Richard Dawson
w/guests
Clang Sayne
Friday 9th May
Bello Bar, Portobello
Doors 8pm
Tickets €12 + booking available from Richard Dawson Tickets, Dublin - Eventbrite
Newcastle's Richard Dawson returns to Dublin on Friday May 9th with a new album in the coal mine and fresh from seeing The Glass Trunk feature both as Stewart Lee's album of the year and reaching number 4 in The Wire's albums of 2013.
As anyone who has caught either of his previous two visits to Dublin can testify, Richard Dawson is one of the most brilliantly talented, arresting, heartbreaking, surreal and hilarious performers you are ever likely to see and commands your attention in a way that only few performers could ever hope to. There are elements of John Martyn, Comus, Steeleye Span, Robert Wyatt and other English musical mavericks at play in Richard's music but such is the unique quality of Richard's stage performance that to list influences or to compare is almost to do him a disservice.
Last Summer in The Cobblestone, Richard broke our hearts and then ate a bunch of flowers. Let's see what we can get him to eat this time around.
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Clang Sayne was founded by musician and songwriter, Laura Hyland in 2008 as a platform for her to perform her music in collaboration with other musicians. She has made two albums with London based musicians; electric guitarist, James O Sullivan and double bassist, peter Marsh, the first of which - 'Winterlands' was released in 2010, and featured Matt Fisher on percussion, and the second, 'The Piper, The Drum and The Brazen Sun' is due for release on Forwind records in Spring 2012, and features percussionist Paul May.
Her music has been described as 'exhilarating in its refusal to conform' (The Wire), 'an uncategorisable approach to song craft' (Boomkat) , and 'weightless and airy as well as astoundingly clearly shaped' (Tokafi). Laura will be joined on stage for this performance by Judith Ring & Matthew Jacobson
