Clan Sweeney, Rory Sweeney - Mad Kings, Trap Doors & Hauntology

Join us for a trans-dimensional Sweeney family reunion.

Musician, DJ, producer and Mafia Don - Rory Sweeney is part of a long Irish tradition of artists who go somewhere when they make work, and the Sweeney name has been going somewhere strange for a very long time.

Rory’s music effortlessly straddles heavenly dreamscapes and noisy dystopia, and his deep affection for Irish myth and landscape has come fully into view within the sonic and visual world of his new album Old Earth.

Luke and Rory drift through the National Folklore Collection's tales of poetic divine frenzy (buile) and discuss why Irish art has always flirted with possession. They talk liminality, second sight, fairy cavalcades and ghostly processions. Cursed clans, underground passages, haunted houses and magic sticks (which eat butter for some reason?)