{"id":32619,"date":"2020-07-23T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-coronas-a-band-long-before-the-pandemic-drop-latest-lp\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T00:09:00","slug":"the-coronas-a-band-long-before-the-pandemic-drop-latest-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-coronas-a-band-long-before-the-pandemic-drop-latest-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Coronas, a band long before the pandemic, drop latest LP"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Coronas, a band long before the pandemic, drop latest LP<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 22, 2020 |<\/span> 8:09pm <\/p>\n

\n Corona beer isn\u2019t the only thing that has a different ring to it after the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an Irish indie-rock band called the Coronas that will also now be forever associated with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

But the trio \u2014 which drops its sixth album, \u201cTrue Love Waits,\u201d Friday \u2014 had already made a name for itself since its 2007 debut, topping the charts and playing arenas in Ireland.<\/p>\n

Here, frontman Danny O\u2019Reilly, 35, reveals how they got their now-notorious moniker, why he didn\u2019t mind quarantine and the story behind the Christmas Eve he spent with Bono.<\/p>\n

How did you first come up with your band name?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re actually named after an old-school vintage typewriter called Smith Corona Deluxe. It was in this movie \u201cAlmost Famous\u201d that we loved. So we just called ourselves Corona, and then we had to change [our name] because there was another band called Corona. So we became the Coronas.<\/p>\n

What was your reaction when you realized you were sharing a name with the virus?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It made an already strange situation a little bit more bizarre, you know? .\u2009.\u2009. Initially we wanted to poke fun at our name, but it was obviously a serious thing, it was a serious situation, so we couldn\u2019t really poke fun at it. There were definitely moments where I was worried it would have a negative effect on our band. But if anything, our social media<\/a> engagement and our Spotify numbers are actually up. I\u2019d like to think that\u2019s because we\u2019re releasing good music, but who knows?<\/p>\n

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The Coronas<\/span>Gav Leone<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So you never considered changing your name?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. We\u2019ve been at it for so long, and I think that would be sort of a defeatist attitude. We want to beat this virus, and we want the Coronas band to be a reminder that we\u2019ve beaten it. We want to stand up to it.<\/p>\n

How did you spend your quarantine?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m based in Dublin, but I got lucky in that, just before lockdown happ<\/a>ened here in Ireland, I escaped to this lovely, isolated placed called Dingle in County Kerry. Initially, I thought I\u2019d go to Dingle for just a week maybe, and then I was stuck down there for three months. It was absolutely beautiful. I had a little studio down there, a piano, and I got to write some music. To be honest, the isolation side of lockdown didn\u2019t get to me.<\/p>\n

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Danny O\u2019Reilly of The Coronas.<\/span>Ruth Belrin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Your second album, \u201cTony Was an Ex-Con,\u201d won over U2\u2019s \u201cNo Line on the Horizon\u201d for Best Irish Album at the 2010 Meteor Ireland Music Awards. Did you ever imagine you\u2019d beat U2?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not in a million years. The Meteor Awards were like the Irish Grammys, and we were just happy to be at the awards. We were genuinely shocked. U2 is such an amazing band. What they\u2019ve done for Irish music is just incredible. I\u2019ve been lucky enough to meet Bono a couple of times .\u2009.\u2009. Every Christmas there\u2019s a charity busk where a lot of musicians get together and busk on Grafton Street in Dublin. The Christmas Eve before last, Bono came down, and we had a nice pint with him after, just was sitting there having a pint of Guinness on Christmas Eve with Bono. He\u2019s so lovely. They say don\u2019t meet your heroes, but he definitely didn\u2019t let me down.<\/p>\n

The Coronas also share a name with the beer. Are you a Corona drinker?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Funny, I used to drink it a lot, but then people would just make bad jokes, so it wasn\u2019t even worth it. Now I tend to just drink Heineken.<\/p>\n

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The Coronas\u2019 \u201cTrue Love Waits.\u201d<\/span>Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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