Fionn Regan is a Mercury Nominated Artist amongst numerous other nominations (Choice Prize, Shortlist prize and Meteor Awards).

125 million streams worldwide

His song “Abacus” has been recently sampled by Bon Iver for the song “00000 Million” on his GRAMMY® Nominated album, 22, A million.
Following this, Fionn performed both his own song “Abacus” and “00000 Million” with Justin Vernon. 

Fionn is a unique poetic voice in music and has been consistently critically acclaimed with 4/5 star and 8/10 reviews from the likes of MOJO ✭✭✭✭ Q ✭✭✭✭ THE GUARDIAN ✭✭✭✭ 
OBSERVER ✭✭✭✭ DAILY MAIL ✭✭✭✭ THE MIRROR ✭✭✭✭
THE SUN ✭✭✭✭✭ THE SUNDAY TIMES ✭✭✭✭ “Album of the Month”
FINANCIAL TIMES ✭✭✭✭THE EVENING STANDARD ✭✭✭✭
THE INDEPENDENT ✭✭✭✭ UNCUT  8/10 NME – 8/10
HOTPRESS 8/10 PITCHFORK over the course of six albums.

Regan was invited to speak and made an ‘Honorary Member’ by the Trinity College Dublin Literary Society, its chairman saying, “In his music, Mr. Regan has done more than many artists to erode the boundaries between music and literature, with his lyrics always possessing the most beautiful poetry.” He was granted their GOLD MEDAL in honour of his achievements.

Fionn was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair magazine’s prestigious ‘music portfolio.’ 

Fionn was invited to perform “Hunters Map” on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC), the intricate finger-picking style of this song being one of the host’s personal favourite.

Oscar winning actor Cillian Murphy appeared alongside Fionn in the music video for his song “The Meetings of the Waters” (60 million streams worldwide).

TOUR/LIVE DATES
Regan has toured extensively worldwide, playing many festivals around the world, including the Glastonbury Festival, Hyde Park (London), Electric Picnic (Ireland), Popkomm (Germany), SXSW (Austin), XPoNential Music Festival (Camden, New Jersey), Austin City Limits (Austin, Texas), Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (San Francisco), Summercase and Benicassim (Spain), and the Laneways Festival (Australia). 

With a fast-growing number of celebrity and movie star fans, his songs have been effectively placed in films, commercials and television shows (Grey’s Anatomy, etc.). Most recently, his song “Dogwood Blossom” was played in full in the award-winning Normal People and in Shane Meadows This is England.

Fionn has just finished his new album O Avalanche…

PRESS QUOTES REVIEWS

The End of History

“With very little instrumental decoration, this is similar to Dylan’s early albums, but with the flow of a Nick Drake – a stunning combination.”
The Times – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“A beguiling amalgam of Jackson C Frank, Paul Simon and Mark Kozalek, Fionn Regan seems to have arrived fresh from singer-songwriter central casting… A debut that oozes rare confidence, startling maturity and originality.”
MOJO – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“Woven through the wonder is Regan’s gorgeous voice, as spellbinding as anything his imagination can conjure up. Folk has a new Pied Piper”
The Guardian – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“a slow-burning beauty of a debut album”
The Independent on Sunday – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“A wonderful album. Regan sets his cap at the genre and sweeps it off its feet”
Sunday Times – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“Dublin’s most luminescent songwriter”
WORD

“Fionn Regan’s greatest weapon is to coax dazzling rivulets of sound from his acoustic guitar, although his knack for vivid lyrics is a close second.”
Metro – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“Fionn is one of the most gifted young Irish folk singers since Donovan was hailed as the new Dylan back in the mid-60s… he occupies an original space all his own.
The Sun – 5 Stars ✭✭✭✭✭

“He’s as gifted a guitarist as Nick Drake, but his poetry is singular and pregnant with complexity… Fionn is a genius.”
Rock Sound – 8/10

“Flawless indie-folk… a joy to behold”
Drowned In Sound – 8/10

“The End of History is, ironically, the beginning of something special that may just go down in history. It is truly a historical achievement. Truly remarkable.”
UKmusic.com – 5 Stars ✭✭✭✭✭

