PILGRIMS.

The Courthouse Arts Centre.

Sunday January 25th at 8pm.

Tickets €30.

Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby are highly acclaimed Irish singers, musicians and composers.

Paul Noonan is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from Lucan,Dublin. He is best known as the frontman of the Irish group Bell X1 and as a solo artist and collaborator on various musical projects.

Brian Crosby is an Irish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist working primarily in music for film and TV.Brian is a founding member of the Irish band Juniper along with Damien Rice and later of Bell X1 along with Paul Noonan, Dominic Phillips and David Geraghty with whom he recorded four records and toured the world extensively between 1996 and 2008

On coming full circle to work on a musical project together again, Paul Noonan says:

“Since reconnecting on My Bones a Scaffold last year, we’ve been working on a bunch of songs that sprung from new instrumental pieces by Brian, or songs that I had sketches for. Colouring them in together. Coming from a more classical or cinematic well, Brian takes the kinds of harmonic journeys that I just don’t, and the songs are all the richer for it.

We did some shows together last April, and played some of these new things. It was there that Pilgrims was formed, in its purist form just piano and vocal. Not torch songs as such, but somewhat similar in their yearning, theatrical sentimentality.

In those small beautiful rooms, it took actually playing the songs for people, feeling that connection and inhabiting the characters for it to feel like it had its own heart and lungs.

The recordings are a little more embellished, though often we would add things and take them away – feeling that we knew what this thing isn’t, happy to be a little fuzzy on what it is.”