Ahead of the release of her second album ‘Come As you Are’ this May, Niamh Regan has announced a show in Liberty Hall this Winter. The Choice Music Prize and RTE Folk Awards nominated artist has entered an ambitious new phase with ‘Come As You Are’. The choice of producer Tommy McLaughlin (Soak) for the project was a bold leap of faith.

“I arrived in Donegal to meet Tommy for the first time with a bunch of demos, half-baked ideas and feeling not ready, it was scary. But I’m so glad that I did it that way. I trusted the process and came into the studio with the intention of capturing exactly where I was with it all and Tommy helped me build from there.”

“A lot of it is about being in your late twenties and kind of realising we’re all running out of time,” she ponders. “I’d have bouts of massive self-belief in the studio, and then in the next breath I would be like, ‘This is the worst piece of music I could have even imagined.’ It was a rollercoaster. But through that I found self-acceptance; this is where I’m at and making peace with that. That’s what the album essentially is, just making peace with where I’m at and being realistic with myself.”

While ‘Come As You Are’ represents a bold evolution for Niamh, its first single ‘Madonna’ is the song that feels most intrinsically tied to her debut. Or as Niamh offers, “I wanted to start the album kind of as bravely as possible and I think that way is to do it on your own.”

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