Albert returns in style with 'Hungry Ghost'

MOUNTBELLEW singer songwriter Albert Niland comes to the Róisín Dubh this Sunday, January 25 with an impressive new album, The Hungry Ghost and an ever burning passion for his craft.These days Niland, who is best known in this country for his soulful version of the Kate Bush classic Wuthering Heights, is based in Belgium and plays regularly across Europe."I decided a couple of years ago that it was important for me to get out here, that I wasn't just going to play in Ireland," explains Niland, whose blend of emotive melodies, combined with guitar influences from folk to flamenco, has earned him critical acclaim at home and abroad."I'd been out here with previous things over the last few years. I came out here and I got a new lease of life. It's kind of a cooler system to work in; it's not as fashionably based. You don't have people coming in here that are cool for a year and then no one ever hears from them again. It's much more of a music-club/community based thing, all over Holland, Belgium and even France."When it came to naming his new album, The Hungry Ghost was one of the first titles to pop into Niland's head. "The people that believe in reincarnation believe that there's various forms you can come back as," he says. "One of...