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rnaround was a bit quicker as well, so it was really a win-win for us on that side. There’s a great mix of deeply established artists and newcomers on the latest compilation, as always. Can we talk a little bit about that? That’s always the balance we want to strike with it. The through line is people that we feel have an identity of their own, or a voice of their own. I feel like it’s people that would be making music regardless of who’s listening. I would say that’s the case with Róis as much as it is the case with Eros Blindfold, for example, who’s a young guy from Limerick who hasn’t really done much outside of his bedroom. That’s definitely a new person that we’re happy to document. He turned up on Paul’s radar, Paul being based in Limerick, and he seemed like a good fit. And then there’s Old Sport, who have never released anything. That’s Frank Collins, he’s the guitar player in Skinner at the moment, and that’s a solo project of his. I’ve known Frank for a good few years and I sort of encouraged him to send us something. I think that’s part of the joy of these things, you know, maybe somebody clicks on it because they have heard of Landless or they’ve heard of Róis or the Deadlians or whoever, and then they discover something else that they weren’t expecting and that becomes the thing that they’re more interested in. I mean, that’s the way it’s been for me with other compilations in the past. Have there been any new challenges that have arisen this year? With the growth of a project like this, I imagine things can get both easier, and much more difficult. To be honest, we’ve tried to keep it at the same scale now for a few years, because ultimately it’s something that we’re doing on top of all the other stuff in our lives. As it’s gone on, it’s been easier to ask people because maybe they’re already aware of it, or if someone we’re asking isn’t, we can say “We’ve done this for a good few years now. Here’s who’s been on the past compilations. We’d like you to be on this.” And then as well, in terms of promotion for it, you feel maybe a bit more confident in trying to promote it, or or ask people to write about it because it’s established in some respect. But we’ve tried to keep the scale about the same so that we’re not overstretching ourselves or ending up with loads of records under our beds. And then as you get older, on a personal level, I feel like everything takes a little bit longer than you’d like. Just because you have less time, and you get more responsibilities in life. Obviously there’s three of us involved and we try to help each other in organizing it, but naturally life gets in the way at times as well. So it usually takes about two years from the first time we have a conversation about it to actually getting it released. This is very much a cooperative thing. We don’t have any external backers or patrons or grant funding or anything for what we’re doing. It’s basically the money that’s earned from the previous compilation goes into producing the next one, and the hope that it can sustain itself on that model for the time being. The purpose of it is just to provide a little bit of a document, and for that to be countrywide, from the north of Ireland and the south, east and west. The intention is that there’s diversity, geographically at least. Litany Of Failures Volume 5 is released on double vinyl on Oct 10th and also available as a digital download. Launch gigs: October 16th - Spindizzy Records in-store: Robbie Stickland, muckno October 17th at Curveball, Dublin, Swimsuit Issues Presents: Ana Palindrome, Stratford Rise, Hands Up Who Wants To Die. 35