A return to Deer Shed for Seamus Fogarty - a songwriter who makes you feel like you’ve wandered into the middle of a story already in progress. Born in Ireland and based in London, his music sits at an unusual crossroads: part folk tradition, part spoken word, part something harder to pin down. Songs drift between sung melody and half-muttered narration, packed with detail, humour and moments of sudden emotional weight.

His writing is vivid and tactile, full of characters, places and small observations that feel overheard rather than performed. There’s often a sly wit at work, but it’s balanced by a deep tenderness — Fogarty has a knack for capturing vulnerability without ever tipping into sentimentality. Musically, things stay fluid: acoustic foundations are nudged and bent by subtle electronics, loops and textures that keep everything feeling alive and slightly unpredictable.

Live, Seamus Fogarty’s sets have an intimacy that draws people in quickly. He doesn’t shout for attention; he earns it through presence and precision, building trust with an audience line by line. Songs can feel conversational one moment, devastating the next, with silence used as carefully as sound.