New Live Dates…
Some live dates for your diary/fridge door. Robyn will be playing support tonight for Cashier no.9 Thursday 19th at Cyprus Avenue Cork and then… Friday 20th The Academy Dublin Saturday 21st Roisin Dubh Galway Full details and such can be gleaned from Cashier no9. ***** Robyn will also be supporting Charlie Parr during his CQAF show in the John [...]
Bearded Magazine’s Guide to Belfast + Live Date
Bearded Magazine’s Guide to Belfast includes this… “A stellar line-up of Robyn G Shiels, Verse Chorus Verse and Best Boy Grip will be showingLavery’s Back Bar exactly why so many people are running out of superlatives to heap upon them. Robyn G Shiels doesn’t need this kind of gig, being arguably the finest songwriter this country has produced [...]
Lanterns on the Lake – Support
Robyn will be playing this Saturday in the Black Box as support for Lantern on the Lakes as part of the Out to Lunch Festival. That said, the gig starts at 8pm. From the CQAF website, With their Bella Union released Gracious Tide picking up rave reviews and topping End of Year critic’s polls, we’re [...]
VerseChorusVerse (live date)
Robyn has a couple of live dates coming up with Tony Wright, formerly of the parish of ASIWYFA. The first gig is tomorrow night, Thursday the 8th, along with Malojian in the Black Box. And if you fancy an away day to Portrush in the winter, and who doesn’t fancy an away day to Portrush [...]
NIMA 11 – Best Solo Act.
Following his win, he’s so Charlie Sheen, at NIMA 11 last night Robyn wants to thank all those who sent messages etc… “Cheers folks for all the nice things said and yon support..now go an’ buy some o’ the shite and get me a habitI i don’t wanna break!!! Y te the E followed by [...]
NIMA 2011
Robyn is nominated as BEST SOLO ARTIST for the NIMA 2011 Awards. And he’s delighted. I am sure that’s what he said. From AU Magazine.. “Here’s the second round-up of Northern Ireland Music Award nominees. In a country that has produced the likes of Van Morrison, Brian Kennedy and Paul Brady, we have never been [...]
“Carnation Lizard” Featuring RG Shiels
Martin Byrne is creating a song a day for a year. From Song for a Day for a Year… “Today I had the pleasure of collaborating with Robyn G. Shiels, who has been playing and writing songs in the Northern Ireland music scene, for a fair number of years now. There was good banter flying [...]
Courage to Hold + Live Dates
Just a wee reminder that Robyn will be playing in Magpie Records, above Big Bang on Anne Street, on Thursday the 3rd (that’s this Thursday) from 6pm. Malojian and Chris Campbell are playing too. So ditch work early and ‘mon round. This gig is part of Belfast Music Week. It’s free in too, which is just swell. [...]
Wandering Star/Live Date
Robyn will be playing at Magpie Records (60-62 Ann Street) on Thursday the 3rd of November. This gig is in no way associated with the MTV Awards taking place later in the week, obviously, but is part of Belfast Music Week so it sort of is. This gig is an early show, 6pm, along with Malojian [...]
Bearded Magazine’s Guide to Belfast + Live Date
Bearded Magazine’s Guide to Belfast includes this… “A stellar line-up of Robyn G Shiels, Verse Chorus Verse and Best Boy Grip will be showingLavery’s Back Bar exactly why so many people are running out of superlatives to heap upon them. Robyn G Shiels doesn’t need this kind of gig, being arguably the finest songwriter this country has produced [...]
“…if I saw the world as clear as this boozehound, I’d have probably taken my own life years ago”
“I picture this highway at dusk. You can barely make out what’s on either side, but it’s bright enough to see the yellow lines without needing cars and trucks driving by to make them visible. In between the two lanes is a wooden milk crate, battered and broken. To the right of the highway is [...]
“…Shiels’ naked voice – bruised, yet richly timbred and endearing”
“Robyn G Shiels has been around for a while now. Quite a while. His debut release, a split 7” single with Desert Hearts, ‘Two Nights in June’, was released back in 2004. It received a lot of good press (including an 8 star review on the influential webzineDrowned in Sound, which compared his folk-country sound [...]
“Like the songs it’s simple and stark – Just a face, voice, instruments”
“Look What You’ve Done is the new video from Robyn G. Shiels’ EP The Great Depression. Like the songs it’s simple and stark – Just a face, voice, instruments – but it’s moving. There’s a roughness in the vocal to offset some of the softer male singers Ireland’s produced recently.” Review of “Look What You’ve Done” [...]
