Charlie McGettigan plays the intimate surroundings of Naas Arts and Culture Centre on Saturday 9th of February. Naas singer Sive is special guest on the night.
Charlie McGettigan started his musical career in the 1960s in various rock bands in Donegal. Moving to Dublin in 1968 he honed in on the thriving folk scene there at the time. In 1973, Charlie formed the highly successful group Jargon, which went on to win the prestigious Letterkenny Folk Festival, following in the footsteps of bands like Clannad and Pumpkinhead.
Charlie has worked with artists like Maura O’Connell and Eleanor Shanley who both recorded many of his songs including ‘Feet Of A Dancer’, ‘A Bed For The Night’ and ‘If Anything Happened To You’.
Charlie joined forces with Paul Harrington and Brendan Graham to win the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with ‘Rock n Roll Kids’. He has released many solo albums including ‘In Your Old Room’, ‘Family Matters’, ‘The Man From 20’ and ‘Stolen Moments’ produced in Nashville by legendary producer Bil Vorndick.
Charlie’s songs have been recorded by many artists including De Danann, Mary and Frances Black, Ray Lynam, Daniel O’Donnell, Sandy Kelly and Hal Ketchum to name but a few.
These days Charlie tours both here in Ireland and abroad. He presents ‘The Saturday Connection’ on Shannonside/Northern Sound Radio, a two hour programme where he previews live music and theatrical events, interviews guests from the world of arts and entertainment and plays an eclectic mix of music and song on CD. As well as serving on the Board of IMRO, Charlie is also a member of the Board of The Dock Arts Centre in Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
Charlie’s latest album ‘Tuesdays With Paul’ is receiving great attention from the media and includes songs like ‘Dust If You Must’ and ‘When I Was A Kid’.
After a successful 2018 Sean and Conor Price have plenty of new music to bring to their fans in 2019. They have been working extremely hard in studio and recording and are now ready to cause a storm through the music scene.
They released their mini album ‘Dreamer’ in late 2018, which hit the charts and went straight in at #8 in the TOP 10 Irish National Charts. Sandwiched between the likes of George Ezra, Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa, they were the only Independent act to get in the Top charts that week!
They have been working with producers and writers in London, Stockholm and Dublin. Their first single of 2019 is titled ‘Storm’ and will be available on all platforms from February 8th. On the Single, Sean and Conor have teamed up with Wild Youth band member Conor O’Donohoe to co-write the track. ‘Storm’ is a youthful pop song about a girl who is exciting but you know she is bad news, just like a ‘Storm’.
Sean and Conor will also be very busy with their 13 date 2019 Tour starting in Kilkenny on February 26th. They will play the Olympia Theatre Dublin on June 29th.
Link to venues and show dates below:
Kilkenny January Saturday 26th Watergate BUY NOW
Limerick March Saturday 2nd LimeTree BUY NOW
Drogheda April Tuesday 16th TL Theatre BUY NOW
Ennis April Wednesday 17th Glor BUY NOW
Thurles April Thursday 18th Source BUY NOW
Dublin June Saturday 29th The Olympia BUY NOW
Cork July Saturday 6th Everyman Theatre BUY NOW
Sligo July Tuesday 9th Hawkswell BUY NOW
Letterkenny July Friday 12th An Grianin BUY NOW
Dundalk July Saturday 13th An Tain BUY NOW
Wexford July Saturday 20th National Opera House BUY NOW
Belfast August Saturday 10th Waterfront Studio BUY NOW
Castlebar August Saturday 17th Royal Theatre BUY NOW
In his first release since his 2015 album ‘The Revolution’, Fiach Moriarty takes a new turn in his songwriting journey, echoing the sounds of the Roaring 20’s with ‘Everything Will Rhyme’.
Fiach has spent the past year touring Ireland and Europe as a member of groundbreaking nouveau trad acts ALDOC and Beoga.
It is Fiach’s songwriting talents that has earned him invitations to collaborate with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Paul Brady, Declan O’Rourke and Eddi Reader and appear as host and musician in the TV3 6-part musical travel show ‘Jingle Jangle’ alongside Fiachna Ó Braonáin (Hothouse Flowers) and Jim Lockhart (Horslips).
