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im seeing her a week from friday! 
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Where? I'm seeing her in Porto ^^
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new york city!
#110 she looks phenomenal!
When I watched the Gareth Pugh Spring 2009 Style.com vodcast I was hoping to see Róisín interviewed by Tim Blanks, and even though he didn't when I saw that specific dress that she ended up wearing to the Dior show come down the runway I immediately thought 'that one looks made for Rósín!'.
How very typical of her to rise above and beyond my expectations.
When I watched the Gareth Pugh Spring 2009 Style.com vodcast I was hoping to see Róisín interviewed by Tim Blanks, and even though he didn't when I saw that specific dress that she ended up wearing to the Dior show come down the runway I immediately thought 'that one looks made for Rósín!'.
How very typical of her to rise above and beyond my expectations.
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she was on frock me tonight on channel 4 - anyone catch it?
id love to see some clips/screencaps!
id love to see some clips/screencaps!
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I can't understand how is it possible that I hadn't appeared here yet, as I'm a huuuge Róisín's fan! 
A few days ago I attendted to her concert for the second time in my life and she was as amazing and stunningly wonderful as always! 
I love her so much, she's such a talented artist with a wonderful style and ideas for her performances 
A few days ago I attendted to her concert for the second time in my life and she was as amazing and stunningly wonderful as always! I love her so much, she's such a talented artist with a wonderful style and ideas for her performances Northern Star
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^^Me too mackos
but I didn't realise she had a thread
She is so cool it's untrue.B) When she was with Moloko she appeared on a UK show in a 1970's disco jumpsuit and even made that look cool.
Her latest album it just amazing too.
Does anyone know if she is doing Fashion Rocks this year????
but I didn't realise she had a threadShe is so cool it's untrue.B) When she was with Moloko she appeared on a UK show in a 1970's disco jumpsuit and even made that look cool.
Her latest album it just amazing too.
Does anyone know if she is doing Fashion Rocks this year????
^she really is cool. i dunno if it was an article on here or elsewhere but i read that when she was growing up in manchester she shaved her hair off and wore all of these crazy costumes to the rave clubs....it's where she became interested in that house/disco sound that permeates overpowered.
as far as her taste now,i said before,i became instantly enamoured with her since i saw she was the only artist/musician other than belgian els pynoo(vive la fête)that was wearing bruno pieters....in his early years when no one knew much about him unless you were completely obsessed. it's clear she's genuinely interested in not fashion but design.
as far as her taste now,i said before,i became instantly enamoured with her since i saw she was the only artist/musician other than belgian els pynoo(vive la fête)that was wearing bruno pieters....in his early years when no one knew much about him unless you were completely obsessed. it's clear she's genuinely interested in not fashion but design.
Roisin Murphy: I’m no R'N'R cliche...
Her latest album has been hailed as the pop dance album of the year and now Roisin Murphy has America in her sights. She talks fashion, fame... and camogie with Eamon Sweeney
Friday November 28 2008
The notoriously fickle business of breaking America is a pop star's holy grail, not to mention a potentially lucrative meal ticket. A few years ago, a disillusioned Robbie Williams famously packed in the Transatlantic slogs to hawk his wares. Meanwhile, people who couldn't get arrested on this side of the pond, such as London pomp-rockers Bush, inexplicably became enormous. A recent jaunt by Arctic Monkeys was said to have “bounced off rather than broke” the United States. Even gargantuan rock behemoths like U2 and David Bowie struggled for years on loss-making tours before hitting the jackpot with a vengeance.
It's impossible to say if Arklow-born pop chanteuse Roísín Murphy is going to crack the States, but you can be sure that she's going to have fun trying. By all accounts, she comprehensively stole the show from under the noses of every generic guitar band in town at this year's CMJ Music Marathon in New York, as her eye-popping pantomime of sound and vision enthralled the music, style and popular press alike.
