Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott have announced their Irish return with tour dates including a show at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on 24^th October 2017

If the UK’s national treasures are by and large defined by their obsessive attention to craft, then Paul Heaton should be among the most celebrated. He has been one of the UK’s more astute songwriters - composer of the most joyful melodies, the most barbed lyrics - for four full decades now. But where some artists, even venerable ones, can tend to coast somewhat in midlife, Heaton, along with his musical foil Jacqui Abbott, is just hitting his stride. The duo’s new album, ‘Crooked Calypso’, brims with his newly-discovered zest for life.