Thursday, February 25th, 8pm, â¬8/â¬12, The brilliant Bray trio are not waiting around for restrictions to be lifted â theyâre going to perform a special show at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, and you are virtually invited. The gig is to celebrate the launch of their second album, Awake You Lie, which reawakens many of the trioâs musical obsessions from the 1990s and noughties, running the gamut from R&B bangers to indie anthems. The icing on this musical cáca milis is the soulful voices of Caoimhe Barry, Karen Cowley and Saoirse Duane, proving that three really is a magic number. Who needs Haim when weâve got three of our finest women in music right here on our digital doorstep. The band will preview tracks from the album a day before its official release, with Bray visual artist 1iing Heaney bringing her digital artwork for the album cover to life right there in the venue.
The show will take place on Thursday, February 25, at 8pm. Tickets for the performance are €12.
This first performance of the album will include a collaboration with Bray visual artist 1iing Heaney. 1iing will bring elements of the digital artwork she designed for the album into the physical world, creating an entirely unique live stream experience. Awake You Lie will be released on Friday, February 26. Recorded in JRS studios in Berlin pre-Covid, with the final tweaks managed in lockdown Ireland, Awake You Lie comes almost two years to the day after the band s widely acclaimed, Choice Music Prize-nominated, debut album. A recurring image during this album writing process was light, the lack thereof, and wanting to see things more clearly, for ourselves and others, they said.
Their new album,
Awake You Lie, is set for release on February 26th. After the debut dropped, the band retreated to a house in rural Cavan courtesy of the Irish rapper Kojaqueâs mother. We had done so much in the Irish scene. With the second album so much of it is about leaving, so much of the theme is about being unsettled or a little bit restless
âWe started to work in that mad heatwave of 2018. We were stranded at this house out in Cavan. We got a lift up there with all our gear. We were there having all gone to different parts of the world,â says Barry.