Watch: Kean Kavanagh’s new video ‘The Whistle’ featuring Peter McGann
Kean Kavanagh has released a new song ‘The Whistle’, a followup to his recent Midlands-centric tune ‘The Portlaoise Queen’.
It’s Kavanagh’s first original since 2023’s Wrestling Music EP. The video stars funnyman Peter McGann, who recently MC’d Junior Brother live shows.
“‘The Whistle’ is a song about the tricks that the mind can play on you when looking back on the death of a relationship – ‘if I could only have them, I’d need or want for nothing else’. I think this type of reminiscing can be an easy salve for people – they can place all of their hopes and dreams of salvation on this one person who’s ever so slightly out of reach rather than truly mourning them, moving on and owning your own life, good, bad and all.”
Kean.
Watch the vide also shot in Portlaoise and directed by Kojaque and Rob Bass.
The video follows the local Elvis riding high on the back of his team’s big win, piled onto a bus full of half-cut heroes.
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About Kean Kavanagh
Kean Kavanagh is a story-teller with a strong imagination who set out his stall as both a singer-songwriter and world creator in 2020, with the release of his acclaimed project Dog Person here. In what turned out to be a big year for him, 2020 also saw Kean make an appearance on the Everything Is Recorded project FRIDAY FOREVER here, (curated by Richard Russell of XL Recordings) alongside Aitch, Flohio, Maria Somerville, Ghostface Killah and others, aligning himself with a tastemaker and hotly tipped selection of musical peers.
Alongside his own rise, Soft Boy Records, founded in 2015, morphed into a cultural behemoth of its own, gripping the Irish music scene and becoming subject of a Boiler Room (here) documentary about the label and collective. With his co-founder Kojaque, Kean has found himself sharing stages with names such as Loyle Carner and Lana Del Ray, performing solo-slots opening for Maverick Sabre and Vampire Weekend, currently settled in London, Kean’s career leaves a strong mark and highlights his unique place in Irish music.