The week before she took Manhattan, Roisín was a part of a unique once-in-alifetime collaboration with the New Silver Cornet Band in Tennessee – a blues-rock troupe formed by the whiskey creator Jack Daniels himself. In recent years, the tipple beloved by tattooed rockers everywhere has hosted exclusive performances by the likes of Elbow and the Flaming Lips to celebrate Jack's birthday.
This year, Ash's Tim Wheeler, former Stranglers man Hugh Cornwall and Young Knives geek rocker Thomas Dartnall are all onboard alongside Roísín, making for a curious meeting of musical minds on a hill overlooking the famous distillery in Lynchburg, a so-called official ‘city' in a dry county that has one set of traffic lights. Nobody really knows what to expect, least of all the artists who've rehearsed for a grand total of an hour and half. “It'll be seat of our pants stuff, but we're all old pros by now,” Roísín laughs.
Seasoned pro that she is, Roísín croons her way through the theme song from The Wire, Down in the Hole, and a slick version of Bryan Ferry's Slave to Love, soon to be featured on a advert for Gucci starring James Franco. A frankly bizarre but brilliant version of Baby I'm Scared of You by gospel pop vets Womack & Womack also features.
She dedicates Scarlet Ribbons, a song from her most recent album Overpowered, to her father Micky Murphy. Then, Tim Wheeler plays Running Back by Thin Lizzy and the night climaxes with a mass sing-along on Gloria by Them. Even in this famous backwater of Tennessee, the heart and soul of the party is most definitely Irish.
Roísín is far from being a nobody in America. “But I'm certainly not a household name,” she reflects. “I think I'm swimming out there somewhere in the ether. Strangely, my song Ramalama, which I always thought was just a totally weird song, is the one that people are making up funny dances to and posting on YouTube.”
Of course, Roísín is as revered for her sense of style as she is for her music. Kanye West is a big fan of her outlandish outfits and Irish Independent fashion blogger Angela Scanlan recently revealed, “She's been my girl crush forever.”
Murphy is a firm believer in having as much fun with her look as possible. “All the fashion stuff is a performance,” she says. “It shouldn't be taken too seriously even though it is an art form in itself. It's quite a big job to style myself as richly as I do, but it's a story and it's a story I'm just beginning to tell.”
Once somewhat derogatorily dubbed a “fashion junkie”, it's an accusation she laughs off. “OK, I've done interviews where I've got dressed up because that's what I like to do,” she counters. “So they'll start their write up saying, ‘Roísín Murphy is looking me and up and down’. Look, I couldn't care less! I'm certainly not judgmental. I don't show up looking like a rock ‘n' roll cliché because that doesn't interest me.”
When Roísín released Overpowered last year, it was hailed in America as the finest European pop dance album of the year. In the UK, one enthusiast claimed it was the best grown-up pop record since Madonna's Ray of Light, remarking: “I hope Ireland doesn't get too offended if Britain comes to its senses and recognises Roísín Murphy as a National Treasure.”
“I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days,” Murphy muses. “Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music. Now, they see the name Roísín Murphy and there isn't much more I can be! I like people to use the fadas, but sure I can't sue them if they don't! People always say to me, “Do you feel Irish?” Are you out of your mind? It's like saying does this chair feel green! It's not a question for me. It's exactly what I am and I'm not anything else.”
The former camogie player who “put out a few teeth in my time” tries to keep tabs on what's happening in her homeland. “In the last year I've been a bit more like my Mum and Dad, watching the news and reading the paper all the time,” she says, “but I can't claim to know much about Irish politics. Actually, I met Bertie Ahern the other day at an awards ceremony in London. When I come to Ireland, I go straight down to where I'm from. Arklow is very different now. It's three times the size and behind where I was brought up there is a huge shopping mall. I feel blessed as a child that I could go wherever I liked. It's not like that anymore.”
Murphy is looking forward to her Irish tour kicking off next Monday. “When you do have a great gig at home it's amazing,” she enthuses. “But it's complicated because home is many places – Dublin, Manchester, Sheffield and London are all hometowns for me in that they're all nightmare guestlists.”
