“THEIR MUSIC IS ETHEREAL BUT SAINT SISTER ARE DOWN TO EARTH” THE TIMES UK
“THE THICK, EERIE ELECTRO-FOLK OF IRELAND’S SAINT SISTER, NOT SO MUCH HAUNTED AS DELICATELY POSSESSED” THE GUARDIAN
IT’S EASY TO GET LOST IN THE MINIMAL, CHASMIC, BUT BEAUTIFULLY ARRANGED SOUNDSCAPES” STEREOGUM
“DELICATE, FULL, DESPERATE VOCAL SHINE” ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
2021
Release of 10 track album film, created by Algorithm Productions., July 1st.
Release of second album, “Where I Should End”, June 24th.
Any Dreams? , single release: June 16th
Manchester Air, single release: May 25th.
Oh My God Oh Canada, single release: May 5th.
Album announcement and Karaoke Song, single release. March 24th.
2020
Release of “The Place That I Work” featuring Lisa Hannigan. Playlisted on RTE Radio 1, 200K steams on Spotify, played by Cillian Murphy on 6 Music.
Jameson partnership.
Other Voices: Courage performance with Crash Ensemble String Quartet.
Ruby Sessions stream with Lisa Hannigan.
ALBUM 2: Finished.
Keane support tour, 20 dates. North America.
“Dynamite” single released. 1.7 million streams.
Spotify: New Music Friday USA, UK, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, 新歌快遞, 新歌熱播, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Gulf, Levant, Egypt, The Other List and Woman of Folk. It's also in: Roots Rising, Boho + Chill and Fresh Folk. + Wild + Free.
Mexico City, Headline Show.
Private Performance for the President of Ireland and Greece.
SHAPE OF SILENCE - DEBUT ALBUM: October 2018
“BEAUTIFUL, ETHEREAL MUSIC” NPR
“GORGEOUS" BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
”BEAUTIFULLY SPELLBINDING WEE-HOURS COLLECTION OF SONGS THAT ARE VERY MUCH THEIR OWN” THE IRISH TIMES
“THEIR ASTUTE POP TOUCH SHUNTS THEM AHEAD OF CONTEMPORARIES” CLASH MAGAZINE
STREAMS TO DATE: 10 MILLION
Biography
Hailing from the north of Ireland, Morgan MacIntyre (Belfast) and Gemma Doherty (Derry) met in Dublin in 2014. Both had graduated from the same college that summer and stayed in the city to pursue music; MacIntyre was working in a bookshop and Doherty teaching harp and piano. They had known of each other, through mutual friends, but not well. Over the years, they watched each other play from afar, once competing against each other in a battle of the bands, and later singing different Gorillaz songs on the same night with their college orchestra.
Doherty studied music composition; a multi-instrumentalist, she had aspirations of becoming a film composer. Exposed to a mix of classical and traditional music as a young child, and later playing in Irish folk bands, she found herself becoming disillusioned with performing whilst studying composition. Towards the end of college she was drawn back to her first instrument, the harp, and rekindled a love for it through her experimentation with effects and electronics. Inspired by composers like Steve Reich, she began to create self-contained soundscapes with the harp at the centre.
By contrast, MacIntyre has always been a songwriter. As a child she developed an obsession with lyrics, spending her formative years stopping and starting her cassette player in order to transcribe the words to her favourite songs. Absorbing the prophetic words of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, she began writing herself, cutting her teeth on Belfast’s open mic circuit. In college, she released music under her own name and started to garner early recognition. Praise from Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody & Joan Armatrading established her as one to watch, but she soon became frustrated by the limitations of working alone and went in search of a collaborator.
Chatting over coffee it quickly became apparent that they were hoping to build something similar. Between Morgan’s lyrics and Gemma’s soundscapes, their voices met right in the middle. Having both moved to Dublin from the north at the same time, to find the same thing, their shared experience cemented their friendship. Their debut single ‘Madrid’ was written at the end of that summer, in a vacant student house. The EP of the same name was released a few months later and established them as one of Ireland’s most exciting new bands.
Built around mesmerising close-knit vocal harmonies, electro-acoustic harp and synthesisers, sonically they have been likened to Enya, Lisa Hannigan, Cocteau Twins. Their 2018 debut LP ‘Shape of Silence’ was met with critical acclaim and nominated for the Choice Music Prize and the Northern Irish Music Prize. They have toured extensively across the globe over the last few years on their own and in support of Hozier, Keane, and Lisa Hannigan. Some highlights include a stunning NPR Tiny Desk Concert, SXSW and Glastonbury.
Their latest release ‘Dynamite’ is the first of a new batch of self-produced tracks, recorded with Rían Trench in The Meadow, Co. Wicklow, and mixed in Berlin with Benedikt MacIsaac. More material will be released throughout the rest of 2020.
2019
Won: “Best Emerging Folk Act” at RTE Folk Awards.
NI Music Prize: Best Album nomination.
SOLD OUT: London, Omeara (300 tickets).
SOLD OUT: Dublin (2 nights at Pepper Canister, 600 TICKETS).
Irish tour: 1400 tickets sold.
All Together Now: Main Stain performance.
Forbidden Fruit festival (W/ Elbow & First Aid Kit).
BST Hyde Park show: Opened for Robbie Williams.
NPR Tiny Desk concert. Released July 10th.
New single: Is it too early? {Kilmainham}. 1.3 million streams to date.
USA tour w/ Henry Jamison: 20 cities.
Mahogany “Covers”, Eternal Flame, The bangles. 6.7 million streams to date.
2018
Collab with Kormac & Jafaris on Causing Trouble Remix.
Opened for Hozier across Europe.
North America: Headline tour, 10 cities.
AUSTRALIA Tour: Headline Tour, 3 cities.
EUROPE: Headline tour, 7 cities.
Sold out: London, Kings place (200 tickets).
UK: Headline Tour, 7 cities.
Olympia, Dublin (1000 tickets sold).
IRELAND: Headline Tour, 8 Cities.
James Vincent McMorrow: Remix of “You Never Call”.
3 Mobile SYNCH: “Made by Music campaign”.
SXSW: 4 showcases
SOLD OUT: DEBUT NYC SHOW IN NATIONAL SAWDUST (250 TICKETS).
Barbican SHOW (LONDON) / National Concert Hall (Dublin): Re-imagining Ireland concert.
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