Dermot Kennedy

Dublin

Dermot Kennedy’s debut album is titled ‘Without Fear’, and it couldn’t suit the Irish singer-songwriter more as he starts the second half of 2019. The release of his long-awaited LP is set to be followed by his biggest ever UK tour dates, plus two huge homecoming gigs at Dublin’s 3Arena in December —all proof that the 27 year old, already known the world over for his bruising voice and bracing lyrics, is ready to go to the next level. The 13-track album is “my best effort in presenting myself to the world,” he thinks. And as ever, it shows his ability to span a whole range of emotions, often in the space of just one song.“I wanted it to represent darkness and sorrow but also hope, and that battle between them, and the way that in life you’ll inevitably experience beautiful things and terrible things,”he says the album. ‘Without Fear’ dwells directly on a time when, just as he was fell in love, he lost a close family friend. Writing songs has helped him deal with that rollercoaster time. “This is the only way I know how to put feelings across,” he says. “Great people like Van Morrison, they did this too. So you’ve got to do it.”Few doubt that Kennedy is on the way to being one of the greats himself. Thanks to the success of songs like ‘Lost’, ‘Outnumbered’ or the career-defining ‘Power Over Me,’ he has gained over 600 million streams to-date. He has received a nod in the BBC Sound Of 2019 and was voted NPR Slingshot’s Best New Artist of 2018. He has toured Europe, America and Australia, and made his debut on US television on the Stephen Colbert show, soon followed by an incredible performance on The Ellen Show. His sold-out headline tours have shifted over 100,000 tickets including a recent career-defining performance at the Filmore Auditorium in Denver to a 4000-strong audience. “I’m still pinching myself every time we put a tour on sale and it sells out,” says Kennedy, whose hypnotic live shows have become word-of-mouth sensations.

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