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October 27, 2022

SINEAD O’BRIEN

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Oct 27, 2022 @ 8:00pm
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Foggy Notions proudly presents

SINEAD O’BRIEN


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PRETTY HAPPY

Thur 27th Oct 2022

Whelan’s Main Venue




SINEAD O’BRIEN ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM ‘TIME BEND AND BREAK THE BOWER’ OUT JUNE 10TH VIA CHESS CLUB – RELEASES NEW SINGLE + VIDEO ‘HOLY COUNTRY’

ANNOUNCES UK, IRELAND AND EUROPE HEADLINE TOURS

IRISH TOUR DATES

26th – Cyprus Avenue, Cork
27th – Whelans’, Dublin
28th – Black Box, Belfast
29th – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick

Time Bend and Break The Bower Artwork

“a singular and visceral talent” – Sunday Times Culture

“hugely exciting” – The Quietus

“Quite simply, O’Brien is a hell of a performer” – NME

“another new, idiosyncratic voice coming from across the Atlantic” – Stereogum

“endlessly fascinating” – The Line Of Best Fit

Today Irish artist Sinead O’Brien announces her debut album ‘Time Bend and Break The Bower’, due for release June 10th via Chess Club Records and available to pre-order now. Sinead also today releases a brand new single ‘Holy Country’, premiered on BBC Radio 6 Music by Steve Lamacq and accompanied by a stunning official music video directed by Chloé le Drezen. The album news and ‘Holy Country’ are also accompanied by the announcement of massive UK, Ireland and European tours pencilled in for September and October 2022 including London’s Lafayette – the full list of live dates is below, with tour tickets on pre-sale from Friday 18th.

WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘HOLY COUNTRY’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk0f9_nwo6A

Communing at the triangulation of words, music and image, O’Brien has always conjured powerful worlds: but none more powerful, or as immersive, than on her debut record. In the space that exists between her delivery – at once wry, silky, vicious, and self-assured – and the music – a dynamic, dancing call-and-response from her collaborators, guitarist Julian Hanson and drummer Oscar Robertson – lies a productive tension. Using a method of creating on-instinct, in constant communication with multisensory cues, O’Brien is carving out a space as a musical oracle for an ever-shifting era. The 11-track album was produced by super-producer Dan Carey (Fontaines DC, Wet Leg, Squid, Black Midi, Foals, Kae Tempest) and recorded in his south London studio Mr Dan’s.

“The story of the album is built up in layers; one song giving context to the next” explains Sinead; “I thought about becoming undressed; testing my ideas, my voice. Working myself out across themes of identity, curiosity, creative process. Experimenting with the form and shape of language, using tone and delivery to get to the immediate centre of what I am saying. The record opens and closes with poems, these tracks have a really clear direction – a form which is set apart from the ‘songs’. I hold stops in different places, moving emphatically through the lyrics, changing the meaning. No punctuation – only the voice mapping out the way.”

“The album title “Time Bend and Break The Bower”, from the song ‘Multitudes’, came into my head and made its demands, an idea that pressed on me throughout the record. It has a very active role. The clock symbol is enlarged, it looms like a moon over my activity watching, counting me down to zero. Dripping with self-sabotage and the feeling of being chased; it pulls and pushes against the verses which talk of ’Multitudes’; the things that faithfully come back – the images, the words, creativity. It is creativity itself.”

Since 2020, O’Brien has garnered international critical acclaim from titles like Rolling Stone, DIY, Dazed, Dork, Loud & Quiet, NME, Paste, Stereogum, The FADER, The Guardian, The Quietus, and AnOther Magazine, among others. O’Brien has also been consistently supported on national radio: she counts Jack Saunders at BBC Radio 1, and Steve Lamacq and Amy Lamé at BBC Radio 6 Music as champions of her music, with the latter station giving two tracks a spot on their B List. And O’Brien is building on her US support from the likes of Seattle’s KEXP alongside appearances at SXSW – in virtual form in 2021, and live with her band in Texas later this spring.

With a background on the design teams for John Galliano and, later, Vivienne Westwood, it’s no surprise that raven-haired O’Brien’s cultural touchstones also span a rich history of art, photography, film, dance and movement: from Helmut Newton femme fatales and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s bleak landscapes, to modern performance by Michael Clark and Michael Laub companies, to the writings of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett. Recently also tapped by Gucci to perform, it’s clear that O’Brien’s esoteric instincts will continue to inspire those beyond the industry as well as within it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrCOlhco5gU

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TICKETS


€18.50 available online from Whelan’s.

– 50c per ticket service charge applies on all bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.

Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.

AFTER THE GIG


Indie & Alternative Dance Party | Drinks Promos | 11pm til 3am – Free Entry
Where
Main Room
When
Oct 27, 2022 @ 8:00pm
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