I'm playing at the Glor Sessions in Dublin's International Bar tonight.   The Glor Sessions are run by slam poet Stephen James Smith and are well worth checking out even if I'm not on the bill.   Hope to see some of you down there!

I was asked to record a version of a Joy Division song for a special edition of the Green Room on Cork's 96FM which will be broadcast on Saturday 5th June between 6.00 PM and 8.00 PM.   A couple of the big tracks were already spoken for but luckily 'Atmosphere' wasn't and I really wanted to try something with that.   You can tune in on the internet if you're not from Cork . . . just go to www.96FM.ie and click on their Listen Live button.

The other acts involved in the special are La Belle Alliance, Wasps vs Humans, Ollie Cole, Ann Scott & Karl Odlum, Beastmen, Ian Whitty, Katie Kim & John Haggis, Windings and Annette Buckley

We'll be playing in Drogheda's Droichead Arts Centre on Stockwell Street tonight and I'm really looking forward to it.   We have some new material which we'll be giving a first airing to so it'll be a bit nerve-wracking but exciting too.



Dundalk's Stewart Agnew will be opening up for us so make sure to get down early enough to catch him.   I interviewed him for The 'C' Word, my 2XM radio show, recently and he's a very talented guy.



Tickets can be pre-booked from the Droichead Arts Centre Box Office on 041 9833946

Miss Paula Flynn

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Aoibheann Maguire

Women have certainly triumphed, in the music business, in 2009. And while I adore, the fact, that my gender finally has the fortitude to write brilliant pop songs, about crap lovers, and turn the art of writing  bitter love-songs into an even playing-field, alá Florence Welsh and La Roux. As the year draws to a close, showing your tender side could easily prove to be an even braver force to be reckoned with.

Miss Paula Flynn

Miss Paula Flynn has tiptoed into the spotlight, in late 2009, with the release of her first solo album. An album, regardless of some of the dark underlying themes of the songs, that is brimming with elegance and romance.  Proving the theory that you don’t need to scream and shout to get your message across. Fans of punk poet Jinx Lennon will be familiar with Miss Paula Flynn’s stunning voice (she regularly features on his work).

She has a voice, which is so stupendously soft and sweet, that many people who have heard this, Armagh, woman sing have urged her to make an album of her own. The result of this persistent persuasion, by members of the public, is a lengthy collection of songs, 17 in total, on her captivating self-titled debut.

There is clearly an alt-country tag that could, casually, be used to describe this album, but in doing so it grasses over the soulfulness of the songs, which could easily be read aloud as poems.  Boxed In, for example, is a spoken word piece that awakens the listener, not only because of the change in style, but because of the uncomfortable truth, of the reality, of getting boxed into an unhappy existence.

It’s not all pink elephants though! If anything, this album has a definite pop sensibility with radio friendly hits such as: Goldfish At The Fair/Magic/ Ghost in My Car. When Miss Paula Flynn is not covering existential themes this lady’s voice has a grace that delivers much to mere woh-ohs and ahhs. If this album is heard by the “right” people Miss Paula Flynn could certainly carve a career for herself stateside, or perhaps,  fittingly, soundtrack movies in the same way Aimee Mann’s music  has been very useful to directors in moving a story along. The songs really are that poignant, but more importantly for us – they’re addictive

Drop-d Rating: 9.5/10