On St Patrick’s Day this year, we released the first single from ‘One Good Sparkle’ – a spoken word album of Pat Ingoldsby’s poetry. The track, ‘Words to the Virus Which Found Me in 1942’, features Pat’s reading of the poem, alongside original music composed by the Welsh composer, Philip May. The track is available wherever you get your music!
While much of the album has been completed, production is still underway. There are two ways that people can help the album’s production:
Please consider pre-ordering a physical album from Luain Press: https://luain-press.sumupstore.com/product/one-good-sparkle-cd-pre-order-donation
Or offering a donation on the album’s GoFundMe page. https://www.gofundme.com/f/pat-ingoldsby-spoken-word-album
We hope to release two more singles in the near future! Please find the album’s tracklist below:
Words to the Virus Which Found Me in 1942 – read by Pat Ingoldsby
Da Down the Garden – read by Daragh Fleming
The Milkman’s Horse – read by Stephen James Smith
Out of Your Head – read by Imelda May
Tonight They Put the Cotsides Up – read by Annie Peter
Lost in Luton – read by Stephen Maguire
How Was it For You Doctor? – read by Holly Hughes
In Dublin They Really Tell You Things – read by Steve O’Toole
A Parable From the Streets – read by Leon Dunne
Glory – read by Ryan Duggins
You Make the Difference – read by David Hynes
Somebody’s Daughter – read by Jan Brierton
Something Lovely Happened Today – read by Lee Sheridan
And No One Else – read by Mikey Cullen
One Good Sparkle – read by Anna D.
On the Street – read by Emmet O’Brien
I Visualise My Death – read by Pat Ingoldsby
Pat Ingoldsby was a multifaceted artist – poet, playwright, writer and performer from Dublin, with a unique imagination frequently flirting with the surreal. He worked as a DJ on the national radio in the late 1960s and by this time his love for words had already led him to writing plays for the radio, which were soon followed by plays staged in national theatres.
Pat also performed his own poems for many years in venues across Ireland as well as in England, while writing columns in various Irish newspapers. His highly original TV shows for children – PAT’S PALS, PAT’S HAT and PAT’S CHAT – became hugely popular in the 1980s. Pat retired from public attention in the early 1990s to devote all of his time to writing poems and selling his books on the streets of Dublin.
Find out more about Pat here: https://www.patingoldsby.org/
