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Only Real takes cereal addiction to extremes with ‘Pass the Pain’ video
You’ll never look at fruit loops the same way after watching Niall Galvin take a bath in the stuff.
If everything fall back on hard times for Niall Galvin’s bolshy Only Real project, he can rely on getting a career in cereal promotion. This guy knows a thing or two about what makes a fruit loop so fruity, and his addiction to the stuff - a staple of his career since emerging in 2012 - is taken to a whole new level with the ‘Pass the Pain’ video.
As well as taking an actual bath in his cereal of choice, Galvin takes on a stack of burgers, power games, retro clothes and like a proper #lad, the new video slightly tastelessly includes a blow up doll.
A debut album is due out early next year, and it’s been recorded in Atlanta with Dan Carey and Ben Allen.
‘Pass the Pain’ is out 29th September on Virgin EMI / Harvest. Catch Only Real playing live at the following shows:
SEPTEMBER
18 Hamburg, Reeperbahn
OCTOBER
21-25 New York, CMJ
NOVEMBER
27 London, Hoxton B&K
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