Busking for Simon :: The Greatest Busk on Grafton Street
In The Greatest Busk on Grafton Street, Bono, Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan, Sinéad O’Connor, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Declan O’Rourke, Gavin Glass, Steve Wall and lots more for the Christmas celebration on a packed Grafton Street to raise money for homeless charities The Simon Community and the Peter McVerry Trust Myles …
Continue ReadingEncounter at the Cello Biënnale
A Film by Myles O’Reilly featuring Ernst Reijseger and music of Trio Reijseger Fraanje Sylla. In 2009 I first watched the film by Werner Herzog ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ and for the first time heard a film score composed by cellist Ernst Reijseger. Recognized for his efforts with jazz drummer Gerry …
Continue ReadingThe Waterboys :: Spiddal Reunion
There was magic in the air at Park Lodge Hotel in Spiddal on September 2012 as the town welcomed back the legendary Waterboys for two special reunion gigs, which were attended by fans from all over the world. Mike Scott and The Waterboys spent six months in Spiddal in 1988 …
Continue ReadingCulture Night :: Dublin 2012
I spent an evening out at Cultutre Night with a runny nose and a headache and this is what I saw. Thanks to Simon O’Neill for backing me up. Featuring the music of Nanu Nanu and the Cantairí Avondale Choir. Featuring music from Nanu Nanu nanunanuband.com and the Cantairí Avondale Choir …
Continue ReadingPIAS NITES :: DUBLIN 2012
July 21st 2012 saw Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens play host to the first ever Irish [PIAS] Nites. Lisa Hannigan, Other Lives, Cathy Davey and CHAMPS took to the stage to entertain a packed crowd on a gorgeous Dublin summer evening. Filmed at Iveagh Gardens, Dublin on July 21st 2012 For more …
Continue ReadingIn The Name of Willie Clancy [Trailer]
Myles O Reilly and Donal Dineen team up to tell the story of the annual Summer School in Milltown Mallbay, County Clare, now 40 years old. Master fiddler Caoimhin O Raghallaigh is their guide to the people and the music behind the phenomenon. “Our inspiration for this documentary was a …
Continue ReadingJames Yorkston :: I Was A Cat From A Book [Full Version]
I Was A Cat From A Book by James Yorkston will be released by Domino on Monday the 13th of August 2012. His first album since 2008′s When The Haar Rolls In, I Was A Cat From A Book finds James playing with a new band comprised of members of …
Continue ReadingDrop Everything :: Inis Oírr :: 2012
A film by Myles O’Reilly documenting the Drop Everything free contemporary cultural event on the island of Inis OIrr on the west coast of Ireland in May 2012. Procession footage by Micheal Kelly (Feenish productions). Cameras Myles O’Reilly and Simon O’Neill. Edited by Myles O’Reilly. Participants 2012 :: Soundwalk Collective Sonny …
Continue ReadingLisa Hannigan :: Tour Diary :: The Netherlands
A short film shot and edited by Myles O’Reilly following Lisa Hannigan and her band on a tour of The Netherlands in June 2012. For months, along with many other dedicated online fans, I’ve been following Team Hannigan’s touring adventures via social media, imagining how much fun it must be …
Continue ReadingThis is How we Fly :: Stockholm
A film by Myles O’Reilly featuring the visual artist Donal Dineen visiting the band ‘This is How we Fly’ recording their debut album in Stockholm, Sweden. This is How we Fly is a contemporary folk band consisting of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on fiddle & hardanger fiddle, Seán Mac Erlaine on …
Continue ReadingMick Flannery :: Red to Blue
A short film directed by Myles O’Reilly featuring Mick Flannery about the release of his forthcoming album Red to Blue. Mick Flannery was brought up on a farm outside Blarney, Co. Cork, Ireland. His first real connection to music was watching an unplugged Nirvana coveringBowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”. …
Continue ReadingGare St Lazare Players Present :: Moby Dick
A short documentary filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly on the Gare St Lazare Players theatre production of Moby Dick, adapted for stage by Conor Lovett & Judy Hegarty Lovett from the novel by Herman Melville. Music composed and performed by Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh.
