Corner Boys
They bonded over their love for Radiohead and originally featured the word ‘camogie’ in their name. You could say We Cut Corners are an indie band with a difference.
Roisin Dwyer, 16 Nov 2011
“I remember seeing John in the college cafeteria and he was playing ‘High And Dry’ by Radiohead on the guitar and I thought, I wouldn’t mind having a chat to that guy!” laughs Conall O’Breachain. “In our college most people were football fans and not many were into music!”
And so We Cut Corners were born.
Since winning the JD Set in 2009, the guitar and drum duo have played with Joan As Policewoman, Villagers and Two Door Cinema Club amongst others and have become a regular fixture on the domestic gig circuit. As the release of the highly-anticipated long-player Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards on Delphi approaches, we sit down to discuss the whys and the wherefores.
The fateful meeting in their teacher training college led to one of the most compelling creative partnerships of recent years. The band’s songs, which veer from the bombastic, passionate and explosive to the gut-wrenchingly tender, create soundscapes of such complexity and depth that one forgets the band comprises only of a guitarist and drummer (O Breachain takes the lion’s share of lead vocal duties, but Duignan also contributes).
The pair bonded over a mutual love of Ryan Adams, who was their creative muse during the early days.
“We obsessively tried to start writing like him and be an alt. country band playing two guitars,” explains John. “We wrote like that for years and at some stage I suppose we realised we could never do it as well as he did! By the time the JD Set rolled around we were thinking, we can’t do this anymore.”
And so the act in their current guise were born, although they were trading as “Camogie Lovers” early on.
“Camogie Lovers was just a dumb name! Perhaps our current moniker reflects self-mockingly that we do everything very slowly!” laughs Conall.
The JD Set created an impetus and the band vowed to play as many gigs as possible, notching up an impressive slew of shows including the aforementioned support slot to Joan As Policewoman.
“We messaged her on MySpace and asked if she needed someone to open her Dublin show, and she got back to us!” says John.
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