Irish singer-songwriter to play concert in Limerick venue

IRISH singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow will be performing on the University Concert Hall stage as the latest stop on his nationwide tour.

Just back from his tour of the US and Canada, James is excited to bring his music back home.

“You don’t want to say this will be the best tour you've ever done, but based on what we did in the US and Canada, coming back to Ireland with the band sounding the way they are, I’m pretty confident it’s gonna be something that is worth people’s time.”

His latest album, Wide open, horses, is described by Apple Music as “Intimate, heartfelt indie folk that's still coloured by exploration and expansion”.

Featuring on the record is a snippet of his daughter, Margot, who stumbled into his studio at their home in Dublin and started singing into the microphone, which James decided to include in his song Give up.

Speaking to the Limerick Leader from the studio at the end of his  garden, where Margot recorded the lyric “Everyone, everyone, everybody sad”, James said he “just thought it was lovely and candid and spoke to that kind of chaotic honesty that I was shooting for with that record”.  

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After a  period of “dissonance” in 2022, following a tour  that felt  “a bit off-kilter” in a post-pandemic world, and a record that he “didn't really connect with”, James had a “conscious sit-down conversation” with himself to figure out how to  build himself back towards “the version of (himself) that   made sense”, ignore all the “outside voices” and go with his instincts.

His current tour has “a totally different energy” to his previous shows, he explained: “this show has a lot of scale and scope to it... we've tried to build something that really frames the show”.

Stepping back from the click tracks and backing vocal recordings, with this tour he and his band have focused on “building sound from the ground up”. 

“If we make a mistake you’re gonna hear it,” he added.

James will be playing in the University Concert Hall, Limerick on Thursday, November 28 at 8pm.

Tickets are available on uch.ie.