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2022

Triptych

Reckless Yes · Produced with Michael John McCarthy

An intimate sonic portrait created in the summer of the first lockdown. Written, performed, and recorded by Catherine Ireton. Made possible through Sound and Music's Interpreting Isolation grant, 2020.

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2021 — Recordings

Invisibility Disguise 2021  ·  4:23
Invisibility Disguise
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AA — Ambient Abstractions 2021  ·  4:23
AA — Ambient Abstractions
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2017

For All the Fires Not Yet Lit

Songs from the theatre production · Music co-written with Ed Briggs

Songs from the solo theatre show — a story of everyday bravery told through song and spoken word, performed live on piano. A sung story about protest, friendship, and the quiet courage we summon when we're constantly told to be fearful.

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2014

Pieces of Me

Compilation — five songs spanning ten years

Five songs spanning ten years of musical career — solo tracks alongside recordings with Go-Away Birds, God Help the Girl, and Elephant. Tracks: Fallback · Green Jackets · The Psychiatrist Is In · Pieces of You · Goodnight.

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2014

Everything is Done by Ordinary People

Commission · Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

Three songs designed as an audio reflective journey for headphone listening in public spaces, each with specific instructions tied to different environments and moments — a sonic response to the plaster cast collection at the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge.

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2012

TreasureTracks

Brighton, UK — secret gig series

Songs from the TreasureTracks secret gig series — four intimate concerts in hidden Brighton venues, summer 2012. The Booth Museum, London Road Railway Station, inside the Corn Exchange, and more. Audiences followed clues; each received a free concert and a song as their "treasure."

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Earlier releases

God Help the Girl 2009 / film 2014

Stuart Murdoch (Belle and Sebastian) musical project. Catherine sang on 10 of the 14 album tracks. Album on Rough Trade & Matador Records (2009); film directed by Stuart Murdoch (2014).

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Go-Away Birds 2008 – present

Acoustic folk duo with Michael John McCarthy. Releases: Bells (2009), Sundays EP (2009), Pieces of Me (2014), Keway (2015).

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Elephant — In the Moon 2004

Six-piece acoustic pop-jazz band based in Cork, Ireland, featuring Catherine Ireton and Michael John McCarthy. Album released 2004.

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Live performances & videos

The Touch Organ — The Catalyst Club, Brighton · 2016

Catherine Ireton performs her newly invented Touch Organ at The Catalyst Club in Brighton.

Leaving Home Party — Culture Station Seoul 284 · 28 October 2015

Full performance. See the show page →

Leaving Home Party — Culture Station Seoul
Watch on YouTube

Show Your Hand Records — Hand In Hand Pub, Brighton · 2012

Recorded in a brewery above the Hand In Hand pub in Brighton for Show Your Hand Records.

//TreasureTrack// no. 2 — Invisibility Disguise · London Road Station, Brighton · 2012

//TreasureTrack// no. 1 — Synapses · The Booth Museum, Brighton · 2012

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