ThursdaySoundsConcerts like Greg Clifford, The Poet Geoff, Rachel Lally and Kazms
Greg Clifford is a Berlin based independent musician and interdisciplinary artist from Ireland. Clifford’s style is an authentic amalgamation of alternative rock, modern pop, folk and classical guitar fingerpicking, as well as weaving subtle electronic elements into his body of work. His compositions exude honesty and purity in which he explores thought-provoking subject matters and astute musical textures.
The prolific songster, who holds a Masters in contemporary composition, has a number of releases under his belt including Why Can’t You See EP (2015), Quodlibet LP (2017), 20/20 Vision LP (2020) and Lines of Desire LP (2022), among a plethora of other EPs and singles, such as ‘Long Lost Friend’, which bagged Clifford an iTunes Number 1 in March 2021, and ‘Redemption’, which topped the Singer-Songwriter Charts in October of the same year.
Aside from his solo music endeavors Clifford works as a session musician, producer and arranger. He has also toured internationally with the Diversus Guitar Ensemble, scored for the RTE Concert Orchestra and currently composes avant-garde works for the Sound Training College. The eclectic artist, who works as a videographer, is also currently writing a semi-autobiographical book about his time gigging in Switzerland with a parody Irish trad rock band entitled The Diary Entries of a Somewhat Degenerate.
THE POET GEOFF
Geoff Finan was the Writer in Residence for Dublin City Council for the Dublin North West area in the summer of 2018 and again in 2019 and is currently lecturing in poetry in the National College of Art and Design on and also in Maynooth University
In 2019 he had the honour of writing the 100 year commemorative poem celebrating the first Dáil in Ireland, titled ‘January 1919’. He recently debuted his first play with The Can Collective called Wakespace during the Scene & Heard Theatre Festival in 2022.
Geoff was commissioned as part of the First Fortnight Festival to write the poem ‘Gloke’ after working with The Travelling Community for 4 months. Geoff has also been commissioned by the DCC’s Culture Connects project to write for the Local Heroes initiative and his poem A Letter To Leo was chosen as the flagship piece for the My Name Is campaign, fighting against child homelessness in Ireland.
Geoff has written and performed a poem for the documentary Baristas, which has gone to number 1 in 8 countries, top 10 in the US and top 5 in Canada and the UK, in the documentary charts and is now streaming on Amazon Prime. He was also recently shortlisted for writing and performing in the short film ‘Taboo’.
Geoff been featured on RTÉ, TV3, Today Fm, 98 FM, FM104 and Newstalk and in The Sunday Business Post, The Times, The Irish Times and The New York Times
Lally is an actor, writer, facilitator and performer who trained with Crooked House Theatre Company and Kildare Youth Theatre before obtaining an MA in Theatre from The Gaiety School of Acting and NUI Maynooth.
Rachel is a multidisciplinary artist who has toured as an actor, performer, street theatre performer, model and singer. She has performed in some way or another at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Prague fringe festival, Hellfest, Knockanstockan, Electric Picnic and The Moulin Rouge!
Her poem and video in response to Ireland’s Direct provision system ‚Indirect Prison‘ debuted in the Axis Theatre as part of ‚When I Grow Up‘, and she has performed spoken word in The Grand Social, The Workmans Club, The Moat Theatre and is curator and madame at The Dublin Poetry Brothel. As a writer and artist, she explores femininity, social issues, modern youth, relationships, the occult and the dark side of the psyche.Her work has been published on pendemic.ie and the 2 Meter Review and she curated part of ‘The Word Stage’ at 2022’s Electric Picnic.
KAZMS is the collaboration of folk singer-songwriter Eoin Keely, electronic producer Ciarán Byrne and traditional Irish musician Seán Ó Casaide. Keely’s lyrics and melodies knit KAZMS’ songs together. His songwriting is cathartic. It is a meditation and rumination on the subconscious, a form of therapy and an avenue of self expression, along which he can lay bare his deepest anxieties, thoughts and feelings without judgement. Their latest music video for ‚Nothing I Can Say‘ has amassed over 30k views. The debut album FLOW will be released on March 3rd.
Wird ein schöner Abend im Tik !!!
Jeden Donnerstag ein Konzert mit einem Singer/Songwriter oder einer kleinen Band.
Wer aufmerksam durch Berlin stolpert hat es mitbekommen, die Stadt ist ein Magnet für junge, verrückte, talentierte und interessante Musiker. Mit etwas Glück sieht man auf der Warschauer Brücke oder in einem Kneipenhinterzimmer an einem Abend mehr Talent als das ganze Jahr im Fernsehen.
Wir wollen diesen Musikern eine Bühne geben.
Every Thursday we have a concert with a Singer/Songwriter or a small band.
It’s Berlin nowadays: The City has become a magnet to musicians from all over the world or from just around the corner. Creatvity and talent is on the street playing for small change, on the stages of open mics or maybe in the bar in your street.
The Tik has a stage for these musicians, every thursday.