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Pat Dam Smyth reflects on his childhood in new song ‘Dancing’

A second album from the Northern Irish singer-songwriter is coming later this year.

Pat Dam Smyth reflects on his childhood in new song 'Dancing'

Northern Irish singer-songwriter Pat Dam Smyth released his debut album eight years ago, and is returning with a second this year.

The new record is coming out later on in 2019, and we’re sharing its new song ‘Dancing’.

The song - like much of the album - is a snapshot of life as a teenager in Belfast, and a distillation of many of Pat’s teen experiences growing up in Northern Ireland. Set in his local nightclub: the dance kids in one room, the rockers upstairs; the song regales what happens when they meet in the corridor with the chemicals racing through their veins.

Listen to it below.

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