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TIR NA NOG @ The Blue Room - Sun 6th May 2018


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Tir na nOg
 
‘Sonny Condell and Leo O’Kelly continue to defy real time’ – Irish Times
 
‘..a remarkable band…. they deliver a stunning performance that underlines their reputation as being well founded…… the crowd utterly entranced.’ - Prog Magazine
 
 
Tir na nOg have been described as Alt Folk, Prog Folk, Psych Folk, and even Space Folk!. But the duo, formed by Leo O’Kelly & Sonny Condell in 1970, transcends all these categories. What is not in doubt is that they are two of the most original and influential songwriters and performersIreland has ever produced. Their guitars wind and mesh gorgeously together, their voices likewise; nor can they be separated for the quality of their songwriting. Songs like Condell’s ‘Our Love Will Not Decay’, ‘Eyelids Into Snow’ and ‘Two White Horses’, and O’Kelly’s ‘Piccadilly’, ‘So Freely’ and ‘Looking Up’  are as good as anything Ireland’s produced in the past four decades.
They were signed to Chrysalis Records in May '70 within days of arriving in London, suitcases and guitars in hand! Tir na nOg recorded three timeless albums for the label, recently re-issued by Cherry Red/Esoteric Records.  John Peel championed the duo from the start, recording many Peel Sessions with them. They toured with bands as disparate as Jethro Tull, Procol Harum, The Who, Roxy Music and Steeleye Span in the 70s, as well as headlining their own theatre, college and club gigs, garnering a large cult following, which to this day still grows.
 
2015 saw the eagerly awaited release of a new studio album, 'The Dark Dance' - their first since 1973! Classic Rock magazine  listed this as their 3rd best prog album of 2015! It has received glowing reviews across the music press.
 
'....oozes with prog-folk magic’   R2 Magazine
‘The Dark Dance is an  acoustically mounted piece of great refinement, on a record often embellished by strings and moments of eastern promise'’   Prog Magazine
‘Each of these deceptively serene songs has an underlying mysticism, an arcane quality that cannot be denied'    Classic Rock Magazine
 
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