Míde Houlihan has teamed up with Mick Flannery for her latest single ‘Idle Words’ the song was co-written by Houlihan and Flannery via a new songwriting scheme set up by by IASCA (Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors) during lockdown.

“It was a joy to connect Mick and Míde as our first virtual co-write session to trial. The feedback from both was so useful to us and will be to other songwriters,” says Sinéad Troy, IASCA’s General Manager of the project which is bringing songwriters together via video platforms from their homes and/or home studios, to create music together.

“I didn’t really know what to expect as I began this experience, it’s definitely new territory writing a song over a video call,” explains Mide of the new way of collaborating for her. “But as soon as we started it felt very natural, we agreed pretty quickly on what subject we wanted to write about, and then went off for 15 minutes at a time to write lyrics and call each other again. Mick had a lovely chord progression worked out and soon after that the song was ready. I’m really proud to have been a part of something like this.”

It’ll be interesting to see what other collaborative efforts appear via this new scheme in the coming months, but Mide Houlihan has certainly kicked of the process in style with ‘Idle Words’.

You can listen to ‘Idle Words’ co-written by Mick Flannery and produced by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Daniel Ledwell below.

We recently caught up with Mide Houlihan to find out about her influences. Click on the image below to listen to her selections.