IRISH chanteuse Gemma Hayes has just announced a show at Dolan’s Warehouse on Sunday November 30 following a successful US tour supporting Joe Jackson.

The delectable Gemma released her third album ‘The Hollow of Morning’ earlier this year to rave reviews. Co-produced by Dave Odlum, it features appearances by My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, Bell X1’s Paul Noonan, Karl Odlum and Joe Chester.

The Tipperary-born singing star has recently been making a huge splash in the US by supporting My Bloody Valentine and playing at New York’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival.

Gemma’s 2002 debut album ‘Night On My Side’ won her huge critical acclaim and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. After many ups and downs in her career in the years that followed, she bravely opted to independently produce her latest record after a lacklustre reception to her second long-player ‘The Roads Don’t Love You’.

“I was very proud of the songs on that album as they were pulled out from my gut over two or three years. But looking back, I wish I either went super slick or super raw with the production as it seemed a little middle of the road in hindsight,” Gemma confesses.

Where the songs on ‘The Roads Don’t Love You’ were overproduced and destitute of any real emotion, the Irish songstress has rediscovered her intimate and understated sound once again on her self-released third album. ‘The Hollow of Morning’ is Gemma’s most seductively melancholic album to date.

 “I stole the title for the new album from a poem by Samuel Menashe. It refers to that time, just before you fully wake, when everything is as it should be and you are at peace, something that only lasts a second before your daily thoughts kick in and pull you out of the silence. And the silence is an important part of this album, perhaps just as important as any instrument,” the singer explains.

Gemma Hayes plays Dolan’s Warehouse on Sunday November 30. Doors open at 8pm and tickets cost €20.

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