CALIFORNIA IRISH claim coveted award for single, ‘Julie Anne’

JULIE ANNE – the folk rock, West Coast, sunshine drenched classic from CALIFORNIA IRISH – has been named Single Of The Year at the Northern Irish Music Prize Awards, 2025.

“We are delighted with this award, and the fact that the people of the North of Ireland voted for our song just means the world to us. Peace Agus Love – and up the Cali Irish!” said frontman Cormac Neeson.

‘Julie Anne’ forms part of debut album ‘The Mountains Are My Friends,’ recorded live, straight to tape at Middle Farm Studios by producer Pete Miles.

“The album is the opposite of boring AI generated no soul perfection,” adds Neeson. “We recorded it in a room together over four days allowing the music to breathe when it needed to, looking at each other for our cues and feeding off each other’s energy. It felt like a dream, but it’s the most real thing I’ve ever done in music.

“That Laurel Canyon sound of the late ‘60s, epitomised by the early Crosby Stills Nash and Young stuff, and the first few Joni Mitchell records, has always felt otherworldly and magical. On our album we’ve tried to access some of that beauty and create our own magic by combining brand new music with an old school recording process.” 

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