In A Week: March 6 to March 12, 2016

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In A Week is our look back at Hozier highlights and happenings from the previous week.

News

The Walking Dead

Arsonist’s Lullabye was featured in the March 6 episode of The Walking Dead.

The exposure led to a considerable bump in the number of people talking about Arsonist’s Lullabye, wondering what it was called and downloading it. The song was released on the Bonus Track edition of the album, and on the From Eden EP.

As HITS Daily Double reported on March 10:

HOZIER’S ZOMBIE ATTACK

In no time, the track—found on the Columbia artist’s 2014 From Eden EP—quickly became one of the most Shazamed ever, with north of 175k total Shazams worldwide.

UPDATE: Billboard reported that Arsonist’s Lullabye received 195,000 queries, breaking Shazam’s record and putting the song on three Billboard charts.

There was a sneak peak last July when Arsonist’s Lullabye opened the The Walking Dead Season 6 trailer released at Comicon.

Live Inspiration

This 3 minute audio clip tells the story of how Jenny Benjamin discovered Hozier’s music which inspired her to start going to concerts at the age of 59.

Awesome Pursuits

Author Diana Bunici interviewed Hozier at the Xmas Ball last December and her book, The Pursuit of Awesome, was launched last week  as a “positive, motivational read for anyone with a dream.”

And my last book interview is done!!Gentleman through and through ☺️ #hozier

A photo posted by Diana Bunici (@diana.bunici) on

Appearances

For his first week post-tour, Hozier kept pretty busy with three appearances on Friday and one on Saturday.

Cherry Wine at Áras an Uachtaráin

Hozier was invited by President Michael D. Higgins to sing Cherry Wine as part of the #HeForShe and #ManUp campaigns for gender equality and his own #FaceUpToDomesticViolence campaign.

Read the full coverage of the event in the Journal.ie.

The Irish Times Women’s Podcast has a very interesting interview with President Higgins from 41:09 and the full Hozier performance with great audio from 59:35.

The Great Escape Twitter Q&A

Hozier did a Twitter Q&A Session with The Great Escape Festival on Friday just before his appearance on The Late Late Show. Our full coverage:

The Great Escape Twitter Q&A

The Late Late Show

Hozier performed Cherry Wine and was interviewed on The Late Late Show. With fortunate timing, Little Green Cars also performed their single Easier Day (see their section below.)

The full interview is available on the RTÉ Player until April 10.

It had been over a year since Hozier’s last appearance on The Late Late Show. View the performance of Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene, an interview and an intimate acoustic excerpt of Take Me To Church, until April 8 on RTÉ Player.

Activist Festival

On Saturday, Trinity College Student Union and The Phil welcomed Hozier to the Activist Festival for a Q&A session and to present him with the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage.

Full coverage in the University Times.

 

 

While we’re on the topic of causes, we were pleased to see Hozier supporting the ONE campaign Poverty is Sexist. This petition launched on International Women’s Day and calls upon world leaders to support gender equality measures as girls and women living in extreme poverty are often hit hardest by the injustice of gender inequality. Add your name in support.

Poverty is Sexist

Interviews

This interview from Istanbul, the last city on Hozier’s tour, was published in both Turkish and English last week.

Also released this past week, Xavier Darcy catches up with Hozier at the Paladium in Cologne / Köln before the show on February 21.

Life

Happy International Women’s Day!

Readjusting to normal life:

Winning at life. Remembering how to assemble a meal 💪🏻 #igotthis #posttourspazdisorder #winning #instafood

A photo posted by Alana Hart-Henderson. (@lanihendy) on

I made it home to my sweetie nephew, Noah. Ahhh, time stopped when I met him. 😍🐥 #noahryanlampa #lampababy

A photo posted by Rachael Lampa (@rachaellampa) on

#fbf flashback to this photoshoot from my first EP years ago #music #musician

A photo posted by Mia Fitz Music (@miafitzmusic) on

Just restrung this lad and he's sound rrrrrrrrrrather nice. #bass #skjolddesign

A photo posted by Alex Ryan (@ajax_ryan) on

Friends

Wyvern Lingo

Karen, Saoirse and Caoimhe shot a live version of Beast at the Door for Press Record TV.

Saint Sister

Morgan & Gemma are off to their first US shows in Austin, Texas for the big industry discovery conference, SXSW Music. They also received a fantastic review (in French) last week of their recent show in Paris.

Little Green Cars

It was a big week for Little Green Cars as their long-awaited second album, Ephemera, was released on Friday.

Adam O’Regan wrote a poignant piece on the inspiration for some of the songs and growing older as a band.

They recorded superb stripped down versions of The Song they Play Every Night  and Easier Day for RedBull.com.

Little Green Cars made a quick trip north to Belfast to record a session with BBC’s Across the Line. They performed You Versus Me, The Garden of Death and Easier Day. Listen from 12:30 on BBC iPlayer until April 4.

Appearing on the same episode as Hozier, Little Green Cars performed Easier Day on The Late Late Show last Friday night.

Look for Little Green Cars performing March 18 and 19 at Whelan’s in Dublin.

BARQ

Jess Kavanagh sang with Hozier before he released his first EP, and then sang backing vocals for him on his first US dates. She’s got a list of singing credits as long as your arm, but now she’s got her own band called BARQ and she’s stepped up front and centre on vocals. Hear the full interview from 33:25, and the exclusive preview of their first single, Gentle Kind of Lies at 49:00.

Stoneface Films

Stoneface Films saw the release of the video they produced for Hermitage Green released this week.

Jon Hozier-Byrne was featured in a recent Lovin Dublin video showcasing Irish talent.

 

 

Conor Walsh

Conor was a brilliant minimalist piano and electro acoustic composer. He opened for Hozier on three occasions: At the Pav, Cork/December 21, 2013; Source Arts Centre, Thurles/December 29, 2013; Royal Theatre, Waterford/January 11, 2014.

Conor performed at Other Voices and just this past autumn released his first EP on Ensemble Music, co-founded by Hozier friends and Trinity Orchestra alumni, Rob Kearns and Rob Farhat.

This is a heartfelt tribute from the Irish Times.

Conor made beautiful, subtle music that we are sad to have only discovered on the occasion of his passing. Rest in peace Conor.

 

 

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Featured photo: University Times

The Great Escape Twitter Q&A
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