His follow up "Be It Right Or Wrong" was also received with critical acclaimed and earned him 5 stars in the RTE ten magazine.
He has performed at several festivals, including Castlepalooza, Electric Picnic and Body & Soul and is rumoured to be "one of the most innovative and astonishing Irish musicians around" Entertainment.ie [4] Hickey is influenced by bands such as Joy Division, Talking Heads, Primal Scream, Jon Hopkins and Tony Allen.
[2] As R.S.A.G., he is a solo drummer performer but alongside a virtual band who are projected onto a screen in a manner which has been likened to Gorillaz.
[2][5] Jeremy Hickey appears as the guitarist and bassist on screen in the background, although they are controlled by another Kilkenny man, Paul Mahon.
[6] Hickey began his musical career as the drummer in a Kilkenny band called Blue Ghost.
Points of note: Choice Music Award Nomination, 5 Star review from Jim Carroll, The Ticket.
[2][9] Analogue commented that the best part of the album featured Hickey's "heavy bass and dominant percussion [...] nicely complimented [sic] by his sometimes guttural voice".
[2] 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".
[3] 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".
won the first heat and a prize of recording an original track at Grouse Lodge, County Westmeath.
[28] Organic Sampler received a Choice Music Prize nomination for the Irish Album of the Year 2008 on 14 January 2009.