Strange Brew presents… Lisa O’Neill at Town Hall Theatre.

Following recent sold-out residencies in the Gate Theatre and Pavilion Theatre, and main stage performance at All Together Now, Lisa O’Neill announces a return to Vicar Street in Dublin on December 21st. In addition, throughout November she will perform intimate theatres and residencies around Ireland following UK dates and US dates performing as special guest of the Pogues.

Earlier in the year Lisa released a single which features vocals from Libertines’ Peter Doherty – ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ – a song Lisa felt compelled to write in response to the growing issue of homelessness in Dublin. This is 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.

Lisa is currently writing new material for her next album.

It’s been a remarkable few years for the Cavan songwriter. Her acclaimed last album All of This Is Chance ranked highly on many critics 2023’s Albums of The Year Lists. Amongst the wealth of praise, Gideon Coe at BBC 6 Music picked it as his Album Of The Year. It was No. 3 in Mojo Magazine’s Folk Albums Of The Year and Bob Boilen at NPR deemed it his No.3 Album of The Year. It also featured in Songlines’, Uncut Magazine’s and The Quietus’s Albums of the years. May 2023 also saw Lisa make a memorable appearance on Later with Jools Holland.

A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five-time BBC Folk Award nominee and her album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year. She had 2 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. Her song ‘Old Note’ was used in the drama series ‘Say Nothing’.

Photo by Patrick Glennon