Best known for his time as frontman of Dublin quintet ‘The Eskies’, Ian Bermingham has developed a reputation as a truly singular writer and performer, ploughing a furrow that defies both trend and tradition.
His eagerly anticipated debut album ‘The Death Of Old Sea Legs’ (29 April 2022) is a genre-bending, un-pigeonhole-able, totally singular record. It’s a timeless tangle of tongue-twisting, brain-burrowing lyrics that lurches from breathless barrage to lilting lament – at times without a moment’s notice. Crawling with vivid imagery and colourful characters, it’s a window into a world entirely of Bermingham’s own creation.
Displaying all of the storytelling nous and craft of the quintessential folk troubadour, the melodic ear of a pop pioneer and the lyrical largesse that has become so synonymous with Ian’s songwriting, ‘Old Sea Legs’ see’s the Dubliner push himself to new and exciting territory as a solo performer, with a sound that manages to be both expansive and intimate.
The Death Of Old Sea Legs is the sound of a creative whose own sense of self has been abruptly challenged, forced to turn into the unknown and – in doing so – reaching new heights. Given the series of breakups and traumas from which it was conceived and delivered; it is the sound of sweet victory from the jaws of bitter defeat.
Listen to his current album single, ‘These Old Bones’, an apocalyptic, Morricone-inspired melodrama that finds our protagonist pleading for mercy from an unrepentant pursuer.
He is on tour in the UK in May, see dates below.
Old Sea Legs UK Tour
Sun 1 May – EXETER, The Phoenix
Wed 4 May – GUILFORD, Star Inn
Thu 5 May – NUNEATON, Queen’s Hall
Fri 6 May – BARTON ON HUMBER, The Ropewalk
Sun 8 May – BURY, The Met
Tue 10 May – LONDON, Green Note
Wed 11 May – BRIGHTON, Folklore Rooms
Fri 13 May – MALMESBURY, The Rose & Crown
Sat 14 May – BIDEFORD. Palladium Club
Fri 20 May – BATH, Komedia
Sat 21 May – GLASTONBURY, King Arthur’s
Tue 24 May – LEEDS, The Constitutional
Wed 25 May -SHEFFIELD, Greystones
Thu 26 May – MANCHESTER, The Peer Hat
Fri 27 May – NEWCASTLE, The Cluny
Sun 29 May – HULL, Adelphi
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