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Cathal Flaherty (left) with Patrick Kelly who have formed Fake Friends.
A NEW band featuring well-known Radio Kerry DJ and musician has just released their first single.
Fake Friends are described as an indie rock duo consisting of Cathal Flaherty from Killarney and Patrick Kelly of Carlow who formed in March 2020. Cathal had a very successful few years as a solo artist up until the start of the pandemic when he started writing over zoom with friends.
His track ‘A Thousand Miles’ was played widely on national and international radio where he was also shortlisted in the top 5 songs at the international songwriting contest. He has supported acts such as The Coronas, Tears for Fears, Jack L, Mundy and Paddy Casey.
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Cathal and Patrick began by sending ideas back and forth until they finally got to work together and started recording at Camden Recording Studios Dublin with producer Conor O’Farrell Brady who has performed and recorded with a host of artists including The Commitments, Bono, Gary Lightbody and Jack L.
Although Fake Friends are a duo, when it comes to playing live and recording in studio they are joined by actual friends Phil Dunphy (bass) , Darren Kelly (Guitar) and Luke Tai (drums).
After two years of writing and recording, Fake Friends finally released their debut single ‘Maybe’ just before Christmas. Since its release it has been playlisted on multiple radio stations already including Today FM, FM 104, Beat 102 103 and Radio Kerry.
Fake Friends are heading back to the studio soon and will be recording more tracks for their planned upcoming debut EP due for release later on in 2023. The music video for ‘Maybe’ will be released next week. Check them out on Spotify by clicking here.
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