Show and Tell: Diamond Rings, “Give it up”
Toronto’s John O’Regan is part of the talented indie group The D’Urbervilles, who played the shit out of the small stage at last summer’s V-fest and always put on a great show.
This summer O’Regan branched off, put on some eye shadow and became Diamond Rings, releasing a video for his song “All Yr Songs” that went viral, was picked up by Pitchfork and Gawker, then was ordered to be taken down by Sony BMG – in that order. The whole thing was pretty confusing to O’Regan and his roommate/director, Colin Medley, who put the whole thing together on his computer. Turns out it was an administrative error on Sony BMG’s part, as they confused it with their artist Chipmunk and a song called “Diamond Rings”. Either way it gave the video even more publicity.
Now here is Diamond Rings again, this time with something totally different – no eye shadow, no ’90s hip hop video kitsch, just him on the upright piano in his mom’s living room. The sound is something like if Joy Division’s Ian Curtis was still alive and rather than inventing new genres of music, he was just really really good at making music you’d want to listen to making out with your girlfriend.
Either way it definitely works.
(via Pitchfork)
Beautiful, nice find! Its musicians like him that make me wish I hadn’t given up on Piano lessons at 10
That’s a pretty sweet tune right there. Also, nice living room.
Diamond Rings opened up for La Roux back in the fall. He was a great opener–managed to keep everyone pretty engaged, he`s really talented. I like this clip, love seeing people in their own element.