Thursday 23th April 2026
Location: Cleeres Bar and Theatre, 28 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
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Having had some success with his first band, Swampshack, Oliver Cole formed the three-piece rock band, Turn. Oliver was Turn’s singer, songwriter and main guitarist, and they soon signed to Infectious Records in London, which was home to Muse, Ash and Garbage, among others. Turn enjoyed great success and popularity, playing sell-out gigs at Vicar Street and a packed-to-the-gills standout performance at the Oxygen festival in 2005.
They released three Irish Top 10 albums, ‘Antisocial’ (2000), ‘Forward’ (2003), and ‘Turn’ (2005) and were nominated for Ireland’s coveted Choice Music Award. Cole left the band in 2006 to begin work on his first solo album, ‘We Albatri’, which was recorded in Germany. Upon its release in 2010, The Irish Times gave the album 5 out of 5 and made it their album of the month.
Oliver continued to progress his career as both a songwriter and solo artist, on ‘Year of The Bird’, which was released to huge critical acclaim in 2015.
‘Father Brother, Son’, Cole’s third album, was released in 2020. Unearthing themes of life and loss, birth and death, it explored the path from grief to recovery, following the passing of his mother and brother, in what we have and what we leave behind.
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