New release
Lisa O’Neill
‘The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right’
DL only
out now
LTW reviewed O’Neill’s last album, All Of This Is Chance in Feb 2023, here. She provided music for Peaky Blinders, but Ged Babey has only now discovered her thanks to a friends recommendation.
This is the most beautiful song you will hear today… and tomorrow, and the day after.
It’s the voice, the words, the arrangement…. everything.
It’s a song that will stop you in your tracks.
It’s also the saddest song you will hear today, a lament for mans inhumanity to man.
It has a religious, hymnal quality… and soul… and compassion… and will, in time come to be regarded as a song as great and important as ‘Shipbuilding’.
The spirits of Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan are evoked, perhaps not surprisingly, but this is Lisa O’Neill at the top of her game as a singer and songwriter.
My ignorance of her previous work is unforgivable – and it was only thanks to Brian O’Brien including the song in a playlist for Joyzine that I’ve finally discovered her.
The song came out two weeks ago. If you aren’t knocked out by it, then you have no soul.
Lisa’s new 6 song EP ‘The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right’ will be released digitally on the 19th of November. The physical EP will follow early in the new year. The title track is out now (listen) accompanied by a video directed by Ellius Grace.
“I began writing this song in November 2017 and I finished it in January 2025. My song is a reaction to the unsettled times that we live in.” – Lisa O’Neill
Well done if you spotted Kae Tempest, Kevin Rowland, Spider Stacey and Iona Zajac, renowned Nigerian/Irish poet Feli Speaks, actresses Olwen Fouéré and Hazel Doupe and actors John McArdle and Jack Walsh amongst many others in the video.
The EP is comprised of a group of six tracks, they include the haunting rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Tired Horses’ that Lisa recorded to soundtrack the closing scene of the final episode of Peaky Blinders, plus ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ featuring Peter Doherty, released as a stand-alone single in January of this year.
More information here
Listen/Buy from this choice of platforms
Lisa O’Neill – Official Website
Autumn 2025 Irish Tour Dates are near to selling out – check website for waitlist and remaining tickets
All words Ged Babey except artist website content in italics
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