‘Heading’ for the big time
Banger. A one word description of Cavan’s latest contribution to the world’s musical catalogue. “Get Out Of My Head” is a lockdown penned piece of pop perfection that one young man hopes will set in train his music career.
“Brilliant news, it’s unreal,” Shane Codd is understandably delighted to have signed a deal that will bring the aforementioned music offering to a wide audience. The Bailieborough music creator has singed a deal with Polydor Record for global distribution of the track.
From the ‘60s ‘beat boom’, through the eras of progressive rock, disco and punk, Polydor has been at the front of every big new musical development, while today the record label promotes the likes of the Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and The 1975.
Shane Codd now joins the label’s roster after “Get Out Of My Head” attracted a buzz of interest from major labels: “It’s being re-released through them and they are promoting it at the minute. The next song will be 100% released through them. Then there are options after that. It will be a case of getting into talks about where we are going.”
With around 30 tunes available between Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube the attention garnered by the current single came as a bit of a surprise: “They emailed me. I always have my email on all my music promotion pages. I started to get emails and Instagram messages coming in from six of the major UK record labels, including Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers.”
Shane explains that the power of the record label has not been diminished in the internet age: “The record labels are a big deal. I have been independently releasing music for three years now. I have a playlist on Spotify with 77,000 followers, that was the only way I got people to listen to my music, but the record labels are huge in the reach they have.”
Citing ‘90s and ‘00s house and trance music as his main influence it’s easy to see the imprint they made on “Get Out Of My Head”: “That was the music I was first introduced to as a kid. I still love ‘90s trance and the dance music of the early ‘00s. I’m 23 now, so I was very young at the time,” he laughs. More contemporary DJs and producers like the late Sweedish DJ Avicii or the versatile American house producer MK are also music creators Shane would like to emulate.
The catalyst for “Get Out Of My Head” came when he took a break from his college studies of Business and Irish because of the Covid restrictions: “I made it in my bedroom during the lockdown. Then a couple of months after I released it the record labels started contacting me. It’s a publishing and a record deal. It really is a dream come true.”