- Music
- 10 Nov 06
Julie Feeney and Duke Special have been confirmed as the first Irish participants at this year’s EuroSonic festival, which takes place in the northern Dutch town of Groningen on January 11 and 12.
Supported by RTÉ and dozens of their international counterparts, the event attracts a huge posse of A&R people, publishers, journalists and concert bookers from all over mainland Europe.
In recent years, it’s given the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Editors and our own Iain Archer and The Chalets a major Euro leg-up.
Meanwhile, Feeney’s gigs have been receiving rave reviews in the UK where Sony are planning to release her Choice Music Award-winning 13 Songs album.
“A strikingly bold singer-songwriter pitched somewhere between Imogen Heap at her most atmospheric and a quirky post-era Bjork,” enthuses the lady from London Lite. Time Out were just as enthusiastic, praising the Galwegian as a purveyor of “striking and haunting music that manages to be quietly experimental without ever being wilfully arcane.”