Conversation includes: early life; music lessons; computer games; first gigs; working on ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by Boomtown Rats with producer Phil Wainman; adding “sweetening” as an arranger; seeing and hearing as an arranger; inspiration vs. plagiarism; working on ‘A Rainy Night In Soho’ and the oboe version; Fiachra’s method of arranging; working on ‘Fairytale Of New York’; the influence of Ennio Morricone’s ‘Once Upon A Time In America’; Van Morrison’s ‘Have I Told You Lately’; working on ‘Poetic Champions Compose’; heterophony; Ukrainian musicians; working with Hans Zimmer; recording a sampling session for ‘The Thin Red Line’; working on ‘Pearl Harbor’; other movies Fiachra has worked with Hans Zimmer on; arranging ‘Mná na hÉireann’ for Kate Bush and Dónal Lunny; working with Brian Kennedy and Mark E Nevin; the four scenarios the arranger faces when being employed as well as other topics.
The second and final part follows in the coming days.
Relevant Links
https://www.cmc.ie/composers/fiachra-trench
Additional Links
‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ Boomtown Rats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc
'Deborah’s Theme' - Ennio Morricone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ruz1VJQyqc&t=24s
'Fairy Tale Of New York' - The Pogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
‘Have I Told You Lately’ - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J789GId1kaY
‘A Rainy Night In Soho’ The Pogues’ oboe version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNdeQda2fDg
‘Mná na hÉireann’ Kate Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vtaQNTTHc
Greystones Guide - Tracks Of My Years: Fiachra Trench
https://www.greystonesguide.ie/tracks-of-my-years-fiachra-trench/
Marty chats with Fiachra Trench in Studio 8
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