Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell

Keith Wallace and Brian Kelly have been firm friends for over twenty years – and established artists in their own right on Galway’s music scene – but the decision to collaborate together on a recording project was only made in 2019.  Keith is best known for his work as Loner Deluxe and Brian for his indie rock outfit So Cow, with both acts falling under the umbrella of Keith’s long-running independent record label Rusted Rail.

You can link the pair’s solo catalogues in a handful of ways, but two of their most prominent shared features are undoubtedly an experimental writing style and a DIY ethos.

Both are again present on Moving Statues’ debut LP, You Look Like You’ve Seen a Ghost. The ideas for its twelve tracks were divided equally among the two songwriters, and sonically the record offers a cohesive and traceable blend of Brian and Keith’s individual sounds and styles.

Moving Statues are set to play a free gig in the Bierhaus next Thursday, March 16. It represents their second live set under this new moniker – and to some extent, it is a surprise that it’s taken so long for this act to emerge.

It can be dated back to the early 2000s, shortly after Keith had retired as station manager at Flirt FM, when he and Brian first met.

“I was a naïve nineteen-year-old who thought I could just walk into a radio station and that they’d probably give me a show,” Brian recalls.

“I think I’d been there a little while already, and there was a gig in the Róisín Dubh – Smog were playing. This is like 2001 maybe. I must have been there for a while because I was looking for the free press pass in and Keith was looking for that as well. We were both going for the one complimentary ticket that Flirt FM might get for the Smog gig… I knew Keith for about two or three years by the time I moved to Seoul.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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