Cork's answer to Bo Burnham? Rob Carlile on mixing music, humour, and mental health

The talented Fermoy man has played nearly all the instruments on his debut album, designed its cover, and created amusing videos to help promote it  

Rob Carlile, Cork musician.

“I think humour is important,” Rob Carlile declares. “I love when lyrics are a little bit provocative. That really grabs me.” 

There is more than a hint of the provocateur from the cover image of the Fermoy musician’s debut album, Mentally Illmatic, which features a cartoonish self-portrait of the artist grinning maniacally at a keyboard.