A Lazarus Soul – Long Balconies
The second single from A Lazarus Soul’s stunning album The D They Put Between The R&L is a love letter to the resilience and dignity of the Dublin working class, while also being full of righteous fury at their shafting by hostile housing authorities.
The video features priceless archive footage of O’Devaney Gardens near the Phoenix Park – the spirit of the residents of the “long balconies” shines through.
You can read a revealing in-depth interview that singer Brian Brannigan (top right) gave to music writer and shrink Niall Crumlish at Niall’s blog here
Special mention must also go to Joe Chester, who produced, mixed, mastered and played stellar guitar on the album.
A Lazarus Soul support Damien Dempsey at Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 2 on Saturday July 6.
Nick says: A Lazarus Soul are all heart
Cracking tune, sung in a true Dublin accent, not like the OTT fakery we’re being fed by the lead singer of a certain band at the moment who use the Liberties purely as a marketing tool.
Romantic bullpoo- I used to live beside O’Deveney. Car nicked on a regular basis, once the guards got the culprit up near Stoneybatter. I always remember what the guard said- they got realised from the joy in waves and then they were picked up again, one by one.
Now you can say it was social deprivation this or working class that but I never had a silver spoon and I never robbed either. That’s not to say there weren’t some decent people in there because there were but I very much doubt if most of the residents of Infirmary Road or long term NCR are sad to see it gone- because they were absolutely tortured.