Dermot Kennedy has just released another music video for his newest song Giants. The video depicts Dermot running through Dublin with flashes of memories from his concerts in the past, until he arrives at The Olympia Theatre. The video shows the feelings Dermot has experienced after losing the ability to play live music because of the global pandemic.
In an Instagram post, Dermot talked about the video saying; “It felt so special to be given this unique view of Dublin City while it was at a standstill. This video represents the longing I feel for playing music for people, and I want it to take you on a journey back to the way things were when we got to sing together. We will get there again.”
The video created an emotional response from fans, who felt the same longing for live music and any of the other things they have lost because of the pandemic. One fan commented on the video sharing her experience of being completely alone during the lockdown and said; “In the video you pass my office that closed for lockdown, you run on the Luas tracks that I would normally have frequented, you stand outside the Olympia theatre where I had tickets for events that would have normally have shaped my summer.”
She added; “This video is so personal and so beautifully portrays the unique experience of lockdown in a bustling city and the disruption that has occurred in our everyday lives. No one knows how long it’s going to take, but some day we will get back to where we were. And it will be incredible.”
When the song came out in June it was accompanied by a music video which used the 360° visualiser feature to display the quote “2020 isn’t cancelled, but rather the most important year of them all.” This is a quote from a poem by Leslie Dwight titled What if 2020 isn’t cancelled? This poem talks about how 2020 won’t be written off but will be the year for change, where everyone comes together rather than pushing each other away. This comes just after Dermot Kennedy’s live streamed performance at the Natural History Museum in London, with Normal People star Paul Mescal. Both stars took to the stage to perform some of Dermot’s best-known hits and Paul reading out pieces of poetry in between songs, all underneath the Irish Whale skeleton named Hope, who is suspended over the museum’s Hintze Hall.
For those who didn’t catch it, here is @mescal_paul with the amazing @DermotKennedy That voice though Paul, just wow wow #DermotKennedy #paulmescal pic.twitter.com/lOJDY0oZVl — Gloria Moreno (@glori_musica) July 31, 2020
Dermot Kennedy got his start busking on the streets of Dublin, where he is from, as well as Boston in the United States. He was then signed to Interscope Records in the US and Island Records. He shot to fame with his song Outnumbered. Giants is his first single since his number one debut album Without Fear, which was released last year.
