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Declan O'Donovan
6 months ago
hey friendos!
October mini-tour starts this weekend, see you out there?
First show is Friday, Oct 6 in Whitehorse at the Yukon Theatre, followed by dates in Alberta, Irelmore
October mini-tour starts this weekend, see you out there?
First show is Friday, Oct 6 in Whitehorse at the Yukon Theatre, followed by dates in Alberta, Irelmore
View More Posts
Concerts and tour dates
Past
NOV
09
2018
Cronulla, Australia
St Andrews Church
I Was There
NOV
08
2018
Cronulla, Australia
Brass Monkey
I Was There
JUL
21
2018
Crawford Bay, Canada
Starbelly Jam
I Was There
JUL
18
2018
Penticton, Canada
Dream Cafe
I Was There
JUN
29
2018
Montreal, Canada
Festival International De Jazz De Montreal
I Was There
JUN
29
2018
Montreal, Canada
Festival International De Jazz De Montreal
I Was There
JUN
15
2018
Haines Junction, Canada
Village Bakery
I Was There
MAY
31
2018
Winnipeg, Canada
West End Cultural Centre
I Was There
MAY
28
2018
Canmore, Canada
Paintbox Lodge
I Was There
MAY
27
2018
Calgary, Canada
Private Event
I Was There
MAY
26
2018
Lethbridge, Canada
Owl Acoustic Lounge
I Was There
MAY
12
2018
Wrexham, United Kingdom
ST GILES PARISH CHURCH
I Was There
MAY
11
2018
Wrexham, United Kingdom
Ty Pawb
I Was There
MAY
04
2018
La Peche, Canada
The Black Sheep Inn , Wakefield, QC
I Was There
MAY
03
2018
Montreal, Canada
Bar Le Ritz PDB
I Was There
JAN
24
2018
Toronto, Canada
Burdock Piano Fest
I Was There
DEC
16
2017
Whitehorse, Canada
Hamilton and Sons Guitar Works
I Was There
DEC
08
2017
Haines Junction, Canada
Haines Junction Mountain Festival
I Was There
OCT
20
2017
Toronto, Canada
Folk Music Ontario
I Was There
SEP
15
2017
Edmonton, Canada
Freemason's Hall
I Was There
SEP
14
2017
Edmonton, Canada
Myer Horowitz Theatre
I Was There
SEP
13
2017
Canmore, Canada
artsPlace
I Was There
SEP
10
2017
Toronto, Canada
Burdock Music Hall
I Was There
SEP
08
2017
Montréal, Canada
Petit Campus
I Was There
AUG
01
2017
Tokyo, Japan
Shibuya Club Quattro
I Was There
JUL
31
2017
Osaka, Japan
Umeda Club Quattro
I Was There
JUL
29
2017
Naeba, Japan
Fuji Rock Festival
I Was There
JUL
28
2017
Naeba, Japan
Fuji Rock Festival
I Was There
JUL
09
2017
Atlin, Canada
Atlin Arts and Music Festival
I Was There
JUL
08
2017
Atlin, Canada
Atlin Arts and Music Festival
I Was There
JUL
07
2017
Atlin, Canada
Atlin Arts and Music Festival
I Was There
JUL
06
2017
Penticton, Canada
The Dream Café
I Was There
JUL
05
2017
Salmon Arm, Canada
Waterside Park
I Was There
JUL
04
2017
Kamloops, Canada
Riverside Park
I Was There
JUL
01
2017
Cumberland, Canada
Studio live
I Was There
JUN
30
2017
Port Alberni, Canada
Char's Landing
I Was There
JUN
29
2017
Victoria, Canada
Soap For Hope
I Was There
JUN
28
2017
Duncan, Canada
Duncan Showroom
I Was There
JUN
26
2017
Saltspring Island, Canada
Treehouse Café
I Was There
JUN
25
2017
Chilliwack, Canada
Tractorgrease Café
I Was There
JUN
23
2017
Vancouver, Canada
Wise Hall
I Was There
JUN
22
2017
Whitehorse, Canada
Yukon Arts Centre
I Was There
MAY
17
2017
Hamburg, Germany
Spielbudenplatz
I Was There
MAY
16
2017
Dresden, Germany
Blue Note
I Was There
MAY
14
2017
Essen, Germany
Goldbar
I Was There
MAY
13
2017
Koln, Germany
Lichtung
I Was There
MAY
12
2017
Offenbach Am Main, Germany
Hafen 2
I Was There
MAY
11
2017
Berlin, Germany
Madame Claude
I Was There
APR
20
2017
Toronto, Canada
Drake Underground
I Was There
APR
15
2017
Montreal, Canada
The Living Womb
I Was There
Show More Dates
Fan Reviews
Holly
October 18th 2023
Thank you for being mentioned on CBC radio, I looked for tickets as soon as I heard there might be a show. There was so much appreciation, young audience members even brought handcrafted gifts for Declan to the stage!