In the past year, Fiach has recorded with Damien Dempsey, Duke Special, Mundy, Steve Wall, Julie Feeney, Una Healy, Brian Kennedy, John Sheahan (Dubliners), Paddy Moloney (Chieftains), Ulaid, David Geraghty (Bell X1) and appeared on ‘Other Voices’ with the Grammy-nominated Beoga.
He has previously released two albums; ‘So I’ and ‘The Revolution’.
Talos aka Eoin French from Cork will release his second album, ‘Far Out Dust’, on BMG on 8 February, 2019. The album’s latest song to be released is a brilliant, visceral track called ‘The Light Upon Us’.
Of the track, French says: “It’s called ‘The Light Upon Us’ but, the idea of the light… it’s not a positive light. It’s one that erases things. It’s blinding. Sometimes things have to be destroyed for something else to be created. An acceptance that things are supposed to die at some point. Everything has an end.”
‘The Light Upon Us’ follows the release of the first single ‘See Me’ which has been featured on a batch of influential playlists (New Music Friday UK, Chill Vibes, Sad Indie).
Following tours with Peter, Bjorn and John and Editors late last year, Talos will be returning to the US this winter supporting Aurora. The band also play an intimate launch party in Dublin’s Pepper Canister Church on February 9th. All tour dates are below.
‘Far Out Dust’ — a stunning blend of organic and electronic music with a gorgeous sense of discovery and wonder — was written and recorded all over the globe, including New York City, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Cork, and Reykjavik. Where Talos’ acclaimed debut, ‘Wild Alee’, was a solitary affair about isolation and escape, ‘Far Out Dust’ finds Talos embarking on new journeys, drawing strength and comfort from lived experience and deep human connection. The result is both his most ambitious songwriting and most sophisticated studio work, a collection that radiates with creative confidence even as it wrestles with the pain of doubt and regret.
Part of that newfound confidence stemmed from the remarkable success of ‘Wild Alee’, which was met with such a rapturous critical and commercial response that French was able to leave his second life as an architect and university lecturer behind and devote himself to touring and recording full time. Hailed by the Irish Times as “a spectacularly assured debut,” the album was met with raves on both sides of the pond upon its release in 2017, with The Independent calling it “stunning” and the New York Times’ T Magazine praising the songs’ “taut, chilling complexity.” The record garnered love from BBC Radio 1, racked up more than 25 million streams on Spotify, made the shortlist for the prestigious RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year.
For his next album, Talos knew he couldn’t rest on his laurels, and pushed himself to write some of his most expansive, exciting music to date. French and his longtime production partner Ross Dowling (James Vincent McMorrow, Bell X1) shouldered much of the instrumental load on the album, in addition to working with producers like Doug Schadt (Maggie Rogers, Wet), Valgeir Sigurðsson (Sigur Ros, Feist) and Damian Taylor (Bjork, Arcade Fire), who also contributed a number of mixes. They then handed over to mastering duties to Emily Lazar (Coldplay, Angel Olsen).
French’s conviction is apparent from the first moments of album opener ‘Boy Was I Wrong’, a soaring epic that builds from a falsetto whisper to an oceanic roar of layered synthesizers and powerful drums. Throughout the album, French conjures up vivid, cinematic scenes, utilizing a broad dynamic range to oscillate between hushed introspection and explosive ecstasy, often within the same song. The steamy ‘2AM’ captures the euphoric rush of a late-night physical connection, while the wistful ‘To Each His Own’ laments the revelation of unkind intention, and ‘The Light Upon Us’ juxtaposes the manic energy of madness and destruction with the eerily beautiful serenity that comes in its aftermath. In that sense, ‘Far Out Dust’ isn’t just an album written in transit between places, it’s an album written in transit between states: between darkness and light, between desperation and devotion, between death and life.