After concluding the tour, she'll resume work on her third album in 2009, intending to work with nu-jazz innovator Seiji again who gave Overpowered its “sleepy, synthesized feel”. Murphy can see more narrative creeping into her work, from the songs themselves to the theatrical stage shows. The bottom line is that like this peculiar weekend in Tennessee, it's going to be a lot of fun.
“Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle,” she concludes. “I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn't work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling on anything. I spent £125,000 on four pictures for the sleeves for Overpowered and I loved spending it! It was like making a little movie. Ambition can get you freedom.
“While I'm obsessed with my work, I've kept myself far away from the machinations of the industry. I find it weird when artists know the name of the accountant in the record company – I haven't got time for any of that! I loved it when Morrissey said that he knows record labels rip you off, but he's an artist who likes to be institutionalised! I'm not sure if I'm that dogmatic about it, but I think I could find all sorts of ways of funding my fantasies.”
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and the spelt her name wrong in there when they were talking about the fadas, it's Róisín
Her latest album has been hailed as the pop dance album of the year and now Roisin Murphy has America in her sights. She talks fashion, fame... and camogie with Eamon Sweeney
Friday November 28 2008
The notoriously fickle business of breaking America is a pop star's holy grail, not to mention a potentially lucrative meal ticket. A few years ago, a disillusioned Robbie Williams famously packed in the Transatlantic slogs to hawk his wares. Meanwhile, people who couldn't get arrested on this side of the pond, such as London pomp-rockers Bush, inexplicably became enormous. A recent jaunt by Arctic Monkeys was said to have “bounced off rather than broke” the United States. Even gargantuan rock behemoths like U2 and David Bowie struggled for years on loss-making tours before hitting the jackpot with a vengeance.
It's impossible to say if Arklow-born pop chanteuse Roísín Murphy is going to crack the States, but you can be sure that she's going to have fun trying. By all accounts, she comprehensively stole the show from under the noses of every generic guitar band in town at this year's CMJ Music Marathon in New York, as her eye-popping pantomime of sound and vision enthralled the music, style and popular press alike.
The week before she took Manhattan, Roisín was a part of a unique once-in-alifetime collaboration with the New Silver Cornet Band in Tennessee – a blues-rock troupe formed by the whiskey creator Jack Daniels himself. In recent years, the tipple beloved by tattooed rockers everywhere has hosted exclusive performances by the likes of Elbow and the Flaming Lips to celebrate Jack's birthday.
This year, Ash's Tim Wheeler, former Stranglers man Hugh Cornwall and Young Knives geek rocker Thomas Dartnall are all onboard alongside Roísín, making for a curious meeting of musical minds on a hill overlooking the famous distillery in Lynchburg, a so-called official ‘city' in a dry county that has one set of traffic lights. Nobody really knows what to expect, least of all the artists who've rehearsed for a grand total of an hour and half. “It'll be seat of our pants stuff, but we're all old pros by now,” Roísín laughs.
Seasoned pro that she is, Roísín croons her way through the theme song from The Wire, Down in the Hole, and a slick version of Bryan Ferry's Slave to Love, soon to be featured on a advert for Gucci starring James Franco. A frankly bizarre but brilliant version of Baby I'm Scared of You by gospel pop vets Womack & Womack also features.
She dedicates Scarlet Ribbons, a song from her most recent album Overpowered, to her father Micky Murphy. Then, Tim Wheeler plays Running Back by Thin Lizzy and the night climaxes with a mass sing-along on Gloria by Them. Even in this famous backwater of Tennessee, the heart and soul of the party is most definitely Irish.
Roísín is far from being a nobody in America. “But I'm certainly not a household name,” she reflects. “I think I'm swimming out there somewhere in the ether. Strangely, my song Ramalama, which I always thought was just a totally weird song, is the one that people are making up funny dances to and posting on YouTube.”
