Graceless

Graceless is the Dublin indie-alt project of singer-songwriter Grace Tooher, joined by guitarist Richie McNeill.

Imagine Sinéad O’Connor had an indie-alt affair with CMAT and added a splash of Florence Welch. Impulsive choices, poor decisions, and perfect timing.

Having cut her teeth fronting IMRO Other Voices-featured act Staring at Lakes, Grace relaunched under the Graceless name with a clarity of vision that was well overdue. The name started as a joke. She never felt good enough, never polished enough. But somewhere in that irony, something shifted. Graceless became something powerful. A quiet kind of defiance. A declaration.

2025 reflects an artist who has found her footing: debut single The Raven arrived with a fully animated music video, a poetic and disquieting exploration of finding grace after grief, renewal, and self-confrontation. Its follow-up, God’s Plan, is a searing commentary on how religion is used to divide, control, and justify conflict, written partly in a church during a funeral and partly in the kind of quiet rage that only personal experience produces.

Third single Underwater arrives 1st May 2026: a song about the particular masochism of choosing to stay submerged, feeding the dark dog rather than climbing out. It is the third of four singles forming a debut EP that Grace describes as confronting the parts of herself she usually hides, with one final track still to come.

Live dates at Whelan’s, Smock Alley Theatre, and The Works Festival, plus a sold-out hometown headline show at Nenagh Arts Centre, confirm that the audience is catching up to where the music already was.