It was terrific having Hendrika open the concert. I would love to see them perform a duet someday...
A very moving and meaningful experience that felt uniquely Yukon.
Whitehorse, YT@Yukon Theatre
About Declan O'Donovan
Within the earthy, baroque psychedelia of his 3rd album, Amok, Declan O’Donovan meditates on losing track of time. It’s a phenomenon we’re all intimately familiar with—”a pedestrian and profound thing to do,” as the Yukon songwriter puts it. Amok is hardly a linear narrative, though, with a beginning, middle, and end; the album and the characters who populate it twist and pull time, fall out of it and into it, find themselves transformed by it. Songs go off the rails and expand themselves defiantly as O’Donovan inhabits their narrators—a hospital patient; a character in an Edgar Allen Poe story; people trapped on sinking ships or floating in space with satellites and dark matter.
“I lived on the Californian coast, hiked through the boreal forest, borrowed from friends and family, stole from Exodus and Joseph Campbell,” O’Donovan says. “I lit a fire, fell asleep, got woke, got high, got Covid, got angry at the church, lost my keys, and split the atom.”
Throughout it all, perhaps because of it all, “time gets disrupted, reveals itself to be uncontrollable,” he says. “Runs amok.”
Amok takes sonic cues from the places it was born in, geographically and mentally. It bends, sometimes, toward grandeur, like the vast and mountainous terrain surrounding O’Donovan’s hometown of Whitehorse, where most of the songs were written. It trades in a lushness of sound that recalls the all-encompassing greenery of Vancouver Island, where it was recorded. And it reels with a similar terror and revelatory spirit that descended upon O’Donovan during a mushroom trip in the rainforest on that same west coast before he began writing these songs. Amok frequently pushes back, too, against 21st-century isolation, investigating its effects and building something to snuff them out. Against the heaviness, O’Donovan arms himself with a healthy dose of irreverence, never taking himself too seriously. Over the jaunty piano of “Maggie,” there’s even something to find joy in as the west coast slips into the sea: “Though California’s done for, we can see the ocean from our front door.”
Maybe it’s most accurate to say the album unravels as O’Donovan makes his way through its nine tracks. The shadowy “Within the Pale” eases us into things with a slithery groove that gives way to a spacey outro carried by a fuzz guitar melody. O’Donovan dreams a dream of catastrophe on the apocalyptic, slow-burning “Every Revolution Around the Sun;” he drives “Get Thee Behind the Wheel” with a piano line that rolls like a waterfall; he meditates on how the present might affect our future on the sombre “Many Years From Now;” and he wraps the shadowy “All the World Above You” with a few lines that sum up what’s really behind our anxieties about death: “I’m not afraid of where I’m going, but I’m afraid to leave—for once I’ve left this mortal coil, how will you then tug upon my sleeve?”
“Maggie” immediately lifts things up with its troubled but sun-kissed psych-pop. The anti-ballad “People That We All Know” celebrates solidarity in the kindred strangeness of another, while “God Fearing Men” quietly seethes against hypocrisy with its low rumbling Wurlitzer. Finally, O’Donovan closes the curtain on Amok with “More Was Said Than Done,” a nearly 10-minute epic that begins with earthbound piano and spins out and up into a blissful, otherworldly dream.
We all lose track of time, get lost in time, struggle with our places in the world. Amok recognizes the miraculousness and mundanity of existence. As O’Donovan asserts: it’s all as pedestrian as it is profound.
“I lived on the Californian coast, hiked through the boreal forest, borrowed from friends and family, stole from Exodus and Joseph Campbell,” O’Donovan says. “I lit a fire, fell asleep, got woke, got high, got Covid, got angry at the church, lost my keys, and split the atom.”
Throughout it all, perhaps because of it all, “time gets disrupted, reveals itself to be uncontrollable,” he says. “Runs amok.”
