Programme
Gleo 2025
Gleo returns for its second edition on 31 October and 1 November 2025. Marking Samhain, the concert series invites the public to Ormston House to gather and listen together. This edition features three acts positioned at the thresholds of musical forms and with distinct approaches to sonic experimentation.
One Leg One Eye is the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Lankum), exploring submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise, and drone, and imbued with a sense of history and myth. He is joined in live performance by score composer and veteran noise-monger George Brennan (BB84, Melodica Deathship, Cholera House).
In sonic dialogue, Bea Brennan & Minced Oath explore the intense physical presence of sound through advanced synthesis and improvisation. Neither shy away from discomfort – they embrace a spectrum of moods and aesthetics, from the uncannily familiar to the distant and unknown. Listeners can expect vivid, entropic sound worlds with striking physicality amid contrasting textures and subtle tonal shifts.
Jasmine Wood is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who combines analogue instruments with electronic manipulation. Wood’s work envelopes a range of musical styles, spanning from indie-rock and shoegaze to electronic, experimental, and modern-classical. Piano Reverb (2024), her debut album under her own name, was released with London-based record label AD 93 to critical acclaim.
Tickets to One Leg One Eye on 31 October, 9–10.30pm are available here.
Tickets to Bea Brennan & Minced Oath and Jasmine Wood on 1 November, 9–11pm are available here.
Credit to Manchán Magan for the title Gleo, a word originally collected from Pap Murphy, Leithinis an Mhuirthead, Co. Maigh Eo. Originating from the west coast of Ireland, ‘gleo’ refers to the sound of the sea when it is loud and ominous, its tumult and texture akin to man-made or mechanical noise, a sound that foretells bad weather.
Design by Oisin Ralph.
Gleo is a collaboration between Ormston House and Jack Brolly. It is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick Arts Office.
