Jinx Lennon celebrates the thrill of being a DIY musician on ‘What Else’
The Dundalk artist is about to release his fourteenth studio album this Friday.
Punk poet follows up Walk Lightly When The Jug Is Full with new album The Hate Agents Leer At The Last Isle Of Hope this Friday.
The album title is a “a nod to the perilous state of affairs we are encountering as a nation on the outer edge of Europe and the rise of the anti immigration groups”, Jinx says.
It features 26 songs with titles like ‘BMW’s Don’t Like Bikes’, ‘Mad For Mass’, ‘Stop Hiding Behind The Flag’, ‘Bouncy Castle Catholics’, ‘Unwanted Attention In The Gym’, ‘Pub Drama’ and ‘Music Is My Alcohol’.
As is celebrated on the new single ‘What Else’, the album opener the album features “songs about modern life in Ireland the madness and the magic of it and the belief in song and the good crusade of the van on the road spreading the tunes as far as we can go.”
The Hate Agents Leer At The Last Isle Of Hope was recorded and engineered by Chris Barry in Dublin an features sean-nos experimental producer and singer Róis, Jamie Bishop (Muckno/Shamrock Showband) and Conor McAuley (Shamrock Showband).
Watch the video by Caleb Purcell for ‘What Else’:
Jinx is doing an instore at Spindizzy Records in Dublin at 1pm this Friday April 4th before embarking on the start of his tour in Cork that night. Full dates below.
Jinx Lennon 2025 tour
April 4th Winthrop Avenue, Cork +Wasps V Humans
April 11 Waterford, Grimes pub (Subterranean Sounds Promotions)
April 12 Cleeres Kilkenny+Captain Moonlight +Wasps V Humans
April 25 The duncairn Belfast plus Rare Witch
May 3rd Workman’s + Negro Impacto +Wasps v Humans
May 8th Bristol Jam Jar +Issac – Ockenden+Muckno
May 9th – Totnes Venue TBC + Issac I Ockenden+Muckno
May 10th – Falmouth Cornish bank +Issac I Ockenden+Muckno
May 11th – St Just Lafrowda Club+Issac I Ockenden+Muckno
May 16th an tain Dundalk+Strength N.I.A.
May 30th levis ballydehob +News for the Deaf
June 5th – Balor Theatre Cavan
June 7th Galway Black Gate +Rois
June 20th – Tin Church,Laragh Co Monaghan +Sophie Coyle+Muckno
