Galway Arts Festival and the Róisín Dubh are delighted to announce Imelda May as their third headline act Live at the Festival Big Top on Friday July 18th with special guests.
Imelda May’s sell-out show last July proved a huge hit with Festival audiences’ and will undoubtedly be a highlight at Galway’s unique Festival Big Top again this summer. With her trademark rockabilly sound the continued rise of The Liberties girl has been unstoppable ever since the release of Mayhem in 2010.
Speaking this week from London Imelda May said, "We had an amazing gig, with a brilliant audience and fantastic atmosphere during Galway Arts Festival last year. I am really looking forward to returning to the gorgeous Festival Big Top in July."
May releases her third album Tribal, described as her punchiest yet, on April 25th and features the brand new single Its Good To Be Alive. It follows the hugely successful Love Tattoo and the Top Ten hit Mayhem. Tribal is as primal a rock 'n' roll record as you could ever find, infused with a 21st century kick up the butt by a girl from the back streets of Dublin.
Commenting on the new album, May said,
“Rocking out is the way I feel. That's why I wanted to inject the rebelliousness of punk and early rock 'n 'roll into this album. That's what drives me.”
Tribal features songs infused with the rebel spirit that launched rock 'n' roll on an unsuspecting world way back in the mid-1950s, along with the rebel spirit of the punk bands Imelda admired growing up in Dublin in the late 1970s as the youngest of five siblings, such as The Clash, The Undertones, The Buzzcocks and The Cramps.
The motto for the way Imelda lives her life is the title of her new single 'It's Good To Be Alive'. “I wrote it in the early hours of the morning one day after I had the baby,” she reveals.
“I was sleep-deprived and feeling very exhausted. I looked out of the window, watched the sun rise through the trees and felt, God, it's good to be alive!”
May shot to fame in 2010 when she and her band recorded the album, Love Tattoo expecting to sell a handful of copies at gigs, but a life-changing performance on Later with Jools Holland and the album had sold triple platinum in Ireland and established Imelda as a major star at home and in the UK.
Stay tuned to giaf.ie for more announcements.
