Sinead O’Brien has released a new single ahead of her debut EP Drowning In Blessings which will be released on September 16th.
Strangers In Danger is described as O’Brien’s, ‘rumination of coexistence between the artificial and the ordinary from the outskirts and margins’. “I had a strange epiphany during a gig,” she says.
“’Plastic flowers in bloom and the sound of soccer’. I couldn’t make sense of it – I wrote it down and later began to take it apart. It’s about a kind of duality where something is divided by having two apparently conflicting meanings. A feeling is mirrored in an external scene and illustrated in another language. The image simplifies the problem because it just is.”
“It exists. With all of its complexities and contradictions. I felt connected to various images and occurrences around me and began sound-tracking these mini scenarios.”
Tour dates:
November
29 – Stag and Dagger Festival, Glasgow
February 2021
6 – Wide Eyed Festival, Leicester
March 2021
16 – Heaven, London
17 – Rough Trade, Bristol
18 – Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
19 – Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
20 – Whelan’s (upstairs), Dublin
23 – YES (Basement), Manchester
24 – Brudenell (Community Room), Leeds
25 – Chats Palace, London
July 2021
3 – VIDA Festival, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona
September 2021
3-5 – Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham