Listen: Tim Wheeler 'Lost Domain' album stream
Tim Wheeler makes his solo debut with 'Lost Domain', a collection of songs chronicling his father's battle with Alzheimer's Disease. It's a serious subject, he tells Lauren Murphy, but it's not necessarily a downbeat album . . .
Tim Wheeler: "While there are songs about loss, they're also about how much I loved my dad"
Many artists peddle what they describe as 'heart-on-sleeve' records, but when you hear Tim Wheeler singing about being in the dementia ward and holding his late dad's hand in the wee hours, it's on another plane of intimacy. Hitherto known as frontman of Downpatrick rockers Ash, Wheeler makes his solo debut with Lost Domain, a collection of songs chronicling his father's battle with Alzheimer's Disease and how it affected his family. Yet while it's a serious subject, but it's not necessarily a downbeat album.
"While there are songs about loss, they're also about how much I loved my dad and celebrating the closeness of my family, too," says Wheeler. "There was strength during that hard time, as well. It's a really complex feeling – so yeah, it can be both sad and powerful and epic and uplifting, too. I've gotten a really good response, even this early on.