TAU

FOLLYWOOD STAGE

Our paths first crossed with Tau in 2020 in a Thames tunnel during a Breaking Convention afterparty where a La Briche Operative captured Seán Mulrooney's voice echoing off Victorian brick. Months later they arrived at La Briche to record the Seanóirí Naofa EP—the first of many returns that would deepen into genuine collaboration.

Formed in 2012 by Seán Mulrooney, a Meteor Award-winning songwriter with three decades in the music industry, Tau create shamanic rock ceremony—life-affirming soundscapes that embrace natural world and living ancestry through joyful experimentation and deeply-rooted sonics. Their shows are transformational rituals where traditional Irish folk, global sacred music, and drone rock blend into eclectic, eccentric atmospheres. Seán channels the ancient Irish practice of Imbas Forosnai—bringing truth to power through poetic inspiration—while holding reverence for ever-evolving living myth, calling in deities of the Tuatha Dé Danann and pre-Celtic gods.

Their third album Misneach (released on Glitterbeat) was a kaleidoscopic fusion featuring guests from Tindersticks, Clannad, and Irish troubadour Damien Dempsey. But this new as-yet-untitled fourth album marks an extraordinary shift. Birthed in less than a week at La Briche through rare and dazzling flow between Seán and Laura O'Neill (solo project Ellowen), alongside long-time collaborator Earl Harvin of Tindersticks and La Briche founder Sam Waks, it weaves Irish mythology and language in ways seamlessly relevant to our times.

This is animist-based music emerging from Ireland's underground scene, telling ancient stories through modern soundscapes that transcend borders, flags, and cultural identities—acknowledging the profound shifts happening in our global systems.

Music Magic Myth hosts the album's inaugural live performance. From underground tunnels to these ruins, some collaborations just keep deepening.

Ar son ár ngaolta go léir (for all our relations)