Lisa O’Neill
Irish songwriter Lisa O’Neill's acclaimed 2023 album All of This Is Chance (on Rough Trade Records) ranked highly on many critics 2023’s Albums of The Year Lists.
Amongst the wealth of praise for All Of This Is Chance, Gideon Coe at BBC 6 Music picked it as his Album Of The Year. It was No. 3 in Mojo Magazine’s Folk Albums Of The Year, and No.24 in their main Albums Of The Year List. Bob Boilen at NPR deemed it his No.3 Album of The Year and it was one of Songlines’ Top 10 Albums Of The Year and Uncut Magazine’s No.17 Album Of The Year and at No. 33 with The Quietus. Lisa toured in Australia and New Zealand last year and also took on the prestigious role of a Fellow of The Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast.
A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five time BBC Folk Award nominee and her album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year. Her adaptation of Bob Dylan’s All the Tired Horses sound-tracked the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders.
All of This Is Chance features orchestral masterpieces such as the ambitious and cinematic Old Note, and the title track which was inspired by the Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh's epic poem, The Great Hunger, as well as stirring contemplations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood ring out over a clacking banjo throughout the album, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.
Lisa performed an emotional rendition of Fairytale Of New York with Glen Hansard and members of The Pogues and The Dubliners at Shane MacGowan’s funeral in Co Tipperary, watch here. Watch Lisa’s magical NPR Tiny Desk Concert performance here. “The music is stark and cerebral, the voice is singular and personal with few flourishes, and I find it captivating,” said NPR Music’s Bob Boilen.
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Praise for All Of This Is Chance:
“O’Neill is a cultural hero in her own right… a modern artist tapped into the ancient.”
“The first indisputable classic of 2023”
“Uncompromising, stunning, soul-shaking stuff”
“Quite simply a modern masterpiece”
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