Wallis Bird

Sat 12th September, 2026 Doors: 8:00pm
@ Róisín Dubh

To get the true measure of WALLIS BIRD’s new album, I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE, one only need hear ‘And So Turns The Wheel’, the song with which it opens. Ushering us warmly inside with a gentle, celestial swell, the Irish singer-songwriter, based in Berlin since 2012, constructs a timeless folk ballad whose overarching message is one of love beyond life's measure. Arising from solemn roots, it hears her confess, “My tears are for you/ I spend them with pride,” and what unfolds from this doleful whisper across six or more minutes is a patiently, proudly transformative anthem that confronts that most delicate of subjects: the sudden death of a best friend. “I thought we had more time,” Bird laments, declaring finally that “Life goes on/ But it was better with you”. They’re lines indicative of both the record’s sentiments and the harmony holding them together.

According to Bird, I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE, her first album as sole producer, "is about personal and collective grief.” It is, nonetheless, characterised by an indefatigable optimism that, over a career that’s won her multiple awards in both her native and adopted homelands, has always been central to her work. “Death is a dangerous subject to write about,” she admits, typically self-aware, “but it's the most hypnotic, secret reflection of life. I found myself staring straight into a portal, compulsively documenting, not so much looking for answers as just looking. I felt simultaneously heartbroken and opened." That openness is undeniable, and it’s disarming too. On the keenly nostalgic ‘Grieving Is The Price You Pay For Love’, Bird invites us into her home, where “You and Trace chat in the hall,” while in contrast, on ‘I’ll Take Anything’, which is blessed with tender woodwind arrangements, she packs up her late friend’s home for the very last time, clinging to their diaries for dear life, weeping upon their floor. Rushing, too, towards the vigorous climax of the galloping ‘Let Me Buy You Flowers’, Bird fills the room around us with “incense watermelon sweet,” and on the joyful ‘To Love You Is To Have Done Something Good’, we accompany her in “a watercolour dream," our faces “wet and salty”.

Please Note:

Over 18s. Standing. These tickets are NONREFUNDABLE except in the event of a cancellation or postponement.