Jinx is not under any record label, no PR company represents him. He doesn’t even have a website designer – his website seems designed to repel all but the most determined.

He burns with anger and passion. The passion of the message shapes his songs: sometimes they are hypnotic, sometimes melodic, sometimes a harsh chant. He is living through his songs. Jinx will not come off stage and become a different person. He does not think about the act; he thinks about the message.

And where does Jinx target the inauthentic, the bullshit?

Well, it could be football — a multi-million pound industry run by international magnates who have no interest in the game, yet it harnesses working class loyalties. It’s a sad and ridiculous sight to see Irish fans spending their money on the game.

… or it could be the fake answering-machine voice people put on at work

… or those who sit like zombies at home glued to their television for six hours on end.

… those who end up like The Stepford Wives, falling into an unconscious way of behaving

… or middle class students at a protest, who when bank managers five years later will be looking back at how silly they all were

What Jinx is about was summed up for me in the song Awkward & Real.

I must

I must keep it awkward and real

If it’s not awkward and real I won’t do it

I won’t do it yeah

I hope I don’t turn into a marionette

on tiny invisible strings

I posted a few extra lyrics in a separate page. His lyrics also appeared in The Stinging Fly in June 2012.
My personal favourite trance-influenced My Head is Slowly Disappearing up my own Arse is included.

Awkward & real is the way it has to be in an age when every song or novel is understood to be a product designed to attract attention and earn money.