From Dublin to London – Cian Godfrey’s Somebody’s Child is on a journey to break the mould.
Words: Jack Press.
Photos: Nicholas O’Donnell.
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Moving away from home is a rite of passage, but few kids make the great escape for a future as an indie rock icon. While he’s still adjusting to living life in the big smoke of London, Cian Godfrey knew he had to ditch Dublin, the city of his youth, for the sake of Somebody’s Child.
“There is definitely a glass ceiling on the Irish music industry,” Cian sighs as he collects his thoughts. “People in the Irish music scene love to tear you down at the beginning until you’re a certain size, so you need to get out.”
Despite filling his indie rock anthems with tales of growing up in modern-day Dublin, he doesn’t feel like his songwriting vehicle drives in the same lanes as his countrymen. “We’ve never been attracted to just sounding Irish. We see ourselves as trying to progress and change things rather than replicate what other people are doing, so we found we belong a little bit outside of Ireland.”
With dreams of making it, whatever that means, Cian knew he had to seek…
