The Barr Brothers live in Manchester, January 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Barr Brothers were at a packed out Deaf Institute in Manchester last weekend as part of a UK tour launched to support their essential 2014 album ‘Sleeping Operator‘.
Relive the evening, and support act Kate Stables, courtesy of Live4ever’s Gary Mather here.
‘Sleeping Operator’s emotionally driven themes are in clear evidence on the latest single ‘Come In the Water‘, of which singer Brad Barr has said:
“The event that inspired this song was the 1997 killing of 7 young girls in the park on the Island of Peace, on the Jordan river, along the border between Israel and Jordan. It was designated a peaceful place, where Israeli and Jordanian kids could play together without fear.”
“One day a Jordanian soldier open fired on a group of Israeli girls, aged 13 and 14, killing 7 of them. Israel was created in a moment of compassion, national interest, and delusion. ‘On the day that you were born, legions laid down their arms/On the day you lost control, legions leapt for your throat’.”