Lisa Hannigan's Seaside Vacation Makes for Intimate Video Setting

Posted on Mar 18th 2009 6:30PM by Scott Tomford
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Best known stateside for her collaborations with Damien Rice, singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan is one of Ireland's national treasures. Since releasing her debut album, 'Sea Sew,' in her native country last year, she's been showered with many Irish music awards. Fans can expect similar acclaim and success for Hannigan now that the album got its U.S. release last month via ATO Records. As Hannigan explained to Spinner, she recently shot several intimate videos for 'Sea Sew' songs around Ireland's beautiful Dingle Peninsula:

"We recorded these videos while on a holiday of sorts in the middle of our Irish tour. As luck would have it, our two Kerry gigs fell at the beginning and end of the week, leaving us five days to spend in Dingle. The band and some of our families rented a house on the main street of the town, a fishing village on the west coast of Ireland.

"I'd asked Donal Dineen, a wonderful DJ, filmmaker and Kerry native, to meet us there and make a video for 'Lille' during the week. We spent a day at his beachside caravan doing some filming and decided to just play the song live and record it on one tiny microphone. We had so much fun at it that we spent the next few days doing the same with different tunes in various places around the town -- Dick Mack's, the side of a mountain, a tree. I still haven't seen them all."

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