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ormac begins by telling Black Vel- that we came to before we started recording what you want to do and believing in your
Cvet, “It’s very easy to imagine that it ‘Solas’ was that it’s worth the struggle, it’s dreams. Cormac says, “I think too often you
is a utopian way of life, just playing music worth the hard times, to be able to do what get exposed to the cynical side of life; peo-
for a living, and don’t get me wrong, it’s fan- we do. That realization was part of the pos- ple telling you to catch yourself on and get
tastic, it’s worth the harder times. That said, itive surge, the positive energy that went a real job, you’re never going to make
you’ve got to work really, really hard. It’s not into making this record.” money in the music industry or whatnot. I
like an office job where you work hard from The name ‘Solas’ itself, embodies posi- don’t mean it to be specifically for life in
Monday to Friday and you get your wage at tivity. It’s the Gaelic word for light. There are music, but I think you’ve gotta dream big.
the end of the month. Success is measured songs such as ‘Real Life Dreamers’ (which You have to actually believe that you can
in a different way, I suppose. Sometimes features Irish singer Fiona O’Kane) on the achieve your dreams – and I don’t mean
you have to struggle, but the conclusion record, which indicates never giving up on that in an airy-fairy way, I just mean that you
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