Of course, Roísín is as revered for her sense of style as she is for her music. Kanye West is a big fan of her outlandish outfits and Irish Independent fashion blogger Angela Scanlan recently revealed, “She's been my girl crush forever.”
Murphy is a firm believer in having as much fun with her look as possible. “All the fashion stuff is a performance,” she says. “It shouldn't be taken too seriously even though it is an art form in itself. It's quite a big job to style myself as richly as I do, but it's a story and it's a story I'm just beginning to tell.”
Once somewhat derogatorily dubbed a “fashion junkie”, it's an accusation she laughs off. “OK, I've done interviews where I've got dressed up because that's what I like to do,” she counters. “So they'll start their write up saying, ‘Roísín Murphy is looking me and up and down’. Look, I couldn't care less! I'm certainly not judgmental. I don't show up looking like a rock ‘n' roll cliché because that doesn't interest me.”
When Roísín released Overpowered last year, it was hailed in America as the finest European pop dance album of the year. In the UK, one enthusiast claimed it was the best grown-up pop record since Madonna's Ray of Light, remarking: “I hope Ireland doesn't get too offended if Britain comes to its senses and recognises Roísín Murphy as a National Treasure.”
“I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days,” Murphy muses. “Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music. Now, they see the name Roísín Murphy and there isn't much more I can be! I like people to use the fadas, but sure I can't sue them if they don't! People always say to me, “Do you feel Irish?” Are you out of your mind? It's like saying does this chair feel green! It's not a question for me. It's exactly what I am and I'm not anything else.”
The former camogie player who “put out a few teeth in my time” tries to keep tabs on what's happening in her homeland. “In the last year I've been a bit more like my Mum and Dad, watching the news and reading the paper all the time,” she says, “but I can't claim to know much about Irish politics. Actually, I met Bertie Ahern the other day at an awards ceremony in London. When I come to Ireland, I go straight down to where I'm from. Arklow is very different now. It's three times the size and behind where I was brought up there is a huge shopping mall. I feel blessed as a child that I could go wherever I liked. It's not like that anymore.”
Murphy is looking forward to her Irish tour kicking off next Monday. “When you do have a great gig at home it's amazing,” she enthuses. “But it's complicated because home is many places – Dublin, Manchester, Sheffield and London are all hometowns for me in that they're all nightmare guestlists.”
After concluding the tour, she'll resume work on her third album in 2009, intending to work with nu-jazz innovator Seiji again who gave Overpowered its “sleepy, synthesized feel”. Murphy can see more narrative creeping into her work, from the songs themselves to the theatrical stage shows. The bottom line is that like this peculiar weekend in Tennessee, it's going to be a lot of fun.
“Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle,” she concludes. “I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn't work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling on anything. I spent £125,000 on four pictures for the sleeves for Overpowered and I loved spending it! It was like making a little movie. Ambition can get you freedom.
“While I'm obsessed with my work, I've kept myself far away from the machinations of the industry. I find it weird when artists know the name of the accountant in the record company – I haven't got time for any of that! I loved it when Morrissey said that he knows record labels rip you off, but he's an artist who likes to be institutionalised! I'm not sure if I'm that dogmatic about it, but I think I could find all sorts of ways of funding my fantasies.”
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and the spelt her name wrong in there when they were talking about the fadas, it's Róisín
btw,i dunno if anybody got hold of any of the singles with the b-sides but i just wanted to tell you if you haven't heard it,pandora.....fab tune! i like it better than most on the actual album,actually. and this gorgeous cover of roxy music's slave to love.....another fine example of how a cover should be done.
ps. speaking of róisín's covers....on youtube there is a vid from a performance she did on the programme transmission....effin fantastic cover of the gossip's standing in the way of control! i wish i could find an mp3 version for my library to listen to all the time.
ps. speaking of róisín's covers....on youtube there is a vid from a performance she did on the programme transmission....effin fantastic cover of the gossip's standing in the way of control! i wish i could find an mp3 version for my library to listen to all the time.
