Cate Le Bon Announces Dublin Gig ....

Critically acclaimed Welsh songwriter Cate Le Bon will perform an intimate solo piano show on 6 January at The Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire.

Tickets for the gig by Aiken Promotions cost €22 inclusive of booking fee, on sale today at 9am from Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire box office or by calling (01) 2312929.

Cate Le Bon is a keystone, using the weight of her influences to steady a house that is entirely her own making.

Whether producing others or at the helm of her own maxi-minimal deconstructionist music, her method remains the same as it ever was: take it apart, find the stone that sings, build it back from the top down.

Cate Le Bon is currently working on her fifth studio album and recently found a perfect new home for her compositions with American visionaries Mexican Summer (Ariel Pink, Jessica Pratt, Connan Mockasin).

2018 saw the second release of her weirdo-automatic-folk-ballad-krautrock side project, Drinks, with long-time partner in rhyme Tim Presley (White Fence) to much critical acclaim.

In April 2018 she travelled to Marfa, Tx to work on a collaboration with Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox during the prestigious Marfa Myths Festival.

This musical kinship and mutual admiration for one another led to Cox to ask her to produce their new album.

It’s beginning to feel like the Welsh writer’s creative threads are truly coming together. No other musician sounds like this and no one puts heart into concrete like Cate Le Bon. For fans of architecture, night flights and the sea.

According to Wikipedia, "Le Bon is singled out by critics for her 'beautiful, haunting voice'. She described writing and performing music as 'important to me, it's just an expression and sometimes it's not necessary to moralise it'.

"Le Bon claimed that 'early experiences with a string of pet deaths had a profound lasting effect on me' and informed her initial self-admitted 'abnormal fixation with death'. She describes her lyric writing as 'foraging for [the right] words and then everything falls into place'."