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Lisa Hannigan Live Dates

• 13th Nov 2009

Acclaimed Irish singer Lisa Hannigan has announced four UK live shows, including London’s Royal Festival Hall on Monday, 23 November. The dates, in support of Lisa’s debut album Sea Sew, which was recently nominated for the prestigious 2009 Mercury Music Prize, follow a series of stunning performances earlier this year, including Glastonbury and sold-out shows at London’s Union Chapel and Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

Available through Lisa’s own self-funded label Hoop Recordings, Sea Sew is her first solo release since parting with Damien Rice’s band. The album includes the two singles; ‘I Don’t Know’ and the Radio 2 B-listed ‘Lille’, released this month.

UK dates:

22nd Nov NORWICH, Waterfront
23rd Nov LONDON, Royal Festival Hall
24th Nov MANCHESTER, Club Academy
25th Nov BIRMINGHAM, Academy 2

Described by the New York Time as ‘exquisitely ethereal’, Hannigan’s chance meeting with singer-songwriter Damien Rice led to a long period of collaboration and development that included Rice’s critically acclaimed albums O and 9. When this collaboration came to an end after seven years, Hannigan was left with a notebook of songs and the desire and confidence to put them onto a record. Released through Hannigan’s own label Hoop Recordings, Sea Sew has achieved Platinum sales status in her native Ireland. In addition to the Mercury Music Prize, the album has been nominated for both Best Irish Album at the Meteor Music Awards and the Choice Music Prize, whilst Hannigan was awarded ‘Best Debut Album’, ‘Best Irish Album’, ‘Best Irish Track’ and ‘Best Female’ in the 2009 Hot Press Reader Poll.

Hannigan’s first UK solo show took place at London’s St Johns Church in December 2008. thelondonpaper proclaimed, ‘A glorious London debut ahead of what promises to be one of the great solo debut albums of 2009’, whilst the Daily Telegraph wrote, ‘Stunning. Hannigan’s music leaves a lasting impression.’ The FT declared, ‘A beaming presence. Rice’s next work is a plainer prospect without her. His loss is our gain’ and The Times simply put, ‘Mesmerising’.