Colm

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My name is Colm.

I grew up in Ireland.

I'm Irish.

I grew up in a little town called Macroom, kind of in the countryside outside of it.

really interesting place to grow up.

So much history and standing stones and ring forts.

It's really steeped in so much history and there's like such a strong energy there and it was really nice growing up there.

I really loved it but you know growing up in a small town and being interested in music was quite difficult so as soon as I could I started playing guitar and you know looked at music as a way maybe to get out and you know travel.

When I was 16, I started a band with my brother.

And yeah, we got signed pretty early on when I was 16 years old by Morrissey, which was really cool.

Basically, his mother got a copy of our demo, like our first demo that we ever made.

And Morrissey's mom loved, really loved our band.

And I think he was at home in Manchester and his mom was playing this rough demo by this Irish band.

And he just really liked it.

And he faxed us and said, hey, I really like your music, and I'd love to put one of your songs on this compilation for NME magazine.

It's called Songs to Save Your Life.

And it was wild.

We were 16, 17 years old.

And one of our songs was on this like compilation that Morrissey made.