“Bang is a truly original debut album that burns bright with emotion and wild imagination, confirming Zajac as one of Scotland’s most fearless and intriguing new voices.”
The Skinny Album of the Month ****
“A powerful piece of personal witness-bearing…Zajac’s gnomic lyrics make the direct bits hit that bit harder…The hits keep coming”
Mojo****
“A name to watch, a voice to hear”
The Scotsman ****
“What stays with you, though, after the organ fades away at the end of the record’s emotive climax “Loving Is Rough”, where her cadence is layered with a chorus of female voices woven together, is the unwavering resilience that courses through Bang. Utterly personal and heavily loaded, the record will appeal to many young women who share her experiences, empowering them in the process. And it will also appeal to everyone who believes that an artist’s responsibility goes beyond entertainment. Bang is a great album, but more crucially, it’s an important one.”
The Line of Best Fit 8/10
If you'd told me a couple of years ago that one day I might be hosting the lead singer of The Pogues for her only Australian solo show I would have laughed at you!
We are so extraordinarily lucky that she has agreed to do these shows. She is a powerful, dynamic, fiesty songwriter in her own right.
Iona Zajac is a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Edinburgh, Scotland. She’s coming to Hawkes Bay off the back of a three week Aus/NZ tour with the Pogues, where she joins them in their new line up as vocalist and harpist. She blends folk, indie and alternative music with an authentic grit that’s captivated audiences across Europe. An uncompromising ferocity courses through her songs; delivered with a tender, powerful voice and arpeggiated nylon string guitar.
Zajac’s solo work has an intense beauty, expect nods to solo bedroom EP, ‘Find Her in the Grass’, accompanied by darker themes and surrealist love songs from her newly released, critically acclaimed album, Bang. Having grown up playing traditional Scottish music and lived among Irish musicians in Dublin for a few years, she has a traditional repertoire that traverses 15th century ballads and gaelic folksong, which she’ll also share with us in these shows.
Iona has toured with LANKUM, Lisa O’Neill, The Mercury Rev, Arab Strap, Alison Moyet, The Cinematic Orchestra, Hamish Hawk, Idlewild and more.
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