Punk legend Jinx Lennon returns to Dundalk's Spirit Store

Local punk folk lengend Jinx Lennon returns to the Spirit Store on Saturday, November 8  with special guests from Glasgow the Girobabies and Cork act Wasps V Humans.

Jinx has been  touring the length of the country  and the west counties of England as far as Cornwall  promoting his current LP 'The Hate Agents Leer At The last Isle Of Hope' since April and played this years Imagine Belfast, Electric Picnic, Vantastival and the recent Drimoleague Singing Festival in Cork.

Chris Barry will join Jinx on guitar on the night in the Spirit Store. Chris runs Aiflionn studios in Drumcondra and produced great records for the likes of the Deadlians, Junior Brother and the Mary Wallopers.

Also Jamie Bishop will take the stage, who is half of The Shamrock Showband who sample Paddy Cole and Big Tom into a strange country sound. He also has his own act Muckno where Earl Sweatshirt meets an urban Castleblayney outcast.

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Will Russell from Hot Press said: " Jinx Lennon’s tremendously titled new album is mightily comparable to Dylan Thomas 'Under Milk Wood' with its epic ambition, magnificent wordplay and the erudite eye of its omniscient narrator.

“The singer’s capacity for channelling a multitude of characters into bite-sized chunks is marvellous, and a patchwork of citizenry from his hometown of Dundalk is wonderfully depicted here.

“Flann O’Brien, John Cooper Clarke and Mark E. Smith usually enter the conversation when discussing Jinx Lennon, and they’re definitive touchstones on this record".

Special guests at the Spirit Store on Saturday November 8 are Girobabies, who are doing a debut Irish tour. Girobabies are a huge part of the thriving DIY scene in Glasgow where they combine their own brand of baffling Ned punk with psychedelic stardust adding a healthy dollup of gutter rock grit merging the solumn and surreal with humour and fury.

Also Cork band Wasps V Humans husband and wife team Linda and Carl Plover make a welcome spoken word punk poet beat machine of memorable three minute vignettes concerning deranged characters and real life situations aiming to pull you up not drag you down.

Tickets are €15 and are availablefrom www.spiritstore.ie or even better buy over the counter if you're down below at the quay!