Post Tropical to set McMorrow on the road to stardom
“Very naively, I signed a publishing deal five years ago and thought, ‘oh, this is going to be easy’,” says the County Louth singer-songwriter. “I thought, ‘I’ll fall backwards into a record contract, fall backwards into making an album’.”
After a brief flirtation, EMI Records passed on McMorrow and he found himself living in a one-room flat outside Drogheda, wondering if he had a future in music. But rejection made him stronger. “Nothing in my career has been easily won,” he says. “If that was a problem at the beginning, now I have learned to embrace it. I finished my first album and nobody really cared. The thing is, I never gave up. I think stuff should be difficult. It makes me more ambitious. I don’t believe in limitations.”