“Despite evocations of folk/acoustic music’s long history here, the truth is there are no reference points and “The End of History” is a singular and original vision of folk’s shining modernity.”
The Fly – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“This folk-ish singer-songwriter from Dublin ranges boldly in mood, musicality and matter, with his briskly plucked laments sitting smartly alongside literary references, poetic asides and brightly witty storytelling. Very assured.”
The Independent – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

“these acoustic arias evoke a more rarefied world… Regan is possessed of a rare talent”
NME – 8/10

“While there are aspects of his music that bring to mind other performers – his guitar-picking is a bit Bert Jansch, his voice is reminiscent of Nick Drake – he is his own man, with his own unique sound-world. In a word: haunting”.
The Telegraph

“There’s a new luminary in our midst. The Irish born Fionn delivers a spell-binding release that captures the essence of early-Dylan’s symbolist songwriting by way of Baudelaire, the delicate vocal delivery of Jose Gonzales, and the classical romanticism of Nick Drake.
gigwise.com – 4 Stars ✭✭✭✭

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The Shadow Of an Empire

Mojo ✭✭✭✭
Uncut ✭✭✭✭
Q ✭✭✭✭
Sun ✭✭✭✭✭
Hotpress ✭✭✭✭
Financial Times ✭✭✭✭

After folky troubadour beginnings, his second album keys into the rollicking energy of vintage rock ’n’ roll, while also forging a unique, observational and genuinely beat-poetic lyrical vocabulary. Terrific stuff.
Telegraph ✭✭✭✭

Regan can be sassy and scruffy, or quiveringly sincere, but he’s never uninteresting. Words and images tumble out – we infer that he’s a fool for love, but a cynical one – and by the end, you’re thoroughly dazzled
The Guardian ✭✭✭✭

Angry, funny, relevant and summed up in one line, “You curse the darkness/ And I’ll strike a match”.
The Independent ✭✭✭✭

Likened to a young Bob Dylan by those lost for a better way to describe a talented singer-songwriter. His material certainly stands up to the test.
Mail on Sunday ✭✭✭✭

One of the defining Irish albums of our generation
Limerick leader ✭✭✭✭✭

A brilliantly bold, robust work, showcasing real development and the kind of graceful erudition that places Regan squarely ahead of the curve.
BBC Review

“Regan’s masterly progress is best exemplified by the title track, a simple stately anthem to decay that rings the righteousness of pre-judas Dylan”
Word Magazine

“This signifies a great talent shedding labels, spreading wings and moving on”.
Metro

“A playful authenticity, sparse eloquence, you can’t fault the voice ”

NME 7/10

“Well developed melodies and striking lyrics, he remains a formidable wordsmith ”
OHM

100 ACRES OF SYCAMORE

UNCUT ✭✭✭✭ Dramatic and ravishing, 100 Acres of Sycamore is some achievement”

MOJO ✭✭✭✭ “A starkly beautiful unerringly poetic outing… a dark delight”

The Sunday Times ✭✭✭✭ CD of the week “this decades ‘Heartbreaker’ – an intoxicating talent that suggests a career destined for greater heights than his peers pushing for a playlist spot on Chris Evans’s breakfast show”

The Guardian ✭✭✭✭ “Elegant lyrical metaphors…an experimental world of his own”

The Evening Standard ✭✭✭✭ “Another high-quality outing from one of folk’s most interesting and original voices…cult status is assured”

The Financial Times ✭✭✭✭ “Gorgeously recorded and a beautiful companion on any reflective evening”

The Mail on Sunday ✭✭✭✭ “100 Acres Of Sycamore traffics in a timeless, romantic tranquillity and ought to banish any doubts about the genuine nature of Regan’s talent”

The Sun ✭✭✭✭ “understated orchestrations and original structures”

Metro ✭✭✭✭ “the richest thing this troubadour has done…bold, sad and beautiful, Regan combines emotional nakedness with pulse-quickening narrative on an album that is as full of light as it is shade”

The Daily Mail ✭✭✭✭ “enigmatic reflections are given pep by Regan’s bright, swooning melodies”

The Independent “gorgeous…reverting to slow-burn, intimate form. It’s all the richer for it”

HOTPRESS ✭✭✭✭ “If you liked his debut, you’ll absolutely adore this. It has heart. It is art.” (see lead review below)

The Irish Independent ✭✭✭✭ “Sweetly orchestrated, with strings to the fore, it swells and subsides beguilingly but never drowns out Regan’s lovely croon.”

