Lisa O’Neill
Wednesday 8 May 2019
7:00 pm : Main stage
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One of Ireland’s most original singer songwriters performs at Metronome on Wednesday 8 May.
Released on Rough Trade Records new imprint label River Lea, Lisa O’Neill’s latest record was featured in the The Guardian‘s top albums of 2018 list. It was described as a modern folk masterpiece.
“Lisa O’Neill’s ‘Heard a Long Gone Song’ is an exceptional album that will make the trad music scene stand up and take notice.” Folk Radio
“This is as beautiful as it gets.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Irish Times
It won’t be long before she plays bigger venues having just been announced to join Iron and Wine on tour.
Lisa O’Neill grew up in Ballyhaise, County Cavan and now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for Rough Trade imprint River Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. These are folk songs in the original sense of the word.
The album begins with an entirely unaccompanied rendition of The Galway Shawl, first collected in 1936 but made famous by Alan Lomax’s 1956 recording of the great Margaret Barry. Lisa’s remarkable and unconstrained delivery of this popular Irish street ballad is like hearing it for the first time.
At the start of 2018, Lisa was invited to perform at Dublin’s National Concert Hall for Shane McGowan’s 60th Birthday Celebration, alongside Nick Cave, Bono and Sinead O’Connor. On Heard A Long Gone Song, Lisa has recorded a gorgeously world-weary interpretation of The Pogues’ Lullaby Of London.
Of her own songs, the poignant Rock The Machine deals with the personal impact of mechanisation on the former workers of the Dublin docklands. With the incessant thrum of Lisa’s banjo echoing the industry, she sings of their loss but also their hope symbolised by cormorants on the River Liffey.
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Lisa O’Neill
One of Ireland’s most original singer songwriters performs at Metronome on Wednesday 8 May.
Released on Rough Trade Records new imprint label River Lea, Lisa O’Neill’s latest record was featured in the The Guardian‘s top albums of 2018 list. It was described as a modern folk masterpiece.
“Lisa O’Neill’s ‘Heard a Long Gone Song’ is an exceptional album that will make the trad music scene stand up and take notice.” Folk Radio
“This is as beautiful as it gets.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Irish Times
It won’t be long before she plays bigger venues having just been announced to join Iron and Wine on tour.
Lisa O’Neill grew up in Ballyhaise, County Cavan and now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for Rough Trade imprint River Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. These are folk songs in the original sense of the word.
The album begins with an entirely unaccompanied rendition of The Galway Shawl, first collected in 1936 but made famous by Alan Lomax’s 1956 recording of the great Margaret Barry. Lisa’s remarkable and unconstrained delivery of this popular Irish street ballad is like hearing it for the first time.
At the start of 2018, Lisa was invited to perform at Dublin’s National Concert Hall for Shane McGowan’s 60th Birthday Celebration, alongside Nick Cave, Bono and Sinead O’Connor. On Heard A Long Gone Song, Lisa has recorded a gorgeously world-weary interpretation of The Pogues’ Lullaby Of London.
Of her own songs, the poignant Rock The Machine deals with the personal impact of mechanisation on the former workers of the Dublin docklands. With the incessant thrum of Lisa’s banjo echoing the industry, she sings of their loss but also their hope symbolised by cormorants on the River Liffey.
