Brian Dillon / The Line

The Line is the pseudonym of Brian Dillon, musician, composer and sound artist, based in Dublin, Ireland. Originally from Nenagh, a small town in rural Tipperary, he has never quite been able to escape the lines of identity that separate his life from the lives of others.

Brian is a member of Meltybrains? and has worked with a range of acclaimed musicians over the last 10 years, including Talos, Loah, Jamie Duffy, Kingfishr and Jon Hopkins, among others. He has performed at many international festivals such as SXSW and Iceland Airwaves and his music has previously been featured in Q Magazine, Boiler Room and Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist. He has released two solo albums under the moniker The Line, as well as one album with Meltybrains?.

Brian has also worked as a professional sound artist and sound designer and his previous work includes installations for Ireland's Museum of Modern Art and The Wild Atlantic Way. He has also been commissioned as a composer for several Irish authorities, including Fáilte Ireland, Cavan County Council and The Source Arts Centre, as well as for ITV and a number of other film and TV production companies.

In recent years he has gleaned a great deal of experience from creative collaborations with a range of musicians, as well as artists from a number of disparate disciplines, including JFDR, Anna B Savage, Emma Martin (choreographer), Emmet Kirwan (actor/writer), Mark McGuinness (photographer) and Kate Dunne (aerialist). This has led to a number of commissions for screen, including scoring short films for Ellius Grace (director), Eamonn Dillon (documentary maker) and Aduantas (aerial dance company), as well as the creation of library music for Blip Trax (publishing house).

The wealth of collaborative experience has led to the basis for his most recent solo project. Red Blood Cells and Righteousness is a communally created record, built on the creative endeavours of Brian and a number of friends from within the Irish music industry.

Despite the earnestness of much of his musical output, Brian is great craic (he swears).

Praise for Red Blood Cells & Righteousness:

“(Red Blood Cells & Righteousness) is a disarmingly interesting, immersive album.” - Siobhán Kane, The Irish Times

“This 13-track album sees Dillon co-operating with a host of fellow Irish musical creatives for an intriguing and often wonderful collection of tunes” - John Walshe, Hot Press

"This solo project explores and unravels industrial sound palettes, usually mapped out over sparsely detailed near-contemporary classical arrangements. It's an emotive, immersive body of work" - Nialler9

"The social norms of rural Ireland and our predisposition as humans to try place things in neat boxes mean that Brian Dillon, AKA The Line has spent his time exploring the contours of these established rules, taking the road less travelled whenever possible." - District Magazine