Lankum are set to release their third album ‘The Livelong Day’, on October 25th via Rough Trade Records.
‘The Livelong Day’ features 8 tracks including a reimagining of The Wild Rover. Check out the video below. News of the album is also accompanied by a new live date in Vicar Street in the New Year.
“this particular version of ‘The Wild Rover’ was first heard from the singing of Dónal Maguire, who in turn got it from fellow Drogheda man Pat Usher, and the recording was subsequently released on an album entitled The Usher Family in 1974. There are countless renditions of this tune, it is a song very much rooted within the dirt and peat of Ireland, but the revelation of a little known final verse takes it from a jovial pub tale to one of sadness and destitution.The actual crux of the song becomes desperate, a matter of life or death.”
‘The Livelong Day’ was recorded and produced by John ‘Spud’ Murphy in the Meadow and Guerrilla Sounds studio between March and May of this year and features Hunting The Wren, penned by Ian Lynch as part of a writing challenge with fellow Irish folk artist Lisa O’Neill.
The Livelong Day
1.The Wild Rover
2.The Young People
3.Ode To Lullaby
4.Bear Creek
5.Katie Cruel
6.The Dark Eyed Gypsy
7.The Pride Of Petravore
8.Hunting The Wren
Lankum Irish dates
Oct 18 – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick
Oct 19 – Roisin Dubh, Galway
Oct 24 – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Oct 25 – Vicar Street, Dublin – SOLD OUT
Lankum have today announced their return to Vicar Street on 4th January 2020. Tickets €30.00 inclusive of booking fee, on sale this Monday at 10AM.