www.thisisfakediy.co.uk
“‘100 Acres of Sycamore’ is a complete work, touching on all sorts of emotions and devastatingly beautiful throughout… he’s created what is undoubtedly the most beautiful album of the year”

entertainment.ie ✭✭✭✭ “Strong enough to keep the man firmly ensconced on the throne of Irish singer-songwriters”

OHM ✭✭✭✭ “a landscape of wide-eyed, sincere beauty that is very much his own, delivered with a poise that few of his contemporaries can match”

BBC Review “this is a collection best heard as the artist intended: in the order presented, without compromise. That warmth you’re feeling come its close, try to hold onto it. It’s a contentment few albums leave you with”

THE BUNKHOUSE VOL I: ANCHOR BLACK TATTOO

MOJO 4 stars ✭✭✭✭ ‘Lucinda Williams has labeled Regan “his generation’s answer to Bob Dylan” and on this evidence that doesn’t feel like hyperbole’
THE SUNDAY TIMES “an undoubted talent in melody-making, lyric-writing and guitar picking, he also possess rare judgement. It’s hard to imagine further ornamentation would have done anything but get in the way”
UNCUT 8/10
THE GUARDIAN 4 STARS ✭✭✭✭

OBSERVER 4 STARS ✭✭✭✭

Q 4 STARS ✭✭✭✭

THE MEETINGS OF THE WATERS

GAURDIAN ✭✭✭✭

IRISH TIMES ✭✭✭✭

MOJO ✭✭✭✭

Q ✭✭✭✭

UNCUT  7/10

CALA

Q ✭✭✭✭

MOJO ✭✭✭✭

DAILY MAIL ✭✭✭✭

THE MIRROR ✭✭✭✭

HI FI CHOICE ✭✭✭✭✭

GAURDIAN ✭✭✭

UNCUT  8/10

HOTPRESS 8/10

LONG LIVE VINYL 9/10

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IRISH TIMES ✭✭✭✭✭

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RADIO AND TV HIGHLIGHTS

US

Interviews and live performances on

World cafe, WXPN, XPN, Sirius, Bloomberg, Mountain stage NPR, Paste sessions..

UK Radio

Interviews and live performances on

Lauren Lavern BBC 6, (on the show twice)
Soho radio, Maida Vale sessions, World service, Phil Taggart,
BBC Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Wales, Scotland, Ulster…

Meetings of the waters played a few times by Mista Jam BBC 1

Lianne La Havas performed a cover version of Fionn Regan song put a penny in slot on BBC 2 Dermot O Leary show

France- Le Nouveau rendez-vous on Radio Inter – 2 songs and interview live

Ireland

RTE Radio 1 Ryan Tubirdy Show, RTE Radio 1 Pat Kenny Show,

RTE Radio 1 and Late Late show host Ryan Tubirdy has been very supportive playing Fionn’s songs over the years on morning shows and cites him as his favourite Irish songwriter

2FM Dave Fanning, Today FM Tom Dunne Show

TV IRELAND

Music guest Saturday night show RTE 1 WITH Ryan Tubirdy, The View, Other Voices…..

SYNCHS

Greys Anatomy – be good or be gone – the end of history
(this is now doing a rerun on Netflix)
T mobile (east Europe ) be good or be gone – the end of history
Bean clothing (Asia) be good or be gone – the end of history
Toyota car Ad – be good or be gone – the end of history
Skins – Be good or be gone
This is is England 88 – Director Shane Meadows – Song Dogwood blossom : Album 100 acres
Normal people – Directed by Lenny Abrahams – Song : Dogwood blossom : 100 acres
(HULU)
Co-op Ad UK – Directed by Shane Meadows – Song : Abacus – Album : the end of history
25km/h – feature film – song : Cormorant bird – Album : the meetings of the waters
Hugo boss S18 catwalk show NY
Song : meetings of the waters – Album : the meetings of the waters
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE” Season 16 (“Series”) / SONG :
Bon Iver/ Fionn Regan “00000 Million” covered by Gordi

Fionn Regan Song Abacus was sampled on the Bon Iver song 00000 MILLION from the GRAMMY® Nominated Album 22 A million by BON IVER

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@fionnregan6296

Spotify

Apple Music

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/fionn-regan/172845474