‘You Would Hardly Know I’m Here’ is the third single from the album ‘Painting Devils’, which was released in September 2024. The Irish Times said of it: ‘Every one of the album’s 11 songs contains the kind of stories that songwriters would give their fingers for…every track groans with intelligence and humour…his insightful, witty and much-admired lyrics are a constant…McCormack polishes everything with a delivery that brings to mind the mischievous narrative songs of Bob Dylan and John Cooper Clarke’s chewing gum rhythms’.

The video for ‘You Would Hardly Know I’m Here’ was filmed in the remote village of Nyksund on the island of Vesterålen in Arctic Norway. Once a thriving fishing village it was abandoned to the sea and became a ghost town by the 1970s. Today the colourful ‘city in the sea’ is populated by a small bunch of artists and a large and noisy colony of kittiwakes.

The single will be available on Friday 15th of November from Bandcamp

Barry’s eighth solo album “Painting Devils” is now available via Bandcamp and Spotify. Barry launches the album with a gig at Whelans in Dublin on Saturday, Sept 14. Physical copies of “Painting Devils” will be available at the gig.
Tickets for Whelans https://www.whelanslive.com/ticket/barry-mccormack/

New video for the single ‘Tourist’ from the album ‘Painting Devils’ out on September 13th. Filmed at some of the most famous tourist traps and visitor attractions in Paris, the video tells the tale of a reluctant traveller whose existential crisis is compounded by a mysterious phone call to his hotel room.’

Barry will be on the road for some Irish dates in September to promote the upcoming album “Painting Devils” (available 13th Sept). Click on the buy tickets links for ticket info.

Fri 6th: Rollercoaster Records, Kilkenny instore @ 7 P.M. (FREE)
Sat 14th: Whelan’s, Dublin @ 8 P.M.
Wed 18th: Coughlan’s, Cork City w/Ronan’s Feats of Strength @ 7.30 P.M.

The single ‘We Will Prevail’ from the upcoming album Painting Devils (set to be released in September 2024) will be released on May 10th, 2024. Recorded in Dublin by Stephen Shannon at Experimental Audio, the accompanying video was filmed in the gritty Helsinki districts of Kontula and Kallio and tells the story of a Finnish woman’s determination to have one last drink with an old friend. 

Starring Aidan Gillen and shot by Raymond Beggan, the video for ‘Distant Shores’ was filmed in various parks in the suburbs of Dublin on a very rainy day between Covid lockdowns in August 2020.

Barry’s new album “Mean Time” is now available. He kicks it off with a release gig at Dublin’s Workman’s Club on Saturday, November 30.  You can listen and buy from Bandcamp at the link below, or from all the other “usual outlets”.

The video for the first single from the forthcoming “Mean Time” has been released.

“Lived Through This Before” stars Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders, The Wire, Project Blue Book) and was filmed by Raymond Beggan and Colm McCarthy.

“Mean Time” is released Friday, Nov 22 with a release gig at the Workman’s Club on Saturday, Nov 30. Barry also plays The House Presents at Annesley House on Friday, Dec 6.

Barry releases a new album, ‘Mean Time” on Friday November 22, with a  launch gig on Saturday November 30th at The Workman’s Club in Dublin.

The first single is “Lived Through this Before”, and you can check it out here:

Barry and band play the DC Music Club in Dublin this Friday, July 6, with special guest Kevin Murphy.

Also released this week is a new video for the song “Cash For Gold”, filmed by Barry and edited by Colm McCarthy.