Moncrieff Releases New Single “Blue Water Baby”
A soaring, Irish-rooted anthem and a love letter to the ordinary magic of a working class town most of the world will never know
NEW ALBUM STUBBORN RELEASED ON 4TH DECEMBER 2026
Moncrieff left Waterford at 19 with a bag and a music career to chase. “Blue Water Baby” is what he found when he looked back. A love letter to his hometown in the south east of Ireland, it is a song about the magic hidden inside the ordinary – the pint with an old friend, the ice-cold sea, the back door of a pub where nothing has changed and somehow that’s everything. It is a song for the people of Waterford, and for anyone who has ever left a place and spent years working out what they left behind.
What the song gets at is something that takes distance to see – that the things you once found banal are the very things that hold you together. The opening verse drops you straight into that world without ceremony: walking in the back door of a local pub, a familiar chair in the corner, catching up on who’s got engaged, answering honestly when someone asks how you’re getting on. “I said I’m surviving, and you know what I mean, without swimming too deep” – it’s the shorthand of people who know each other well enough not to need the full version. That easy, unspoken understanding is exactly what the song is celebrating.
“Waterford is a place barely anyone has heard of. But there’s an extraordinary spirit in ordinary people there – no ego, no performance, just people living their lives and showing up for each other. I wanted to write something worthy of that. This song is for them.” — Moncrieff
The chorus opens that feeling out into something anthemic and universal. “There’s an ocean in this old town, with you I’ll never drown, we’ll ride the big waves out” – it takes the literal coastline of Waterford and turns it into something bigger: the idea that home, and the people in it, are what keep you afloat when everything else gets heavy. That no matter how far you’ve gone or how hard things get, that foundation doesn’t move.
Sonically, “Blue Water Baby” is Moncrieff leaning fully into his Irish roots for the first time. Soaring electric guitar riffs weave against lilting mandolin and fiddle lines, grounding the track in something folk and timeless while the production keeps it expansive and alive. His vocal moves from a grounded, conversational intimacy in the verses – almost like overhearing A pub catch-up, into a full, cathartic gang vocal chorus that feels built for open air and raised hands.
“The mandolin and fiddle weren’t a choice so much as an inevitability. The song is about Ireland, about the coast, about that specific feeling of coming home. It had to sound like where it came from.” – Moncrieff
This is a timeless anthem about a place most people will never visit and a feeling everyone will recognise. “Blue Water Baby” is out now.
TOUR DATES
27TH NOV LONDON
06 DEC DUBLIN
08 DEC HAMBURG KENT CLUB