Following 5 BBC Folk Awards nominations and a designation by the Guardian as Folk Album of the Year in 2019, it is fair to say that Lisa O’Neill is one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today.

Fresh off an adaptation of Bob Dylan’s "All the Tired Horses" for the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders, O'Neill released her latest album in February 2023, and first for the Rough Trade label, the beautiful, resonant All Of This Is Chance. A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, every story starts somewhere and O’Neill starts this extraordinary collection here on earth, on Irish soil, hands in the land.

The album is full of both orchestral masterpieces like the ambitious and cinematic "Old Note", inspired by the great Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh's epic poem The Great Hunger, as well as stirring meditations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood that ring out over a clacking banjo, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.All Of This Is Chance takes Lisa’s inimitable voice to greater heights, or depths, depending on which way you look at it.

"You’ll be lucky to hear a better record all year” - Sunday Times
*****"The first indisputable classic of 2023" - UNCUT 9/10

(Photo credit: Anthony Mulcahy)

Other 'Later' concerts include:

Nov 4th: Manish Pingle & Seckou Keita (separate tickets)
Nov 17th: God Knows
Nov 24th: Lemoncello

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