Jinx Lennon - Border schizo fffolk songs for the shook
Schedule
Fri Mar 28 2025 at 08:30 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Deer's Head, 1-3 Lower Garfield Street, Belfast BT1 1FP | Belfast, NI
Join us for an eagerly awaited performance from Jinx Lennon , Ireland's premier punk poet on beats, words, six strings and his conscience on a tape machine.Featuring support by Belfast artist, animator, film-maker and musician rarewitch . His music combines a chaotic fusion of abstract comedy, local social commentary, and overhand banjo playing.
Jinx Lennon squeezes out 25 years of songs that deal with the Irish psyche and the world seen from the mindset between the Cooley and Mourne mountains. Outsider folk, electro beat garage numbers , rants and words and the colourful characters who dwell within the hinterlands of the lost province of Oriel, or in other words the urban North East border and smugglers' road lands.
Jinx brings his whole bag of fears, beliefs, observations, inspirations, and hope, and throws it out into the audience to uplift them and inspire them on tightrope of raw energy sound, awkward and real in its intensity.
Brought up on glam rock, rebel songs, and some awful country & western, the cosmic border schizo folk sound of Jinx Lennon is the result of too many shit factory jobs, clueless sex education, cigarette butt-strewn snooker halls; the jurassic park of big grey estates and breweries, football bores, and the purgatory graveyards of half-arsed bands stuck in the bubble of local hero dom.
Keeping it simple in a neanderthal garage rock vein and his own brand of wired-up folk guitar music, the aim here is for joyous communion with the audience in a punk poet state of mind, no B.S., no niceties, just lyrics and noise to help face down the dread of everyday life.
Jinx toured with John Cooper Clarke, has shared a stage with Christy Moore and The Fall and has appeared on the Tommy Tiernan TV show.
rarewitch is a visual artist, animator and musician based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His live performances entail a chaotic fusion of sardonic social commentary, surrealist humour and frenetic overhand banjo. Following the release of his double sided release "Rocket Science" through GACK records and a variety of local and international shows in 2024, he is looking forward to being thrown out of 2025 for frying heads and being too loud (my neighbour has work in the morning, mate).
REVIEWS
Jinx is never afraid to sing in his own accent, or address the personal and political, and every shade of grey in between, while empowering the listener throughout the whole beautiful process. IRISH TIMES
‘A beacon to the D.I.Y. scene in Ireland’ Totally dublin
‘Lennon’s wry humour means there’s enough levity to avoid pontification’ Sunday times Culture Magazine
‘Lennon means to warn the local good guys about the bad guys waiting to f**k them up’ Christgau-Rolling Stone/Village voice
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