Emerging Irish singer songwriter Nív releases haunting new single ‘Mitchell’s Blue’

Nív is a singer songwriter hailing from Kildare, based in Dublin. Last year Nív was awarded the prestigious ‘Dermot Kennedy BIMM Scholarship’ and is now releasing her debut four track EP ‘Writer’s Block’ with its first single ‘God Knows’ released on the 7th of March to a SOLD OUT Single Launch in Whelan’s Dublin. 

Nív has performed at festivals like Brigid 2025, Vantastival and Electric Picnic and venues like The Sugar Club and the Workman’s Club.  She is due to play the Main Stage at Lovestock 2025 this summer. Nív has gained over 49k Spotify streams and 25k new listeners across 73 countries.

Nív’s career has seen many successes and achievements so far. She was musical guest on Ray Darcy’s Mixtape Special with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra alongside Declan O’Rourke, Sexy Tadhg, Tolu Makay, Megan Nic Ruairí and Séamus Harty. Her song “Silly Voices’ was also featured on the RTÉ Radio 1 Recommend’s List and she was interviewed on RTÉ Entertainment for her latest release. Nív has been featured on Hot Press Magazine for track of the day and premiered her single ‘Moonlight’ on their website. 

In 2022, Nív was also awarded a Fulbright scholarship and spent the year using her music to spread Irish culture in North Carolina and across the United States.

Nív takes inspiration from Róisín O, Damien Rice, The Cranberries, Aurora and Joni Mitchell with influences from Irish traditional folk.

ABOUT THE TRACK

‘Mitchell’s Blue’ is a song about a missed opportunity of love and delves into the regret and nostalgia that often comes with it. The song uses Joni Mitchell’s most famous album ‘Blue’ to describe the memory that still lingers in the narrator’s mind of someone they loved but didn’t see or understand it at the time.

 It is a soft rock/folk pop ballad that uses its instrumentation to echo the building emotions in the lyrics and story of the song. The song was produced by Matt Winston with guitar from Stephen Doohan. 

“I was sitting at my piano one day, trying to look for inspiration. My Mam had bought me this beautiful book of Joni Mitchell’s songs, poetry and art and I had it sitting on top of my piano. I looked through this book and then started playing and ‘Mitchell’s Blue’ came out.”

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