Niall Breslin, the multi-faceted Irish artist and mental health campaigner known to many as Bressie, will bring his introspective new album to Saint John’s Church on Monday October 27.
The performance, presented by All We Have Are Days, marks a celebration of Breslin’s latest artistic venture, ‘The Place That Has Never Been Wounded’, released on October 24 via Icelandic label INNI.
The album represents a dramatic stylistic departure from his previous work, featuring 14 carefully crafted piano compositions enhanced by atmospheric strings and ambient textures.
The new direction reflects Breslin’s evolution as an artist whose career has spanned professional rugby, chart-topping records with The Blizzards, and solo success. Now pursuing a PhD at Trinity College Dublin focused on music and mindfulness, he has channelled his diverse experiences into this contemplative work.
“There’s an awful lot about my life that I can’t really express,” Breslin explains. “Things that I find really difficult to understand, or to put into words. And those are the things I put into music.”
Recorded over five days at Dublin’s Camden Recording Studios with producer Eliot James (Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club), the album utilises both Steinway grand and felted upright pianos to create an intimate yet rich sonic landscape. The lead single, ‘The Credence Frequency’, addresses what Breslin describes as “tuning back into the primal transmission between body and mind” amid modern cultural chaos.
“I’ve learned in my own life that you can’t avoid the things that make you uncomfortable,” he reflects. “This record is meant to help people sit with that — the good, the bad, and the ugly of life.”
The project will expand into a companion book of the same name, scheduled for publication by John Murray One in January 2026, with each track corresponding to a chapter across four thematic acts inspired by the work of Meister Eckhart.
