About this Event
PILGRIMS - PAUL NOONAN & BRIAN CROSBY
Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby (currently and formerly of Bell X1) - two musicians whose creative paths first intertwined in their school days - have reunited under a new name: Pilgrims. Their debut single Bright & Bold is available now, with a full album set for release on 30 January 2026.
Noonan and Crosby first formed Juniper (with Damien Rice) before becoming founding members of Irish indie band Bell X1. In the years since, both have developed singular careers: Noonan through Bell X1 and other projects Printer Clips and HousePlants (with electronic producer Daithí), and Crosby via acclaimed film and television scores and his solo piano and ambient work. Pilgrims marks their first creative collaboration in 16 years.
Bright & Bold introduces the sonic world of Pilgrims: intimate yet expansive, anchored in piano and voice.
NIDHI ZAK
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. , her first collection, was published with Faber in 2021. A finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the Butler Literary Award, it was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection, and a Book of the Year by both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. Her second collection of poetry is forthcoming with Faber in 2026.
Nidhi is the commissioning editor at Skein Press and poetry editor at Fallow Media. A Next Generation Artist with the Arts Council of Ireland, she serves as a member of the Expert Advisory Committee to Culture Ireland and the board of the Dublin Book Festival. In 2021, she founded the Play It Forward Fellowships for underrepresented writers. In 2023, she was appointed the Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and as guest editor of the national poetry journal . In 2024, she was selected as the Literature Ireland Artist-in-Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, and the Commissioned Writer at Temple Bar Art Gallery + Studios in Dublin. In 2025, she was awarded the Heaney-Miłosz Residency in Kraków, and also served as a member of the jury for the Dublin Literary Award.
Nidhi has been commissioned to create work in celebration of UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature, Ulysses 100, Lá Fhéile Pádraig/St Patrick’s Day, Lá Fhéile Bríde/St Brigid’s Day, RTÉ’s Illuminations, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, and the Rio 2016 Olympic Truce. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies including , , , , , , , and , broadcast on BBC Radio London, RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena, Sunday Miscellany and The Poetry Programme, Pantisocracy, RadioMoLI and Poetry Ireland podcasts and featured on the Poetry Jukebox across Belfast, Dublin and Paris. She is the co-editor of , a special commemorative anthology from The Ireland Chair of Poetry (UCD Press, 2020 | UChicago Press, 2021).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The White Horse, The White Horse, Cork, Ireland
EUR 32.47 to EUR 37.77
