The Dock has partnered with Hunters Moon for a night of seering dark drone, Scottish small pipes, ear-altering cello and viola improvisation and more.
Join us for a late-night special on Friday 3 May 2024 with Ian Lynch (Lankum, Fire Draw Near), Brìghde Chaimbeul (Bree-chuh CHaym-bul), and the legendary Lori Goldston with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh. The full ticket price will be donated to UNICEF's Gaza Hunger Crisis emergency appeal.
One Leg One Eye by Ian Lynch explores submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise and drone, while also being deeply embued with a sense of Irish history and myth.
...And Take The Black Worm With Me (Nyahh Records, 2022) is a slow burning suite of five expansive songscapes that has found its audience largely by word of mouth. Partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father worked when he was a child, Lynch’s harrowing vocals are underpinned by vast pillars of uileann pipe drones, overlaid with effects and field recordings to conjure up a sound that is at once dark, mysterious and ultimately transcendental.
Brìghde Chaimbeul (Bree-chuh CHaym-bul) is a leading purveyor of experimental Celtic music and of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-powered set of bagpipes with a double-note drone. She has devised a completely unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity.
Brìghde’s mesmerizing musicianship has earned her global recognition, including a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, and in 2021 performed to world leaders at the opening cemerony of COP 26.
Lori Goldston is an American cellist and composer. Accomplished in a wide variety of styles, including classical, world music, rock and free improvisation, she came to prominence as the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York.
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh is a viola player based in Glasgow whose playing is influenced by improvised, traditional and early music styles. She has played with a variety of musicians and groups which include Woven Skull, Josephine Foster, Circuit des Yeux and Alasdair Roberts and Irish improvisers David Lacey, Aonghus McEvoy and David Donohoe. Her first solo recordings were released by Fort Evil Fruit under the title Oreing and include four semi-improvised pieces for viola and tape delay.
First Fridays are funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Night Time Economy programme.
