Mick Flannery: 'My type of music is conducive to growing old'

Mick Flannery is playing the Safe Harbour festival in Cork, and also has a new album 

Mick Flannery's new album, Goodtime Charlie, is out on Sept 15.

Mick Flannery turns 40 this year, and in a way, it feels like the Co Cork songwriter is coming home. Throughout his career, he has cut a fascinatingly uncompromising figure – his grainy voice and introspective demeanour anchoring songs of impressive power and empathy. Middle age holds no fears for him – he’s had one foot in it his entire life.

“I guess my type of music is conducive to growing old,” he says, preparing to release his wonderfully grainy new album Goodtime Charlie and looking ahead to a performance at Cork’s Sounds From A Safe Harbour festival on Thursday, September 7.