Directed, Shot and Edited by Tom Clifford With Kevin Callanan, Lankum have shared a video of live moments, captured over one night in December 2023 at the iconic Roundhouse in London. They are returning to London later this year for their biggest indoor gig to date on October 26th 2024, at the Eventim Apollo.
The video has been brilliantly edited, capturing the energy of the band and a rapturous audience. We’re treated to a number of excerpts from the evening, including The Wild Rover, which appeared on their third album, The Livelong Day, released in 2019. It’s followed by The New York Trader from their latest album – False Lankum…performed live, that heavy gothic-industrial energy we spoke of in our review resonates all the more deeply thanks to the band’s immense stage presence. Also included are On a Monday Morning and finally Bear Creek.
If this doesn’t make you want to see them live, then I don’t know what will.
Tickets for Eventim Apollo go on sale Friday, pre-sale Wednesday: https://lankumdublin.com/live
HAMMERSMITH APOLLO – OCTOBER 26TH
— LANKUM (@LankumDublin) February 19, 2024
Announcing our biggest indoor gig to date. One night only at legendary Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London.
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 10AM.
PRE-SALE WEDNESDAY 10AM.
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They are one of a very small handful of groups…who not only seek to constantly evolve their own music but, in doing so, change the way folk music is recorded and listened to. It’s a truism to say that folk music is mutable and endlessly malleable, but for it to be so, someone has to have the courage to push it into genuinely new and exciting directions. False Lankum is the Dublin group’s fourth album as a quartet and their most uncompromising to date. It is not so much a retreat down the rabbit hole as a bold statement of intent and an example of how new ideas can still enliven old forms.
Thomas Blake, KLOF Mag (review of False Lankum)