Ahead of the release of Chatten’s first solo album Chaos For The Fly, the designer and musician come together for a conversation spanning friendship, the overlap in their process and artistic singularity
Grian Chatten
can’t remember exactly how they first met. It might have been through Rocha’s partner, cinematographer Eoin Mcloughlin, who has worked on music videos for Chatten alongside a mutual friend, director Hugh Mulhern. Or it could have been one night at the house of other mutual friends, painter Peter Doyle and photographer Eimear Lynch – “you were making cocktails for everyone,” says Chatten. Or maybe it was at the Irish pub The Auld Shillelagh, a Stoke Newington institution.
“In my head I feel like we’ve already made a play together,” says Rocha. “We’ve written a play, there’s a score, I know what they’re wearing, and it’s already happened. It hasn’t, but it feels like that has happened, or subconsciously is happening.”, which debuts in late June, the pair discuss friendship, the overlap in their process and artistic singularity.For me, part of what I appreciate in our friendship is that it feels like there’s no pressure.
I love talking to people who are in other fields. The last thing I’d want to do is talk about fashion, because the way I think about fashion isn’t in the way of it being ‘fashion’, it’s just not stimulating. What’s really nice is to think about a different field that I find so visceral and exciting. It’s funny, everyone listens to music, but the music that Grian makes, it feels like it’s coming genuinely from his insides out.
“I remember looking down and seeing you watching us perform ... at Glastonbury. I felt like the sound would have to travel through my close Irish friends before it got to the Glastonbury audience. In a way it felt like you were almost saying, ‘If you want to get to Grian, you have to get through us first’” – Grian ChattenI do think there is a security you feel when you’re around people who are in different fields, but you’re all creative, doing different things.
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