“I kind of hyperfocus on things, maybe too much sometimes. I really like Wes’ movies so, honestly, I was watching, maybe only his movies – obviously there are exceptions – for a few years. But it’s because there’s so much in them.” That influence then had an effect on his own style of videos and thus his Wes Andertour series was born.
So far, his repertoire includes everywhere from Dingle to Courtown Village, Glaslough, Blatray, Carlingford, Skerries and Bray amongst others. How does he decide which towns to do? “I’d like to go all over the place, really. So it’s just figuring out how to make different things happen. It’s been a little bit more around the east coast so far, but I do hope to go to other places.
Most of his videos aren’t pre-planned and “everything is being built as it’s happening”. That goes for the content included in each individual video too, which relies largely on what he hears from locals once he visits there himself. “For me, it’s really, really important to actually be spending time talking with people and just asking about the time.