When Castlebar singer songwriter Mervin Heverin approached us recently about a new song he was working on he sent us an MP3 online link that read “Kitchen Kettle”
Mervin asked us to take a listen to the song, almost instantly we fell in love with this wonderful catchy song that has a summer vibe to it. Check out the funny but yet very cheerful video for the track below. We are delighted to be able to showcase a Castlebar artist who is writing and recording there own material. Video recorded and directed by the very talented Jason Nolan.
We spoke with Mervin Heverin about his brand new track and this is what he had to say:
“The seed from which this song really came about from learning a cover by Tom Petty. Won’t back down. Mervin went on to say… When I was playing it I started picking certain strings with the chord progression which sounded all right and that’s the way id play it. Then after singing the song every time id pic up the guitar I burnt it out and that’s when I usually veer off track and bring a bit of a song with me. I was in good form it was Friday eve just in from work, I picked up the guitar, started banging out the g and d chords followed by c and d pretty simple stuff really, then introduced the same kind of technique in which I was using to play won’t back down and then boom that’s fucking it onto something here.
Castlebar singer songwriter Mervin Heverin has just released the brand new video for his summery and catchy new song titled “Kitchen Kettle”
It was sounding catchy and the rest just followed. Rolling me R errs the melody of the song the lyrics I had it wrote in about 10 minutes on the back of an E S B envelope on the kitchen table. I Enjoy writing simple catchy songs with nice melodies,. Earworms and I think I nailed it with this one but ill let you be the judge of that LoL. Asked my mate Kieran Lenehan would he record it in his recording studio and when I brought It to him we had it down in about half an hour then the fun began. He was the one who thought up of a lot of the sound effects but to make it a bit a crack we started messing around with recording crazy sound effects like a converse shoe scraping on the ground, the sound of a hand rubbing fast horizontally across a radiator, a little jar of cloves as an egg shaker, a 17 spanner used as a triangle all used as sound effects in the mastered Track. Great fun recording it. My mate Jason Nolan a professional videographer was more than happy to make the music video with me. And fair play to the rest of my friends that helped along the way too. The song has been nothing but a good laugh, nothing to serious and an enjoyable experience for everyone involved. Hope you Enjoy Kitchen Kettle
MERVIN HEVERIN