Easing the pain in Spain

After a bruising encounter with the music industry, Cork soulster Brian Deady retreated to a cave-house in Andalusia to recover and create. The result is a superb new album, writes Ed Power.

In February 2016, singer Brian Deady performed his gospel-inflected single ‘Clap Both My Hands’ on the Late Late Show. The response was rapturous and seemed to mark the end of a long hard road and signal a new beginning for the native of Skibbereen, Co Cork, who had overcome a traumatic adolescence that had included the break-up of his family and a spell in foster care.