On June 5th (this Friday!) we’re releasing “Drum”, the first single from my brand new album All My Dream Companions Gone, a song cycle set in Drogheda during World War I (and the follow-up to the 2022 RTÉ Radio 1 Album of the Week Old Ghosts In The Water.)

“Drum” single release date: June 5th
Special Bandcamp album release date: June 5th
Official album release date: June 19th

200,000 young men from the island of Ireland fought in World War I, including two of my great-grandfathers. They returned from the horror of the trenches, their British uniforms ill-fitting in a changed Ireland with a fresh sense of its nationhood. This new album is a patchwork of emotional, relatable stories. Songs of the people. Small stories with great truths. Tales of trench and table, war and want, the massive and the mundane.

The great Dublin singer, actor and folklorist Lisa Lambe sings two of the album’s most affecting songs, “The Separation Waltz” and “In The Spring”. The band on the album also includes Trevor Hutchinson on double bass (Lúnasa, The Waterboys), Graham Henderson on accordion and keyboards (Fairground Attraction, Moving Hearts), singer and flautist Nuala Kennedy (Solas, The Alt) and legendary percussionists Noel Eccles and Jimmy Higgins.

Presave the single here