Part of the journey, and something Bricknasty are determined to keep hold of, is the idea that you should say what you mean – no pulling punches, or avoiding subjects. We’re getting more good shit, as people can get their hands on the things that they need to go and do it.” “There’s a lot of things in society that have been ripped away from us, but not art. The barrier to entry for art has been removed, it’s been democratised. “I started with just the backing track, and there’s something to be said for that, but we have world class players in this country,” he says. Some of that is in the way they play, backed with a full live band (Fatboy himself is on guitar). There’s already been substantial movement on the way Bricknasty work to become their ‘best selves’. Our long term plan is to try and push people to see their best selves, to figure out how to sort this kip of a place out.” “Music is a good way of coming together, though at the level where you make money, it’s all bought and sold. I’d love for that to happen to Ballymun next, not just for rap. There’s loads of great jazz players in Cork. “I’d love for Ballymun to be the next place where all them kind of sounds come from in Dublin. I used to get called any slur you can think of walking down the road with a guitar, but I stuck with it. I don’t feel like Ireland has put its stamp on things properly just yet. “I’m pushing hard for a Ballymun thing, but a lot of the rappers, all over really, they either have UK syndrome or US syndrome. It’s a lot of the same energy, a bit quieter now.” When they came down in 2015 or whatever, we were moved around the corner, and it’s all the same people I grew up. “Where I live in Ballymun, all the people who live there more or less got moved there from the Blue Block, where I used to live. He’s shown us around London, booked shows, all that.” He took an interest, and he’s decided… what Plan B did with Maverick Sabre, he’s doing for us. Once he saw the band, we were good to go. “It was a real natural thing, we got talking about Ballymun and music. “I think he was letting me open because he had done loads of work in Ballymun while I was growing up, while the flats were still standing,” Fatboy says. Like much of Bricknasty’s life and music, the Maverick Sabre connection links straight back to that Ballymun upbringing. When I was still on the drink – it’s been about 9 months – I sent him a voice message and asked if I could open for him, and he said yeah.” “We’re palling around with Maverick Sabre now. We played for anyone in Dublin that we could play for after that. “We figured out how the set was going to be structured in The Sugar Club,” Fatboy explains, “Mark Murphy there, he copped onto us early and let us open for Mik Pyro, then gave us a residency. Live, that converts into what gig goers have called a kind of chaotic genius.
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