#Cathy Davey #new album #playing Limerick

Cathy+davey+dolans+limerickIT is six years since Cathy Daveyโ€™s last album โ€˜The Namelessโ€™ (Choice Music Prize nominated). She has been busy in the meantime, having released charity albums, written for film and TV, and set up her own charity, the My Lovely Horse Rescue, saving animals from their abusive pasts. Cathy and her partner Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy) are patrons of the charity.

My Lovely Horse Rescue is now a mainstay at the Electric Picnic Festival where weary punters can hang out in the friendlyย  small zoo of rescue animals – mostly sleepy old horses and forgetful donkeys and hairy canines – and listen to surprise guests such as Divine Comedy and Villagers.

With the charity now on a solid foundation and blossoming, Cathy has found the time to get back to music.

โ€˜New Forestโ€™ was written and recorded in a forest in Galway. The location took Cathy away from any regular distractions.

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โ€œYou wake up, and when you go for a walk youโ€™re immediately aware of things,โ€ she explains. โ€œYouโ€™re a lot more in the moment, and thatโ€™s exactly where you need to be for writing. Youโ€™re exercising that part of your brain before you have to activate it, which makes a huge difference.

โ€œSo I did that – I gathered sticks and wild garlic, I cooked well, and I smelled really bad for five weeks!โ€

The resulting record uses synths and electronic beats with art-pop sounds that are quirky, uplifting and natural.

The album was debuted in its full sequential nature on the Hazel Wood Stage at Electric Picnic in 2016.

Speaking about the album, Cathy says: โ€œNew Forest is a way of articulating the complexity of humans working in the natural world. Donโ€™t despair however, the album isnโ€™t about the sounds of hedgehogs mating, itโ€™s still very much a pop music album!โ€

Cathy Davey and band and no hedgehogsย  play Dolanโ€™s this Saturday October 15.