James Vincent McMorrow
James Vincent McMorrow
James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish singer and songwriter. He is best known for his albums Early in the Morning and Post Tropical...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 January 1983
CountryIreland
couple heart play
You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
attention deficit distracted
I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.
aspect certain function
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
water quiet grew
I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.
memories children tape
I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.
I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.
growing-up thinking car
I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.
ambitious want mediocre
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
together natural feels
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
hands needs sometimes
Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.
bothers music people recreate trying
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?
anybody guitars knowledge passing played safe shops
I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.
claim dad elvis family fan kid loves mum parties sing stuff time
My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.
home learned listened normally singers stayed three
I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.