Film location scout draws songwriting inspiration from  Irish landscapes - video Dailymotion

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A film location scout who found the dramatic landscapes made famous by Game Of Thrones is channelling the inspiration from those rugged backdrops to launch a solo music career.Robbie Boake spent more than a decade working for HBO’s hit fantasy drama series scouring coastlines and countryside throughout the island of Ireland for settings that would bring to life the kingdoms of Westeros.

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00:00Oh, it's incredible. I mean, the creative process is unbelievable. You know, during my time as the

00:24Westeros Finding Location Scout, I would keep voice memos because I have a little bit of a twitch in

00:31that I have songs on the go all the time. And I'd be in Benavana or I'd be like somewhere in Kerry and

00:38these ideas, these beautiful landscapes would be triggering these song ideas. Sometimes I've had a

00:43guitar with me and I would jot them and get them down. And so I have a huge, huge backlog of things

00:50to get through. And then to bring that into here and to start to work out, okay, that was a nice

00:57original idea. And then to start to flesh it out. Is it going to be a piano tune? Is it going to be a

01:02guitar tune? How am I going to approach this? It's really nice to complete something. You know,

01:08that's something I'm trying to force myself to do here is that you can be sitting on great ideas,

01:13but never release them. And so the motto I've been taught by some of my favorite artists,

01:19including my wife, is that it's better complete than perfect.

Film location scout draws songwriting inspiration from Irish landscapes

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