*Kathleen Edwards Irish tour starts 10th April *Josh Ritter confirmed for Oxegen festival *Josh Ritter studio diary *Mark Geary tour diary on his site

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Josh Ritter has been officially announced to play the Oxegen Festival on Sunday 10th July.

Josh is currently ensconced in Bear Creek studio, Seattle, U.S. Of A recording the follow up to his Hello Starling LP which will be released on Independent Records in Ireland and V2 in the rest of the world. Press Readers Poll awarded JOSH RITTER the No.1 spot for International Male, International Songwriter and International Folk/Trad/World Music as well as 5th best live act.

Both Josh's Gold selling albums Hello Starling and Golden Starling are available in Ireland with limited edition bonus discs.

Josh's '4 songs Live EP' is currently out in Ireland. The live version of 'Kathleen' (recorded by Fab 2FM at Dublin Castle earlier this year) has been playlisted for the last couple of weeks by the good people at RTE Radio 1.

Whilst 'You Don't Make It Easy Babe' from Vicar Street (complete with Arnie

baiting) has been in Tom Dunnes Pet Sounds chart on TODAY FM.

Josh has also been posting regularly about his time in the studio at

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KATHLEEN EDWARDS IRISH TOUR

Our favourite Canadian Kathleen Edwards returns to these shores next month with her full kick ass band. We've been getting great press on the album 'Back To Me', radio has been a little slower (bar John Kelly's excellent Mystery Train on Radio 1) but hopefully you'll hear her on the airwaves soon.

As she sings on Back To Me¹s title cut: "I¹ve got ways to make you sing my songs/Ones I ain¹t written yet/I¹ve got lights you¹ve never seen/I¹ve got moves I¹ve never used/I¹ve got ways to make you come/Back to me."

KATHLEEN EDWARDS

With guest Emmett Tinley

Sunday April 10, Cork, An Cruisin Lan

Monday April 11, Galway, Roisin Dubh

Tuesday April 12, Dublin, Whelan's

Edwards can play the aching troubadour ('Away') and the country heartbreaker ('Old Time Sake') as well as rocking every bit as hard as the inimitable

(Lucinda) Williams. She's dynamite live too. - UNCUT ****

Music that hits the spot immediately and then gets better with each listen.

.. a recognisable sound-guitar driven folk rock, imaginative and reflective themes and a very measured, assured voice. Very impressive. THE TICKET, IRISH TIMES ****

She excels at love songs stitched with drawn-from-life details: copied keys, unanswered phones, the detritus that litters the no man¹s land between men and women. Back To Me groans with sweet-but-embittered songs. - HOT PRESS 8 out of 10.

Back To Me showcases sweet-talking criminals, feisty seductresses, potential inmates, depleted bank accounts, empty coffee cups and screaming neighbours.

Edwards brooding country is never romanticized or glossed-up, preferring to stay dirty, upsetting and uncomfortably real. Edwards shoulders incessant comparisons to Lucinda Williams, but this particular brand of casual, sighing plaintiveness feels an awful lot closer to Aimmee Mann or Gillian Welch. .. she's prone to cracking jokes and relaying tragedy with stoic, blank faced indifference. All of which makes it impossible not to shrug, pound the steering wheel and howl along. - Paste Magazine

Back To Me has the unmistakable feel of psychic isolation, with themes of alienation, personal displacement and the damning power to memory cropping up throughout the album. - American Songwriter

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MARK GEARY

Mark Geary will be playing at the Venue in Rathfarnham on Saturday 23rd April. Special guests on the night are Gary Dunne, Q and Anne Marie O'Grady we believe !!

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EMMETT TINLEY

Independent Records are delighted to be releasing Emmett Tinley's new album 'Attic Faith' on Friday 15th April. Emmett will be playing in Whelan's, Dublin on the night of it's release and a bunch of gigs the week after.

He'll also be supporting Kathleen Edwards on her tour from 10th April.

Emmett Tinley tour dates

Friday 15th April Whelan's, Dublin

With special guests SASO

Sunday 17th April Spirit Store, Dundalk

Tuesday 19th April The Foyer, Cork

Thursday 21st April Dolan's (Upstairs), Limerick

Monday 25th April Roisin Dubh, Galway

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