Well, it doesn't rain, but it pours. I'll be playing in the Joinery in Dublin on Friday. Tenner in, bring your own booze, the usual stuff. I'll be joining (hweh!) Sun Araw, Whirling Hall of Knives, and Reptile Brain.
Nov 24, 2010
Gig this Friday
Well, it doesn't rain, but it pours. I'll be playing in the Joinery in Dublin on Friday. Tenner in, bring your own booze, the usual stuff. I'll be joining (hweh!) Sun Araw, Whirling Hall of Knives, and Reptile Brain.
Nov 21, 2010
More house gigs please!!!
Great time altogether down in Kinsale on Friday. What a nice place, and what nice people. Playing in a house is great; as Aoife said (afterwards, as we were eating roasty potatoes and homegrown parsnips and onions, AND an omelette, AND soup), it's like being a travelling musician. Of old, I mean.
I don't have a harp, and I'm not sure if my array of cables and various USB interfaces would have quite the same hold on the imagination as Turlough O' Carolan, but still, people were wiggin out and throwing shapes around the wood stove. As a long-standing shape-thrower, that was pretty heartening to see.
Big ups to Colin for asking me down, and to Lindsey, Bríde, Amandine, Eva and Innes as well for opening their doors!
I don't have a harp, and I'm not sure if my array of cables and various USB interfaces would have quite the same hold on the imagination as Turlough O' Carolan, but still, people were wiggin out and throwing shapes around the wood stove. As a long-standing shape-thrower, that was pretty heartening to see.
Big ups to Colin for asking me down, and to Lindsey, Bríde, Amandine, Eva and Innes as well for opening their doors!
Nov 18, 2010
Gig in Kinsale
Off down to my ancestral county on Friday for a house gig! Should be fun alright. No vintners' coffers will be lined on said occasion either; bonus! As it's just a session in a sitting room, there's no advertising, as such. Don't even know where it is myself, but I'm looking forward to it nonetheless. The guy putting it on is a Rathlin attendee, so it's bound to be simply maaahvellous.
Nov 17, 2010
Radio Interview
I was interviewed by Aoife Nic Canna on Near FM there on Tuesday. They're a community radio station based in Coolock, and they can be found on 90.3 FM or http://www.near.ie/.
Aoife interviewed me first in English, for her music programme, "Club Cheol", which focuses on Irish electronic music, and then in Irish for her weekly slot, "Ar mhuin na muice".
Aoife interviewed me first in English, for her music programme, "Club Cheol", which focuses on Irish electronic music, and then in Irish for her weekly slot, "Ar mhuin na muice".
Nov 5, 2010
Nov 3, 2010
Mildly Peeved
It's all about to kick off... Finally, the people who got the country in the mess it's in are going to be brought to book. For too long, the financial health of Ireland has been threatened by those sick and/or in hospital, by students, by school-children (especially those with special needs), not to mention people with families earning princely wages that have kept them in Sunday supplements and budget airfare for far too long. Apologies for the clunky rhetorical mallet...
Tomorrow (3rd of November) at 12.30 p.m., The National Student March takes place. I'd make an educated guess (hweh!) that the words on everyone's lips are, "Don't cut education, you bloody idiots, how the hell will anything ever change if you do???" It begins at the Ambassador Theatre at the top of O'Connell St in Dublin. The following day (4th of November), all day, outside the Department of Health and Children (Hawkins St, Dublin, behind the Screen Cinema), there's a protest against health spending cuts. Obviously the daddy of them all will take place on the 7th of December (B-B-B-Budget Day!!!); starts from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin at 7 p.m.
Now, I'm no firebrand, and I'm no disgruntled Greek citizen, but now the time has come that I feel obliged to be present at these events. Sorry, by the way, for a Dublin-centric slant to this post, but eeehhh, that's where I live and that's where most of the limos do be driving and most of the vol-au-vents do be hurtling down ministerial gullets.
Tomorrow (3rd of November) at 12.30 p.m., The National Student March takes place. I'd make an educated guess (hweh!) that the words on everyone's lips are, "Don't cut education, you bloody idiots, how the hell will anything ever change if you do???" It begins at the Ambassador Theatre at the top of O'Connell St in Dublin. The following day (4th of November), all day, outside the Department of Health and Children (Hawkins St, Dublin, behind the Screen Cinema), there's a protest against health spending cuts. Obviously the daddy of them all will take place on the 7th of December (B-B-B-Budget Day!!!); starts from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin at 7 p.m.
Now, I'm no firebrand, and I'm no disgruntled Greek citizen, but now the time has come that I feel obliged to be present at these events. Sorry, by the way, for a Dublin-centric slant to this post, but eeehhh, that's where I live and that's where most of the limos do be driving and most of the vol-au-vents do be hurtling down ministerial gullets.
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