Aaron Corcoran aka Skinner drops a second single of the year, ahead of a forthcoming EP release on Faction Records.
After the scene-setting no wave ‘New Wave Vaudeville’, Skinner returns with a recording of a live favourite in the form of a short and sharp take on the Irish traditional children’s song ‘I’ll Tell My Ma’.
Gainfully twisting the playground song into a more foreboding take, Skinner’s ‘Tell My Ma’ is a blistering 86 seconds of punk-rock no-wave saxophone discordant noise turning the innocent sentiment of the song on its head for a 21st century aggravated reckoning.
Watch the video by Conor Beegan.
“I wrote this as a spin off to the old Irish folk song for children “I’ll Tell My Ma”. I remember my Mam used to sing it to me when I was a child and it’s always stuck with me as a kind of comfort song. I think as you get older it’s funny how things you think are innocent as a child take on a more sinister meaning when you read into them as an adult. Lyrically I think the original folk song hasn’t particularly aged too well in terms of relevance to gender equality or what is now deemed as acceptable in society so I wanted to take the lyrics and recycle them by screaming and shouting them in anger and protest instead of the jovial way the song is usually sung.”
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Declaration Of Interest – I’m Skinner’s artist manager.
