Ahead of a 2017 European tour in support of her forthcoming album (to be released this autumn), Walls Bird first returns to a handful of small venues, to play the kind of sweaty, intimate shows that characterised her early career.

A two-time Meteor award winner and Choice prize nominee in her native Ireland, Wallis is well known for her sheer unbridled energy on stage. What other performer could play a 12-hour non-stop gig, as she did earlier this year in aid of refugee projects? As the Irish Times once said: “The sheer visceral energy of Wallis Bird could kick-start an entire economy.”