Looks as though 2013 is going to be Cavan folk Singer Lisa O’Neill’s year. We’ve just recently heard she will releasing a new album Same Cloth or Not on October 18th (Song Seeds Records). To celebrate the release she is having an album launch at Whelans (Dublin) on October 19th followed by a tour of Ireland with Glen Hansard and a UK tour with James Yorkston (details below). But before we delve any further here’s a small taster of the song No Train To Cavan with a lovely video from a great film maker Myles O’Reilly:
The album was recorded in a beautiful rented cottage in Wicklow in the winter months with David Kitt producing and Karl Oldum engineering and includes her band Stina Sandstrom (vocals) and Mossy Nolan (bouzouki) and some wonderful interventions from London-based string duo Geese (Emma Smith & Vincent Sipprell).
This new record captures Lisa as an assured songwriter, as comfortable with lyrical pathos as she is comic turn of phrase. At times she is downright poetic, switching mood from forlorn love songs to shady tales of wheelbarrow smuggling. Her voice is a unique instrument in itself, subtle enough to execute the tender reminiscence of a song like Speed Boat but powerful enough to bring the house down on the rousing call-to-arms chorus on Come Sit Sing.
TRACK LIST
England Has My Man / Cowards Corner / Neillie’s song/ Apiana /Come Sit Sing/ Speed Boat / No Train To Cavan/ Same Cloth Or Not/ Darkest Winter / Dreaming
Tour Dates
Tues 15th Oct – Servants Jazz Quarters, London
Sat 19th Oct – Whelans, Dublin (headline show)
Glen Hansard Tour
20 Oct Hawkswell, Sligo
21 Oct Mac Theatre, Belfast
22 Oct Spirit Store, Dundalk
24 Oct Debarras, Clonakilty
25 Oct Blackbird, Ballycotton
26 Oct Blessings, Cavan
28 Oct Cyprus Ave, Cork
James Yorkston Tour
30 Oct – Dunfermline – Carnegie Hall
31 Oct – Fife – Hallowe’en Party
01 Nov – Edinburgh – Queen’s Hall
02 Nov – Glasgow – Oran Mor
03 Nov – Aberfeldy Festival
06 Nov – London – Old St Pancras Church
07 Nov – Bangor – Hendre Hall
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