Laura Mulcahy
Laura Mulcahy Biography
Laura Mulcahy might pack a potent punch when letting off steam but would charm the birds from the trees in classic style with an impish twinkle in her eye, when a lightness of touch is required.
A musician and artist from County Clare, she has found plenty to write about from rich experiences of life. On her home turf, there are many with good things to say about this explosive spark who has been lighting up the radio airwaves since releasing her debut, Funeral, Home, Lizard... (2017), followed by Once Upon A Time In The Sand Dunes (single, 2018) Easy Listening Dirges For The Partially Hinged (2019), Sub Nubibus Margarita (2023) and Janet (single, 2024).
Across three albums and two singles, she has amazed all with her genre-defying melodic output. Laura explores everthing that life brings - from collective traumas to the stupidity and hilarity of life itself, including matters of the heart.
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'... absolutely stopped me in my tracks,' - Deb Grant, BBC Radio 6 Music
'...one of the most exciting talents to have emerged from Ireland in the past decade.' - Folking.com
Album of the year 2023, Green and Live, Limerick's 95fm
Nominated: Best Folk Artist 2022, Radio Wigwam
Mesmerising' - Fatea Magazine (The Ballad Of Lucy Sands)
'A wonderful artist, musician and writer from County Clare... remarkable musician and lyricist,' Fiachna Ó Braonáin, RTÉ Radio One
Prodigiously gifted... Utterly brilliant,' - Roger Williams, A World Of Difference
'Ireland's most iconoclastic contemporary singer,' Bernard Clarke, RYE Lyric fm
'Atmospheric brilliance' - Rick Stuart, Blues And Roots Radio
'I bet (John) Peel would play this in a flash' - Marc Higgins, Fatea Magazine / Northern Sky Magazine ( Easy Listening Dirges For The Partially Hinged)
'Probably one of the most gifted artists that I have come across, there's always a story behind every song.' - Tracey, Hanby, 100% Irish, Dundalk FM.
'A potent and brave maker of art,' - Martin Bridgeman, KCLR
The refined, personal nature of Mulcahy's songs have earned her a growing fanbase,' - Hot Press Magazine
Laura is an incredible artist and has an incredible grasp of her artform,' - Vanessa Monaghan, RTÉ 2XM
'Laura Mulcahy is a genius...' Dermot Lambert, Garageland, RTE 2XM
(Top ten hottest music acts to watch out for in 2018 as chosen by Dermot Lambert of Garageland RTE 2XM, buzz.ie and The Irish Daily Star
'I love the atmosphere she creates with her music,' Aine Hensey, RTE RnaG
'There is something of Agnes Bernelle's theatrics in Mulcahy's music,' - Gareth Thompson, RnR Magazine
'Somewhere close to progressive, touched by avant-garde - unique!' Charlie Elland, Folkwords
'Laura compels us to examine ourselves through the beauty of a remarkable voice singing powerful words to original music like we have never before heard... We need Laura Mulcahy... a strong and driven artist in an often boring sea of mundane pleasantness...' Eoin O'Neill, Clare FM
'...a series of brutally-honest state-of-the-western-world observations and protests, that is at turns uncomfortable, and at others laugh-out-loud outrageous. That'll do for me.' - David Innes, Blues And More Again
'...an important masterpiece,' Paul Riley, Country Music People Magazine
(Album of the year, as chosen by Paul Riley, Country Music People Magazine 2017)
Top five albums of 2017 as chosen by Cormac O'Caoimh for Musicriot.co.uk
Top twenty Irish albums of 2017 as chosen by John Loftus, 8Radio.com
#3 out of top 100 artistes of 2017 in Laurel Canyon Music and top Irish artiste position
#3 out of top 100 albums of 2017 in Laurel Canyon Music and top Irish album position
#2 song and #2 album of 2017 Radio Nowhere, N.Y.
#onetowatch 100% Irish programme, Dundalk FM and top ten favourite #onestowatch, Dundalk FM 2017
Top ten albums of 2017, Roger Williams 'A World of Difference' www.bluesandrootsradio.com
The year in review, favourite albums of 2017, 'From Albion and Beyond', Little Rock, Arkansas