Paddy Hanna
Upstairs at Whelans
28th January 2016
Tickets priced €12 (inc booking fee) go on sale Friday 6th November at 9am through www.whelanslive.com www.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets nationwide.
Part of the same scene which spawned Girl Band – who he recently supported on their Irish tour – Hanna’s songwriting calls to mind Elvis Costello at his lovesick, literate best, as well as the rickety genre-spanning of Ezra Furman.
His recent single ‘Underprotected’ merges a relentless krautrock beat with complex interlocking guitar lines, not unlike Wilco at their most airborne, with some cheeky “sha-la-la” backing vocals thrown in for good measure. Hanna describes the track as “an ode to self-doubt, a story of embracing worth, while mourning the loss of a sorrow which once defined you,” and his voice – draped in his proudly undisguised Dublin accent – commands the track.
It’s B-side ‘Chocolate and Salt’ shows off all aspects of his voice, veering from gentle Edwyn Collins croon to Tom Waits growl in the space of a sentence. Meanwhile, his unique turn of phrase – “the dusty rug of old world thinking has covered me too long” – mark him as a singular voice amongst his Dublin peers.
www.paddyhanna.bandcamp.com
www.twitter.com/paddyhannamusic
www.facebook.com/Paddyhannamusic
Upstairs at Whelans
28th January 2016
Tickets priced €12 (inc booking fee) go on sale Friday 6th November at 9am through www.whelanslive.com www.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets nationwide.
Part of the same scene which spawned Girl Band – who he recently supported on their Irish tour – Hanna’s songwriting calls to mind Elvis Costello at his lovesick, literate best, as well as the rickety genre-spanning of Ezra Furman.
His recent single ‘Underprotected’ merges a relentless krautrock beat with complex interlocking guitar lines, not unlike Wilco at their most airborne, with some cheeky “sha-la-la” backing vocals thrown in for good measure. Hanna describes the track as “an ode to self-doubt, a story of embracing worth, while mourning the loss of a sorrow which once defined you,” and his voice – draped in his proudly undisguised Dublin accent – commands the track.
It’s B-side ‘Chocolate and Salt’ shows off all aspects of his voice, veering from gentle Edwyn Collins croon to Tom Waits growl in the space of a sentence. Meanwhile, his unique turn of phrase – “the dusty rug of old world thinking has covered me too long” – mark him as a singular voice amongst his Dublin peers.
www.paddyhanna.bandcamp.com
www.twitter.com/paddyhannamusic
www.facebook.com/Paddyhannamusic
