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Rough Trade Records is excited to release a new six-track EP by Cavan songwriter Lisa O’Neill on 19 November. The first single from the EP, The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right, is a moving and powerful song for our times, which Lisa describes thus, “I began writing this song in November 2017 and I finished it in January 2025. My song is a reaction to the unsettled times that we live in.” The video, directed by Ellius Grace, features musicians Kae Tempest, Kevin Rowland, Spider Stacey of The Pogues and Iona Zajac plus renowned Nigerian/Irish poet Feli Speaks, actresses Olwen Fouéré and Hazel Doupe and actors John McArdle and Jack Walsh amongst many others.
The EP is comprised of a group of six tracks, they include the haunting rendition of Bob Dylan’s All The Tired Horses that Lisa recorded to soundtrack the closing scene of the final episode of Peaky Blinders, plus Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age) featuring Peter Doherty, released as a stand-alone single in January of this year. It was 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 – this new song was written in response to the growing issue of homelessness in Dublin and Ireland.
Presented by Hey! Manchester.
This is a 14+ event. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
