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“An unearthed gem of Irish music” - Clash Magazine

“An unearthed gem of Irish music” - Clash Magazine

There are few artists who could count Burt Bacharach and Fontaines DC amongst their fans, but Paddy is one of them. The Dubliner has long eschewed passing fads in favour of timeless melodies and fine songwriting, leading indie music bible The Quietus to call him “a songwriter with a propensity for wildly infectious hooks and choruses that burrow into your brain with no intention of leaving.”

The Galway International Arts Festival opened its box office this week, in the new location of The Cornstore, Middle Street.

During the local elections, I spoke to the partner of a politician, offering congratulations on the success and opining that at least now, everything would get back to normal in the political household; that the grass would be cut once again, the flowerbeds weeded, the hinges fixed on the ratchety door, and the kids getting to know the one parent who had been missing for three months or so.

Rock legend Robert Plant; songwriting legend Burt Bacharach; five world premiers and two Irish and two European premieres for theatre; an on street silent disco/flash mob, and major public discussions on Brexit and climate change - this is the Galway International Arts Festival 2019.

ALL TVVINS have been announced as support for Two Door Cinema Club, while left-field Irish singer-songwriter Paddy Hanna will open for Burt Bacharach, at those artists respective GIAF 2019 headline concerts.

‘Walk On By’, ‘(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me’, ‘What the World Needs Now Is Love’, ‘The Look of Love’, ‘I Say a Little Prayer’, ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again’. With Hal David, Burt Bacharach has written some of the greatest songs of the last 60 years.

ELVIS COSTELLO, and his band The Imposters, have just been announced to play the Absolut Festival Big Top on Friday July 15 as part of this summer's Galway International Arts Festival.