Music with a dark edge

Date Published: 16-Aug-2007

Fia Rua, the stage name of Kinvara-based songwriter Eoghan Burke, brings his heartfelt folk with an edge to the Róisín Dubh on Monday, August 27.

The gig marks the launch of his bewitching new single More Magic. The Kildare native has been playing music since he was a teenager, but his emergence as a front man took a few years.

“I started with the drums,” he recalls. “I used to write the lyrics for the band I was in. I never had the confidence to sing, or didn’t know I could sing, but I knew the singer was crap!”

Burke picked up a guitar and taught himself some traditional songs. Then, at the age of 21, he began to write his own. “I was always writing poetry and lyrics, so it was just a matter of adding the guitar to that,” he says. “It was a gradual process, but you don’t get any confidence in yourself until you get a few gigs and people start to say it’s okay.

The first time I gigged…….

Fia Rua plays the Roisin Dubh on Monday, August 27. Doors 9pm, admission is free.