Continue ReadingThe Music Makers :: Instrument Makers of Mayo
The Music Makers is a music and film performance piece celebrating the creativity and skill involved in traditional music-making, from the actual making of musical instruments to the performance of traditional music on those very instruments. In the show, which takes place at the Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar on November …
Continue ReadingAs Above So Below :: A Concert in Mitchelstown Caves
Lisa Hannigan, James Vincent McMorrow, Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh and Duke Special all join film-maker Myles O’Reilly and an audience of 300 in the underworld of Mitchelstown Cave for a very special live music event. Directed by Myles O’Reilly. Edited by Myles O’Reilly. Cameras Myles O’Reilly and Simon O’Neill. Sound by Bob …
Continue Readinglisa Hannigan :: Making of Passenger
A short documentary promo directed by Myles O’Reilly following Lisa Hannigan from the conception to the fruition of her sophomore album Passenger.
Continue ReadingThe Dublin Laptop Orchestra with This is How we Fly
The Dublin Laptop Orchestra perform and collaborate with Caoimhín O’Raghallaigh and This is How we Fly in Smock Alley Dublin on the 11th of December 2011.
Continue ReadingCulture Night Dublin :: Temple Bar 2011
A host of events documented by Myles O’Reilly from Culture Night in Dublin’s Temple Bar 2011.
Continue ReadingTraz :: The Spirit of Folk Festival
Spirit of Folk is a two-day, family friendly festival running from 21-23 September in the stunning grounds of Dunderry Park, Co Meath. Over the weekend we’ll be rockin’ to some of the finest and freshest acts that folk music has to offer, but we won’t be stopping there – Spirit of Folk is …
Continue ReadingFiddler on Ice :: A Guest in Reykjavik
A short film following Mary Hickson and musicians Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh and Kate Ellis to Iceland to meet with Icelandic band Amiina and visit music producers and recording studios in the capitol of Reykjavik. The first chapter in a project to develop closer relations between artists living in Ireland and Iceland …
Continue ReadingLisa Hannigan :: Recording Diaries :: Recording Passenger
Diary clips of Lisa Hannigan and her band recording the album Passenger in Bryn Derwin Studio, Wales . Filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly of Arbutus Yarns. .
Continue ReadingJulie Feeney :: New York
Julie Feeney performs live for one night in New York City, accompanied by her band Dan Bodwell, Eugene Ginty, Simon Menin, Cormac DeBarra, David Baranowski, Jenny Dowdall, Lisa Dowdall and Jane Hilliard. Filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly.
Continue ReadingJulie Feeney :: Paris
Julie Feeney performs live for one night in Paris, France, accompanied by her band Dan Bodwell, Kira Deegan, Jenny Dowdall, Lisa Dowdall and Jane Hilliard. Filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly.
Continue ReadingDonal Dineen and the dawning of ‘Parish’
Featuring Donal Dineen, Liam Ó Maonlai and Niwel Tsumbu. Edited by Myles O’Reilly. Gig footage: Stephen Mogerley and Myles O’Reilly. Rehearsal Footage: Myles O’Reilly. Extra editing by Ian Cudmore
Continue ReadingLisa Hannigan :: Passenger Recording Diaries :: Pre-Production
In August 2010 (just after purchasing for the first time a Canon 7D camera with the retro 50mm Nikon lens that I use to shoot everything to this day) Lisa Hannigan asked me to begin to document the very early stages of writing and demoing her album Passenger. It was …
Continue ReadingHomelights Festival
Short documentary featuring the Homelights festival held in the autumn of 2009. Featuring Vashti Bunian, Adrian Crowley, James Yorkston, Dosh, Andy Irvine and more..
Continue ReadingHomelights Tour :: James Yorkston, Adrian Crowley & Alasdair Roberts
A short documentary following Adrian Crowley, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston on a tour of small venues around Ireland. HOMELIGHTS was a weekend of music & visuals held on the last weekend of november, co-curated by Irish recording artist Adrian Crowley and independent music promoters Foggy Notions. It is a …
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