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Contemporary musician, Adrian Crowley's songs are immersed in folk tradition and he is due to play with a four-piece band on Saturday 10 October in the Holy Trinity Church.
Once again, Charlie Fink's deadpan vocals recall those of Galway's Adrian Crowley, as his soothing, conversational singing entices the attentive listener into an absorbing collection of songs.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)On his fifth album, this Irish folk singer, who remains relatively unknown outside Ireland (where The Irish Times recently placed him in their top ten list of Irish musicians), celebrates the power and tranquility of nature with a collection of slow moving, hazy, yet oddly enchanting tales about the inner peace of the natural world.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Northern Country is the name of his album but if the truth be known, Adrian Crowley crawled from the south. He was born in Sliema, a northwestern seaside suburb of Valletta, at the tail end of the '60s, weeks after his eight-months pregnant mother splashed into the Maltese Mediterranean and hauled out a drowning swimmer. [...] Crowley had an eclectic upbringing. "My parents met in Southern Africa," he says. "The reason I was born in Malta was they had been living in Sierra Leone and there was an uprising there and everyone had to leave. They ran to my grandmother's house. Then after I was born, we moved back to Cameroon for a few years."
Adrian Crowley has been one to watch for some time. Older fogies (like myself) will remember his song 'Capricorn' as a regular on Uaneen Fitzsimons era No Disco in 1999.
As the City of Tribes gears up for the cultural banquet known as the Galway Arts Festival, one of its dearest sons, Adrian Crowley, prepares to delight us with the sonic feast that is his third album, A Northern Country. Due for a 2 July release, the CD was recorded by Thomas Haugh (aka Hulk) and was co-produced by Adrian and Thomas.
Adrian Crowley, Heathers, Delorentos, Channel One and Bitches With Wolves are named among the acts who will feature.
Thank goodness for James Yorkston. [...] Indeed, the box set of the new album comes with a bonus CD featuring other artists – including our own Cathal Coughlan and Adrian Crowley – covering his songs, as well as a CD of remixes by the likes of Four Tet and King Creosote.
My favourite Irish album of 2007, Adrian Crowley's Long Distance Swimmer, and an excellent debut, The Flaw's Achieving Vagueness, are among the more fancied nominees.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)It must be said that 2007 was not a particularly memorable or inspiring year for Irish music. Indeed, if it wasn't for albums from Cathy Davey, Roisin Murphy and Adrian Crowley towards year's end, it could have gone down as an absolute stinker.
As expected, given Other Voices' fabulous disregard of genre, among the acts playing this year is Dave Geraghty, Adrian Crowley – both of whom have been nominated for the Choice Music Prize – Mick Flannery, Jenny Lindfors, Halfset andalt-electro Dubliners Dry County, who do a Tardis-esque job in squeezing all their equipment onto the stage of a tiny nearby pub.
TIPPED BY many – this writer included – to win the Choice Music Prize last week, the Galwegian was narrowly beaten by surprise winners Super Extra Bonus Party. Note to self – never bet on the likely winner of this event again. Anyway, Crowley has no doubt picked himself up, dusted himself down and is getting on with things. [...] Crowley's singing style has been compared to Nick Drake and Tim Buckley; his musical style to Badly Drawn Boy. And if, after the gig, you're still looking for another Adrian Crowley fix, he is featured on RTE 2's Other Voices that night at 11.30pm.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Francis is also thrilled about being shortlisted for the Choice award, but her enthusiasm bubbles over for her good friend and fellow nominee Adrian Crowley (The Season of the Sparks). "When the list was announced I was jumping up and down because I heard his name. I was so excited, I didn't realise I had been shortlisted myself. We were hoping both of us would be shortlisted because it wouldn't have felt right if one of us was left out. The hard work has paid off."
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)AFTER 35 YEARS reviewing albums for the prestigious French music magazine, Les Inrockuptibles, journalist Richard Robert picked up the last album he would ever write about before his retirement. Robert, it would be safe to say, has heard it all – a few times over. He pressed the play button on Adrian Crowley's Season of the Sparks and fell into a deep swoon. "Dazzling in its writing and its execution"; "a beauty that enchants the lives of us music-lovers"; "a miracle of equilibrium and elegance"; and "an art that is consummate" were among the phrases Robert used in his review. So moved was Robert by Crowley's work that he sought out his address in Dublin and sent him a letter telling him how glad he was that the last album he ever reviewed was Crowley's one.
The event concluded on Wednesday night with a surge of concentrated excellence from Adrian Crowley, beautifully crafted lo-fi pop from The XX, surprisingly supple, engaging acoustic hip-hop from Speech Debelle, and – winning this writer's award for best gig of the year – tear-shedding, blissed-out retro-pop from Richard Hawley. Other Voices 8 will be broadcast on RTÉ television early next year
Yesterday's line-up announcement was dominated by reforming acts and Electric Picnickers will hope Public Image Limited (PiL), fronted by John Lydon, will do better than the Sex Pistols' shambolic headline act at the festival in 2008. [...] Choice music prize winner Adrian Crowley, rockabilly singer Imelda May and Villagers make up some of the home contingent along with the Frames, Paul Brady and Afro-Celt Soundsystem.
Dublin-based singer Adrian Crowley was entranced on his first listen. [...] Crowley is curator of the Homelights Festival, which will host Bunyan's first Irish gig this weekend in Dublin.
Later this month, Adrian Crowley will release his fifth album, Season of the Sparks. Unlike his previous albums, there's a lot of expectation about Crowley's new release. This is due to the success of 2007's Long Distance Swimmer, an album which saw the Galway-born, Dublin-based singer-songwriter win over a new audience with his majestic songs, rich voice and subtle blend of atmospherics and master-level wordplay. He capitalised on the last release through tours with Silver Jews, James Yorkston and Vetiver, so it will be interesting to note just how well the new album will be received.
There's Richard Hawley – from Sheffield, England, I think. And an Irish fellow named Adrian Crowley.
Fife singer-songwriter James Yorkston and Dubliner Adrian Crowley opened with a special performance of the songs of American lo-fi legend Daniel Johnston, an artist whose battle with mental health demons has been well documented. They gave his tunes delicate and sparse arrangements, even singing some a cappella.
Early this month, the oracles at the Irish Times listed their "50 best music acts right now", so that we would all know who to like, at least until their next list. And in amidst the nostalgic wishful thinking (Ash) and premature overpraising (Villagers), there were a few genuine results: notably, Adrian Crowley carded a top ten finish, just behind his arch-nemesis Róisín Murphy.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Adrian Crowley, Heathers, Delorentos, Channel One and Bitches With Wolves are named among the acts who will feature.
Later this month, Adrian Crowley will release his fifth album, Season of the Sparks. Unlike his previous albums, there's a lot of expectation about Crowley's new release. This is due to the success of 2007's Long Distance Swimmer, an album which saw the Galway-born, Dublin-based singer-songwriter win over a new audience with his majestic songs, rich voice and subtle blend of atmospherics and master-level wordplay. He capitalised on the last release through tours with Silver Jews, James Yorkston and Vetiver, so it will be interesting to note just how well the new album will be received.
There's Richard Hawley – from Sheffield, England, I think. And an Irish fellow named Adrian Crowley.