It’s a weary autumn night, and probably the best time of year to go to a Lankum show, their chilling blend of traditional Irish music and dread-drenched doom-folk needing no better setting, except perhaps for a candle-lit derelict church in their homeland of Ireland, sea spray beating upon the windows.
Marking the folk troupe’s biggest UK show to date, tonight, Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo is bustling with people, many of whom are eager to pour out their love for the band just as swiftly as the bar are able to pour them pints. The atmosphere is rowdy, and the eccentricities of support act prog folk singer-songwriter Richard Dawson perfectly primes the strange night ahead with his off-kilter musings on AI futures and eerie ghost stories.
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