Black Gate Presents: Jinx Lennon
Galway Mechanic's Institute
8pm, Thursday July 7th
€15

"For me the best songwriter in the country at the moment is Jinx Lennon, and he matters. He matters to me. And we don‘t hear him because he's telling the truth. He's singing about this island we live in as it is, and he doesn’t get airplay. Why doesn’t he get airplay? …Because he's telling the truth. And why can’t people deal with that truth?... Because it's very raw, and he doesn’t sugar it up." - Christy Moore

Jinx Lennon the Dundalk the acoustic punk guitar man that takes you for a ride round the winding border roads and the dim yellow lights of late nights in the garrison towns, the characters in his songs are as vivid as the best of Kavanagh and a lot more besides. Lou Reed in a factory purgatory coming out of a catholic school mind control maze. Recently seen on Cumasc:Seisiun sa Black Gate,and an incendiary performance on the Tommy Tiernan show Jinx released two acclaimed albums during the lockdown "Border Schizo Fffolk Songs for the Fuc**d" and "Liferafts For Latchicos" and he played shows on the online screens when that was all that live music could be for a while .Now he's back on the three dimensional stage, this time with a pared down show on six string and drum and occasional sampler drum machine performing the best of the back catalogue and a sackful of new classics.He has just released his new project ''Pet Rent '' a garage punk odyssey through provincial everyday life. The new show THE MOUTH THE WOOD THE WIRE AND THE GOOD RIGHT FOOT is exactly what it is raw, real, uplifting tunes . He'll either tear your head off with sound, or caress your ears with the melodies . Special guests include Baby Nits who blew away the cobwebs at last year's (unofficial) Arcadian Fields ,will appear at this year's Open Ear Festival and has worked with Jinx on his videos Football Football, North Louth, and Pushin The Patients Round and a live kitchen rendition of ''The Dundalk Walk''

He won’t be giving up the day job because of Spotify royalties for the likes of No Homeless People in Drogheda or The Manhole Covers of Dundalk. But, his music implies, that isn’t the point. The point is making listeners confront interrogative home truths about society, the environment and the head they live in.

-Tony Clayton Lea ,The Irish Times

"Lennon offers perceptive tales streaked with surrealism and dark humour.The resultant album is as puzzling and yet as undeniably intriguing as the man himself" - review of latest album PET RENT (Lauren Murphy, Irish Times)

"Jinx Lennon is an unstoppable force of nature. With PET RENT, he has proven once again that, just when we think we know all the answers, it is time to change the questions" - Edwin Mc Fee, Hot Press

"Will again provoke, discomfort, and upset.Thats the good news -Danny McIlhinney" - Mail on Sunday

''A beacon to the D.I.Y. scene in Ireland'' - Totally Dublin

''A turning point for an often overlooked singer'' - Review of 'Liferafts For Latchicos' Irish Times

"Lennon's wry humour means there's enough levity to avoid pontification.A record as raw and real as it's creator" - SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE MAGAZINE (review of 'border schizo fffolk songs for the fuc**d ')

"Except in the crucial sense that he understands class Lennon is not a protest singer.The rich horn in for a few lines, but mostly Lennon means to warn the local good guys about the bad guys waiting to fuck them up" - Bob Christgau - Rolling Stone / Village Voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESOl_HSTWtM
-Tommy Tiernan Show,2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l9LbvwCnOo
-Football Football

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KBv0x6DOM

Dundalk Walk