The number one troubadour is next in the line of singer-songwriters like Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi but, he tells Roisin O'Connor, there’s more to his music than ‘false sincerity’
ermot Kennedy isn’t the guy writing schmaltzy songs with his acoustic guitar. “I think there’s been enough in my life, enough turmoil and loss, to bring darkness into my music,” he says. His music is concerned with more complex subjects than your average crooner. It was the death of someone close to his family, just when he had met and begun a romance with his long-term girlfriend, that gave him a unique insight into how fleeting and serendipitous everything can be.
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