Oisín Leech releases new single 'Malin Gales' and announces Irish Tour

Tonight Oisín Leech will come to Dublin’s Sugar Club for the first stop on his tour which is already sold out.

His new album, Cold Sea was released this past March. To celebrate the tour, Leech is travelling across Ireland and the UK performing 14 shows.

When his gig in Lexington sold out, Vashti Bunyan invited him to be a special guest at her show at Camden Roundhouse on April 20.

For the first three shows of the tour in Dublin, Galway and Letterkenny, Leech will be joined on stage by Steve Gunn and Róisín McGrory.

In an interview with Hot Press’s Niamh Browne, Leech talked about the inspiration and process of creating the album. How he and his team recorded the album in an old school house in Malin Head in Donegal.

“We found this little abandoned school house from the 1800s,” Oisín explains. “But it was warm, dry and woodpanelled, so the acoustics were great. And we literally borrowed gear from neighbours. There’s a guy called Billy Robinson, who tour manages Clannad. He had this beautiful 1970s U87 microphone, so we called to him that morning.

“He was great – he did think we were lunatics going to record in Malin, but said, ‘Do you want this old Martin guitar? ’ So we literally filled the boot and drove over. I had never seen the school house before, but it turned out to be perfect. Steve and I spent day one setting everything up in this big front room that looked down on the Atlantic.”

Leech will be performing across Ireland through May, with one show in Meath for the Another Love Story festival in August. Tickets can be found through his website here.

Check out Oisín Leech Irish tour dates below:

April 4 - Dublin, IE - Sugar Club (sold out)
April 5 - Galway, IE - An Taibhdhearc Theatre
April 6 - Letterkenny, IE - Regional Cultural Centre
April 12- Kilkenny, IE - Cleere's
April 13 - Waterford, IE - Phil Grimes (sold out)
April 14 - Cork, IE - Coughlans (sold out)
April 18 - Limerick, IE - Dolans
April 19 - Ballydehob, IE - Levis'
April 20 - London, UK - The Roundhouse supporting Vashti Bunyan
April 26 - Manorhamilton, IE - The Glens
April 30 - London, UK The Lexington (sold out)
May 3 - Paris, FR - L’Archipel Theatre
May 7 - Belfast, N’IRL - The Deer’s Head (Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival)
August 24 - Meath, IE - Another Love Story

Check Out Oisín Leech’s new album Cold Sea below: