Dundalk's punk poet Jinx Lennon returns to An Táin

Punk folk singer Jinx Lennon, will be playing in An Tain Centre on the second date of the “Septic Tiger Summer Tour”, which starts in Fred Zeppelins in Cork on Friday May 10th (tickets on Eventbrite) and ending with Thomas House Dublin on Friday June 21, with an eye to playing Glastonbury in late June.

Jinx Lennon brings his whole bag of fears, beliefs, observations, inspirations, and hope, and throws it out into the audience to uplift them and inspire them on a tightrope of raw energy  sound, awkward and real in its intensity. 

He has spent the past few months working on the new 26 track album called “The hate agents leer at the last Isle of hope” and it’s out later this year.

Jinx said: “It’s about modern Ireland and religious hysteria, social media mania and far right nationalist dementia or, in other words, the demise of Catholicism on one hand and the rise of religious far right and social media self-righteousness on the other.

“There're more songs about Dundalk like on the song “Belfast 71” about the internment refugee crisis and the influx of people escaping the troubles that affected the town back  then. 

“Cyndi Lauper” takes a walk through the local nightlife with a romantic twist and “Mad for Mass” and “Bouncy Castle Catholics” are about filtering the good and bad parts of religious worship.

“Fermanagh singer Rose Connolly sings on several songs and plays piano. She performs her own music as Róis and is well worth checking out.”

Joining Jinx at the Tain show will be Chris Barry and Jamie Bishop, who played on the latest album. Jamie is involved with several bands, including Róis.

His own act is Muckno (Jamie is a Castleblayney native son). He releases his own album in April called “Muck For Hamchildren” and it’s available on Bandcamp on April 14.

Chris Barry plays guitar and engineered the two albums. Chris also plays with Myles Manley and the Snowgoons with some members of the Dublin garage rock folk act Deadlians, and Chris has made albums with Kerry alt folk man Junior Brother, the Mary Wallopers and Jinx’s wife Sophie Coyle.

Special guests are “Wasps V Humans” featuring husband and wife Carl and Linda Plover who mix spoken word with song.

Local up-and-coming  act Geansai will also play a set. Geansai sings about the issues with acoustic and sometimes other instruments and adds a welcome rawness to what he has to say in his words and songs.

The new Jinx Lennon video “Taoiseach”, was   directed by Letterkenny man Steve Mc Collum, who did animation on the Kneecap movie and plays with Donegal legends, Pox Men. The video will be out in the next few weeks. 

Jinx Lennon comes to An Táin Arts Centre on Friday 17th May at 8pm. Tickets are €15 plus  €1.50 booking fee per ticket per person, and can be purchased from An Táin Arts Centre ’s  Box Office on Crowe Street, over the phone on 042 9332332 or  at www.antain.ie