New single taken from the brand new Adrian Crowley album, 'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars' out now. Buy Now: https://adriancrowley.bandcamp.com/album/the-watchful-eye-of-the-stars Produced by John Parish Song Credits: Adrian Crowley: vocals, electric guitar, mellotron Jim Barr: double bass John Parish: drums, electric guitar Written by Adrian Crowley. Published by Domino Publishing Co.Ltd. Video Credits: Directed by Adrian Crowley & Trevor Murphy Starring: Vera Graziadei Edited by: Adrian Crowley Cinematography & animation by Trevor Murphy trevormurphy.tv Make-up artist & hair stylist: Olivia Nicolaou Special thanks to Richard Nik Evans for kindly providing the location. About the making of the video: The protagonist in 'A Shut-In's Lament' is hauntingly portrayed by the one and only actor/writer/director/poet, Vera Graziadei. When I first started sketching out a storyboard for this video, I imagined light and shade. I made some drawings of Vera's eyes, face and hands. In fact, I felt the entire story could be told with just her eyes alone. I sent the drawings to Trevor and that was our starting point. We chose a morning for the shoot and when Vera stepped into the frame, I knew we were about to capture some magic. Funny behind the scenes fact: I faced a challenge in the making of this video as I was in lockdown in Dublin while Trevor and Vera were over in London. In order for me to give my directions in real time, Trevor came up with the idea of strapping his phone to the camera's monitor so he could send me a live feed of the action from across the Irish sea. -AC.

Second single from Adrian Crowley's new album 'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars' released 30th April 2021. Preorder now: https://adriancrowley.bandcamp.com/album/the-watchful-eye-of-the-stars About the video: I am an incessant doodler. The stars of the video for Bread And Wine were made with a scalpel, pen and a drawing book. And they were captured on my kitchen table. Even though I consider myself to be a patient individual, I didn't feel like going through the painstaking process of making a stop-animation. So, instead, I went an easier route and made a kind of lo-fi, 21st century parlour cut-out puppet show. I like to think of this video as a cross between The Wickerman and Bosco. Although, I'm aware the Bosco reference will be lost on anyone who didn't watch afternoon TV in 1980s Ireland. It was a curious thing to see the scenarios unfold there on my kitchen table, late one windy night. Armed with a simple hand-held camera and a few sticks of cardboard, I watched it all come together. The protagonist in Bread And Wine bears more than a passing resemblance to myself, which wasn't an accident. But it's quite spooky, in a way, how just a few dots and lines on a page can conjure someone up. Or something. All those characters spying at the window; like ghosts from someone's past... they all seem to have an eerie and playful presence. AC Song Credits: Adrian Crowley: vocals, nylon string guitar, clarinet Katell Keineg: backing vocals John Parish: drums, percussion, marxophone. nylon string guitar, electric guitar Jim Barr: Double bass Cora-Venus Lunny: violin Kate Ellis: cello Lisa Dowdall: viola

New single taken from the brand new Adrian Crowley album, 'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars' out now. Buy Now: https://adriancrowley.bandcamp.com/album/the-watchful-eye-of-the-stars Produced by John Parish Song Credits: Adrian Crowley: vocals, electric guitar, mellotron Jim Barr: double bass John Parish: drums, electric guitar Written by Adrian Crowley. Published by Domino Publishing Co.Ltd. Video Credits: Directed by Adrian Crowley & Trevor Murphy Starring: Vera Graziadei Edited by: Adrian Crowley Cinematography & animation by Trevor Murphy trevormurphy.tv Make-up artist & hair stylist: Olivia Nicolaou Special thanks to Richard Nik Evans for kindly providing the location. About the making of the video: The protagonist in 'A Shut-In's Lament' is hauntingly portrayed by the one and only actor/writer/director/poet, Vera Graziadei. When I first started sketching out a storyboard for this video, I imagined light and shade. I made some drawings of Vera's eyes, face and hands. In fact, I felt the entire story could be told with just her eyes alone. I sent the drawings to Trevor and that was our starting point. We chose a morning for the shoot and when Vera stepped into the frame, I knew we were about to capture some magic. Funny behind the scenes fact: I faced a challenge in the making of this video as I was in lockdown in Dublin while Trevor and Vera were over in London. In order for me to give my directions in real time, Trevor came up with the idea of strapping his phone to the camera's monitor so he could send me a live feed of the action from across the Irish sea. -AC.

