R.S.A.G.

Style Hickey is influenced by bands such as Joy Division, Talking Heads, Primal Scream, Jon Hopkins and Tony Allen.

2008

Released: 2008 Label: Formats: CD, Download — — 2010

Released: 11 June 2010 Label: A Rare Production Formats: CD, Download — — 2013

Released 12 July 2013 Label: Independent release Formats: CD, download —

Organic Sampler Hickey's debut album as R.S.A.G., Organic Sampler which was launched in 2008, had a bonus disc of "mostly instrumental doodles" which was effectively an album Hickey had previously released. Analogue commented that the best part of the album featured Hickey's "heavy bass and dominant percussion [...] nicely complimented by his sometimes guttural voice". Jim Carroll, writing in The Irish Times, said Organic Sampler was "such a wow", its songs were "compelling, dramatic and exciting" and that the artist's "sense of scale and ambition is remarkable" and "his grooves are extraordinary". Una Mullally, writing in the Sunday Tribune, also gave Organic Sampler four out of five stars and remarked on the "mazes of bass jams, resourceful rhythms and malleable vocals [which] create an intriguing, occasionally creepy, whirlpool of sound". R.S.A.G. appeared on the television series Other Voices.

R.S.A.G. appeared on The Raw Sessions, an interactive music television programme broadcast on RTÉ Two in 2009. Hickey described the show as "great thing" R.S.A.G. won the first heat and a prize of recording an original track at Grouse Lodge, County Westmeath. He next appeared in the sixth episode of the series which was broadcast on 16 June 2009. Both acts had eighteen hours to record an original song. The three acts with the most votes (and downloads) progressed to the final. before being broadcast on 30 June 2009. It featured performances from the top three artists; Dirty Epics, The Infomatics and R.S.A.G. The winner, The Infomatics, was announced on 4 July 2009.

R.S.A.G. performed on the Red Bull Music Academy Stage at Oxegen 2009, arriving on stage half an hour late. Jim Carroll called the performance "a robust, beaty and meaty fare, a fabulous mash-up from the Marble City which is one part hardcore-punk to three parts heavyweight funk". He also performed at Castlepalooza several weeks later. He is currently working on a new album.

Be It Right Or Wrong Be It Right Or Wrong, R.S.A.G.'s third album was released 11 June 2010 release, preceded by the single "The Roamer".

Awards Organic Sampler received a Choice Music Prize nomination for the Irish Album of the Year 2008 on 14 January 2009. The award was won by Jape for the album Ritual on 4 March 2009. R.S.A.G. was amongst six of the nominees who performed during the live ceremony in Vicar Street, Dublin.