Dan Hegarty – The Alternative – Sessions Archive: Engine Alley (1990) & Kynsy (2021)

Kilkenny’s Engine Alley were and are one of the finest bands to come from the island that we call Ireland. This Fanning Session was recorded a year before the release of their debut album ‘A Sonic Holiday’, which included wonderfully crafted alt pop tunes like ‘Mrs Winder’ ‘Infamy’ and ‘Diamond Jill & Crazy Jane’. The album would go on to win Best Irish Album Smithwicks / Hot Press Awards the following year. 

Kynsy was one of 2fm’s Rising artists in 2019, and since then she’s released to well the received singles ‘Cold Blue Light’ and Happiness Isn’t A Fixed State’, both of which feature on her debut EP ‘Things That Don’t Exist. In the lead up to the EP’s release, she recorded this Home Session for Dan