International rock-trio Dirty Power have today released ‘A Million Miles Away’, the first cover track and fourth single from Dirty Power’s forthcoming EP ‘Gravitas’. Following on from ‘I Did My Time’, ‘Said And Done’ and ‘Farewell’, which over the past 2 months have garnered over 30,000 streams / views, their latest offering celebrates the legacy of Rory Gallagher: https://li.sten.to/DPmillionmiles
“After years of touring with Celtic Rockers Young Dubliners, they urged me to at least tip the cap with respect to the Irish music I grew up on. But they advised not to do so in a tokenistic way, by just thoughtlessly adding some diddly diddly trad tunes to our set, if it wasn’t going to be the real deal and mean something to us. Which song? “When you know, you’ll know” they said. “It should fit with the Dirty Power sounds”…
Thin Lizzy? Already rock. Metallica also did it. Not much to add there. U2? Not sure it converts to DP. Folk tunes? Maybe, but which?… Rory? Yes. I listened to and played his tunes so much. Slash and Brian May never stop singin his praises. ‘A Million Miles Away’ is a timeless blues rock jam, that never got the RATM & Nirvana treatment, so let’s go!
As luck would have it, I met Rory’s surviving brother at an event in Prague ages ago… His approval that Rory would have enjoyed our version and his reminder that Cobain had a strong blues base that came through in our tribute version meant an awful lot.
Since Rory went with shots of his adopted home, Cork City, in his video for ‘A Million Miles Away’, I replied with shots of West Cork spots I know well from childhood and still go to all the time, along with Bantry’s legendary, one and only Ma Muryphys, where the craic and legacy run deep. Credit and huge thanks to Keven Siegert for the scenery and pub footage.” – Brendan
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/hFpJI3Vt0BQ
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Late 2023 to early 2024 sees the release of Dirty Power’s singles from the new EP ‘Gravitas’. The five tracks (three originals and two covers) are an ‘alternative acoustic rock & metal’ return to personal, cultural and musical roots, following the band’s previous hard-hitting EP – ‘Notions’ (which was recorded in London).
Driven by the individual and collective circumstances before and during the Covid pandemic lockdowns, ‘Gravitas’ is a chapter in Dirty Power’s (otherwise heavy and distorted rock) music, akin to Nirvana’s ‘Unplugged In New York’, or Metallica’s ‘S&M’, as more of an intimate and subtle expression of potent and redemptive subjects – those life lessons that come from the disillusionment of notions; the impact of being confronted with, and ultimately assimilating, gravitas.
Though not recorded in front of a live audience, ‘Gravitas’ was recorded live in the band frontman’s pirate ancestor’s castle, in Baltimore, on the South-West coast of Ireland. That was made possible by bringing onboard recording-, mixing- and mastering-engineers who all had worked recently with the most exciting band to come out of Ireland since Thin Lizzy – ‘The Scratch’. That audio production, combined with live filming of the performances and behind the scenes footage, by the cameraman who filmed The Rubber Bandits’ ‘Horse Outside’, made for a complete, once-in-a-lifetime capturing of this badly-needed return to roots and reclaiming of perspective during that difficult time.
The thematic story arc across the three original tracks is further expressed in the videos, with original anime having been made specially, to convey the feelings with a comfort and familiarity similar to watching Saturday morning cartoons. Watch the first video ‘I Did My Time’: https://youtu.be/CC6PQYh3JYQ – the second video ‘Said And Done’: https://youtu.be/9JebjRnmAh0 – and the third, ‘Farewell’: https://youtu.be/16frH1SLC0Y
The two covers at the end of the EP serve as an after-party of sorts, celebrating the legacy and ongoing impact of two highly influential songs of Irish origin, neither of which have ever been given such a respectful, heavy-rocking conversion treatment.
Watch / Stream ‘A MILLION MILES AWAY‘ at: https://li.sten.to/DPmillionmiles
