Fionn Regan‘s new album ‘100 Acres of Sycamore’ is released today, little more than a year since his last release ‘The Shadow of An Empire’. I caught up with Fionn and chatted about his new album as well as getting a glimpse into how he approaches his art.
A chance meeting with actress Anna Friel at Benicassim in 2010 was the catalyst for ‘100 Acres of Sycamore’ and the album came together when Friel invited Regan to stay in her house. ‘It was very fast, sometimes when you’re a writer it’s like that, lightning strikes, the stars align for whatever reason they do’ says Fionn, ‘It definitely felt that this time period and the way it came together is really exciting for me. I had done a lot of work on the production side of it but the songs were very fast, they flew like liquid gold.’
If you get an opportunity just to go somewhere and write, how do you get into mindset?
‘I think you kind of are an aerial or a transistor, you do feel like a lightning rod. I don’t think you can plan it, I think you have to be open to receive it. You can close yourself off to so many things without realizing it and you can open yourself if you think hard enough about it. (more…)