First single from Adrian Crowley's new album 'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars' released 30th April 2021. Preorder now: https://adriancrowley.bandcamp.com/album/the-watchful-eye-of-the-stars Video directed by Niall Mc Cann & Adrian Crowley Shot by Adrian Crowley Edit and montage by Niall Mc Cann 'Northbound Stowaway' is taken from the album 'The Watchful Eye of The Stars'. Produced by John Parish. Release date: April 30th 2021. Track credits: Adrian Crowley : vocals, mellotron, nylon string guitar Nadine Khouri : backing vocals John Parish: drums, acoustic guitar. vibraphone Cora-Venus Lunny : violin Kate Ellis : cello Lisa Dowdall : viola Jim Barr : bass About the video: "When Adrian asked me if I would work on the video for Northbound Stowaway the first thing we had to figure out was how we make it while not being able to leave the house. Restrictions are often a good thing when making something like this. Our ability to shoot footage or meet up was obviously curtailed, but constraints can be your friend. Adrian would shoot different takes of him singing the song and would send it over to me to work on. The video is kind of like how you might feel after 24 Zoom calls in a row, a pot of coffee and a smidgen of LSD. Like us all, I’ve had a lot of Zoom/ Webex calls this past year and it introduces a new type of anxiety into your day, it’s not enough to be heard, you have to be seen too. The video is a reaction to that anxiety, the sense of displacement and fragmenting that it brings, to be constantly looked at. Endlessly looking at yourself, looking at others, looking at yourself. The song itself builds and becomes more and more dense as it moves along and I wanted the video to reflect that also, to give a visual representation of this cacophony of instruments and voices." -Niall Mc Cann "Sometimes simple is just the way. I had thought about how to go about capturing the right imagery for this song. I spent time shooting the ocean waves, ships and seabirds, crashing waves, lighting, the whole she-bang...but then realised after sending the images to Niall that this approach had left little to the imagination. Also, Niall pointed out that he couldn't see my eyes. And I reflected on this and thought about how sometimes the eyes of the storyteller can be the thing that invites the listener on a journey. Or voyage. I set up my camera and tripod directed at a wall opposite a south facing window in my house. And waited for the sun to travel to that right spot over the rooftops. I busied myself with other things and then just before sunset I pressed record. I did another take and then the sun set." - Adrian Crowley

Adrian Crowley reflects on the making of this video for 'The Wish', taken from his upcoming album 'Dark Eyed Messenger'... "Last May I travelled to New York and was joined by a small film crew headed by Irish filmmaker Niall Mc Cann. Niall and I have been working together for a couple of years now on his, as-yet-untitled, third feature film. The film will be premiered at Dublin International Film Festival in February 2018. To date Niall has made two music-themed documentaries, 'Lost In France' and 'Art Will Save The World'. As far I can see this one of ours will be third in the trilogy. But don’t quote me on that. I had some concerts planned for New York and Niall suggested that we combine my trip with a shoot for the ongoing work on the film. The crew dragged equipment all round New York, mostly by subway, filming in Queens, Lower Manhattan, Roosevelt Island, Coney Island...usually I didn’t have to carry anything because the guys were filming most of the time and I was in front of the camera, as it were. There was a heatwave in New York that week and the air was heavy and humid which was tough sometimes for a bunch of Irish lads, even me with my Mediterranean blood. I had a concert in a theatre in Hell’s Kitchen that week and the morning of the show I couldn’t face putting on my jeans and daytime clothes, so I showed up at the soundcheck in my pyjamas, much to the amusement of my dear friend Thomas Bartlett (who was playing with me for that concert). Thomas also produced and appears on my new album Dark Eyed Messenger which we had recorded in his studio in Midtown Manhattan the year before. A close friend of mine, Destefano, came down from upstate New York to join us for the shoot and we shot a scene together in Coney Island, That’s her on the bench next to me. An excerpt of the scene was adapted for this video of ‘The Wish’ which is the opening track on 'Dark Eyed Messenger'. I have for many years been enchanted by Coney Island, always making a trip there whenever in New York, heading out by myself on the train to take photographs. Whenever I was there, it always happened to be raining and it was always off-season - with everything shut down. But not this time. The place was bustling with life and all the rides and amusements in Luna Park were open and in full swing. Pun intended. Some of what we filmed for the film shoot was set up and acted and some was done in an improvised setting, left open to chance. I won’t break the mystique of this piece by telling you how it was filmed or if all the people in the frame were aware of what was going on. As you can see it was all captured in one continuous shot. Then we called it a wrap and went for a beer. I think Niall had a hot dog." ADRIAN CROWLEY Directed by Niall Mc Cann D.O.P. : Paul Rowley Production: Darren Bolger Sound recordist: Gregory Dunn Edited by Niall Mc Cann & Matthew Boyd Grading : Matthew Boyd. Woman on bench : Destefano DeLuise Filmed at Coney Island, New York, May 2017. 'The Wish' from the album 'Dark Eyed Messenger' Produced by Thomas Bartlett. Buy 'Dark Eyed Messenger' http://shop.chemikal.co.uk/acatalog/CHEM249.html Chemikal Underground: http://www.chemikal.co.uk Adrian Crowley: http://www.adriancrowley.com/ Adrian Crowley Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrAdrianCrowley Niall McCann: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5389446/

