Rabble rouser and songwriter Carsie Blanton releases her carefree new single ‘Ain’t We Got Fun’ today, Friday 8 September, 2023 , to announce her forthcoming album After the Revolution , due out on 21 March, 2024. Blanton is also heading on tour supporting Declan O’Rourke across Ireland in October and November 2023.
With a chilled bassline and sparkling piano made for sunny afternoons, ‘Ain’t We Got Fun’ recalls a chapter of Blanton’s life when she never had money, but always had a great time: “Money, oh we ain’t got none / But honey, ain’t we got fun.” It’s the first single off her ninth full-length album (produced by Grammy nominee Tyler Chester ), and features a musical roux earned from a long stint in New Orleans and 15 years on the road.
Blanton explains, “When I was sixteen, I moved across the country to live in a little punk rock house in Eugene, Oregon with my friend Nicole. Nicole taught me to shoplift and cook and sing harmony. We got picked up hitchhiking by a guy with a funk band, and ended up on tour as his backup singers. After shows, we would knock on the back door of a bakery to beg free pastries off the bakers showing up for their shifts. That’s how I learned that money is a sham, and the real meat of life cannot be bought or paid for.”
Blanton will bring her stirring music to stages in Belfast, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, Navan, Dundalk, Wexford, Cork, Dublin, Mullingar , and Kilkenny from Friday 27 October, 2023 to Saturday 25 November, 2023 . Tickets are on sale now from https://singularartists.ie/show/declan-orourke/ .
In a time that can feel so bleak, Blanton’s spirited attitude is a tonic for the soul. “It is possible to face the world as it is—rapidly heating, ruled by grifters, ravaged by profitable wars—and still have hope,” Blanton says. “Not the narrow, grasping hope you might hang on an election, but a patient, zoomed-out hope. I still believe in people.”
