lisa o’neill

Lisa O’Neill releases her new 6-track EP today, The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right. The collection features her cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘All the Tired Horses’ as well as a “stunning version” of ‘The Bleak Midwinter’, which is accompanied by a video directed by Ellius Grace. O’Neill shares that the seasonal classic reminds her: “In the bleakest of circumstances, love is a beacon.”

Lisa O’Neill is set to return on November 19th with a new six-track EP via Rough Trade Records. Watch the moving video, directed by Ellius Grace, for the EP’s powerful title track and lead single, “The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right.” It features Kae Tempest, Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners, and Spider Stacey of The Pogues, as well as renowned Nigerian/Irish poet Feli Speaks, actress Olwen Fouéré, among others. 

Lisa O’Neill has announced two very special ‘Symphony for the Moons’ orchestral shows this winter at Dublin’s National Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra and London’s Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia.

Ahead of her upcoming tour, watch a stunning live performance of Goodnight World by Lisa O’Neill, captured by Myles O’Reilly, Donal Dineen and Daniel O’Neill “… Lisa…never fails to make my hair stand up with her honest beauty, was such a thrilling and rewarding experience.”

Watch Lisa O’Neill’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert featuring songs from ‘All of This Is Chance’ and a new song – ‘When cash was King’ – which reflects on how those without a bank account or a mobile phone are sometimes unable to purchase basic essentials.

Taken from her new album ‘All Of This Is Chance’ (one of our Featured Albums of the Month), watch Lisa O’Neill’s new video for ‘The Globe’, here, just with guitar, she performs the song live on the coast of Kerry. She has also announced her headline US Tour dates.

With ‘All Of This Is Chance’, Lisa O’Neill lets her own creative wings spread, unleashing every ounce of elation, despair and love that her music emanates. An epic canyon of sense and sound… a timeless piece of work, wholly unbound by style or genre, a universal shot of medicinal magic.

Lisa O’Neill has shared a new track and accompanying video for ‘Silver Seed’, taken from her new album ‘All of This Is Chance’, out February 10th, 2023. An entrancing Lisa O’Neill at her very best.

Today, Lisa O’Neill shares news of her new album ‘All Of This Is Chance’ (out on 10th February via Rough Trade). Watch her new video for the lead single ‘Old Note’, directed by Myles O’Reilly.

Opening the set with ‘Lilac Wine’ is a bold move…But Lisa O’Neill has the poise and range to use this as a vehicle to lock in the audience’s attention, and it’s a grip that does not loosen for the next ninety minutes.

Lisa O’Neill has three UK dates this month prior to an announcement about her brand new album. She is also touring Ireland in November. Not to be missed.

Lisa O’Neill sings her version of Bob Dylan’s, All the Tired Horses at the end of the final episode of the final series, of Peaky Blinders, currently, the most-watched television series, in the world.

ITMA take us behind the scenes of Lisa O’Neill’s research into Arthur Griffith, as she prepares for Treaty: Songs at the NCH in December – a Concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Listen to the new single from Lisa O’Neill & Colm Mac Con Iomaire performing Peggy Gordon. Lisa O’Neill delivers the lyrics – about the despair of unrequited love – with poise and poignancy. Colm Mac Con Iomaire’s solo fiddle is elegant in its gentle understatement.

Serious have announced that they are joining with the National Concert Hall in Dublin to present Lisa O’Neill in a Livestream Session this Friday 12th June at 8pm.

All three songs have that timeless quality. Listened to out of context it would be difficult to tell the ancient from the modern. This is an important feature of O’Neill’s gifts as a singer and musician.

Today, Lisa O’Neill follows her acclaimed album Heard a Long Gone Song with a new EP – ‘The Wren, The Wren’ released on Rough Trade’s traditional music imprint River Lea.

Ye Vagabonds were the big winners RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards scooping three awards. Winners also included the incredible Lisa O’Neill, Saint Sister, Zoë Conway, Iarla Ó’Lionáird as well as Moya Brennan receiving a lifetime achievement award and Margaret Barry inducted into the Hall of Fame.