Lisa O’Neill – Imbolc
Vicar Street, Dublin
 February 1st, 2027
Tickets on sale Friday Oct 16th @ 10am
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Responding to phenomenal demand and the sell out of her December 21st show, Lisa O’Neill has announced a second headline date at Vicar Street in Dublin, for February 1st, bridging two significant days in the traditional Irish calendar.

  The dual concerts form an arc, tracking the movement of light through the Irish seasons. The upcoming show on December 21st takes place in the peak of winter, on the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. Historically a time for gathering and reflection. This night will see O’Neill joined by special guest Seamas Hyland alongside other surprise Christmas bundles rolling into Dublin for the holidays.  

Feb 1st lands on the celebration of Imbolc and St Brigid, marking the end of the earths winter sleep and the awakening of the land with the lengthening days. The turning point where new life begins to awake from dormancy. When seeds are sown.   

This show will take a different turn in light of the light. Lisa will introduce new songs and will be joined on the night by percussive Sean-nós dancer Stephanie Keane and writer and ecologist Anja Murray. More to be revealed in the new year.

This collection of songs has been gathering for a while.
Regarding ‘ The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right ‘
Natural disasters devastate and turn our world upside down, BUT it is the man-made greed-motivated unnatural disasters put upon this beautiful planet and it’s people which inspired this song. I hope the title track of this collection pulls these six pieces together in a cohesive journey for the listener. I am proud of this EP and feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with the people who gave so much of themselves to it.

Hearing the test pressings on vinyl, to my surprise the tracks came alive again in a new way. A subtle difference but meaningful, not only sonically but as a collection that makes sense. It left me pondering, is this a short album or a long EP? I decided it doesn’t matter, it’s found it’s home on vinyl.

Listen/Buy

Dublin - Spindizzy Records

Derry - Cool Discs

all of this is chance

“Vertiginous, violet-they scroll across the sky, words with wings VVV, whether wrens or angels one cannot determine, perhaps an alternate universe fusion of both, up down, high, low-dizzy, still; at peace, at war: redemption dreams arise from the clay: soul’s peace, as the bird in the bough its little eye closes slowly: all is chance, they say, indeed-save this, indisputably, O’ Neill’s Art’s gentle triumph.” – Pat McCabe