C O NEILL & CO are a Cavan based band & released their debut album 'Introducing' in Feburary.
"Its a wonderfully ragged and whiskey-soaked release thats full of dark observations and bruised and battered ballads" - Hotpress
Recorded by the band themselves in an old school house in Roscommon, The record features country guitars, trumpets, mandolin topped by Ciarán O Neill`s broad baritone vocal. "Look Da No Hands" . with Guest vocalist Fearghal Mc Kee from Whipping Boy ends proceedings on a massive high.
This year the band have supported The Minutes, Whipping Boy, Big Country & The Saw Doctors as well as headlining a tour of their own in May & June.
Review: Chew Your Own Fat.
"It’s an album you can’t help grinning along to. Not just because of the cheeky lines, but because of the welcome return of that that feeling of pride that someone out there is making music so totally unafraid of parodying itself, so quintessentially irish"