The One Take Sessions with KilkennyMusic.com returns tonigh in Cleere’s for the seventh night in the current series. Acts on display this week include ODi (Leeds / Wexford), Gary Stewart (Edinburgh / Leeds) and Jimi Cullen (Wexford).
ODi is an Irish songwriter hailing from County Wexford and now based in Leeds UK. She has spent the past two years touring the UK and Irealnd playing over 150 gigs and releasing 2 singles “Crawl” and “What You Deserve”. ODi will release debut 5 track EP “A Superman” next month on August 15th.
Touring continues throughout the summer as ODi hits the road for an extensive Irish tour in July and August and then on to the UK in September. The stop at the One Take Sessions will be her first under the KilkennyMusic.com banner though listeners to the local Sound System Podcast will be familiar with her music with ‘Crawl’ featuring on occasion over the past year.
As MusicReview.com says, the Wexford native is a “singer/songwriter who manages to blend elements of Joan Armatrading’s pathos, Beth Orton’s eye for the quirky and deep with a touch of Dido’s bedsit romance.”
Traveling across the water with ODi will be Edinburgh native and now Leeds resident Gary Stewart.
Stewarts’s style is best described as Nu-Folk/Pop with influences ranging from singer/songwriters such as Paul Simon, James Taylor, John Martyn, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell to more contemporary artists’ like KT Tunstall, Dave Matthews Band, King Creosote, Ray LaMontagne, The Smiths, The Shins and Damien Rice.
During his time as a songwriter, Gary has played various support gigs to artists’ including Laura Marling, Jacob Golden, Merz, John Power, David Kitt, Glenn Tilbrook and Emma Pollock.
The Gary Stewart Band have just released their brand new EP, ‘Tables, Trees & Tripods’, available via iTunes.
Keeping the Wexford connection strong, Jimi Cullen returns for the first of two performances in 2008. Now a regular fixture on the One Take Sessions calendar having appeared now fewer than three times during 2007,
If you want to go on a journey from protest songs through love songs to those that squeeze every drop of emotion out of you, then Jimi Cullen is the man for you. You will laugh and nod with understanding when he sings of hangovers and you’ll cry when he reminds you of how many of us walk by homeless people on the street.
He does not preach from a high horse, instead he shows us, sometimes not too gently, of what is really going on and then leaves it up to us.
He has been writing and performing for about three years and has built a good reputation as one of the hardest working musicians in Ireland with over 500 gigs to his credit. Needless to say such hard work is resulting in an increasing number of fans who are moved by his music and his song “On the Street” has surely got to be the anthem for all the homeless people in the world. When he sings that song you can almost touch the emotion he arouses in his listeners.
Following on from the hugely enjoyable and successful ‘When The Last Leaf Falls’, Jimi Cullen has just released (June 27th) his latest album offering in ‘The Junkyard Poet’ which will be available on the night.
