Lisa O’Neill’s mesmerising voice is one of the most evocative in modern folk music. You might recognise her magnificent, deeply emotional cover of Bob Dylan’s “All The Tired Horses” from the final episode of Peaky Blinders but the Irish musician’s 2023 album, All Of This Is Chance, was inspired by the natural world and the deep, old sounds that lie within it, perfectly captured by O’Neill’s stark, redolent voice. Now she returns to the South-West for two special shows following the release of her new EP. May 2023 saw Lisa make a memorable appearance on Later with Jools Holland.
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Lisa O’Neill’s mesmerising voice is one of the most evocative in modern folk music. You might recognise her magnificent, deeply emotional cover of Bob Dylan’s “All The Tired Horses” from the final episode of Peaky Blinders but the Irish musician’s 2023 album, All Of This Is Chance, was inspired by the natural world and the deep, old sounds that lie within it, perfectly captured by O’Neill’s stark, redolent voice. Now she returns to the South-West for two special shows following the release of her new EP. May 2023 saw Lisa make a memorable appearance on Later with Jools Holland.
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A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five-time BBC Folk Award nominee and her previous album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year. She had two songs feature in Peaky Blinders – Blackbird, her own composition, and an adaptation of Bob Dylan’s All the Tired Horses soundtracked the final scene of the epic TV drama.
The EP is comprised of a group of six tracks, they include the haunting rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Tired Horses’ that Lisa recorded to soundtrack the closing scene of the final episode of Peaky Blinders, plus ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ featuring Peter Doherty, released as a stand-alone single in January of this year. It was not the first time O’Neill has written about social injustices on the cusp of a change. Songs like ‘Rock the Machine’ about unemployment in the Dublin dock lands, ‘When Cash Was King’ about the move to a cashless society and ‘Violet Gibson’ about the Irish woman who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1926 – this new song was written in response to the growing issue of homelessness in Dublin and Ireland.
Added to these are a new song and recent live favourite ‘Mother Jones’ about the Irish activist who emigrated to America and became a union organiser, Mary G. Harris Jones, who in 1902 was called ‘the most dangerous woman in America’ – following her organising of miners against mine owners leading directly to the introduction of America’s first child labor laws. The EP is completed with a stunning version of the seasonally topical ‘The Bleak Midwinter’ and a moving reading of the James Stevens poem ‘Autumn 1915’.
In recent months Lisa has been touring extensively both in her own right and also with The Pogues, celebrating the band and Shane McGowan’s legacy across the UK and North America. An extensive tour of Ireland begins at the end of the month and ends with a show at Dublin’s Vicar Street on December 21st.
Band food lovingly cooked by Tamarind Tree
