Jess Kavanagh is putting some real bite in her Barq

After singing with Hozier and becoming one of the faces of the Repeal campaign, Jess Kavanagh is now intent on making a of of her funky fourpiece, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan.

Not many bands, little over a year into their career, get to drop anecdotes about having a drink in LA with “one of the lads from Def Leppard” and Kiss’s tour manager — yet it isn’t that surprising when Jess Kavanagh, the singer from the agrosoul Dublin four-piece Barq, reveals just that.

Kavanagh, 31, has been in various soul/funk bands over the past ten years, loaned vocals to the likes of Lethal Dialect (“the Irish Nas”), Jape, and Le Galaxie, and toured the world as a backing singer for the likes of Hozier and Kodaline.