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Kevin Brennan

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BASIC INFO

 

Origin

Cwmbran, Wales, UK

Genres

Folk, Acoustic

Years Active

2004-present

 

Associated Acts

MP4

 

Website

www.revolverrecords.com

 

Label

Revolver Records

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QUOTES

Crispin Hunt, Songwriter (formerly Longpigs) and Chair of the Ivors Academy said,

‘Kevin Brennan is a rare and enviable thing.  Equally gifted as a writer of songs as he is a righter of wrongs.’

Kevin Brennan

BIO

 

Brennan’s music is strongly influenced by his background and upbringing. His Irish father Michael was born in West Cork and his mother Beryl is a miner’s daughter from Nantyglo in the South Wales valleys.  The Brennan home in Cwmbran was full of music from both traditions, and he and his sister Nuala were regular performers at folk clubs across South Wales. Later, whilst working as a teacher in Cardiff, Brennan was also a member of Welsh folk dance band Cadlan - a regular feature of twmpath and ceilidh dances across South and West Wales in the 1980s.

Brennan’s passion for fairness and justice led him into a career in politics. In 2001 he was elected to parliament as the Labour MP for Cardiff West, often specialising in issues relating to culture in general, and the music industry in particular.  In parliament he combined with 3 other musician/politicians, including the SNP’s Pete Wishart formerly of Scottish folk/rock legends Runrig, to form MP4.  The band have helped raise over £1m for charity and have recorded an album, 2 Eps, and a charity single as a tribute to the late Jo Cox featuring KT Tunstall, David Gray, Rickie Wilson and Steve Harley, with Robin Millar producing.

More recently during lockdown Brennan supported acclaimed singer songwriter John Smith in an online gig with solo versions of songs from his forthcoming album.

Tabernacle Lane

Tabernacle Lane (released digitally September 22) is the first single from Kevin Brennan’s forthcoming album The Clown and the Cigarette Girl, to be released by Revolver Records on October 27, 2021. The song references the case of Mahmood Mattan who in 1952 was found guilty of the murder of Cardiff shopkeeper Lily Volpert. Mattan became the last man to be hanged (wrongfully as it proved) in Cardiff. A novel based on the same case, "The Fortune Men" by Nadifa Mohamed, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in September 2021.

Brennan wrote the song some years ago inspired by meeting Laura Mattan, the late widow of Mahmood, during the campaign to overturn his murder conviction posthumously. The campaign eventually succeeded in 1998.

With vocals and guitar from Brennan the track is produced by award winning Producer Gerry Diver. Diver’s virtuoso fiddle playing also features strongly, with Pete Flood (Bellowhead) on drums and Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, Rich Kids) on bass guitar.

"Tabernacle Lane" is now available for Pre-Save at: 

https://backl.ink/148342887

DISCOGRAPHY
Tabernacle Lane (Single) - 22nd September 2021

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Revolver Records

Lucy Shaw

lucy.shaw@revolverrecords.com

01902 345 345

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