Electric Picnic
Today I set up a tent for the first time ever. My parents were Scouts & Cubs leaders when they were younger, but we didn’t go camping as kids. I guess there were just too many of us that it would have been a bit of a nightmare for my folks. The tent is for [...]
DJing at R.I.P. (Rock Indie Pop)
I’ll be spinning some tunes for a while at the R.I.P. (Rock Indie Pop) night in The Button Factory, Dublin next Friday 27th. DJ Laura Lovejoy of the band Pulpit will also be playing, alongside R.I.P. regular DJ Sean John. If you’re around Dublin, come check it out. (click the poster for the facebook event [...]
Maria (demo)
The lyrics for this song were written years ago, I think circa 2002 or so, but didn’t become a song until some time in 2006. I wrote the music for this and another song Caoineadh initially as piano instrumentals first. The lyrics for Caoineadh started to come as I was playing through the music for [...]
Friday Night Friends (demo)
This song kinda came together in dribs and drabs over a wee period of time. The main chunk of the lyrics were written all at once, in a longer form that I edited down a good time later. But it didn’t really start to come together until I added what became the middle section and [...]