{"id":15620,"date":"2021-07-15T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:34:11","slug":"david-long-shane-oneill-hit-close-to-home-on-far-from-home-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/07\/15\/david-long-shane-oneill-hit-close-to-home-on-far-from-home-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"David Long &#038; Shane O&#8217;Neill hit close to home on &#8216;Far From Home&#8217; EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow brings the release of the new\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/davidlong4.bandcamp.com\/album\/far-from-home\"><strong>&#8216;Far From Home&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>3-track single by\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/DavidLong_ShaneONeill\">David Long and Shane O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/strong>, who are perhaps known more (both in their native Ireland and abroad) as founders of iconic 1980\u2019s post-punk \/ indie rock bands\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Into_Paradise_(band)\"><strong>Into Paradise<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_in_Heaven\"><strong>Blue In Heaven<\/strong><\/a>, respectively.\u00a0This collaboration is as brilliant as they come &#8211; rooted in a long-term friendship between two equally talented artists, their common experiences, and the shared musical journey they are taking with\u00a0their latest magnificent output. If this initial EP is any indication of what the duo are capable of, we look forward to hearing what they will deliver on their forthcoming\u00a0&#8216;Moll &amp; Zeis&#8217; album, set for release in September.<br><br>The title track<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nGfnDNGS3dE\">\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Far From Home&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is accompanied by b-side\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Shake Me, I&#8217;m Magic&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0and \u00a0bonus track\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Hand Of Love&#8217;<\/strong>, a cover of a song by\u00a0<strong>Adrian Borland&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sound_(band)\"><strong>The Sound<\/strong><\/a>. Recorded remotely during the lockdown, this release previews the duo&#8217;s<strong>\u00a0&#8216;Moll &amp; Zeis&#8217; LP<\/strong>, which will be released in autumn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Far From Home - David Long &amp; Shane O&#039;Neill\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nGfnDNGS3dE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Long\u00a0<\/strong>was the face of 1980s band\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Into_Paradise_(band)\"><strong>Into Paradise<\/strong><\/a>, who released two albums and several EP\u2019s on legendary British independent label\u00a0<strong>Setanta Records\u00a0<\/strong>and also one major &#8211;<strong>\u00a0Ensign<\/strong>. Their most successful album was their major record label debut, the\u00a0<strong>Adrian Borland<\/strong>-produced\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Churchtown&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shane O\u2019Neill&nbsp;<\/strong>fronted&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_in_Heaven\"><strong>Blue In Heaven<\/strong><\/a>, who recorded \/ released a few singles and demos (including one produced by&nbsp;<strong>U2&#8242;<\/strong>s<strong>&nbsp;The Edge<\/strong>) before signing to&nbsp;<strong>Island Records<\/strong>&nbsp;in 1985. Their debut album<strong>&nbsp;&#8216;All The Gods Men&#8217;&nbsp;<\/strong>was produced by&nbsp;<strong>Martin Hannett (Joy Division, Magazine, New Order, OMD, Happy Mondays).&nbsp;<\/strong>1986 brought the<strong>&nbsp;&#8216;Explicit Material&#8217; LP,<\/strong>&nbsp;produced by Island Records head&nbsp;<strong>Chris Blackwell&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Eric Thorngren.&nbsp;<\/strong>Their popularity grew as they toured with the likes of&nbsp;<strong>U2, Echo &amp; The Bunnymen<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>The Damned<\/strong>. In 1990, the band reformed as<strong>&nbsp;The Blue Angels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hailing from the same part of Dublin, Long and O&#8217;Neill have known each other since they were 6 or 7, when they knocked over Shane\u2019s TV set, fighting over which channel to watch. Their first band was a trio called&nbsp;<strong>amuse&nbsp;<\/strong>with David on bass and vocals, Shane on guitar, and&nbsp;<strong>Dave Clarke (Warren Zevon,&nbsp;<\/strong>now<strong>&nbsp;Hothouse Flowers)<\/strong>&nbsp;on drums. After splitting and doing their separate thing, around 1996 they recorded an album as<strong>&nbsp;Supernaut<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now creators of &#8220;folk art garage rock&#8221;, this recalls a time when bands were clumsy and unrehearsed. Atmospheric, emotional, not interested in technique, or campfire sing-songs. The reverb is as important as the notes in some places, and it\u2019s a good thing if you cannot recreate the full sound live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We wanted to make an album that could and should be listened to all the way through. It was an equal collaboration, Shane and myself have known each other so long that there was never a problem editing each other if something didn&#8217;t fit with the song. We had no time restrictions, or release dates to go by, so we took our time with this album and thought about every aspect of it, song titles, running order, album cover, album name, and what songs to leave on and leave off. The instrumentals are very important to the album&#8217;s story.,&#8221; says&nbsp;<strong>Dave Long<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We were always the &nbsp;kind of musicians who couldn&#8217;t play other people&#8217;s songs properly, barely able to play some of our own songs. We\u2019ve always loved music but didn\u2019t always get some of the community surrounding it. I was trying to use my memories of working with Hannett to help create atmospherics and space behind the guitars and drums, (he used to stop the tape and joke it was mixed if the echo was interesting). Dave wanted an early style of guitar I used to play, less bar chords, more angular ringing notes,&#8221; says&nbsp;<strong>Shane O&#8217;Neill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of July 16, the &#8216;Far From Home&#8217; EP will be available across online platforms such as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6uPy92m2PqzUwaq8ubGcEk\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/moll-zeis\/1551710360\">Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Bandcamp<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/davidlong4.bandcamp.com\/album\/far-from-home\">https:\/\/davidlong4.bandcamp.com\/album\/far-from-home<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Far-From-Home-single-cover-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Far-From-Home-single-cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Far-From-Home-single-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Far-From-Home-single-cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Far-From-Home-single-cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Far-From-Home-single-cover-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Far-From-Home-single-cover.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TRACK LIST<\/strong><br>1 Far From Home<br>2 Shake Me, I&#8217;m Magic<br>3 Hand Of Love (The Sound cover)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Far From Home 3 track single - David Long &amp; Shane O&#039;Neill from Moll &amp; Zeis by David Long &amp; Shane O&#039;Neill\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1260033976&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;secret_token=s-X96ExfwRhhV\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CREDITS<\/strong><br>Written, arranged, recorded and produced by David Long &amp; Shane O&#8217;Neill<br>Album Cover Art by Noel Farrell<br>Country Pylon Recordings 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Article photo by Ivan Rakhmanin and Sabrina Colley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keep up with David Long and Shane O&#8217;Neill<\/strong><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/DavidLong_ShaneONeill\">Website<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/davidlong4.bandcamp.com\/album\/moll-zeis\">Bandcamp<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MollAndZeis\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shack9\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgrSYV6FP9DKZ0OSj53NicA\/videos\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6uPy92m2PqzUwaq8ubGcEk\">Spotify<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/moll-zeis\/1551710360\">Apple Music<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:contact@shamelesspromotionpr.com\">Press contact<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow brings the release of the new\u00a0&#8216;Far From Home&#8217;\u00a03-track single by\u00a0David Long and Shane O&#8217;Neill,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[1743,1741,1742,455],"class_list":["post-15620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-blue-in-heaven","tag-david-long-shane-oneill","tag-into-paradise","tag-post-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15623,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions\/15623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}