RICKY ROSS, MARTYN JOSEPH in FITZROY
05/08/2022
Like buses Fitzroy gigs don't happen for a few years and then two of the best ones happen in two glorious nights in November.
We are so delighted that Fitzroy will be the venue for Martyn Joseph and Ricky Ross, just 24 hours apart.
MARTYN JOSEPH
FITZROY
November 24, 2022
Tickets available soon
RICKY ROSS
FITZROY
November 25, 2022
Tickets: rickyross.lnk.to/belfast
These are two of my very favourite songwriters, singing of faith and life and home.
I have described Martyn before:
"Martyn Joseph is as gripping a solo live performer as you are ever likely to see. He is passionate, provocative, at times tender and humorous, always humble but never afraid to be honest to God real. I have sat at his gigs and felt soothed at times of hurt, undone at times of self righteousness, provoked in times of comfort and always made passionate to change the world."
photo:bernie Brown
And then there is Ricky Ross. Deacon Blue have been one of my favourite bands since 1987
I kid you not but this is one of the most exciting opportunities of my life. I have been a Ricky Ross fan since I picked up the 12” of Deacon Blue’s first single Dignity in 1987. Whether with the band, solo or his album with his wife under the name MacIntosh Ross I have always resonated with his everyday lyrics, so skilfully rhymed. Ross has always had that sense of place, making the ordinary transcendent, for him Glasgow, like Van Morrison’s Belfast. Rosshas also had a sense of social justice and hopefulness that we could make this old world better than it is. There is a realism to his lyrics but always a sense of belief.
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