Robert Ardiff

My good pal and longtime collaborator @eoin_heaney stuck this video together for a song of mine a few years back from a wonderfully grim Alan Clarke film entitles Road. I felt this video never got its proper day in the sun so I’m gonna just drop it here. If you get to the toilet at the end, jump over to YouTube to watch the rest of it or throw some 🔥 in the comments and I’ll upload the second half. #songofthesummer🔥🔥🔥 😂

Think meself and Bob @rob.mccom managed to catch a spark here. Just found this in the ether. Arrivederci

I’ve a new song called Lost and Found OUT NOW. Go to the bio. I decided a while ago to step away from the whole Album cycle malarchy and just do things at my own pace. Record the song, mix the song and then put it out. I often feel there’s a bit of pressure on artists to follow these tried and tested methods so I’ve stopped all of that and it’s been far more enjoyable. I make music because I love coming into my studio, getting into the flow and embracing the journey. I’m doing this primarily for myself and any rewards external to that are great and all but I keep reminding myself that it’s not the reason I do it. I love music and I love making it and any anything external to that is nice but the reward for me is doing the thing. So please go and give it a listen if you’re foot loose and fancy free and let me know what you think. It’s a story I wrote that I’ve turned into a song about a fella who follows his childhood sweetheart over to London to start a life together only for her to shack up with someone else and for him to come back to his own village in Ireland and to look back upon what might have been. It’s a narrative style song which was influenced partially by stuff that John Prine and Bruce Springsteen have done with their work. Let me know what you think. Big love to @lukejamesmurphymusic for his Lap Steel contribution. @hennessy_stephen for his wonderful artwork and @wolfhound.sound for his helping hand on the mix. Mastered by @ben.rawlins who was most accommodating as well and did a smashing job. Look after yerselves RJA

I’ve new music out in just under a week. Keep your eyes on the prize.

The last couple of weeks there now yep. Gimme a month and I’ll be back with ye. X

Thanks so much to everyone who came down to our show on Friday night and for being such an attentive audience. That was a special one. Thanks a million to @lilyysheehann on support and to @neil_murray_music @doublepe_music for playing with me. Shout out as well to @lukejamesmurphymusic and @conor.campbell.artist for the dig out. Couple of vids below. Thanks to @dericksmith2 for sending them over and finally thanks to @thebrickpicker for sending over a video of a lovely review of my show as heard on @radionova100 with @kiermacaonghusa and @emmawilliams_music . Rx

Last call for @whelanslive this Friday. @neil_murray_music @barrycutz and meself will be belting out some new and old tunes. Support from @lilyysheehann Doors at 8 Ticket link in bio

Happy Sunday folks. Here’s the full video for Small Talk We recommend you jump onto YouTube for a better experience but here it is on the smaller of small screens. Directed, edited and produced by @stevebattle Big love to Steve for doing this. We’ve known each other for nigh on 20 years now and been making art in some form or another together since. Here’s what he said about the making of the vid for those interested “Setting off on a 2 month trek around South east Asia in January I packed my camera to capture some moments along the way. When Robert contacted me I was in a hotel room on an island in Southern Cambodia unsure if I had enough footage to sustain a music video. I had captured much of Asian street life along the way but there was something about the dream like state of the night train that grabbed my focus. As I listened to Small Talk for the first time I was drawn to the rhythmic quality of Robert’s guitar picking and the expansive sound of the banjo which in my mind echoed the movement and chug of the train along the tracks, it’s almost hypnotic. I wanted the video to be simple but the intention was to try and capture a sense of movement and wonder. Each cut became a reflection of fleeting moments, where time seemed to stretch and bend, much like the seemingly endless tracks ahead. It seemed to sync perfectly with the ethereal melody of the song. In the end, you end up back where you started but hopefully something inside you has changed. Travel and music both possess an incredible ability to change a person in profound ways. And when we return home, the change is subtle, yet undeniable.”

My new song Small Talk is OUT NOW Many thanks to all the people involved in the making of it. This is the first song I’ve ever produced and mixed by myself so it was a joyous journey to take with a lot of learning along the way. Many thanks to @wolfhound.sound for all his guidance in respect of this. Banjo: @barrycutz Extra Guitar and Piano: @louise_gaffney Acoustic, Electric, drum, synths, charango and vocals by myself. Mastered by @ben.rawlins Artwork by @hennessy_stephen Pic 1 by @kellykellycampbell Video by @stevebattle Recorded, mixed and produced in @yellowdoormusicstudios Thanks to all the disc jockeys who’ve given it a spin on the radio thus far as well and all the kind folk who’ve written about it. Link in bio for all the details. Run it up Rx

Small Talk 4.4.25 Keep your eyes out for the video premiere on Thursday by the main man @stevebattle Tickets for my upcoming @whelanslive show in the bio. Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine Rx

My new single Small Talk comes out next Friday 4th of April. Here is the wonderful artwork by an old friend of mine @hennessy_stephen who I met when I was only a young lad busking on the streets of Barcelona. Go and follow his page if you like his work as much as I do. To celebrate the release of new music I will be playing a small intimate gig with my pals @neil_murray_music @barrycutz and with support by @lilyysheehann in Little Whelans on the 2nd of May. Tix for that in the bio. X

APRIL 4th sees the release of my new song SMALL TALK Set your alarms for the incoming vidjo by @stevebattle Here’s a still from it. Loads more news to follow, like a dripping tap that needs tightening. Rx