Moments At In The Meadows That We Can’t Wait For
Words: Dray Morgan
In The Meadows is lining up to be the festival of the summer for those who hold a deep passion for the progressive and avant-garde but also the traditional and nostalgic. Landing on the Kilmainham grounds on 8 June, here are some moments that we can’t let the people sleep on. Click here to not miss out on tickets.
That First Instrumental Note Of Go Dig My Grave
As an eerie silence washes over the crowd, we can only imagine the compelling voice of Lankum’s Radie Peat piercing through the noiselessness and vibrating down our spines. As that last word lingers, the reverberation of the instrumentals resonates with the audience and Lankum’s headline set has begun.
John Francis Flynn My Son Tim
When John Francis Flynn takes the stage, he has an aura which pulls audiences in and infatuates them with a sound that is both nostalgic and boundary-pushing. The droning wonder of ‘My Son Tim’ encapsulates John Francis Flynn’s sonic idiosyncrasies so well and we can’t wait for it to be on display.
Black Country, New Road’s Outro On Pigs
‘Turbines/Pigs’ is an emotional helter-skelter, which sees a symphony slowly layered before our eyes. The double-billed track is an almost ten-minute masterpiece which builds up tension that finally releases into a cathartic cacophony. Saxophone colliding with piano, violin, cello, guitar and vocals gives a hectic heavenly finale.
Mohammad Syfkan’s Hypnotising Bouzouki
Musician Mohammad Syfkan is a Kurdish refugee who has been blessing our shores with sounds from the Middle East for seven years now. Listening to the traditional bouzouki is truly a unique experience. Those Eastern tones inflect a level of mystique and hypnotism into the performance. It’s almost impossible not to move your body to this.
