Cathal Coughlan back in action

Based on the Flannery’s Mounted Head song-cycle he assembled for Cork’s 2005 European City of Culture celebrations, it features ‘Ophelia Crescent Is Burning’, ‘Widening The Gravel Road’, ‘North Esk’, ‘Epiphany Season’, ‘Black Confetti’, ‘Fur Jacket On A Hot Night’, ‘The Adoptees’, ‘Rat Poison Rendezvous’, ‘The Centre, Revisted’, ‘Big Wax Hand’, ‘The Sacrament Of Killing’, ‘The Intake Room’ and ‘Asunderland’.
Described by the former Microdisney and Fatima Mansions man as an “unreliable narrative of architectural plastic surgery”, it’ll be accompanied by Coughlan’s first UK shows in four years and a Grand Necropolitan Sextet-assisted performance of Flannery’s Mounted Head in Dublin.
The other extremely good news from the People’s Republic is that The Frank & Walters have a new album in the can and awaiting October 27 release on Dublin’s FIFA Records.
A Renewed Interest In Happiness is trailed on September 29 by the lead single, ‘Miles And Miles’.
Other tracks are ‘Come On’, ‘Keep The Faith’, ‘City Lights’, ‘Keep The Faith’, ‘Changed My Way Of Thinking’, ‘Hold On’, ‘Fight’, ‘Learned To Love’, ‘Summertime’, ‘Guilty’, ‘You Are The Greatest’, ‘Johnny Cash’ and ‘Country Boy’.
The trio have also confirmed visits to the Tain Festival, Spirit Store, Dundalk (October 27); Falls Hotel, Ennistymon (29); Mulcahy’s. Clonmel (17); and Dolan’s, Limerick (December 1).