Such is the way of a ‘proper’ music scene: I was first introduced to Disconnect 4 by a Bandwidth old faithful, A Plastic Rose, who had made a habit of gigging with them between D4′s native Galway, APR’s native Sligo and a common ground for both, Belfast.

We’d promised each other we’d record a session together for months, and thought about ways of doing it. Playing in a bin, or a music shop, or anywhere near a plug so that we could keep just a little of the signature Disconnect 4 electronic/guitar sound. In the end, we settled on 20 minutes together, worryingly close to their stage time at Belfast’s free-music Radar night at the Students’ Union. And in the end, once again, an apple iphone came to the rescue, and a little £1.19 app called iSynth.

Cheapest video ever made? Perhaps. Most dangerous thing the band have ever done (letting me near them with a camera that is)? Just maybe.

Disconnect 4 play Whelan’s in Dublin 30 April with Funeral Suits.

Download for iPod (47.8 MB)

Filmed by Will McConnell
in Belfast, February 2010

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