Live music - O Emperor/ Ger Wolfe

Stripped to their barest semi-acoustic shells, O Emperor’s harmony-laden songs stood up well to sharp focus that comes with playing in church-like silence of Mitchelstown Caves.

Waterford’s finest raided the darker corners of their back catalogue for mellower material than they’d normally feature in live shows. They raided well.’ Soft In The Head’, ‘It Only Comes To Pass’ and ‘To The Sea’ all wowed the enthusiastic fans that journeyed deep beneath the earth’s crust for them last Friday night.