Gemma Hayes

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Gemma Hayes (2008)
Gemma Hayes (2008)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Night on My Side
  UK 52 06/08/2002 (1 week)
  IE 8th 05/30/2002 (28 weeks)
The Roads Don't Love You
  UK 98 11/12/2005 (2 weeks)
  IE 13 03/11/2005 (11 weeks)
The Hollow of Morning
  IE 12 05/08/2008 (5 weeks)
Let it break
  IE 11 06/02/2011 (4 weeks)
Bones + Longing
  IE 38 11/20/2014 (3 weeks)
Singles
4:35 AM
  IE 37 07/12/2001 (2 weeks)
Hanging around
  UK 62 05/25/2002 (2 weeks)
  IE 50 05/23/2002 (1 week)
Let a good thing go
  UK 54 08/10/2002 (2 weeks)
Lay Lady Lay (with magnet)
  UK 79 04/30/2004 (1 week)
Undercover
  UK 60 03/18/2006 (1 week)
  IE 38 03/09/2006 (1 week)
Making My Way Back
  IE 83 11/13/2014 (2 weeks)

Gemma Hayes (born August 11, 1977 in Ballyporeen , County Tipperary ) is an Irish singer-songwriter . She has released four albums, which are mainly attributable to alternative rock and folk .

Live and act

Gemma Hayes grew up as one of seven siblings in a musical family in Ballyporeen. She got piano lessons and taught herself to play the guitar. She first attended a boarding school and then the University of Dublin . Hayes, who had been involved in music and writing poetry since school, dropped out after a while and instead concentrated on a career as a musician. She performed solo in Dublin nightclubs and made a living working in a laundromat. After putting a band together, she was able to sign a contract with the French indie label Source Records, a subsidiary of EMI , in 2001 . In the same year her first EP was released 4.35am with pop / rock pieces.

Another EP followed in May 2002 Hayes' debut album, Night On My Side . It was created in collaboration with her then-boyfriend Dave Odlum, among other things, in the Dublin rock band The Frames played, and Dave Fridman, bass player for Mercury Rev . The album contains elements of the music genres shoegazing and noise rock , plus folk and some pop. It was particularly successful in Ireland, where it reached number 8 on the charts. It also reached number 52 in the UK album charts. It received critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize . Commercially, however, it wasn't a great success. Immediately after the release of Night On My Side , Hayes went on tour with the album, including through Germany, where she appeared at Rock am Ring and the Orange Blossom Special Festival .

In the following two years, Hayes largely withdrew from the music business. However, she wrote the song Hazy for Counting Crows live album New Amsterdam together with Adam Duritz . Duritz, for his part, later referred to Hayes in the song Washington Square on the album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (2008) by texting "I wandered the highways from Dublin to Berkeley and I heard the songbirds of Ballyporeen". Hayes, who suffered from writer's block on her follow-up album , retired to Ventry . After she finally conceived the album in its main features, she went to Los Angeles to find co-musicians and record it.

In 2005 Hayes' second album The Roads Don't Love You was released in coproduction with Joey Waronker , among others drummers with Beck and REM. The musicians Smokey Hormel ( Tom Waits ) and Josh Klinghoffer as well as the violin player were also on the rather pop-oriented record Lisa Germano involved. The released single Undercover , written by Hayes and co-author Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. of Jellyfish , placed 38th in the Irish and 60th in the UK charts. With this success and number 13 in the Irish album charts, the album was relatively successful, but Source canceled Hayes' record deal the following year.

In 2006 Hayes received a Meteor Ireland Music Award in the Best Irish Female category.

Hayes released her next two albums under her own label Gemma Hayes . She first brought out The Hollow Of Morning in 2008 , which she recorded with Dave Odlum within a year. In addition, were Kevin Shields as a guest guitarist, Paul Noonan ( Bell X1 ) on drums and Joe Chester involved as a background singer. Musically, The Hollow Of Morning was based more on Hayes' debut album with its original guitar sound. It reached number 12 on the Irish album charts.

After living in Los Angeles for four years, where The Hollow Of Morning was made, Hayes returned to Ireland in 2010. Her fourth album Let It Break was released here in 2011 . It was written in France and Dublin, again in collaboration with David Odlum and Paul Noonan as a background singer. In addition to rock, folk and pop, electronic elements can be found for the first time . This album also made it to the Irish charts and reached number 11.

In addition to her albums and concerts, Hayes also works in the film and advertising industries. She was involved in the soundtrack of several television series such as Grey's Anatomy , One Tree Hill and The Vampire Diaries and composed music for advertising spots for the brands adidas , Gap and Hershey’s .

Discography

Gemma Hayes at the ATP Minehead 2009

Albums

  • 2002: Night on My Side (album)
  • 2005: The Roads Don't Love You (album)
  • 2008: The Hollow of Morning (album)
  • 2011: Let It Break (Album)
  • 2014: Night & Day (Limited Live Album)
  • 2014: Bones + Longing (album)

EPs

  • 2001: 4.35am (EP)
  • 2001: Work to a Calm (EP)
  • 2003: Back of My Head (EP)
  • 2003: Hanging Around (EP)
  • 2003: Let a Good Thing Go (EP)
  • 2009: Oliver (EP)

Singles

  • 2005: Happy Sad (CD single)
  • 2005: Happy Sad (7 "single)
  • 2005: Undercover (CD single)
  • 2008: Out of Our Hands (CD single)
  • 2014: Making My Way Back
  • 2015: Counting Down The Days (feat. Above & Beyond)

Web links

Commons : Gemma Hayes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  2. Charts UK
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  4. a b c d Gemma Hayes, biography allmusic.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  5. LAUT.de review Night On My Side laut.de. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  6. Top 75 Artist Album, Week ending 6 June chart-track.co.uk. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  7. ^ Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side chartarchive.org. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  8. ^ Gemma Hayes Night On My Side mercuryprize.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  9. Gemma Hayes ringrocker.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
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  11. ^ Gemma Hayes, indie singer / songwriter, The Village on Thursday, the 6th of July. corkuniversitypress.typepad.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  12. ^ Meteor Ireland Music Awards Past Winners meteor.ie. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  13. The Hollow Of Morning allmusic.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  14. Gemma Hayes - The Hollow Of Morning acharts.us. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
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  16. Let It Break ' allmusic.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  17. ^ Gemma Hayes - Let It Breakacharts.us. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  18. Kirsty Mccormack: 'I don't know how to write an impersonal song' Gemma Hayes reveals why she hopes her new album will "stir peoples emotions" In: Daily Mail October 11, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2013.