Fresh from opening for Alison Moyet in Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre, part-time Pogue and therefore honorary Irish woman Iona Zajac has shared the deliciously stark new single ‘Summer’. The Edinburgh folk artist who blew the house away with her guest turn at the celebration of ‘Red Rose For Me’ at the 3Arena last year is set to reprise her role with The Pogues when they celebrate ‘Rum Sodomy and the Lash’ from May onwards, but for now she’s focusing on her own material with ‘Summer’, her first new release since 2023’s ‘Lips Feel’.

The Pogues- 3Arena – 17th December 2024 – ©Glen Bollard

‘Summer’ explains Iona Zajac is “a song for those dreaming of better days, of wars to end, of lovers to return, of heads to leave the fog. And when Summer finally comes, we might have found enough strength from the bad to make it last.” 

Hopefully ‘Summer’ is the first sign of a debut album from Iona Zajac, who’s only body of work to date arrived in the shape of 2022’s EP ‘Find Her In The Grass’.