Moncrieff
When you write 550 songs in five or six years, you either have to be a manic songwriter or you have a lot of life to process. Moncrieff is both. The 30-year-old Irishman says he has gone through “countless different versions of myself” in recent years. After losing his sister in his late teens and his brother less than two years later, life threw him plenty to grapple with. In the midst of it all, he fell in love for the first time. Made mistakes. Made more mistakes. Grew up. Started law school, realized it wasn’t for him. Moved from small-town Ireland to London to follow his passion as a songwriter, realized: this is it. Sometimes life tasted wild and free and big, sometimes he felt almost invisible. Wondering if this whole thing called life made any sense at all. His salvation, time and time again: songwriting. “Writing songs helps me process and articulate things that are going on emotionally in my life and things in my past. It puts them in perspective,” says Moncrieff. And so he decided to collect all his fears, faults, tears, hopes, laughs, nightmares and fever dreams. Line them up neatly like old toys on the floor of his room. And then to take a big step back and look at them for a while. “And this is the realization I ended up with: Maybe it’s fine.”
Venue
Manchester M1 5WW
UK
54-56 Whitworth St
Manchester
M1 5WW
Manchester
UK
When02nd December 2025 at 19:00
