Hermitage Green take King John’s

Hermitage Green will play Electric Picnic 2018

Hermitage Green played one of their biggest gigs so far in Limerick on Sunday April 30, 2017 Live at King John’s Castle. The group regularly sell out their shows in Limerick and beyond (the UK, Middle East, Australia and the US) but the debut performance at the castle was extra special as it was right across the River Shannon from where the band formed, busking in the back room of The Curragower Bar.

The band followed up their debut studio album ‘Save Your Soul’ (2016) with the Gold & Rust EP and now return to King John’s Castle this Sunday.

Their EP was recorded in Rockfield Studios in Wales. The title Gold & Rust was inspired by a lyric that Darragh Griffin wrote in the song ‘Bring It On Down’.

Says Dan Murphy, “It represents the many contrasts of being in a band. The ups and downs, highs and lows, whatever you want to call it.”

“From playing the mainstage at Electric Picnic, to getting laughed out the door of a bank when looking for a mortgage, from walking out of a sold-out Olympia Theatre in Dublin to playing to seven people in a town somewhere in the US, ‘Gold & Rust’ is the dichotomy between the struggle and the absolute privilege of doing what you love for a living.”

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Hermitage Green play King John’s Castle this Sunday June 3.

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