Mark Geary has a new single “Hollow” out today. This is the third song to be released from the forthcoming album In The Time Of Locusts (out early next year). Following on from singles The Forest and Spectre.
Recorded in Mark’s cottage in the forest in Celbridge, some of the folk who played and worked on the album include Ruth O’ Mahoney Brady, Glen Hansard, Dave Odlum and Karl Odlum.
Mark explains further:“From the hollow we climb- It feels like it’s that moment when you’ve climbed out into the sunlight after a hurricane has passed, or some epic calamity, and I’m counting the cost and seeing what could be salvaged, the gallows and flowers, and priests with a past and Snake charmers and Sanskrit messages to decipher.”
Live in December
Coughlan’s, Cork – Dec 3rd
Whelan’s, Dublin – Dec 10th
Bio
Irish singer-songwriter Mark Geary left Ireland with a one-way ticket to New York and a heart full of hope over twenty years ago. There, in Sin-é cafe, Mark honed his craft and sang alongside the best of them, including the late Jeff Buckley. Time Out NY said, “His delicate songs about love and defiance recall Richard Thompson and John Lennon.”
With five studio and three live albums, touring and live performances are still Mark’s lifeblood. Geary’s sound is stripped back. He treats his songs with trademark Geary honesty. His lyrics slice right through to the core revealing a life laid bare of human emotional frailty, failed relationships, tenderness, hurt, making amends, desire and parting. His treasured guitar collection is always close at hand, each set up in a different tuning. Geary has featured on bills with musicians as diverse as Glen Hansard, John Prine, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, Coldplay and The Frames amongst others plus extensive headlining tours in Europe, including extensively in Italy and Switzerland, as well as the US. He has composed the full score for three films and has many songs featured in films and TV programmes. At the end of 2022 Mark completed a sell-out month-long residency in the new Little Whelan’s at Whelan’s in Dublin with his band. Mark welcomed special guests each week and curated the shows. In early 2023 Mark toured both the north and south regions of Italy as well as Ireland.
