AMIGO THE DEVIL | 2024 Danny Kiranos photos by Visions of the Abyss
Acclaimed US singer-songwriter Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) recently announced a string of UK and Irish dates in support of his third album ‘Yours Until The War Is Over’. The force of nature that is Amigo The Devil is an impressive experience in a live setting so I’d urge you to get along to a show if possible. Full tour details and a little more about Amigo The Devil and the album follows:
Acclaimed US singer-songwriter Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) recently added a third Irish show to his previously announced UK & RoI tour that takes place next month. He will play the Roísín Dubh in Galway on 20th July. Support on all dates will be provided by compatriot Nate Bergman (except 13th July).
Kiranos and his band have been touring throughout 2024 to promote ‘Yours Until The War Is Over’, his third studio album that was released in February. The record has received a swathe of accolades and drawn comparisons to the likes of Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen with a set of songs that serve as cinematic vignettes threading together stories of the human condition, trauma bonding and the method of using relationships for survival. All heart, with no boundaries, it is an album to be experienced from beginning to end in order to recognise the perspective it offers.
The album title is a reference to the love affair between Ernest Hemingway and his nurse Agnes von Kurowsky in the closing months of World War I, a (trauma) bond that developed after the future novelist was severely wounded in Italy just after becoming a Red Cross volunteer at the age of 18. She would sometimes end her love letters by writing “Yours until the war is over,” a sign-off that proved prophetic, her ultimate rejection devastating and scarring him.
Having completed a US tour with Flogging Molly in late March, Danny & co. played 14 headlining shows Australia and New Zealand in April before returning home for further ongoing dates with Frank Turner ahead of their upcoming visit to the UK.
For the second weekend in a row, the UK was in the grip of a named storm as the RGM team made their way to Hoxton Hall in London. The onset of Storm Dennis, which would bring driving rain and treacherous winds to the majority of the country wasn’t going to put us off and proved rather fitting as Amigo The Devil seems very comfortable with the dark and the desolate.