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Hozier: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 3 February 2015

THE CRASHING DESOLATION of Andrew Hozier-Byrne's debut single, 'Take Me to Church', makes for a perversely delectable earworm. One of the most-streamed songs of last year, and Grammy-nominated, it's put the 24-year-old Wicklow songwriter on the map.

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