Amok takes sonic cues from the places it was born in, geographically and mentally. It bends, sometimes, toward grandeur, like the vast and mountainous terrain surrounding O’Donovan’s hometown of Whitehorse, where most of the songs were written. It trades in a lushness of sound that recalls the all-encompassing greenery of Vancouver Island, where it was recorded. And it reels with a similar terror and revelatory spirit that descended upon O’Donovan during a mushroom trip in the rainforest on that same west coast before he began writing these songs. Amok frequently pushes back, too, against 21st-century isolation, investigating its effects and building something to snuff them out. Against the heaviness, O’Donovan arms himself with a healthy dose of irreverence, never taking himself too seriously. Over the jaunty piano of “Maggie,” there’s even something to find joy in as the west coast slips into the sea: “Though California’s done for, we can see the ocean from our front door.”
Maybe it’s most accurate to say the album unravels as O’Donovan makes his way through its nine tracks. The shadowy “Within the Pale” eases us into things with a slithery groove that gives way to a spacey outro carried by a fuzz guitar melody. O’Donovan dreams a dream of catastrophe on the apocalyptic, slow-burning “Every Revolution Around the Sun;” he drives “Get Thee Behind the Wheel” with a piano line that rolls like a waterfall; he meditates on how the present might affect our future on the sombre “Many Years From Now;” and he wraps the shadowy “All the World Above You” with a few lines that sum up what’s really behind our anxieties about death: “I’m not afraid of where I’m going, but I’m afraid to leave—for once I’ve left this mortal coil, how will you then tug upon my sleeve?”
“Maggie” immediately lifts things up with its troubled but sun-kissed psych-pop. The anti-ballad “People That We All Know” celebrates solidarity in the kindred strangeness of another, while “God Fearing Men” quietly seethes against hypocrisy with its low rumbling Wurlitzer. Finally, O’Donovan closes the curtain on Amok with “More Was Said Than Done,” a nearly 10-minute epic that begins with earthbound piano and spins out and up into a blissful, otherworldly dream.
We all lose track of time, get lost in time, struggle with our places in the world. Amok recognizes the miraculousness and mundanity of existence. As O’Donovan asserts: it’s all as pedestrian as it is profound.
Show More
Hometown:
Whitehorse, Canada
No upcoming shows
Send a request to Declan O'Donovan to play in your city
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Latest Posts
Declan O'Donovan
6 months ago
hey friendos!
October mini-tour starts this weekend, see you out there?
First show is Friday, Oct 6 in Whitehorse at the Yukon Theatre, followed by dates in Alberta, Irelmore
October mini-tour starts this weekend, see you out there?
First show is Friday, Oct 6 in Whitehorse at the Yukon Theatre, followed by dates in Alberta, Irelmore
View More Posts
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Circle Hat
$25.0 USD
Live Collage Sweatshirt
$45.0 USD
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Circle Beanie
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Concerts and tour dates
Past
NOV
09
2018
Cronulla, Australia
St Andrews Church
I Was There
NOV
08
2018
Cronulla, Australia
Brass Monkey
I Was There
JUL
21
2018
Crawford Bay, Canada
Starbelly Jam
I Was There
JUL
18
2018
Penticton, Canada
Dream Cafe
I Was There
JUN
29
2018
Montreal, Canada
Festival International De Jazz De Montreal
I Was There
JUN
29
2018
Montreal, Canada
Festival International De Jazz De Montreal
I Was There
JUN
15
2018
Haines Junction, Canada
Village Bakery
I Was There
MAY
31
2018
Winnipeg, Canada
West End Cultural Centre
I Was There
MAY
28
2018
Canmore, Canada
Paintbox Lodge
I Was There
MAY
27
2018
Calgary, Canada
Private Event
I Was There
MAY
26
2018
