underground

" I came across the work of Emer Martin in a copy of Stinging Fly magazine that a friend left in my flat on a winter evening in 2011. Leafing through the contents I was struck by the title “going underground” in the novel extracts section as I had previously made a film about the Dublin punk rock scene of the 90s called “The Stars Are Underground”. Reading the character’s monologue in my kitchen I realised I was speaking it out loud, caught up in the rhythm. The words felt like an anger cheat-sheet and a dark history lesson and I immediately decided to put it to music ”. Daragh McCarthy 2015