Music

Culture Night So Say So

Got to break out some new poems with my friends @basciville at the Culture Night So Say So, @wexfordartscentre. Full house, amazing evening. Cheers to @sjswords for the invite. Photographs by @michaeldugganphotography

Cursed Murphy’s Halloween Ball

Oct 31st, Wexford Arts Centre, Doors 7.30pm, Adm 10 euros A punk-rock glam-goth schlocky-horror hardcore fancy dress extravaganza! Come in your most diabolical dress up! O bondage up yours! Halloween is Christmas for freaks: this is your prom night, frankenweenies! Featuring: Cursed Murphy BARMP Vanta Vamp & the VaudeVillains Plus[…]

Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance, The Grand Social, Dublin, Nov 29

WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST EVER DUBLIN SHOW! Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance, plus very special guests Grand Social, Dublin Wednesday November 29, 2023 Tickets: https://secure.tickets.ie/…/cursed-murphy-versus-the… Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance play their first ever Dublin show on Wednesday November 29 at the Grand Social. You should go.[…]

W/John Murry, at ATN

I’ll have the privilege of interviewing John Murry at the All Curious Minds tent, programmed by Raymond Bell and David Bell, at 1pm this Sunday as part of the All Together Now festival. We’ll be discussing the tenth anniversary of his classic album The Graceless Age, Sarah Share’s new documentary[…]

Adele Bertei, Vivienne Dick, Cursed Murphy, in conversation.

Soooooo looking forward to moderating an in-conversation with downtown-and-beyond legends Adele Bertei and Vivienne Dick at the Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin on May 31. Here’s the skinny:“Adele’s memoir Twist is a revelatory and deeply personal account of queer history written from a working class perspective. Adele reveals what it’s[…]

The One – w/Lorcan Byrne

Three years ago, in the first dismal season of lock-in, the musical Zen master Lorcan Byrne hosted a very cool experiment, inviting guests to interpret his quadrupedal beats to their own ends. This was my humble contribution. In all the stuff I’d written up to that point, I felt I’d[…]

Live shots, 17/3/23

Thanks so much to Forlorn for having us on their show with Star Comedy Democrats at the Crown Live, Wexford, on Friday. Big shout out to Bill Hennessy and Tom Bates for tech support, and to Sasha Bratkova for the shots. We had an absolute blast.

Federal Hall (Live)

Federal Hall is one of the first pieces myself and Dan Comerford wrote together. Adapted from a short story named The Blacklight Ballroom (New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O’Connor, Faber, 2011), it originates with an interview I did with filmmaker and writer Bill Carter, about how during the[…]