In session with the legendary Johnny Mc Evoy and Bill Shanley at the Cauldron studios in Dublin, with Michael Manning at the desk....and the sun splitting the stones outside and I don't care 😎
Category: Ireland
The chosen path!
"The Foremost" were the first band I ever saw play live at a Parish social in St.John's church hall in Sligo, so it's all their fault 🙂 Photo courtesy of Liam Gilmartin
The forgotten canal
This is the Naas branch of the Grand canal, beautiful. Don't see any traffic on it above the mill these days, a shame.
No hair dye……honestly!
A daytime TV show with a band I was in a loooong time ago. Guess the decade 🙂 http://youtu.be/K_zzmzJq48E
A hidden Gem
A hidden gem, the aqueduct on the Grand canal over the Barrow river at Monasterevan, Co. Kildare.
Now that’s the way to work :-)
To hell with the groove, play more solos!
My favourite band announcement was a good few years ago whilst playing at a dance in a (now closed) well known dancehall in Manchester. At the end of the evening, after quickstepping, waltzing and foxtrot ting our little hearts out for three hours ,the owner came on stage and said how great it was to … Continue reading To hell with the groove, play more solos!
Party time, yours is the green one :-)
Raghley Harbour
Drive north from Sligo for a wee bit then down the steep hill through Rathcormac and on a bit until you pass the church at Drumcliffe where my grandmother played the organ and bullied the choir into shape for years...oh and Yeats is buried in the graveyard there too. Over the river and turn left … Continue reading Raghley Harbour
The train to Sligo
Sitting on the train to Sligo going from Rainshine to Sunshine, I thought of this beautiful song written by Thom Moore. the Scholar The train to Sligo moves too slow As it takes her from the school below She wants to be there faster than The train to Sligo ever can She wonders where the … Continue reading The train to Sligo