Janet Devlin - Away with the Fairies (Official Music Video)

Janet Devlin – Away with the Fairies

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Producer, Director, Editor: Katia Ganfield
Assistant Director: Will Shears
Director of Photography: Kitt Maverick Sullivan
Gaffer: Richard Osborne
Focus Puller/1st AC: Pat Tyson
Loader/2nd AC: Jon Weston
Steadi Cam: Michael Vega
Make Up Artist: Becky Howie
Grade: Darren Mostyn / Online Creative

With thanks to Camera Movement, Feral Equipment Hire, Max Wright

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I’m in ribbons again
Can you help me my friend?
I’ve been searching for my mind
But I can’t seem to find it
No matter where I’ve wandered

Two sheets to the wind
I’ll set sail from my sin
And I’ll journey through the night Into the darkness
Into the black and into the forests

Grant me wings tonight
Grant me wings to raise me high
Grant me wings tonight
Grant me wings so I can fly

I’m away with the fairies
I’ll be a moonbeam child
I’m away with the fairies
I’ll be the banshee cry
Stop howling, stop howling
Stop howling out my name
I’m away with the fairies
I’m away, I’m away, away again

There’s a bottle of ghosts
And the horror it hosts
I’ve been hiding under tables
Drowning in the fables
A coffin in a cradle

Grant me wings tonight
Grant me wings to raise me high
Grant me wing tonight
Grant me wings so I can fly

I call it a blessing
You call it a curse
My soul is confessing
My life in a verse

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Janet Devlin’s new fairy-tale folk-pop song brings light to shade, and follows three dark, defiant releases leading up to her eagerly-anticipated studio album Confessional, available June 5th 2020.

Dipped in mandolin, bodhran and cello, with a fluttery piano riff and lilting melody, the track – written by Janet about disconnected, out of body moments – strikes a comforting, familiar tone and returns the singer-songwriter to the sounds of her Irish roots. The addition of a harp brings a mystical, ethereal feel to the song, “To me, nothing says fairies quite like the sound of the harp,” says Janet. From the age of six, Janet was fully immersed in the sounds of home, playing tin-whistle and fiddle in a local cèilidh band. “My collection of trad music CDs, tapes and vinyl of music from the likes of The Fureys and The Dubliners alongside listening to the radio with my grandmother are influences that I brought to this track and throughout the album.”

In this new single, the fourth admission from her collection of confessions, Janet explores the mind’s ability to disassociate with its surroundings – to be ‘away with the fairies’ – a personal reality that stemmed from her struggle to survive hidden addictions. The carefree nature of the track is at odds with the story at its heart; whimsical verses juxtaposed against a life that was anything but. She explains;

“I wrote this song about the rose-tinted glasses of youth, or more accurately – the beer goggles. I wanted the track to embody the happygo-lucky spirit of drinking in your teenage years. How you can purchase a cheap elixir from the local corner shop that’ll remove all social anxiety and inhibitions, and in those days, all seemingly without consequence.”

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