Similar to the Friends page, this is a brief collection of odds and ends of Hozier news.
(Check out the previous quarter: Q4 2016.)
March 2017
Ah lovely new work from @StonefaceFilms and @MickFlannery, filmed in Dublin and The Burren <3 ! https://t.co/XeHj9kg8GB
— Hozier (@Hozier) March 31, 2017
Can my coffin be a giant boombox? You can start the march with this one if'n you please. https://t.co/gjk8w0bwTQ
— Hozier (@Hozier) March 25, 2017
The @Spotify Global Funk playlist has some fine bangers. Some of this really walks around with the lad on show 👌https://t.co/f1W1zpNpnv
— Hozier (@Hozier) March 23, 2017
Thoughts are with the people of London today and their indelible spirit.
— Hozier (@Hozier) March 23, 2017
Woah there. pic.twitter.com/1g9UhMo2am
— Hozier (@Hozier) March 19, 2017
Mar 19: Take Me To Church was a featured song in a contemporary ballet piece danced by Denise McCormack & Ryan McShane on Dancing With The Stars on RTE.
Amazing letter from Carl Sagan to Chuck Berry. Via the wonderful @lettersofnote. pic.twitter.com/pRAWCc14wX
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 19, 2017
Mar 17: Happy Birthday Hozier!
.@Hozier Wishing you the very happiest of birthdays and we hope that you are enjoying your birthday parade. https://t.co/K9UdiHOj40
— Hozier's Guitars (@HoziersGuitars) March 17, 2017
Mar 10: San Francisco-based non-profit, Bread and Roses, announced via Facebook that Hozier will be playing an intimate acoustic set at their fundraiser on May 18. The show will take place at the Great American Music Hall (600 capacity). Fundraising tickets are $125 to $350 and are available here.
From the organization’s website:
Bread and Roses Presents brings hope, healing and joy through live music to those who are isolated in a variety of institutions in eight counties around the Bay Area. Founded in 1974 by the late singer-songwriter/guitarist Mimi Fariña, the nonprofit organization presents over 600 free live concerts a year in over 120 facilities to 34,000 audience members. Nearly two-thirds of its programs are hosted by volunteers.
Mar 8: Hozier took part in the #Strike4Repeal march that took place in Dublin as part of International Women’s Day.
#Strike4Repeal #InternationalWomensDay @IMP_HOUR @AnaCosgrave @stephenbyrne @Shobsy1995 @SiobhraQuinlan @Hozier @lucymwatmough pic.twitter.com/d0VbllTDLS
— IMP HOUR (@IMP_HOUR) March 9, 2017
Mar 4: A fitting passage in light of recent Irish news.
from Heaney's "Kinship" pic.twitter.com/aNSihY4xr1
— Hozier (@Hozier) March 4, 2017
Mar 3: Hozier’s tour ended one year ago today.
February 2017
Feb 24: Hozier gives a shout to Gypsies on the Autobahn on the release of their debut album.
Congratulations and fair flipping play to @GypsiesOTA on their debut album, Born Brief. Great work. https://t.co/UoqY1F1ZpP
— Hozier (@Hozier) February 24, 2017
Feb 22: The discovery of 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting a single star was great news.
This makes me ridiculously happy. https://t.co/Wg6nOrSmz9
— Hozier (@Hozier) February 22, 2017
"Finding a second Earth is not just a matter of IF but WHEN" – @NASA on 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting single star https://t.co/1gzCf0x21u pic.twitter.com/fWRsY1HCto
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) February 22, 2017
Happy Birthday, Nina Simone. https://t.co/CxX7C4gXUW
— Hozier (@Hozier) February 22, 2017
Feb 18: Mourning the loss of Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown’s legendary drummer, renowned for a solo on Funky Drummer that was “sampled on over 1,000 songs and served as the backbeat for countless hip-hop tracks.”
RIP Clyde Stubblefield, who created the hip-hop breakbeat, defined funky drumming, cold sweating, obscene soul, and everything else. pic.twitter.com/yfRr4uWUph
— Otto Von Biz Markie (@Passionweiss) February 18, 2017
Feb 14: Sadsacks get some love.
https://t.co/xue6tvVT4E
<3 <3 <3 Happy Valentine's Day, Sadsacks! <3 <3 <3— Hozier (@Hozier) February 14, 2017
Feb 11: James Corden spoke to the LA Times about his favourite Grammy performances, citing Hozier & Annie Lennox from 2015 and calling it a “master class”. Turns out, he’s a Hozier fan. “I’m telling you, he’s the real deal. You need to listen.”
For the sake of productivity & general well being, gonna take a break from the 140 character doom-window. Portal to pure spiders. Much love
— Hozier (@Hozier) February 1, 2017
January 2017
Jan 23: Forbes included Better Love on its top 10 picks for Best Original Song at the Oscars. “While The Legend Of Tarzan wasn’t necessarily a critical favorite, one song from the film stands out as a must-hear.” (Jan 24: Better Love was not included on the list of nominations.)
Take Me To Church is #1 on the iTunes chart in Uzbekistan.
Jan 21: Hozier had a message of solidarity for those who were marching in Ireland and around the world that he posted to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Jan 19: Sergei Polunin, who famously danced ballet to Take Me To Church, will be doing it again live on March 2. The event will be live streamed to cinemas in the UK to coincide with the premiere of the biopic, Dancer. The video of the original performance was released in February 2015 and has nearly 18 million views on YouTube.
Jan 18: Ben Affleck talks about using Arsonist’s Lullabye in his new movie, Live By Night.
Jan 16: 3.5 years after its release in Ireland, Take Me To Church is #3 on Ukraine’s iTunes chart.
Jan 11: Hozier took part in the panel discussion on feminism at IMP Hour, an event created by Faye O’Rourke and Susannah Appleby. (A wrap-up post on the event will be forthcoming. ~HG)
.@Hozier "of course I'm a feminist!"- speaking at #IMPHour in Dublin this evening. pic.twitter.com/10VwnGfFqa
— Beat 102 103 (@beat102103) January 11, 2017
Jan 5: Hozier’s most played Spotify songs of 2016 puzzled even him.
This is a nice Spotify feature… Wondering what kinda buzz a lad must've been on crawling into his tour bunk listening to J Alfred Prufrock pic.twitter.com/w9ltrKQh4R
— Hozier (@Hozier) January 6, 2017
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Featured image: Hot Charts, Sergei Polunin by David Lachapelle, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Dara Munnis for IMP Hour
Good to see what Andrew is up to. Waiting in anticipation for the new music ❤️🇨🇦