Interview Music - Creativity - Art

Siblings Abbey and Arann Blake, as well as their long-term friend Andy Killian, are Cork’s newest art-punk jewel -Pretty Happy. They shared with Joe Drennan how they aren’t so worried about the archaic limitations of music theory, and instead, prioritise the audience’s experience at their live performances.

Joe Drennan

Photos by Brian Teeling.

I got the chance to speak to Pretty Happy at Cork city’s historic Triskel Arts Centre, where they’re preparing to create an audio-visual piece that explores the lineage of Cork after its punk-era through the venues of its past as part of their Write Record Perform residency.

Each member brings a personal talent so that when all three are joined together, it creates a unique sound and atmosphere on stage. Abbey Blake brings the visual expertise, applying her extensive knowledge from her background in Film Studies to the band’s repertoire of short films and music videos. She even plays the lead in the music video for ‘Salami’, which features a combination of nods to classic French film alongside visual effects of gyrating pigs, that together, just works.