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will be released on the label this week, but the label has already has a measure of suc- oe It released an EP for Lanzarote based ska band Seven Stars Riot Squad (SSRS) earlier this year which broke into the official Canary Island record charts top 10. Indeed the label was created on the
Spanish island where Meteor Prize winning Gallagher had been play- ing since the break-up of the Revs.
Mr Logue was unavailable for comment yesterday but Gallagher said he was looking forward to the album release.
“T was playing a few gigs in pubs out there when I met Alan. He came up to me after a gig and asked about the original songs. We ended up chatting for ages about it and he said he’d like to get involved in some way, said Gallagher.
“It was as simple as that really. I found myself there six months later as the co-owner of a small indie record label about to release my own album.
“T think it’s very much a team project. I obviously value Alan’s Opinion – he was the one who gave me that lift in confidence after the
Revs by saying that he wanted to get involved in my music, which nobody had said to me in awhile.”
The former Revs front man plays the Burren College of Art in Bal- lyvaughan this Thursday as part of the album launch tour. Despite it be- ing early days for the label there has already been discussion of releasing old atosmr-lolebeehe
“I respect him a lot. He told me that he didn’t know anything about chords but he really liked the songs. So it was great to get that kind of perspective from him. The great thing is that he knows that if the musicians are happy creatively then everything ticks away nicely,” con- tinued Rory.
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