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Tell me about it, this song is wonderful!
While I can't stand the original, I fell in love with Róisín's version! I can upload it if someone wants.Oh, and yesterday my friend sent me this one called Never Enough and it's wonderful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgzVn4kLvsQ&feature=related
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I fell in love with Róisín's version!
yes, yes please! i would love that. its been stuck in my head since the show in belgium popped up & has been streaming on her website. what an amazing performance!
such memories of nyc!
& scott she'll be coming back in march for a more extensive US tour & atlanta is one of her stops as is SXSW! i know you had siad that SXSW was one of the only way you got to see frapp so perhaps you will get the chance to see her after all!
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ALSO;
"Hosted by two of the coolest cats in the styling business, Kabir and Leo Belicha, Roisin Murphy's end of tour party boasted a celeb-packed guest list like no other.
Held at Soho's Bureau Private Members club, the place was transformed into an atmospherically red boudoir, suitably in keeping with Murphy's tour vibe. Cocktails courtesy of sponsors Ciroc Vodka and a punch named after a track from her current Overpowered album were passed between guests until the early hours of the morning.
All eyes were on London's most fashion-forward crowd and It girl Pixie Geldof, musician Patrick Wolf, US actress Mischa Barton and designer Gemma Slack didn't disappoint with their choice of what to wear. Pixie sported a platinum elfin crop and Roisin Murphy herself lived up to her quirky reputation by wearing a mini baby doll dress with purple graphic print by Armand Basi.
Dj sets from Jerry Bouthier, Seiji and Mr and Mrs Smith kept guests entertained and dancing around their handbags, or in Roisin Murphy's case; her stylist's fox headpiece."
from myfashionlife.com
"Hosted by two of the coolest cats in the styling business, Kabir and Leo Belicha, Roisin Murphy's end of tour party boasted a celeb-packed guest list like no other.
Held at Soho's Bureau Private Members club, the place was transformed into an atmospherically red boudoir, suitably in keeping with Murphy's tour vibe. Cocktails courtesy of sponsors Ciroc Vodka and a punch named after a track from her current Overpowered album were passed between guests until the early hours of the morning.
All eyes were on London's most fashion-forward crowd and It girl Pixie Geldof, musician Patrick Wolf, US actress Mischa Barton and designer Gemma Slack didn't disappoint with their choice of what to wear. Pixie sported a platinum elfin crop and Roisin Murphy herself lived up to her quirky reputation by wearing a mini baby doll dress with purple graphic print by Armand Basi.
Dj sets from Jerry Bouthier, Seiji and Mr and Mrs Smith kept guests entertained and dancing around their handbags, or in Roisin Murphy's case; her stylist's fox headpiece."
from myfashionlife.com
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ps, did i tell you all she grabbed my hand twice??!!! at the mansion show?
& she sang forever more to me, looking straight into my eyes.
what an amazing woman she is!
& she sang forever more to me, looking straight into my eyes.
what an amazing woman she is!
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ps, did i tell you all she grabbed my hand twice??!!! at the mansion show?
& she sang forever more to me, looking straight into my eyes.
what an amazing woman she is!
I think there's no need of saying how lucky you are and how jealous I am!
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She wears the COOLEST pieces. Viktor&Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela, Givenchy Haute Couture etc etc
I consider her a contemporary Bjork, in the sense that she takes risks and wears the more 'show' pieces regardless of public pressure.
I consider her a contemporary Bjork, in the sense that she takes risks and wears the more 'show' pieces regardless of public pressure.
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Not only am I fan of Queen Roisin, I recently covered her in a "Style Profile" for Interview Magazine's online fashion section. Enjoy! 
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/fashion/2008-12-12/fashion-in-profile-roisin-murphy/
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/fashion/2008-12-12/fashion-in-profile-roisin-murphy/
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lovely article, shirleebee!