Lethbridge, Canada
Owl Acoustic Lounge
I Was There
MAY
12
2018
Wrexham, United Kingdom
ST GILES PARISH CHURCH
I Was There
MAY
11
2018
Wrexham, United Kingdom
Ty Pawb
I Was There
MAY
04
2018
La Peche, Canada
The Black Sheep Inn , Wakefield, QC
I Was There
MAY
03
2018
Montreal, Canada
Bar Le Ritz PDB
I Was There
JAN
24
2018
Toronto, Canada
Burdock Piano Fest
I Was There
DEC
16
2017
Whitehorse, Canada
Hamilton and Sons Guitar Works
I Was There
DEC
08
2017
Haines Junction, Canada
Haines Junction Mountain Festival
I Was There
OCT
20
2017
Toronto, Canada
Folk Music Ontario
I Was There
SEP
15
2017
Edmonton, Canada
Freemason's Hall
I Was There
SEP
14
2017
Edmonton, Canada
Myer Horowitz Theatre
I Was There
SEP
13
2017
Canmore, Canada
artsPlace
I Was There
SEP
10
2017
Toronto, Canada
Burdock Music Hall
I Was There
SEP
08
2017
Montréal, Canada
Petit Campus
I Was There
AUG
01
2017
Tokyo, Japan
Shibuya Club Quattro
I Was There
JUL
31
2017
Osaka, Japan
Umeda Club Quattro
I Was There
JUL
29
2017
Naeba, Japan
Fuji Rock Festival
I Was There
JUL
28
2017
Naeba, Japan
Fuji Rock Festival
I Was There
JUL
09
2017
Atlin, Canada
Atlin Arts and Music Festival
I Was There
JUL
08
2017
Atlin, Canada
Atlin Arts and Music Festival
I Was There
JUL
07
2017
Atlin, Canada
Atlin Arts and Music Festival
I Was There
JUL
06
2017
Penticton, Canada
The Dream Café
I Was There
JUL
05
2017
Salmon Arm, Canada
Waterside Park
I Was There
JUL
04
2017
Kamloops, Canada
Riverside Park
I Was There
JUL
01
2017
Cumberland, Canada
Studio live
I Was There
JUN
30
2017
Port Alberni, Canada
Char's Landing
I Was There
JUN
29
2017
Victoria, Canada
Soap For Hope
I Was There
JUN
28
2017
Duncan, Canada
Duncan Showroom
I Was There
JUN
26
2017
Saltspring Island, Canada
Treehouse Café
I Was There
JUN
25
2017
Chilliwack, Canada
Tractorgrease Café
I Was There
JUN
23
2017
Vancouver, Canada
Wise Hall
I Was There
JUN
22
2017
Whitehorse, Canada
Yukon Arts Centre
I Was There
MAY
17
2017
Hamburg, Germany
Spielbudenplatz
I Was There
MAY
16
2017
Dresden, Germany
Blue Note
I Was There
MAY
14
2017
Essen, Germany
Goldbar
I Was There
MAY
13
2017
Koln, Germany
Lichtung
I Was There
MAY
12
2017
Offenbach Am Main, Germany
Hafen 2
I Was There
MAY
11
2017
Berlin, Germany
Madame Claude
I Was There
APR
20
2017
Toronto, Canada
Drake Underground
I Was There
APR
15
2017
Montreal, Canada
The Living Womb
I Was There
Show More Dates
Fan Reviews
Holly
October 18th 2023
Thank you for being mentioned on CBC radio, I looked for tickets as soon as I heard there might be a show. There was so much appreciation, young audience members even brought handcrafted gifts for Declan to the stage!
It was terrific having Hendrika open the concert. I would love to see them perform a duet someday...
A very moving and meaningful experience that felt uniquely Yukon.
Whitehorse, YT@Yukon Theatre
About Declan O'Donovan
Within the earthy, baroque psychedelia of his 3rd album, Amok, Declan O’Donovan meditates on losing track of time. It’s a phenomenon we’re all intimately familiar with—”a pedestrian and profound thing to do,” as the Yukon songwriter puts it. Amok is hardly a linear narrative, though, with a beginning, middle, and end; the album and the characters who populate it twist and pull time, fall out of it and into it, find themselves transformed by it. Songs go off the rails and expand themselves defiantly as O’Donovan inhabits their narrators—a hospital patient; a character in an Edgar Allen Poe story; people trapped on sinking ships or floating in space with satellites and dark matter.
“I lived on the Californian coast, hiked through the boreal forest, borrowed from friends and family, stole from Exodus and Joseph Campbell,” O’Donovan says. “I lit a fire, fell asleep, got woke, got high, got Covid, got angry at the church, lost my keys, and split the atom.”
Throughout it all, perhaps because of it all, “time gets disrupted, reveals itself to be uncontrollable,” he says. “Runs amok.”
