Monday, August 16, 2010
It was my great good fortune to get an invitation to go along to see a low key solo performance from one of the heroes of Irish rock yesterday afternoon. At the very civilized hour of five pm Cathal Couglan performed a set in an artists studio in Stoneybatter to a small audience. This was in part to warm up for a series of forthcoming gigs that are lined up.
The performance was coruscating, like the darkest of Weimar Cabaret on steroids. Old and new songs sat together with
The Loyaliser from Fatima Mansions days and
Rat Poison Rendevous from the far more recent
Flannery’s Mounted Head show being particular standouts. (I almost wrote
Slattery's Mounted Foot (Val Doonican standard))
