Ryan O'Reilly (singer-songwriter)

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Ryan O'Reilly (born 1986 ) is a British singer-songwriter with Irish roots. He currently lives in Berlin .

life and work

O'Reilly has Irish parents but grew up in Southampton , England. He started playing the guitar at the age of 10. As a teenager, he first performed his musical creations on the open microphone in Toronto. Together with some other musician friends he was a street artist in London for a while . After he could be heard with his songs in various live shows in Europe and had gained a certain popularity in 2014 with his “Sofa Concerts” in Berlin , several radio stations also played. B. his songs from the 2015 EP Sometimes Things Just Happen . This led to his name being included in the SWR3's "pop dictionary".

In 2016 O'Reilly signed a record deal with Qatar's indie label "DNA Records". After his European tour with Lissie and his England tour with King Charles , which took place in the winter of 2016, he released his first studio album The Northern Line , which was recommended by Stern as "Music Tip of the Week". In November and December 2016, the singer performed with the Canadian rock band Arkells . In 2017, accompanied by the female folk trio The O'Pears from Toronto, he started his international church tour through Great Britain, Sweden and Germany.

O'Reilly also wrote songs for other musicians like Toronto singer Jadea Kelly .

Musical style

O'Reilly is known as a brilliant storyteller. The poetry of his songs is characterized by a special symbolism and black humor, whereby he is not afraid to reveal his own fears and openly express even unpleasant truths. His music is influenced by classic Americana , Irish folk and Heartland Rock . According to kontakt (Bamberg) his songs are inspired by Joe Strummer , Bob Dylan and Gillian Welch . His fragile, rough voice is underlined by the puristic instrumentation. The London Evening Standard wrote that the “Ryan O'Reilly Band”, which includes Tyler Kyte and David Granshaw, is the perfect counterbalance to “production line pop”. When O'Reilly played live with his band, people would be addressed through passion and poetics.

Discography

  • Live At The Half Moon - 2009
  • Emily EP - 2010
  • The Blighted Apple - 2011
  • Live In The Studio EP - 2011
  • Live At Saint Pancras Old Church - 2012
  • Portobello Road EP - 2013
  • Northern Lights EP (DNA RECORDS) - 2014
  • Sometimes Things Just Happen EP (DNA RECORDS) - 2015
  • The Northern Line (DNA RECORDS) - 2016
  • I Can't Stand The Sound (DNA / CARGO) - 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Ryan O'Reilly releases debut album 'The Northern Line' and new video”, Diffus: Online magazine for music , May 9, 2016.
  2. ^ Burdock Show: Ryan O'Reilly.
  3. Jump up ↑ Last.fm: The Ryan O'Reilly Band: Biography.
  4. ↑ Markus Hesselmann, “Sofa Concerts in the Photo Studio: Concert series from Prenzlauer Berg comes back to life in the Bavarian Quarter” , Der Tagesspiegel , July 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ Trinity Music and PRIVATE CLUB Berlin: Ryan O'Reilly + Qveen Elizabeth, Berlin
  6. ↑ Music: Pop Lexicon: Ryan O'Reilly , SWR3 .
  7. ↑ Musicglue: Ryan O'Reilly
  8. ↑ Gigging NI, The Home of Music in Northern Ireland: REVIEW: Lissie & Ryan O'Reilly - Limelight 2, Belfast, December 5, 2015.
  9. ↑ KING CHARLES + RYAN O'REILLY, Engine Rooms, Southampton, February 13, 2016.
  10. ^ Design Ensemble: Ryan O'Reilly.
  11. ↑ “Music Tip of the Week: Ryan O'Reilly with 'November'”, Stern , May 31, 2016.
  12. ↑ Ullrich Maurer, “Concert review: Partytime: Arkells, Ryan O'Reilly”, Cologne, Luxor, Gaesteliste.de: Internet music magazine , November 27, 2016.
  13. ↑ “Things to do in London: Arkells, Ryan O'Reilly”, Spoonfed , November 29, 2016. ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spoonfed.co.uk
  14. ↑ EnglandEvents: Glasgow: Arkells + Ryan O'Reilly / 2.12.16 / Broadcast.
  15. ↑ Evangelical Dean's Office Rodgau: Concert with Ryan O'Reilly, March 14, 2017, Hanau / Steinheim.
  16. ↑ RYAN O'REILLY + The O'Pears, One Church, Brighton, UK, April 5 2017th
  17. ↑ Kerry Doole, “Jadea Kelly: Love & Lust”, exclaim! , June 1, 2016.
  18. ↑ “Brilliant 'storyteller'” , La Vanguardia , Barcelona, ​​2016.
  19. ↑ “Bergfest Spezial on August 31st with Ryan O'Reilly & Margaret Glaspy”, FluxFM: Die Alternative im Radio , 2016.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Burdock Show: Ryan O'Reilly, April 16, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fluxfm.de  
  20. ↑ Prime Entertainment: "RYAN O'REILLY".
  21. ↑ “Live Music: Ryan O'Reilly (London, UK)” , contact , Bamberg, 2015.
  22. ↑ Sladers Yard: House of Trees with Ryan O'Reilly January 25

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personal data
SURNAME O'Reilly, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer-songwriter with Irish roots
DATE OF BIRTH 1986