Amok takes sonic cues from the places it was born in, geographically and mentally. It bends, sometimes, toward grandeur, like the vast and mountainous terrain surrounding O’Donovan’s hometown of Whitehorse, where most of the songs were written. It trades in a lushness of sound that recalls the all-encompassing greenery of Vancouver Island, where it was recorded. And it reels with a similar terror and revelatory spirit that descended upon O’Donovan during a mushroom trip in the rainforest on that same west coast before he began writing these songs. Amok frequently pushes back, too, against 21st-century isolation, investigating its effects and building something to snuff them out. Against the heaviness, O’Donovan arms himself with a healthy dose of irreverence, never taking himself too seriously. Over the jaunty piano of “Maggie,” there’s even something to find joy in as the west coast slips into the sea: “Though California’s done for, we can see the ocean from our front door.”
Maybe it’s most accurate to say the album unravels as O’Donovan makes his way through its nine tracks. The shadowy “Within the Pale” eases us into things with a slithery groove that gives way to a spacey outro carried by a fuzz guitar melody. O’Donovan dreams a dream of catastrophe on the apocalyptic, slow-burning “Every Revolution Around the Sun;” he drives “Get Thee Behind the Wheel” with a piano line that rolls like a waterfall; he meditates on how the present might affect our future on the sombre “Many Years From Now;” and he wraps the shadowy “All the World Above You” with a few lines that sum up what’s really behind our anxieties about death: “I’m not afraid of where I’m going, but I’m afraid to leave—for once I’ve left this mortal coil, how will you then tug upon my sleeve?”
“Maggie” immediately lifts things up with its troubled but sun-kissed psych-pop. The anti-ballad “People That We All Know” celebrates solidarity in the kindred strangeness of another, while “God Fearing Men” quietly seethes against hypocrisy with its low rumbling Wurlitzer. Finally, O’Donovan closes the curtain on Amok with “More Was Said Than Done,” a nearly 10-minute epic that begins with earthbound piano and spins out and up into a blissful, otherworldly dream.
We all lose track of time, get lost in time, struggle with our places in the world. Amok recognizes the miraculousness and mundanity of existence. As O’Donovan asserts: it’s all as pedestrian as it is profound.
“I lived on the Californian coast, hiked through the boreal forest, borrowed from friends and family, stole from Exodus and Joseph Campbell,” O’Donovan says. “I lit a fire, fell asleep, got woke, got high, got Covid, got angry at the church, lost my keys, and split the atom.”
Throughout it all, perhaps because of it all, “time gets disrupted, reveals itself to be uncontrollable,” he says. “Runs amok.”
Amok takes sonic cues from the places it was born in, geographically and mentally. It bends, sometimes, toward grandeur, like the vast and mountainous terrain surrounding O’Donovan’s hometown of Whitehorse, where most of the songs were written. It trades in a lushness of sound that recalls the all-encompassing greenery of Vancouver Island, where it was recorded. And it reels with a similar terror and revelatory spirit that descended upon O’Donovan during a mushroom trip in the rainforest on that same west coast before he began writing these songs. Amok frequently pushes back, too, against 21st-century isolation, investigating its effects and building something to snuff them out. Against the heaviness, O’Donovan arms himself with a healthy dose of irreverence, never taking himself too seriously. Over the jaunty piano of “Maggie,” there’s even something to find joy in as the west coast slips into the sea: “Though California’s done for, we can see the ocean from our front door.”
Maybe it’s most accurate to say the album unravels as O’Donovan makes his way through its nine tracks. The shadowy “Within the Pale” eases us into things with a slithery groove that gives way to a spacey outro carried by a fuzz guitar melody. O’Donovan dreams a dream of catastrophe on the apocalyptic, slow-burning “Every Revolution Around the Sun;” he drives “Get Thee Behind the Wheel” with a piano line that rolls like a waterfall; he meditates on how the present might affect our future on the sombre “Many Years From Now;” and he wraps the shadowy “All the World Above You” with a few lines that sum up what’s really behind our anxieties about death: “I’m not afraid of where I’m going, but I’m afraid to leave—for once I’ve left this mortal coil, how will you then tug upon my sleeve?”
“Maggie” immediately lifts things up with its troubled but sun-kissed psych-pop. The anti-ballad “People That We All Know” celebrates solidarity in the kindred strangeness of another, while “God Fearing Men” quietly seethes against hypocrisy with its low rumbling Wurlitzer. Finally, O’Donovan closes the curtain on Amok with “More Was Said Than Done,” a nearly 10-minute epic that begins with earthbound piano and spins out and up into a blissful, otherworldly dream.
We all lose track of time, get lost in time, struggle with our places in the world. Amok recognizes the miraculousness and mundanity of existence. As O’Donovan asserts: it’s all as pedestrian as it is profound.
Show More
Hometown:
Whitehorse, Canada
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