The postpunk songwriter has been careful to make his debut album, New Wave Vaudeville, as independently as he can
Skinner : ‘A lot of bands are afraid of speaking out about the way they’ve been treated. Some of the carry-on is atrocious’“I always loved Father Ted growing up. I thought the idea of a band of priests with a pope as the driver was such a funny concept, kind of poking fun at old Catholic Ireland,” the postpunk songwriter – aka Aaron Corcoran – says.
Irishman in Singapore: I wondered if I was foolish to emigrate in my 50s. But I feel more alive than everOne of the pleasures of New Wave Vaudeville is the contrast between the playful video and the intense music, which is rooted in the New York no wave scene of the late 1970s. Existing on the furthest fringes of punk, no wave was one of those fascinating contradictions the music business occasionally churns out, simultaneously comedic, profound, wacky and sincere.
“What’s going on in Dublin at the moment, you could draw a massive similarity ... Post-Covid, the amount of new bands ... I try to go out once or twice a week and see the new bands coming up. The stuff that people haven’t even heard about yet in terms of reaching a wider audience is some of the coolest ever. What’s so noticeable is how individual they all sound.”
Corcoran has been writing and recording as Skinner for several years; the picture he paints of the Irish music scene is grim. “Ninety-nine per cent of people that you meet are assholes,” hethe culture website Headstuff in January. “Everyone who isn’t a musician or a passionate music lover in the music industry is full of shit.”
“About 1 per cent of the people I meet on a daily basis in the music industry are good people. And it’s that 1 per cent of people that keep me doing it. They are the true music fans. They aren’t the people who are doing it because they want to say, ‘I have this artist on my roster,’ or, ‘I found this artist and recorded them before anyone else.’ And all this bullshit that goes along with it. They’re there because they are music fans – and I’m a music fan.
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