See Blue Valentine live in a cabaret setting with an intimate night of Old Tom Cats music at Kyteler's Inn Top Bar this Saturday October 22.
This week sees the release of Tom Waits 24th studio album Bad As Me.
David Irwin and his five-piece band have recreated the early years of Tom Waits' music under the name Blue Valentine.
During his acoustic singer/songwriter period (the 10 years or so up to the 1980s before he turned to more experimental music ) Tom Waits wrote a catalogue of classic mournful and wryly ironic melodies for which he is probably still best known.
This was a period that saw Waits writing songs such as ‘Martha, Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You’, ‘Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Mathilda )’, ‘Ol' 55’, ‘The Heart Of Saturday Night’, ‘The Piano Has Been Drinking’, and ‘Closing Time’.
His nightclub-style performances are legendary, with a voice that has been described as sounding “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car”.
The well-known Limerick singer and instrumentalist David Irwin recruited a fine band of musicians to bring us his interpretations of these classic ballads, love songs and observations.
See Blue Valentine live in a cabaret setting with an intimate night of Old Tom Cats music at Kyteler's Inn Top Bar this Saturday at 10pm. Adm €10.
Don’t forget the Rory Gallagher Tribute — Sinner Boy this Friday and The Smiths Tribute — These Charming Men on Saturday October 29.
