Jinx Lennon set to take to the stage in Dundalk's Spirit Store
Local musician Jinx Lennon will be back in the Spirit Store in Dundalk on Friday 6th November
Local musician Jinx Lennon will be back in the Spirit Store on Friday 6th November with his border schizo ffolk sound of garage punk, celtic folk guitar and spoken rants, that features songs about Dundalk and the colourful inhabitants of the north east border lands, after a year of touring and playing the festival scene.
There were head spinning shows at All Together Now, Electric Picnic and the recent Bold Frontiers festival in town, which featured Jinx and full band playing the totality of the album ''30 beacons of light for a land full of spite, thugs, drug slugs and energy vampires''.
Earlier in the year there was a tour of Scotland supported by the Shamrock Showband. Jamie Bishop from the band also plays guitar, keys, bass and sometimes drums at the Jinx shows.
This will be the last hometown gig before Jinx travells to Stockholm, Sweden, to play an event to celebrate the musicians featured in the 'Celtic Utopia' Irish music documentary, which was shown at Omniplex and during the 'Bold Frontiers festival in which Jinx plays, as well as other Irish luminaries, such as local artists Negro Impacto and Mary Wallopers, and Rois, Branwen, Deadlians, and Lankum.
Jinx is working on his next album which will be released next year and he will be showcasing a forthcoming exhibition in An Tain this January 2027 featuring 26 years of set lists from his live shows in that time period which Jinx has kept in storage waiting for the right opportunity to do something with them.
He is assisted by artist John Connolly and local video archivist and ex local musician David Manning. It will be called ''The Square Peg of Pearse Park''.
Special guests at the Spirit Store show on the night, are Cork based act husband and wife team of punk and spoken word poets, Wasps V Humans, whose recently released LP, ''The Day Homo Sapiens destroyed the Earth '', is getting accolades and appreciation for a well deserved band, such as ''As abrasive as four day stubble'' **** Irish Times.
Also on the bill is local tattoo artist and musician Gus Cullen whose new outfit ''Doctor Goose'' lands somewhere between 80s minimal wave and Aerosmith.
The brilliant Forkhill singer Miss Paula Flynn will be joining Jinx for a few songs also on the night .
Tickets from www.spiritstore.ie. Doors 8 pm Friday 6 November.