“Cinematography plus psychoanalysis equals The Science of Ghosts.” Jacques Derrida. What would a film about your life be like? Could it ever really truly reflect who you are? What if there are parts of your story you don’t want to share? Is your story even interesting enough? In this meditation on storytelling and filmmaking, we ask: where do we find the true story of a person? Is it in what they tell us, or rather in what they don’t tell us? And do they even know themselves? Directed by Niall McCann (Art Will Save The World 2012, Lost In France, 2017) who further explores the playful territory he mapped out in his first two films, pushing the form of not just what a music film is supposed to be and could be into new places but what a “documentary” is and could be. The role of the musician is “played by” Adrian Crowley playing the role of himself, as each of us do each day and as Derrida plays himself in Ghost Dance, the film our title is derived. The film is filled with the sonorous vocals and beautiful melodies of Crowley, and also features stunning performances by Radie Peat of Lankum, Brigid Mae Power, the Crash Ensemble and an appearance by the celebrated Irish writer Kevin Barry. Adrian Crowley is an award winning Irish artist and musician once described in Rolling Stone Magazine by American songwriter Ryan Adams as: the greatest songwriter you may not have heard of. He is signed to the iconic Scottish record label Chemikal Underground.

The Dead Hotel by Adrian Crowley, arranged by Malachy Robinson and Crash Ensemble. Performed as part of MusicTown Dublin 2016 16th April 2016, The National Concert Hall, Dublin

The first single taken from Adrian Crowley's sixth studio album 'I See Three Birds Flying', finds the award winning Irishman in predictably beautiful form... When Adrian Crowley was awarded Ireland's Choice Music Prize for 2009's 'Season of the Sparks', it felt like a long overdue coronation for the self-effacing and greatly admired songwriter. Recognised for sometime as one of Ireland's most evocative lyricists, Adrian's gift lies, not only in his poetic flair with words, but in his unerring ability to set those lyrics against an irresistibly affecting musical backdrop, often recalling the spare, reflective potency of Lambchop or Leonard Cohen. With "The Saddest Song", the first single taken from Adrian's new album 'I See Three Birds Flying', that marriage of eloquent lyricism and musical poignancy has never been stronger as London-based string duo and experimental composers Geese weave plaintive sighs of violin and viola around Crowley's pitch-perfect storytelling. As an introduction for anyone new to Adrian's work, it's a beguiling, understated exercise in songwriting sophistication: for those already in the know, it's an affirmation of Adrian's prodigious talent and a welcome declaration of intent for what is sure to follow on his forthcoming album. Lyrics: And I turned away from the darkened window To light the lantern on the night table And opened up the virgin pages And I tried to write The Saddest Song In The World And then I folded up The tear soaked pages Of careworn lines and forlorn phrases Of shameless abandon As if guided by the many hands of The Disenchanted! But I soon decided to let the pages fly To the hands of another And so I let them fly And I tried to write The Saddest Song In The World Adrian Crowley: vocal, electric guitar, Strings performed arranged and recorded by Geese (Vincent Sipprell & Emma Smith) Vince played viola & cello, Emma played violin. Kevin Murphy also played cello. www.chemikal.co.uk