Previously guitarist in the John Peel endorsed Revelino, Bren Berry has a new single out in
‘Come Alive‘ that’s been described as a big glowing earworm, a satellite of love bursting with grinning guitar riffs, glorious hooks and sun-kissed harmonies.
Berry wrote the song as far back as the summer of ’22, on his daughter Eve’s 21st birthday.“It’s about that magical feeling of a perfect day with friends and family – the sun’s shining, everyone’s in a great mood and loving being together, celebrating and listening to music,” he recalled. The song is a cinematic love song about family, friends, music and home. “I love that feeling of coming home, and feeling alive when you fly back into Dublin and you see the Poolbeg Towers and the city lights.”
The song was produced by Berry and Gavin Glass in Orphan Studios and mixed and mastered by Daniel James Goodwin in The Isokon, New York and Virginia. Berry and Glass are joined on the song by Binzer Brennan on drums & Gavin Fox on bass, plus backing vocals from The Raines’ Yvonne Tiernan, and Martin McCann & Gavin Fox from Sack.
‘Come Alive’ follows previous singles ‘Winter Song’, ‘Beautiful Losers’, ‘Hairpin Bends’ and the David Kitt remix of Beautiful Losers.
Bren Berry is a Dublin-based promoter who works for Aiken Promotions and programmes the iconic Vicar St venue. Previously guitarist in 90s band Revelino, who released three albums and received much critical acclaim if not the accompanying international success, an elusive dream for most Irish music at the time. However, in Oct 2020, the band self-released a remastered vinyl edition of their self-titled 1994 debut album that stirred much excitement and went straight to No 1 in the Irish Indie Charts.
Enthused by this enduring love shown for Revelino‘s music, guitarist/backing vocalist Bren Berry did something he hadn’t done in a very long time, dusting off his Rickenbacker and slowly beginning to channel his reflections into intimate songs.
“Songwriting has always been an elusive mystery to me and I could never find my own singing voice. On Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, rather than murdering one of his songs, I was hit by the idea that a more suitable way to honour the occasion would be to try, somehow, to finally crack the songwriting code. Something clicked and once that world opened up for me, the songs started to flow for me,” he said of his active return to music making.
