Post a Comment. Sorcha Richardson recently sold out the Olympia back in her native Dublin, an impressive feat that makes witnessing her in the much more confined space of the Yes Basement an even bigger privilege.
She recalls that they played Soup Kitchen just before the pandemic and later that the dancing with bass player Joe reference in her second album Smiling Like An Idiot's title track is from that evening when they went to the Night And Day afterwards and expected to be back much sooner. It's a sign of how the pandemic curtailed the momentum of many artists away from their home towns.
Sorcha's songs are simple in construction and rooted in experience of life and love, the good and the bad sides of it and they resonate with the audience. Smiling Like An Idiot is a fine starting point, a story of relearning to fall in love with yourself and the people around you, a journey that many of us have had to go through.
Her vocals resonate with the most open and honest emotions and you get drawn into the stories. There's no big showbiz statements, the between song chat awkward at points but always genuine and natural. There's a huge cheer when she introduces her parents and sister who've flown in for the night to catch the gig.
Two thirds of the set come from Smiling Like An Idiot, one of the finest albums to be released this year, whilst Sorcha tells us that because First Prize Bravery's campaign got cut off half way through she wants to play songs from that - and its title track and Spotlight Television as well as early single Ruin Your Night and Lost demonstrate that Sorcha's been making music that connects for much longer than the last record.
