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Mark O'Leary Cillian Murphy Sarahdaze Mark O'Leary, The Sarahdaze and the band that got away. The Sarahdaze were a band with unsurpassed potential, with relative ease, they could have inhabited that mezzanine space between Fontaines DC and U2. I know, I was teaching three of them; Cillian, Eoin and John. In a way I connected John and Cillian. Cillian needed a bassist, John was keen to join a band. With a superlative touch on fender bass, using finger work, slap and pop, excellent organic timing, he was the perfect match. Cillian decided to do the vocals and be the front man, I initially hypothesized that it could be a twin guitar band, but Cillian just astounded everyone with his vocal range and stage prowess. Cillian and Eoin met up with John, John was superb, he got into the band, no small feat! Eoin was a brilliant guitarist, influenced by the Edge, David Gilmour et al. With a little nurturing they most definitely could have also ended up on Top of the Pops like some of my other students and made a breakthrough. Cillian diverged into acid Jazz, that bandwagon had left and basically, even though Cillian had bright ideas for the band, the brightest idea he had was to try his hand at acting, he is primordially talented at it, had the personality, the enthusiasm, insight and the gift to succeed. The other impeccable quality Cillian had was timing. If he decided to go to Europe or London with the band and see what materializes, the acting ship would have sailed, again, it was a perfect, seamless, transition, and also a little modicum of Cyril Cusack, Cillian could superimpose his persona on to any role proffered. But most definitely in the lore of Cork Pop Music, an underestimated band, The Sarahdaze were the band that got away. |
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