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15th March 2018
10:07am GMT

Vocalist, Caoilian Sherlock said: “We don’t often write new songs out of an improv 'jam' type of thing - but this started as a little two chords warm up at rehearsal a few months back. I went away and wrote a melody, and lyrically I was aiming for a joyous apocalypse sound. A song to celebrate The Rapture heading our way. In the studio we were throwing a lot of unusual names for us - Spandau Ballet and Christopher Cross’ Ride Like The Wind for example, as well as the crooners like Sinatra and Jacques Brel.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWygV9dKVnE
The release of ‘Colour Of The Holy Sun’ comes after a busy year where the band toured extensively around Ireland, while also appearing on the soundtrack to breakout Irish film ‘Handsome Devil’.
This April, The Shaker Hymn begin an Irish tour with Pale Rivers - the synth and guitar led five-piece based out of Cork and Tipperary. See them at the Róisín Dubh Galway, Bello Bar Dublin, MusicZone Cork, Gleeson's Clonmel, The Roundy Cork, and Connolly’s of Leap in West Cork. More info on The Shaker Hymn’s Facebook page right here.
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