Ciaran Lavery: Momentum
Support to self-release Ciaran Lavery’s fourth album, ‘Plz Stay, bb’
This award will enable Ciaran fund and implement a full self-release of Ciaran’s fourth album, ‘Plz Stay, bb’ as well as facilitate the live dates to support the album.
‘Plz Stay, bb’ was born out of a period of personal and professional turmoil. Ciaran was nearing the end of delivering his last album, 2018’s Sweet Decay, and it had been a difficult process. It was then that he started to write again, and the beguiling single “October”, with its dreamy electronica and soft vocals, was the song to kick start his new album.
Having grown up in Aghagallon in Northern Ireland’s County Antrim, Ciaran wanted to break free from the preconceptions surrounding Irish singer-songwriters. With Plz Stay, bb he pushed himself, while retaining the distinctive warm vocals and finger-picked guitar of his previous releases that have been nominated for and won the Northern Ireland Music Prize (2016’s Let Bad In).