Only Child announce the release of their album Emotional Geography, alongside new video Scouse, to be launched Friday 22nd February 2019 at the Music Room.
The eclectic folk ensemble led by Liverpool songwriter Alan O’Hare, release their new album on Friday 22nd February 2019.
This third album, which will be launched with a big gig at the Music Room inside Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall, contains ten songs all about people and places.
“We noticed halfway through the recording that each song has a lyric that mentioned a person or a place,” says O’Hare. “I think in times of universal deceit, people cling to their own truth like it’s the side of a mountain.”
The album launch show will see Only Child perform as an eight-piece band, featuring strings, guitars, keyboards and harmony vocals, and making their trademark, heart-on-sleeve emotional music.
Support is from Marc Vormawah and his band.
Tickets are £9 (£12 Premium) available from the Philharmonic Hall box office in person, by phone 0151 709 3789, and online at liverpoolphil.com
The Facebook event is here – why not let Al know you’re going!
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Only Child have released two great singles to fans who have pre-ordered Emotional Geography and each song and accompanying video has made a splash. Scouse tells the story of immigration into O’Hare’s hometown of Liverpool and how it changed the dialect of locals (particularly Irish immigration in the 1840s).
“That song is the one I’ve been writing my entire life,” says the Liverpool Irish Festival regular. “I’ve been told a lot over the years that Liverpudlians spoke with a Lancastrian accent before the Irish arrived… what with the current mass hysteria around immigration, I wanted to draw a straight line between the thing us Scousers are often most proud of and how it wouldn’t exist without immigration and the Irish refugee camps of Scotland Road.”
“Only Child take their cue from the likes of Van Morrison, The Waterboys and Christy Moore…”
Liverpool Acoustic
“‘Scouse’ doesn’t so much tug on the heartstrings as yank them almost out…”
Americana UK
The first single Lookin’ For A Song was released at the end of summer to launch the pre-order and is a blend of acoustic finger-picking and haunting keyboards, reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen’s work around the time of Streets Of Philadelphia and The Ghost Of Tom Joad. “That’s another that touches on the people and places around the world that connect us all,” says O’Hare. “It mentions Barcelona, Paris and Dublin within the first minute!”
Liverpool Sound and Vision
“‘Lookin’ For A Song’ is filled with the aura of truth and the slow burn of beauty… “