THE WIND DOESN'T BLOW THIS FAR RIGHT (VINYL)

New EP by Cavan songwriter Lisa O'Neill is comprised of a group of six tracks, they include
the haunting rendition of Bob Dylan's 'All The Tired Horses' that Lisa recorded to
soundtrack the closing scene of the final episode of Peaky Blinders, plus 'Homeless In The
Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)' featuring Peter Doherty, released as a stand-alone
single in January of this year. It was not the first time O'Neill has written about social
injustices on the cusp of a change. Songs like 'Rock the Machine' about unemployment in
the Dublin dock lands, 'When Cash Was King' about the move to a cashless society and
'Violet Gibson' about the Irish woman who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1926 - this
new song was written in response to the growing issue of homelessness in Dublin and
Ireland. Added to these are a new song and recent live favourite 'Mother Jones' about the
Irish activist who emigrated to America and became a union organiser, Mary G. Harris
Jones, who in 1902 was called 'the most dangerous woman in America' - following her
organising of miners against mine owners leading directly to the introduction of America's
first child labour laws. The EP is completed with a stunning version of the seasonally topical
'The Bleak Midwinter' and a moving reading of the James Stevens poem 'Autumn 1915'.