Ailbhe Reddy: ‘Being vulnerable is a good thing’
The Dublin singer-songwriter explains why her new album Personal History is an exercise in unearthing fresh creativity from cathartic experiences
“I would do my worst gig over again just to be back at a gig,” says Ailbhe Reddy. The Irish singer-songwriter is in the middle of ruefully highlighting a couple of particularly notable onstage catastrophes, one of which came in Dublin, at the much-loved Ruby Sessions acoustic music club.
“I had a new guitar,” she recalls. “I hadn’t connected the strap correctly and it broke off in the middle of a very quiet sad song, ...