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They each grew up in what is, as estimated by drummer Jimmy Rainsford, a “grey area, a melting pot of craziness and characters” and had interconnected relationships as you tend to do if you’re from a tiny place: they knew each other or vaguely of each other. 

But it wasn’t until singer Ryan Hennessy uploaded an iPhone video of himself performing an original song onto social media that their shared success story began.  

Similarly to their previous albums, Parked Car Conversations is about love – but this time in all its forms. There are tracks about loving yourself (‘Song To Myself’) and remembering Owen’s beloved Dad who passed away (‘Best Thing’). As seen on cathartic lead single ‘Get On My Love’, with its soaring a-cappella choir vocal arrangement, Ryan is here to celebrate adoration with not just the object of his affections but everyone. “A lot of this album is about connection too,” says Ryan of his most personal record yet. “During the pandemic, we were living an electronic life, through a screen, there was no physical exchange of energy with anyone and it was so missed by everyone that it’s missed in the music too. People want real music.”  

 This is not the start of the journey for the four men from Athy but it is a fresh start, one with renewed purpose, clarity of their intent and the ambition to be your next favourite pop band – wherever in the world you’re from.