Monthly Archives: October 2006

random photos

Galway Town Hall and backstage at St Michaels Cathedral

Copenhagen

Me and Mary flew into Hamburg and spent the night with my booking agents Griot in the country. I have never been so spoiled in my life.  So much for the trials and tribulations of life on the road. I have not eaten so well and slept so well in years! There is a perception…

Poland

Looks like I will have some shows coming up in Poland during mid November. I can’t wait. Will post it up on the live page as soon as it’s confirmed. I am working like a dog a the moment 8am till 1am. Scripts, animations, music…have i bitten off more than i can chew for the…

the view

Pravda

I payed Pravda last night in Dublin as part of working class heroes festival. No sound check but it sounded good. I could tell i hadn’t been singing in a week or two because my throat was weaker but i don’ think anyone noticed. Mary (Barnecutt) played cello with me and threatened to kill me…

I got an email from Chris in Propaghandhi today a…

I got an email from Chris in Propaghandhi today asking me to play their show in Dublin on December 15th. If it comes about it will be very strange as they are an awesome punk band and i am sure their audience will be bemused to say the least. I suppose there is some lyrical…

Someone was kind enough to offer me a free peg…

Someone was kind enough to offer me a free pegasus guitar case to fit my new guitar. So now I’m trying to figure out how to get it from Washington to Dublin. At the moment i’m working crazy hours to cash up for tours and the next album. I am writing an animation series for…

Hamburg

Hamburg fuckin rocks. Had one of best meals of my life at Cox restaurant on Greifswalder Strasse 43. Was great seeing a city so set up for bikes. Can’t wait to come back and play here. Fuck it, maybe i’ll move here…or Berlin…or Morocco.

4.39am insomnia

full moon shadows of bars on dirty window panes…

new guitar!

mental note…stay off ebay…stay off ebay. I bought a 20yr old lowden g9 acoustic from switzerland. It has plenty of nicks etc and it sounds like a piano. i fuckin love it. I never name guitars etc but this one gets a name. It’s called ‘ saoirse’ which means freedom in Irish. Yeah, yeah, I…