James Vincent McMorrow
James Vincent McMorrow
James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish singer and songwriter. He is best known for his albums Early in the Morning and Post Tropical...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 January 1983
CountryIreland
claim dad elvis family fan kid loves mum parties sing stuff time
My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.
antique built interest music
I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.
booked guy heard love next purely rare tony
I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.
folk music
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
music playing relatively start until
I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
fairly order song until
More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.
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My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.
bothers music people recreate trying
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?
folk good pick quite
I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.
music
The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.
distort
You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.
hands needs sometimes
Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.
I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.
couple heart play
You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.