Loah interview: ‘The 1920s was similarly explosive to what we’re living through now’
The Irish-Sierra Leonean singer-songwriter Loah has created a collection of songs using poetry from Yeats, Eva Gore-Booth and other Irish poets of the 1920s
When Loah answers the phone late on a Thursday evening, she’s just arrived home from work. It wasn’t a long day in a music studio or even shooting a television show (more on her venture with RTÉ later), but a shift in a pharmacy that has her so exhausted.
“It’s been . . . intense,” she laughs, her smile almost audible over the line.
Loah (real name Sallay-Matu Garnett) is a qualified pharmacist as well ...