Martin McGuigan – unleashes infectious new single ‘Confessions of an Idle Mind’

Martin McGuigan…..  AKA The Rockerfella… A dashing, debonair, mystical raconteur who seeks world domination and a decent haircut by Tuesday lunchtime, with his wondrous, lysergic lullabies and psychedelic sonic cyclones in (mostly)4/4 time.

That’s the quick-fire blurb, here’s a little “About Me” in microcosm: 

Martin is an Irish singer-songwriter, hailing from Co.Down who exists primarily in a 1960s themed House of Mirrors, in which Lennon, McCartney, Dylan, Hendrix and Bowie have been my landlords. 

McGuigan has travelled all over Europe with his music and has played hundreds of gigs and at festivals throughout this time. He has released three self-written songs on Spotify, Itunes, Amazon and all Good, Bad and Ugly streaming services near you! He has played live acoustic sets of original material on radio pretty often.

Martin McGuigan is now hoping to take 2025 by storm with a string of releases that he hopes will get him into big press and radio outlets in Ireland and overseas as he sets out to build his momentum.

Confessions Of An Idle Mind embodies the impermanence and ethereal nature of youthful invulnerability. It’s ostensibly a trippy party type scenario where you meet all these glorious, fantastical people that you only ever meet when you’re 19 and 20. 
The age of wonderment and awe, where your friends are everything and we think they’ll last forever and that we’ll always be 19! 
It’s partially cynical/partly wistful as now the narrator doesn’t have these types of experiences anymore and he literally feels like his “doors are closing”, he’s actually even getting a little nostalgic for that annoying, ‘Jay from The Inbetweeners’ type friend.

Some explanation on the track:
“Think too muchBut not enough…”
This is kinda how we reduce ourselves to over-thinking, small-talk and stressing over the little things, but maybe sleep-walk and be a little passive about the major life choices. 

“Corroded by the trash TV Corrupted by the Thought PoliceThey’ll never give us amnesty.”
Reality TV was the social media of the day and the start of what Martin saw as a vacuous, dumbing down on intellectualism and independent thought or dissent, a monster that soon morphed and multiplied into Social media.
So “Fast N’ Furious, Days of Speed” is a bit of a drug wordplay whilst referring to the film franchise and the brilliant Weller Days Of Speed Live album.

“Chinese whispers and that heresy…” is the classic small-town gossiping and character assassinating that gets amplified by drugs and alcohol at a party. It’s also Martin outside a party trying to reassure myself that those sort of people are wretches, don’t take all their shit to heart and be so fragile.
McGuigan hopes that this track breakthroughs into Irish media outlets nationwide and overseas and sets the foundationof a strong 2025 ahead for this emerging artist.

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