venue: Whelan's, Dublin

Having previously released his debut album ‘damn, look at the view !’, Martin then launched straight into surrealist superband FIZZ alongside dodie, Orla Gartland and Greta Isaac. They went on to release their album ‘The Secret to Life’, achieving top 40 UK chart position.  2024 saw MLB hit the road completing US and European tours alongside Emily King and Sam Tompkins and this spring will see him head back to the states to support Emily after he plays his sold out headline show in London on 8th May. As a writer, producer and collaborator, Martin has also had widespread success. In...

A baroque American song cycle spanning the time between early childhood and leaving his rural hometown in search of his musical dreams, the album gathers songs that have amassed over the remarkably prolific songwriter’s career, many of which provided him with distraction and creative sustenance during lockdown, others which have resided among his notebooks for years.   “This record has all these kinds of unintended themes,”  Hood says. “It’s all subconscious, because I didn’t really set out with an agenda, writing-wise. It really just kind of occurred to me when I was actually putting...