Cursed Murphy

Magic night at Books Upstairs talking No New York with Adele Bertei. Full house in Dublin for the end of the tour. Thanks Achara for feeding us so well.

My interview with Adele Bertei about her brilliant new book No New York – A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene is in today’s Irish Times. We’ll be doing a public interview at Books Upstairs, D’Olier Street, Dublin, on Tuesday April 21 at 6.30pm

Cursed Murphy, The Haunts of Love, recording, act 1, Day 1

This week the Cursed Murphy crew convened for pre-production on a wee rock opera called The Haunts of Love. Regular followers will know we’ve spent the last year writing and road-testing the new material. We begin recording Act 1 tomorrow. Can’t wait.

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Leia and I marked our day with a visit to 's studio. She stole a quick portrait.

Huge thanks to Hilary White for today's piece on Ghost Voltage in the Sunday Independent.

Thank you Fuddlefest for hosting Cursed Murphy - the Musical as a work in progress. What an amazing independent festival crew. Thanks also to Sasha Bratkova for the photos. We've had enormous fun previewing material from this show at various festivals over the summer. Now it's time to return to the studio to finesse the final act and ready for a full production premiere in 2026. But stay tuned: there are more Cursed Murphy related projects in the pipeline, coming very soon.

The goon on the right will be interviewing the one on the left at the Curious Minds stage, All Together Now, tomorrow, 4-5pm, with tunes from Adrian Crowley. Pic: me and Paul Lynch, November 2017, by Alex Donald.