Only Child launches new album and announces gig dates

Liverpool band Only Child has released its latest album – and has announced two live dates in Wirral.

Holy Ghosts was officially unveiled at a packed gig at the Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room, with Alan O’Hare’s ‘eclectic ensemble’ playing as an augmented eight-piece band on the evening which included fiddle, flute and brass.

Fans will be able to hear the album’s new tracks, along with Only Child favourites, at Future Yard in Birkenhead on May 11 and Thornton Hough Village Club on July 5.

The album – Only Child’s fifth since 2012 – was recorded at Liverpool’s Crosstown Studios, with Jon Lawton producing, and the cover art is City Equinox by author Jeff Young.

Only Child, led by singer-songwriter O’Hare, plays solo and acoustic, as a fiddle and acoustic guitar duo or as a full band, with strings, horns and whistles.

The band has headlined Liverpool's The Music Room, 81 Renshaw, The Zanzibar Club, The Magnet and Thornton Hough Village Club in Wirral, alongside high-profile support slots with Blue Rose Code, Pete Wylie, Gemma Hayes, Ian Prowse and Amsterdam, Steve Pilgrim, My Darling Clementine and Mick Flannery.

Catch Only Child at Future Yard in Birkenhead on May 11 as part of April Moon and Friends. Tickets HERE

Top: Only Child at the Music Room at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Photo by Brian Roberts.