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Single & download: ‘Wanna Die Like Jesus’/‘Buying Stars’ with Sarahbeth Tucek
Date: May 19th 2008

Rising Irish star Ain, or Aindriu Conroy to give him his full name, releases a new double sided single & download on April 7th. Riding in on the wave of his well-received recent mini album ‘Close To Cotton’, these two new songs, one featuring a lovely duet with Sarahbeth Tucek, show exactly why the young 18 year old artist is building a very good name for himself.

Ain’s origins are in Kildare, Ireland but it was after moving to Dublin to form a band called The Opiates and a doomed idea of becoming the next Sonic Youth, that Ain decided to up sticks and head for London. Absorbing himself within a whole new world of sounds, the result has seen him emerge as his own man, an artist who’s creating off-kilter folk blues that evoke the deep south delta laments of Mississippi John Hurt, Walter Tangle Eye Jackson to the raw beauty of Will Oldham and the depraved solace of Elliott Smith.

‘Wanna Die Like Jesus’ explores the role of Jesus when worshipped as both man & God and the idea that life’s best moments are for when you’re six feet under. Maybe it’s not the case questions Ain in his spacious and absorbing delivery. ‘Buying Stars’ is a beautiful collaboration with the singer Sarahbeth Tucek. The two met last summer when she asked Ain to support her at a London show but he was still doing his exams and said no. But of course Ain still ended up going to the gig (subsequently failing his exams), which proved to be good judgement because the following evening, he joined Sarabeth for a late night drinking and singing session at the Columbia hotel. They hit it off, and on her next return to the country, Ain supported her. And then purely by chance they were both in Liam Watson’s Toerag Studios when Ain asked her if she’d sing on a new song he’d written the week before in Ireland. The result is the bewitching ‘Buying Stars’.

“Imagine a skinny white indie kid tackling the Delta blues of Mississippi John Hurt… Amazing.” NME

“Excellent listening for the bleak midwinter.” The Guardian

“Promising stuff, this.” Time Out Ain will be supporting the Danish singer Tina Dico on the following shows:

February Dates:
25th – Norwich, Arts Centre/26th – Cambridge, The Junction/29th – Milton Keynes, The Stables

March Dates:
1st – Bristol, Thekla/2nd – Birmingham, Glee Club/3rd – Manchester, Academy 3/4th – Nottingham, Maze/5th– London, Union Chapel 6th/– Brighton, Komedia 8th – Edinburgh, Voodoo

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11th March 2008 Tom Robinson BBC 6 MUSIC SESSION


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AIN: Live on RTE The View 05/02/07

Ain is from Kildare, Ireland. 
He came to Dublin as a teenager
Started a band with some friends, called The Opiates.

Fast forward a couple of years and the desire to be Thurston Moore has since subsided, to be replaced by a bevy of influences – the most rooted of which stem from the deep south delta blues of Mississippi John Hurt, Walter Tangle Eye Jackson and the like.
Imagine the haunting howls of Skip James on “Devil Got My Woman,” invoked today with all relevance in tact. 
This is the skewd folk-blues of Ain’s laments.

From the Delta blues and a host of other influences from My Bloody Valentine through Mazzy Star to Suicide, that Ain’s off-kilter, Folk-Blues emerged.
His song writing treads a path between the raw, beauty of Will Oldham and the depraved solace of Elliott Smith - “I like the idea of finding comfort in the appeal of bad things, depraved things… And it goes well with the themes of death, boredom and well…”.

Ain took his EKO guitar to London Town and earlier this summer, entered 2Khz Studio with Ian Grimble in West London and the result is the gloriously understated, six-track mini-album, 'Close To Cotton'.