Australian maverick Xavier Rudd heads over on February 8 for what will be his biggest Dublin headliner yet in the Olympia. Tickets priced €30 go on sale on Friday November 13.
Employing an arsenal of instruments that includes the dobro, Aztec drum, shakers, stomp box and didgeridoo, Rudd is a committed anti-fur and Aboriginal rights campaigner, and has been adopted in the States by the extended Jack Johnson family.
Sound-wise, you’re talking a hippy-dippier Paddy Casey with the odd hint of gravel-throated blues.
A white man inducted into aboriginal culture, 29-year old Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd eschews western-obsessed pop for more indigenous spirits.
A number of twinkling, low-key ballads help to save this record from being completely atrocious, but Rudd must lose his tendency towards eclecticism if he is...
