Josh Ritter: new release + Irish dates

Josh Ritter limbers up for Christmas with acoustic shows at the Opera House, Cork (December 13); Vicar St., Dublin (16); and Black Box, Galway (19). [all tickets priced € 23.50]

The jaunt coincides with the limited edition re-release of The Golden Age Of Radio, which will be accompanied by a bonus disc containing rare tracks from the Come And Find Me EP.

Meanwhile, Ritter's current album, Hello Starling, was recently nominated for America's Shortlist Music Prize by Norah Jones, and has been picked up in Canada by V2. One of its stand-outs, 'You Don't Make It Easy Baby', goes to radio here in late October and will doubtless feature when 2FM give a delayed airing to his June 2004 Dublin Castle show in December.