Mick Flannery is looking at life from both sides with an excellent new album

In terms of sound and sentiment, Mick Flannery has one foot in America for his excellent new album, writes Ed Power

MICK Flannery has chosen an unusual location to discuss his new album: a dowdy Dublin boozer where conversation is often drowned out by the sound of a television tuned to the horse-racing channel.

“I don’t think I’ve been here before,” he says, taking delivery of a pint. “It just sounded like a nice place.”