Dolbro Dan

Belfast-born singer/songwriter Dolbro Dan first surfaced in 2008 with his self-released full-length <a href="spotify:album:2eKTYMiORZwxkEBBYai0UH" data-name="Singin' Homemade Music">Singin' Homemade Music</a>. His satirical musings and rustic alt-folk delivery caught the attention of local tastemakers Alternative Ulster, which praised his single ‘<a href="spotify:track:2kAL7Hf7Ni0ZetQUlofqab" data-name="When Bob Was Still a Boy">When Bob Was Still a Boy</a>’, prompting a series of appearances at the prestigious Empire Music Hall.

While studying multimedia design, Dan forged on with a DIY work ethic producing his much lauded follow-up Paranoid Protest Songs (EP) tackling social and technocratic concerns with songs like ‘Microchipping Me’ and ‘The Anticipation Is Killing Me’ which debuted in session on BBC Across the Line.

In 2012 a collaboration with FSOL offshoot Amorphous Androgynous, led to headline appearance at Finnish music festival Ilmiö, after they discovered his arrangement of Bob Dylan’s ‘Ballad of Hollis Brown’ which had received a modest 100,000 YouTube views. That same year his double A-side single Talkin Belfast Bike Crash / Ragtime Ragtime Rant reached the top of the unofficial Northern Irish charts.

Following a hiatus Dan came out in 2017 with his angst-pop rendition of Simon &amp; Garfunkel’s ‘<a href="spotify:album:1T9YdTa0tyZt7EN8qf594O" data-name="Richard Cory">Richard Cory</a>’ and has continued to serve his fanbase with a series of Single releases leading up to his long awaited 2018 full-length, Folk Dope. Among them, &#39;<a href="spotify:album:6T8pfaJVPqUShivZGoqWsL" data-name="Own Up">Own Up</a>&#39; a haunting lament which harks back to Northern Ireland&#39;s troubled past.