‘Far Out Dust’ Track List:
Boy Was I Wrong
The Light Upon Us
The Light Interlude
To Each His Own
See Me
The Flood
2AM
On And On
Let Go
Dawn, The Front
In The Fold
Far Out Dust
Pre-Save and Pre-order ‘Far Out Dust’ HERE with instant downloads of ‘See Me’ and ‘The Light Upon Us’.
Talos tour dates:
14/1 – Magnolia – Milan, Italy #
15/1 – Les Docks – Lausanne, Switzerland #
18/1 – Palladium – Warsaw, Poland #
19/1 – VEGA – Copenhagen, Denmark # 9th February – Dublin Headline Album Release Show / The Pepper Cannister Church 13/2 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom #
14/2 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox #
15/2 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom #
17/2 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom #
20/2 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre #
22/2 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park #
23/2 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #
25/2 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater #
27/2 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue #
1/3 – Chicago, IL @ Metro #
2/3 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall #
3/3- Montreal, QB @ Corona Theatre #
5/3 – Boston, MA @ Royale #
7/3 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel #
9/3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer #
10/3 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre #
Wild Youth, one of the hottest new bands in Ireland right now, have dropped the brand new music video for their current single ‘Making Me Dance’.
The single – released just last week on 4 Jan 2019 – is already setting Irish airwaves alight and breaking through internationally. The four piece are riding high after scoring a top ten spot on the much coveted New Music Friday UK playlist on Spotify and Apple Music’s Best Of The Week in the US whilst also being heralded as a band to watch by Brooke Reese on the Beats1 Chart Show.
Set to become one of the hottest acts of 2019 and beyond, Wild Youth embark on a nationwide tour across Ireland from 16 March 2019 to 6 April 2019, which will include their biggest ever headline show to date in the Olympia Theatre.
Wild Youth broke onto the scene in 2018 and have dominated the airwaves since, with massive hit single ‘Can’t Move On’ becoming the most played song by an Irish artist on Irish radio.
Nationwide Tour Dates Saturday, 16th March – Cyprus Avenue, Cork Saturday, 23rd March – Olympia Theatre, Dublin Thursday 4th April – McHugh’s, Belfast Friday 5th April – Roisin Dubh, Galway Saturday 6th April – Dolan’s, Limerick
Ever prolific Blek is preparing for the release of his fourth solo studio album in as many years.
Entitled ‘Thistle & Thorn’ it was recorded between Clonakilty, Co. Cork and Louisville, Kentucky during the early part of 2018. It features numerous collaborations with longtime musical partners Brian Casey and Davie Ryan as well as the addition of the ethereal voice of Joan Shelley and melodious fingerstyle folk guitar of Nathan Salsburg. This is John’s most complete and ambitious work to date.
It is due for release on the 1st of February 2019 through John’s own imprint WARR. To be followed by a 22nd March release through K & F Records in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Available on CD, download and heavy weight gatefold vinyl.
‘Salt in the Water’ from Blek’s last album Catharsis Vol.1, was nominated for Song of the Year at the International Folk Music Awards 2018 at Folk Alliance International in Kansas City. It’s been a busy few years and it shows no sign of letting up. Endless tours and recording in Ireland, Europe, UK and USA keep the Irish troubadour busy.
He is a master storyteller and an inspiring live performer. His beautiful fingerstyle guitar and joyous vocal weave a tapestry that is as poignant as it is skilful. He is a true artist.
Ireland February/March Tour
Fri 1st Feb – Coughlan’s, Cork
Sat 2nd Feb – Inkwell Theatre, Minane Bridge
Fri 8th Feb – No Alibis, Belfast
Sat 9th Feb – Whelan’s, Dublin
Sun 10th Feb – Toal’s, Monaghan
Mon 11th Feb – Mick Murphy’s, Ballymore Eustace
Fri 1st Mar – The Greyhound, Kilkee
Thurs 7th Mar – Borris House, Carlow
Fri 8th Mar – The Washerwoman, Ballina
Sat 9th Mar – Ubh, Newbridge
Sun 10th Mar – The Black Gate Cultural Centre, Galway
Fri 29th Mar – Weir Folk Club, Midleton
Sun 31st Mar – Connolly’s, Leap
