Starring Aidan Gillen and shot by Raymond Beggan, the video for ‘Distant Shores’ was filmed in various parks in the suburbs of Dublin on a very rainy day between Covid lockdowns in August 2020.

Barry’s new album “Mean Time” is now available. He kicks it off with a release gig at Dublin’s Workman’s Club on Saturday, November 30.  You can listen and buy from Bandcamp at the link below, or from all the other “usual outlets”.

The video for the first single from the forthcoming “Mean Time” has been released.

“Lived Through This Before” stars Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders, The Wire, Project Blue Book) and was filmed by Raymond Beggan and Colm McCarthy.

“Mean Time” is released Friday, Nov 22 with a release gig at the Workman’s Club on Saturday, Nov 30. Barry also plays The House Presents at Annesley House on Friday, Dec 6.

Barry releases a new album, ‘Mean Time” on Friday November 22, with a  launch gig on Saturday November 30th at The Workman’s Club in Dublin.

The first single is “Lived Through this Before”, and you can check it out here:

Barry and band play the DC Music Club in Dublin this Friday, July 6, with special guest Kevin Murphy.

Also released this week is a new video for the song “Cash For Gold”, filmed by Barry and edited by Colm McCarthy.

Barry and band play Ryan’s of Kilkenny on Saturday, Aug 12 as part of the Alternative Kilkenny Arts Fringe Festival. Support is from Let’s Get Lost, and doors open at 8.30 PM.

This week also sees the release of the latest video for “The Tilt Of The Earth”. “The Back Of The Pipes” was filmed by Barry and Colm McCarthy, and edited by Colm McCarthy.

Spring Tour 2017

Barry McCormack and J. Cowhie will be taking their double-header Spring Tour along
the highways and byways of Ireland this April, kicking off with a show in the
Vintage Room in Dublin’s Workmans Club on Wednesday the 5th. They’ll be guests of
Jim White at Limerick’s Kasbah on the 6th, upstairs at the Roisin Dubh, Galway, on
Saturday the 8th and finishing off with a show in the Triskel Arts Centre’s Gulpd
Cafe in Cork on Sunday the 9th. They will mostly be solo shows, but there might be
some guest musicians along the way.

J. Cowhie’s excellent album ‘Veil’ is available on Bandcamp, as is Barry’s latest The Tilt Of The Earth

Barry recently recorded a couple of radio interviews and sessions to discuss the new album, “The Tilt Of The Earth”.

On Thursday, November 10th he appeared on RTE Radio 1’s arts show Arena, where he talks about the record, and all things Dublin with host Kay Sheehy. The show also features two songs from the album (“The Great North Road” & “The Chinese Barman) recorded in session with Gary Fitzpatrick on accordion and banjo, and Mary Barnecutt on cello.  You can listen to the show at the link below.

RTE Arena – Nov 10, 2016

Also, back in October Barry chatted with Ken McGuire on Kilkenny’s KCLR, and performed a solo rendition of the album’s lead track “All The Things You’ve Done”. You can listen on Soundcloud here.

Ken McGuire on KCLR – Oct 7, 2016

Barry’s sixth solo album “The Tilt of the Earth” is now available on CD for order directly from Hag’s Head Records.

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“All The Things You’ve Done” is the first video from the forthcoming album The Tilt of the Earth (released October 21st 2016). Shot by Raymond Beggan in the City Markets area of Dublin. The Tilt of the Earth is the sixth album by Barry McCormack – an ambitious meshing of folk storytelling with sounds and textures from the realms of Krautrock, art rock and minimalism.