Kingfishr release new music with Anthony Boyle starring in video
James Cox
Irish trio Kingfishr return with their first music of the year with the release of The Blade, via B-Unique/Atlantic Records.
The band capped a huge breakthrough 2025 with a fully sold-out UK/Irish tour including two nights at Dublin’s 3Arena throughout December. Throughout the tour, they debuted The Blade to delighted fans.
The track, "a deeply personal but wholly relatable ode to reaching for darkness when you assume you’ve exhausted all other options, is richly melancholic but also typically evocative and euphoric".
Kingfishr said: “The Blade is probably as heavy a tune as we’re ever likely to release. It’s not something we ever expected to be writing about given the seriousness of it all.
“The song just kind of happened and we feel it deserves to see the light of day.”
Kingfishr worked on the video with fellow Irishman and collective band favourite , the award-winning actor Anthony Boyle (House of Guinness, Say Nothing, Tolkien).
“We met Anthony Boyle at a gig we were playing in Vancouver. He was shooting in the city and came to the show. We’re big fans of his work and we’d never met any famous actors, so we were delighted with ourselves. Funnily enough, we had organised a back garden gig later that night so you can imagine how that went.
“He called into the 3Arena at Christmas too, and very graciously agreed to be part of the video for The Blade after that. The whole thing came together over the space of like, four days.
“Anto’s friend and director, Sean, is a filmmaker from Derry. We used his short film Inhale as a blueprint. One minute we were on a phone call with Anthony and Sean, the next we were watching House of Guinness’s leading actor riding a horse along the edge of the hill outside Derry, for our music video. Mental.”
On working with Kingfishr, Boyle said: “Kingfishr are one of my favourite bands so when the boys asked me did I fancy making a music video for their new song, I was buzzing. I listened to it and thought there’s one man for the job of director - Mr Sean Patrick Mullan. We put our heads together over the next few days and created this music video on big Jim’s farm in Donegal. Special times. A special band. And a really special song.”
