05/12/07
Spiritualized: Live at Museum of Fine Arts (Transform - excerpt)
Simple Kid (aka Ciaran McFeely of Cork City, Ireland) had the solo singer/acoustic guitar setup, but did a whole lot more with the format than some half-assed Dylan or Neil impersonation.
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05/12/07
Simple Kid Gets Simple on Album Number Two (First Coast News)
December 5, 2007After a draining touring schedule and what seemed like a non-stop work ethic for his debut album, Simple Kida aka Ciaran McFeely decided he wanted to get back to living his life rather
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03/12/07
Irish Rocker Spotlight (IrishRockers.com)
You'll find no shortage of diversity in Simple Kid's music too, from the Beckesque trippy electronic folk of 'Serotonin' to guitar and harmonica accompanied ballads like 'Old Domestic Cat' reminiscent of Neil Young in his prime, to banjo fuelled stomps like 'Self-help Book' to the creatively Led Zeppelin influenced rock of 'The TwentySomething'.
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26/10/07
Proust Questionnaire: Simple Kid (Galway Advertiser)
Which talent would you most like to have?
I played a show recently and someone thought I was doing ventriloquism on stage...if felt good to be though of as a master ventriloquist.
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06/10/07
Splashing Around With Simple Kid (Phillyist)
For thirty-five minutes, I sat on a loveseat in the dressing room of Ciaran McFeely, who performs under the moniker Simple Kid, and simply shot the proverbial ***.
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03/10/07
Kings of Leon, with Black Rebel Motorcycle and Simple Kid (Charlottesville's Newsweekly)
Popularity is related to visibility, right? Example: A majority of high schoolers have seen the homecoming queen, even if they don’t know her personally.
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01/10/07
Galway Nights (Galway First)
Simple Kid’s life changed when his brother turned him onto Led Zeppelin. It led the Corkonian to a career in music and the development of a very distinctive style.
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24/09/07
Band Rocked, But Few Rolled In (The Virginian-Pilot)
September 24, 2007Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rode its revved-up, guitar-driven brand of rock 'n' roll into The NorVa on Saturday night, but it must have seemed like a practice session for the
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20/09/07
Music: Keeping it Simple Kid (Washington Post Express)
Combining the work ethic of a flower child with the quirkiness of Beck, Simple Kid has created a squarely unique sound that's won over those crazy Brits.
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20/09/07
A Minimalist Approach (The Virginian Pilot)
The stage names that music artists choose can be silly (hello, Fall Out Boy), gimmicky (take the band called "!!!") or blessedly natural (Prince, Sade, Madonna). In the case of the Irish-born Ciaran MacFeely, the decision to go by Simple Kid was entirely fitting - a simple choice, you could say - given his minimalist approach to music and life.
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19/09/07
Simple Kid (The Village Voice)
Simple Kid, a/k/a Ciaran McFeely, is an Irish-born singer-songwriter churning out sunny and highly sing-a-longable ditties that evoke Donovan’s electric albums and Beck’s lo-fi fuzz-folk.
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17/09/07
Weekly Music Agenda (DCist)
Who needs deep elaborate album titles? Irish born Ciaran MacFeely (aka Simple Kid, pictured) has released the follow up to his debut album, 1, aptly and simply dubbed 2. Rolling Stone had this to say about the breaking artist...
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14/09/07
Club Hopping
The Irish-born artist (aka Ciaran McFeely) mixes folk and electronica. He performs solo, armed with guitar, banjo, harmonica, laptop and a screen for his visuals.
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14/09/07
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Simple Kid (NewCity Chicago)
September 14, 2007The Irish-born folksinger (born Ciaran MacFeely) takes a very personal approach to his live sets: in addition to the usual guitar and harmonica, he also carries a laptop which contains
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12/09/07
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club + Simple Kid (Time Out Chicago)
Fans of dreamy, classicist, slightly kooky Beatley tunecraft, should come early for Ciaran MacFeely, who records under the name Simple Kid. He performs solo, which is a bit of shame considering the layers of organ and banjo that make his albums such a gas.
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