A huge crowd turned out for musician Luke McGuinness’ album launch in the Corner Bar in Moville recently.
Luke obliged by playing some songs from the new album ‘Far Out Woo Woo’
There was standing room only as fans snapped up copies of the album.
Luke’s Letterkenny uncles Eamonn and Brendan Stevenson even broke the seal on their wallets to buy a copy!
The album is said to be a wildly creative and emotionally resonant journey into the strange, the sincere, and the far-out.
Some of the huge crowd in The Corner Bar in Moville for the Luke McGuinness album launch.
McGuinness’ sound is influenced by his home and his fishing and seafaring background. He spent much of his life working with his hands, from long periods at sea to working on the family oyster farm. That grounding in physical work and reflection shapes his approach to music. Luke’s lifelong love of music emerged at a young age, eventually inspiring him to record and share the songs he’s written while travelling, working, and living.
The 12-track album was recorded and produced by Rory Donaghy at Blast Furnace Studios in Derry, a renowned creative hub in the North West of Ireland. Final mastering was done by Pete Maher, whose past work includes U2, Pixies, and Jack White, lending a polished but organic finish to the record’s eclectic sonic palette.
Thematically, Far Out Woo-woo is a genre-defying odyssey blending folk, pop, rock, Americana, and surrealist poetry. Across 12 deeply personal, often playful tracks, McGuinness explores ego, love, addiction, imagination, and the sheer absurdity of life — all with a wink and a knowing nod.
“It’s an album made from strange characters, real memories, and what you might call ‘woo-woo’ ideas — the mystical, the absurd, the beautiful nonsense that makes life interesting,” says McGuinness.
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Website: https://lukemcguinness-music.com/
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