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Doors open at 6:30 PM – Event ends at 9:45 PM
Age: You must be 16 years of age or more to attend this event (no exceptions). | Photo ID – We require original physical (non-digital) photo ID and use ID scanning. Without ID we may refuse you entry. | | Access – Standing. There are no seats assigned. The venue is arranged on several floors with many stairs and no lift. Find out more about accessiblity.
About Ciarán
Róisín is an Irish girls’ name that means ‘little rose’. A delicate, feminine name that at
first seems at odds with Ciarán McDonald’s debut solo album. The music is confronting,
sometimes confusing: tender one minute then brutal the next. Róisín is also the middle
name Ciarán was to be given if he’d been born a girl, and it’s this line between the
feminine and masculine that the record interrogates through pretty melodies coupled
with warped, disconcerting sounds. Stepping out from the adolescent moniker
Bearface, the one-time Brockhampton member took his time finding his sound,
experimenting with styles and approaches until it felt right. The title Róisín is part of
the gentle reclamation of his own name, and his Irishness too. The result is a record
that unfurls a little more every time you listen, a little rose growing its thorns and
coming into bloom.
The heart of Róisín came from a trip to New Jersey, when he and a bunch of friends and
collaborators holed up in a cabin, messing about, making each other laugh and
following any string that felt like it had potential. Found sounds, difficult distortion,
playful crescendos that peak and disperse into menacingly quiet fuzz, Róisín is an
album that simmers with a sense of boundless musical possibility, the sound of an
artist breaking free of a pigeonhole. Ciarán revels in its imperfections, deliberately
using pretty janky gear and finding meaning where the sound behaves erratically or a
track zigs when you’re fully expecting a zag. As a record, Róisín is hard to classify. It
has guitar on every track but you wouldn’t call it a guitar record. There are hints of R&B
and rock, stacked and pitched vocals, lush harmonies and tender melodies rubbing up
against harsh sounds and skewed production. Though a cast of friends and
collaborators helped draw it out, what it absolutely is, is all Ciarán.
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