Poor Creature – Adieu Lovely Erin
Poor Creature today share a new single ‘Adieu Lovely Erin’ + video, taken from their debut album All Smiles Tonight which is to be released on 11th July, 2025, via River Lea Records.
“This song tells the true story of William Hill, a forger from Belfast who was transported to Australia in 1826,” explain the band, “The video, animated by Ruth, visits some iconic Irish landscapes as well as a few of the band’s former Dublin haunts.”
Poor Creature play an instore at Rough Trade East in London on July 14th with further tour dates are now announced, full details are below. The band also play Supersonic Festival on Aug 31st and Subtereanean Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, London on Sept 20th, supporting Lisa O’Neill.
Poor Creature is comprised of Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody, all three are members of other bands (Landless and Lankum respectively) who have built a large following on re-interpreting songs from the past. Songs that have existed for centuries can seem immutable and anchored to time. A new generation of Irish musicians are keen to acknowledge that musical legacy, while reimagining the songs within a contemporary context.
There’s definitely a unifying theme of loss and separation on nearly all the songs on the record. When working on ‘The Whole Town Knows’ (a Ray Lynam & Philomena Begley track), it transformed from a song about cheating hearts to something else. “It talks about how we can’t go on living this way, which became a metaphor for the climate crisis and the general destruction of the planet. ‘Lorene’, which Cormac sings solo, is an epistolary tale of missing someone, and the despair of unanswered letters, which channels Chantal Akerman’s News From Home.
July 14th – Rough Trade East Instore, London
Aug 31st – Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
Sep 12th – The Duncairn, Belfast
Sep 16th – The Attic, Leeds
Sep 17th – The Portland Arms, Cambridge
Sep 18th – The Larder House, Southbourne – Wandering Bear Presents
Sep 19th – Strange Brew, Bristol
Sep 20th – Subterranean Festival, London Royal Festival Hall, London
Sep 21st – YES, Manchester
Nov 27th – The Button Factory, Dublin
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