A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five-time BBC Folk Award nominee and her previous album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year. Her adaptation of Bob Dylan’s All the Tired Horses soundtracked the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders. All of This Is Chance features orchestral masterpieces such as the ambitious and cinematic Old Note, and the title track which was inspired by the Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh's epic poem, The Great Hunger, as well as stirring contemplations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood ring out over a clacking banjo throughout the album, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.
All Of This Is Chance takes O’Neill’s inimitable voice to greater heights, or depths, depending on which way you look at it. Throughout all eight songs on this album, it feels like she is writing in a constant state of wonderment. Not only a portrait of the artist in love with nature but one perplexed by the ever-expanding gulf between it and modern society. O’Neill sings across that divide while simultaneously digging deep into the land, eyes transfixed on a universe of colourful birds, and beyond them stargazing into the atomised constellations of outer space of which we ourselves are fragments.
Lisa’s magical NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Praise for All of This Is Chance:
“O’Neill is a cultural hero in her own right… a modern artist tapped into the ancient.” - New York Times / “The first indisputable classic of 2023” - Uncut (9/10 Album Review) / “Stunning, cinematic” - NPR Music / “A record that makes a lasting impact… beautiful and evocative” - Aquarium Drunkard / “Uncompromising, stunning, soul-shaking stuff.” - The Guardian / “A beautiful and bold album” – PopMatters / “In a word. Mesmeric” - Songlines (5/5 Lead ‘Top Of The World’ Review) / “You’ll be lucky to hear a better record all year” – The Sunday Times, Culture (5/5 Album Review) / “Quite simply a modern masterpiece” – The Morning Star (5/5 Album Review) / “There’ll scarcely be a better record released this year than All Of This Is Chance.” – Hot Press (9/10 Album Review) / ‘'All Of This Is Chance' is an epic canyon of sense and sound... a timeless piece of work, wholly unbound by style or genre, a universal shot of medicinal magic.’’ - Folk Radio (Album Of The Month) / “You’re unlikely to hear a more original, more powerful, more breathtaking release than this all year” - Narc Magazine (5/5 Album Review) / “A strikingly individual album, a cohesive whole musically and lyrically and unlike anything you’ll hear elsewhere.” - The Arts Desk (4/5 Album Review)
Doors 7pm / Support 8pm / Main 9pm