Dubbed one to watch in 2024 by the Irish Times and Irish Independent, slacker rock artist Ruth Mac releases her infectious, retro-inspired single ‘Tutti Frutti’ today, 20th March, 2024. The buoyant track is an ode to one of Mac’s longtime friends.
“The track was inspired by a prompt to reflect on a teenage friendship that’s had a lasting effect on you. Someone sprang to mind immediately! A lifelong friend that introduced me to bands that changed my musical course entirely, lent me my first electric and ‘engineered’ my first recording session on a janky 4-track in the living room above his family’s pub in Tuam,” Mac says.
She continues: “As a songwriter, there are some tracks that you toil over and tweak for months, even years, on end. Others just spill out immediately, as if from nowhere. The latter was true for ‘Tutti Frutti’. It practically wrote itself on a short flight from Dublin to London.”
Mac and co-producer / drummer Mark Glaister opted for an unfussy live recording of ‘Tutti Frutti’, and the result is a song steeped in nostalgia. Her collaborators Barra MacMahon (keys, vocals) and Nick Fox (bass) are also featured on the single, which was mastered by Katie Tavini (Arlo Parks, Pillow Queens, Bloc Party).
2023 was a watershed year for Mac; she played Ireland Music Week and headlined the Workman’s Cellar, as well as released her wistful single ‘Home from Home’. ‘Home from Home’ was dubbed the Galway Bay FM Track of the Week and enjoyed airplay on RTÉ Radio 1, Amazing Radio, Cork’s 96FM, Ocean FM, RTÉ 2XM, FM 104, Shannonside, Dublin City FM, and a number of other stations. Mac and her music have been featured by tastemakers at the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Nialler9, Paste Magazine, Buzz.ie, The Connacht Tribune, Entertainment.ie, Hot Press, RTE.ie, Essentially Pop, The Last Mixed Tape, GoldenPlec, and Postburnout.com.
Following the release of her debut EP Living Room in 2021 via Beth Shalom Records, Mac has brought her live show to Ireland, UK, and Germany, including support slots for synth-pop legends Hot Chip, Irish folk duo Ye Vagabonds, and English indie rockers The Big Moon.
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