Øxn review: Work-in-progress feel at first gig for Radie Peat's new group

ØXN performing in the Everyman for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Picture: Darragh Kane
Lankum's Radie Peat and solo artist Katie Kim linked up for a couple of shows in Dublin and at Cork’s Quiet Lights festival in 2018 and five years later, adding in Percolator pair John ‘Spud’ Murphy, who also produces Lankum, and Eleanor Myler, bring Øxn to the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival on the eve of their debut album CYRM being released.
"It's our first show - we're not nervous at all," Kim tries to reassure as the band shuffle onstage as part of the 'non-jazz' roster at the eclectic festival.