing abroad. “It’s something that probably none of us expected
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