{"id":128118,"date":"2025-10-17T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:53:10","slug":"niall-breslin-i-put-out-music-i-probably-wouldnt-have-listened-to-myself-im-meant-to-say-the-opposite-of-this-that-it-was-great-and-i-was-flying-but-i-wasn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128118\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Breslin: \u2018I put out music I probably wouldn\u2019t have listened to myself. \u2026 I\u2019m meant to say the opposite of this, that it was great and I was flying, but I wasn\u2019t\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nReleasing a new solo album, the musician is in pensive mood\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Niall Breslin has quietly recorded a new album of instrumental music. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NIALL BRESLIN 13SH.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Niall Breslin has quietly recorded a new album of instrumental music. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When you start as a musician, reasons Niall Breslin (the man who in some people\u2019s minds will forever be known as Bressie), there are natural levels of purity, rawness, naivete and hope. You might doubt your skills, your aspirations, but you rarely, if ever, interrogate them.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To a backdrop of mist-enveloped trees and what looks like a glassy, glacial lake, sitting in a room with a piano alongside one wall of it, Breslin reckons the exhilaration of those early exploratory days is intoxicating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Releasing a new solo album, the musician is in pensive mood Niall Breslin has quietly recorded a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-128118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}