Occasionally in the sea of current singer songwriters there swims a shark.A carnivore that gleefully devours all in it’s path with razor sharp teeth and a voracious appetite to boot .A man who on first impression seems like the local nutter but may actually be the only sane man for miles .Caught somewhere between Public Enemy,Hamell On Trial,and a County Louth joyrider Lennon discourses on the colloquial climate range from the chip shop owner who is master of all(the drunks)he surveys ‘Lord of the Onion ring’to the menace of ‘Balaclava Boys’to the almost educational ‘The next slow song you hear may leave you pregnant’At a time when Damien Dempsey is being heralded as having the courage to sing in his own voice about some of the more unseemly aspects of our society ,surely Jinx Lennon’s vibrant tirades have a place at the table too.

Michael Carr,Inside Cork