In one of the most unexpected comebacks of 2018 Dan Mangan emerged with ‘More Or Less’ his first solo album since 2011.

“I’d been touring non-stop for six consecutive years and the phone just kept ringing, but I felt my mind and body start to fail. When we learned that we were going to have a baby, I told my manager that I wanted to take a year away from touring. I felt I’d earned it. That ‘one year’ away from the grind sort of slowly became six.”

Mangan enlisted the heavyweight studio skills of Grammy Award-winning producer Drew Brown (Radiohead, Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg) for the project.

“I wrote about warmth. I wrote about the feeling of building something when I was young, and the fear of losing it as an adult. I wrote about feeling overwhelmed. I wrote about being in love with someone with whom I spend a lot of time figuring out who is more deserving of a nap. I wrote about the power of what goes unsaid. More or less, I wrote about myself.”

Check out single Troubled Mind, Mangan plays The Grand Social on April 5th. Ticket details below.

Dan Mangan, live at The Grand Social, 5^th April 2019. Tickets €13.00 inclusive of booking fee, on sale Friday at 10AM.