Fionn Regan

Infobox musical artist

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Born = Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
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Instrument = Guitar, Harmonica
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Genre = Folk,
Occupation = Singer-songwriter
Years_active = 2002-
Label = Bella Union, Lost Highway Records
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Fionn Regan is an Irish singer-songwriter, poet and artist from Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Overview

Regan's first releases were the single, "Little Miss Drunk", and three EPs titled "Hotel Room", "Reservior" and "Campaign Button", which were released on a small indie label, Anvil Records [http://www.anvilrecordingco.com/] . Following these releases, in 2006, Regan signed to former Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde's independent record label, Bella Union, in the UK, resulting in Regan's debut album "The End of History" being released on 7 August 2006. Following the success of this, Regan was subsequently signed by American label, Lost Highway Records. "The End of History" was released in the US on July 10th, 2007.

"The End of History" was produced by Regan himself (mixing the album with Simon Raymonde). Mojo magazine gave the album four stars in a review that dubbed the disc "a debut that oozes rare confidence, startling maturity and originality"Fact|date=October 2007, other publications such as "The Times" [cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article696705.ece|title=Fionn Regan: The End of History|work=Times Online] and "The Guardian" [cite web|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1836725,00.html|title=Fionn Regan, The End of History|work=Guardian Unlimited] also gave the album four out of five stars.

Fionn has played many festivals around the world including the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, XPoNential Music Festival in Camden, New Jersey, Electric Picnic (Ireland), Summercase (Spain), Bestival (Isle of Wight) ACL (Austin, Texas) and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (San Francisco)Fact|date=October 2007. Fionn also appeared at Mountain stage alongside Loudon Wainwright III in Charleston, West VirginiaFact|date=October 2007.

Regan cites such artists as Bob Dylan and Neil Young as influences. [cite web|title=Fionn Regan|publisher=RTÉ|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/othervoices/fionnregan.html] [cite web|url=http://www.drownedinsound.com/artist/view/4812|title=Fionn Regan|work=Drowned in Sound]

Fionn was nominated for two Meteor Music Awards (Best Male and Best Newcomer) in 2006 Fact|date=October 2007 and "The End of History" was nominated for Irish album of the year 2006 at the Choice Music Prize [cite web|url=http://www.choicemusicprize.com/|title=Shortlist|work=Choice Music Prize] and was shortlisted for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize [cite web|url=http://www.nationwidemercurys.com/|title=Shortlist|work=Nationwide Mercury Music Prize] .

The single "Be Good or Be Gone" was used in "Grey's Anatomy" and E4's drama "Nearly Famous" in 2007 and "Skins" in 2008.

Discography

Albums

* "The End of History" (2006)

EPs

* "Reservior" (EP) (January 20, 2003)
* "Hotel Room" (EP) (April 14, 2004)
* "Campaign Button" (EP) (2005)

ingles

* "Little Miss Drunk" (July 29 2002)
* "Be Good or Be Gone" (February 5, 2006)

Compilation appearances

* "Getting Better" ("Mojo Presents Sgt. Pepper...With A Little Help From His Friends", Mojo, 2007)

References

External links

* [http://www.fionnregan.com Official Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/fionnregan Fionn Regan's MySpace site]