Laurie Shaw

Laurie Shaw hails from The Wirral peninsula. He has made over 80 records in the Kerry mountains including Working Nights, The Ink Trap, Weird Weekends and the Great Southern to name just a few.

Shaw has played Cork's Quarter Block Party Festival, Indiependence and Electric Picnic with his bands The Magic Flutes, The Swamp People and The Playground Mums.

His 2018 album, Weird Weekends is an album born out of nostalgia for his teenage-hood growing up in Kenmare, which he paints as a small tourist town with a dark underbelly. At the end of 2018, Shaw released Year Zero, an album selected by Nialler9 for the Top 20 Irish Albums of 2018 list. The record featured musings on philosophy and history but musically explored fuzzy guitar sounds and psychedelic pop. In 2020, Shaw released Annual, a double album about time travel, featuring interviews with other Cork artists and friends. 2021's Into The Microcosm was a concept album about a night spent partying in a woods as a teenager, combining field recordings of woodland with disco music.

His latest album, Felted Fruit (vi) is an exploration of psychedelics in Post-War English suburbia.

"It’s a record that trembles with uncertainty and hope in equal measure, like the teenagers intricately sketched within each song ‘Weird Weekends’ is clumsily trying to shed its innocence."
- Stephen Vaughan, Golden Plec, Weird Weekends review

"Conjuring everyone from Pulp, Edgar Jones, Jonathan Richman and Ty Segall, this is a strong introduction to a fast-rising wunderkind that, if there’s any justice in the world, will get his break in 2018."
- Brian Coney, The Thin Air, Weird Weekends Review

"‘Shatterproof’ takes on a myriad of textures. A song that melds cutting guitars, building background harmonies and a pounding beat, this first glimpse into Shaw’s new LP is one that sets the scene for something very special indeed." - Stephen White, The Last Mixed-Tape, Shatterproof review

"The collection of 30 songs certainly doesn’t short change, but there’s much more here than simple value for money. While Shaw’s recording methods could most accurately be described as raw, marked by distorted guitar, sudden stops and occasionally chaotic percussion, they're never out of place with his bursts of vital, energetic psych" - Barney Harsent, The Arts Desk, Felted Fruit review