*** TRACTON MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL ***

We are delighted to welcome THE FRANK & WALTERS and WAYS OF SEEING to our festival stage!

Saturday 1st July at 8pm

Inkwell Theatre, Minane Bridge - Stretchtent Outdoor Stage  (covered area but bring warm clothes just in case)

Ticket: €35 plus booking fee

Special Guest: Ways of Seeing

It’s been an eventful few years for THE FRANK & WALTERS with the release of their latest album Songs for the Walking Wounded in 2016 and a European tour in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their 2nd album Grand Parade in 2017. 2018 had began with the band beginning work on the next album when, twenty five years after they gate crashed the UK Top 20 with their seminal hit ‘After All’, the track found a whole new audience following a classic television moment on the RTE/BBC production The Young Offenders. As the captives of a lovably psychotic Billy Murphy broke into the indie anthem on a Cork bus, so began the track’s whirlwind ascent of music charts both here and in the UK, culminating in a mid-week position of Number 1 on the i-Tunes download chart. A little more than 25 years to the day since the Franks played ‘After All’ on BBC’s flagship music show, Top of the Pops, the melodic hit once again reminded listeners that good tunes simply never go away.

“The Frank and Walters create music as timeless and classic as their heroes The Beatles and Brian Wilson. But it’s their decency and kindness, in a music biz of sharks, that will always endear them to me” – Ken Sweeney.

WAYS OF SEEING  is the project of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist James O'Donnell.This is his first solo project after previous musical ventures with bands ‘Hush War Cry’ and ‘Dear Desert’. Mixing indie rock with folk tinged-psychedelia, the Kerry native's debut album 'End Comes To Light' was released in 2022 to much critical praise and attention. Writing for the album began in the attic of his childhood home in Kerry. After converting the attic into a home studio, the unfolding pandemic provided time to flesh out years of voice notes and musical sketches. It was recorded and produced with Christian Best (Mick Flannery), Alex Borwick (Niamh Regan, Rachel Lavelle) and mixed by Tommy McClaughlin (Soak, Pillow Queens, Ailbhe Reddy) at Attica Audio in Donegal. Singles have received national radio airplay on 2fm (The Alternative, Dan Hegarty), Newstalk (Tom Dunne Show) and Raidió na Gaeltachta (An Taobh Tuathail, Cian Ó Cíobháin). Meanwhile, the album has also featured on prominent magazines/blogs such as Nialler9 (“Sounds a bit like War on Drugs”), Goldenplec, The Thin Air and The Goo Dublin ("The soundscapes are broad and lush..."). A five-piece band live; they are poised to win over many new followers on this year's summer festival and gigging circuit. 

The name “Ways of Seeing” came from the idea that songs could reveal parts of the self that might otherwise never have been revealed. In an attempt to capture the subconscious, melodies and lyrics were kept as they came out on first takes of recording. The songs exist as dreamlike stories where the subconscious voice inhabits a world of lush panoramic soundscapes. Ways of Seeing aims to use musical ideas to dig deeper into knowing one’s self while observing the world from new perspectives. Song-writing can allow us to see the world in ways we never could have imagined, for Ways of Seeing this is just the start of that journey….

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