Kilkenny 2024
Wednesday, 1st May 2024
BROWN HORSE
Brown Horse @ Kilkenny 2024 -
03 MAY - Cleere's Bar & Theatre (10:45pm)
04 MAY - Cleere's Bar & Theatre (1pm)
05 MAY - Billy Byrnes (6pm)
Brown Horse are a Norwich-based country rock band. Rooted in a collaborative approach to songwriting, the six-piece mix guitar-driven 90s alternative rock with the folk and country sounds of the 70s. Reservoir is the debut album from Brown Horse. Although recorded over just four days in a quiet corner of Norfolk, the album is a collaborative effort years in the making.
“stunning debut” 9/10 UNCUT
"an entirely unique yet instantly recognisable sound" ★★★★ MOJO
"extraordinary emotional heft. What a debut" ★★★★ THE SUNDAY TIMES
"a seriously good - and curiously British - addition to the country rock canon" ★★★★ THE TIMES
Buy Reservoir on classic black vinyl LP and CD.
THE HANDSOME FAMILY
The Handsome Family @ Kilkenny 2024 -
05 MAY - The Set Theatre (3pm)
The Handsome Family’s new record Hollow began with a scream in the night. “It was a bleak winter during the middle of the pandemic,” says Brett Sparks. “One night around 4 a.m. Rennie started screaming in her sleep. She screamed, ‘Come into the circle Joseph! There’s no moon tonight.’ Scary as it was, I thought, man, that’s a good chorus!”
The Handsome Family (songwriting and marriage partners Brett and Rennie Sparks) have been defining the dark end of americana for over 30 years. Brett writes the music and Rennie writes the words. Their work has been covered by many artists including Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Bird and most-recently Phoebe Bridgers. Their song “Far From Any Road” was the opening theme for HBO’s True Detective season one and still receives thousands of Shazams every week from all over the world.
“The king and queen of Americana Gothic” ★★★★ AMERICANA ALBUM OF THE MONTH MOJO
“Eleven albums in and 30 years in, Brett and Rennie Sparks continue to shape The Handsome Family sound in subtle and persuasive ways” 8/10 UNCUT
Buy Hollow on classic black vinyl LP and CD.
JEFFREY MARTIN
Jeffrey Martin @ Kilkenny 2024 -
03 MAY - Billy Byrnes (7pm)
04 MAY - Pembroke Hotel (12:30pm) Conversation and Song with Jeffrey Martin & Allan Jones
On a small corner lot in southeast Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Martin holed up through the winter recording his quietly potent new album Thank God We Left The Garden. Long nights bled into mornings in the tiny shack he built in the backyard, eight feet by ten feet. What began as demos meant for a later visit to a proper studio became the album itself, spare and intimate and true.
"a masterpiece" 9/10 UNCUT
"Reminiscent of early Nathaniel Rateliff and John Moreland, and prime John Prine, there's no reason here to doubt that Martin might one day eclipse them all" ★★★★ MOJO
Buy Thank God We Left The Garden on classic black vinyl LP and CD.