L. Weary

L. Weary (Thomas O'Reilly) is a musician and singer-songwriter from Dublin.

After playing in punk and indie rock bands across Ireland for over a decade, a lifelong chronic health condition reached a critical point and caused a reassessment and overhaul of L. Weary’s approach to writing and performing. He felt driven to make something much more personal yet also surreal in the hopes that it would approach a strange universality. Then came songs about relationships, the isolation of illness, the resulting digital worlds that one approaches, and the fucked-up weirdness that come along with the viewing of things through this lens. That's how this thing called "L. Weary" started. Two years on from this, a record has been finished and half a metre of intestine has been removed.

Musical influences include the work of David Berman, Vic Chesnutt, Phil Elverum, and The Magnetic Fields. Writers that have influenced the work are Patricia Lockwood, John Fahey, Philip Roth, Thomas Mann, and of course, again, forever, DCB.