I started playing piano quite young, and went through the RIAM classical piano grades. I started to lose interest somewhat at about the age of 15, when I was coming to the end of my grades, and wasn’t really interested in doing a Diploma. But something that reignited my love for playing was the movie [...]
I’m never sure about titles. In fact, I often hate titling songs, and sometimes have short nicknames for songs which is how I refer to them in set lists or whatever. That’s definitely the case with this one. It was nearly called “Running For Miles”, but I’m not too sure about that either. I guess [...]
The lyrics for this song were actually written back in 2000 or so – a good decade old at least. I never even thought about putting them to music until maybe the last year or so. I was going through old notebooks and sheets of paper, searching for something I wanted to add into another [...]
I knew what I wanted from this song as I wrote it. I knew what I was writing about, and how the song would be structured, more or less. But I was still surprised by the melody that came from the lyrics. Sometimes I can sit and just hear the melody that is meant to [...]
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This song grew from wanting to write a really upbeat little pop song. The chorus of it is something that would run around my head after I went swimming. No idea why, but the lyrics were basically sketched out while sitting in a sauna.
The verses were bits and pieces from various places. Little ideas [...]
Nice little blurb in the local Drogheda paper promoting the gig tonight.
Sessions get under way in Punt Bar
FANTASTIC LINE-UP OF ACTS
Wednesday January 20 2010
THE Purple Sessions kick off 2010 with a great lineup this coming Friday, January 22nd, upstairs in the Punt Bar, Drogheda.
This month the sessions are bringing to Drogheda a fine selection of [...]
I’ll be playing the Purple Sessions in Drogheda’s The Punt Bar on January 22nd along with Hugh Patrick, Stephen J Smith, Heirs To Nothing and Bobby Noonan. Have a whole bunch of new songs that I’ve not had a chance to play live yet, so when the offer came through my MySpace I thought why [...]
I’ve been having an evening of classical music tonight, swopping youtube links with a friend via IM. He’s thrown some wonderful suggestions my way, from this movement from Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21, Movement III, to this beautiful alto aria from J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion:
Both are very different and well worth a listen.
For my [...]
I’m in Dublin at the moment, working as a score reader for a small production for the next two weeks. It’ll give me a much needed break from Galway and some time to work on moving to Dublin properly.
I met up with Morgan of Cuckoo Savante (check that band out – they’re awesome) and [...]
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Alex Hahn is an Australian jazz singer, who spent a few years in Galway, initially singing with the band Electrogecko, before we got together to form a jazz duo.
When we first started performing together, it was along with two other singers, Sarah Elaine and Meadhbh Sullivan, doing jazz/60’s girl-group numbers as the opening act for [...]
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