- Music
- 25 Jun 21
McMorrow, Lee and Curley's new single aims to highlight the destruction of dance venues in Dublin.
James Vincent McMorrow has announced a new project and single with Otherkin's David Anthony Curley and Cody Lee taking aim at Ireland's persistent housing crisis.
Going by the name Co-Living Culture, the trio have released their first single in the form of addictive dance track 'Renegador'.
The single and project are part of an effort to highlight the housing crisis and the destruction of venues in Dublin and around the country, and the lack of spaces available in the city for a song like this to be played.
"Renegador started out as an incredible amount of fun in the studio one day," the trio said.
"The more we worked on the song, the more we talked about places in Dublin where you might hear a record like this being played. Honestly, we struggled to come up with any. In the last 5 years so much has changed, we are of the opinion that cultural and art spaces are the beating heart of a city, but so many of them have been taken away and replaced with structures that aren't meant for those who occupy the city at all."
"Musicians will always figure it out, how to make music, how to play it live. This song is meant as a love letter to that idea. It's a love letter to the pure unbridled joy that only music can bring, to dance culture, to 90's house music, to flicking through stations in the car as a kid until an absolute banger comes on, and then turning it all the way up so everyone on the street could hear what you were playing, could hear what the music said about you," the new outfit add.
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"Music is culture. Culture lasts forever."
McMorrow has long been vocal of the issues surrounding the shrinking venue space and night-life locations in Dublin, and recently played a 500-person pilot test gig outdoors at the Iveagh Gardens.
'Renegador' is released on Faction Music Group's newest imprint Lost Decay. Stream it below here.