http://www.misterebby.com pianist and songwriter from galway : condemned to wires and hammers.. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:31:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.misterebby.com/2012/01/feedback-makes-it-worth-it/ http://www.misterebby.com/2012/01/feedback-makes-it-worth-it/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:15:56 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1610 I started a post doing a “2011 in review” sort of post, but quickly realised that my entire focus for all of last year was in getting the album recorded and released. So, in lieu of a rather repetitive reflection on the past year, instead I’m going to look at the effect that all that [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2012/01/feedback-makes-it-worth-it/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/08/im-a-sucker-for-songs-with-choirs/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/08/im-a-sucker-for-songs-with-choirs/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:54:56 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1328 Seriously, it’s like crack to me. I think I can probably blame my parents for this one quite successfully: my dad has always sung in the local church choir, and my mother introduced us all to the wonderful songwriter Melanie, and this song in particular: It can seem cliché to throw in a choir for [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/08/im-a-sucker-for-songs-with-choirs/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/08/inspiration-joni-mitchell/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/08/inspiration-joni-mitchell/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:45:29 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1318 This is one of my favourite Joni Mitchell songs, and I stumbled across this live version from 1970 on youtube today while searching out more performances from this BBC In Concert series. The entire concert is collected here, if you fancy losing yourself to some wonderful live solo performances from a talented songwriter on the [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/08/inspiration-joni-mitchell/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/07/game-of-thrones-theme-tune/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/07/game-of-thrones-theme-tune/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:47:44 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1209 I got completely hooked on Game Of Thrones, and I really have to say that I love the theme music for it. There’s a slew of wonderful covers of it doing the rounds on youtube these days, but this one is perhaps my favourite: It’s such a beautiful melody.]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/07/game-of-thrones-theme-tune/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/07/inspiration-sinead-oconnor/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/07/inspiration-sinead-oconnor/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:53:50 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1043 For a long time, all I really knew of Sinéad O’Connor was her famous cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U”, and little bits of other songs I heard on the radio. But one of my brothers gave me a present of her Best Of cd when I was a teenager, and I was blown away [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/07/inspiration-sinead-oconnor/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/06/inspiration-kd-lang/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/06/inspiration-kd-lang/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:23:30 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1153 I was obsessed with kd lang for a while as a teenager. I was blown away by her voice and the songwriting on Ingenue. She knocks this Roy Orbison song out of the park every time she sings. She’s one of the greatest singers ever. No contest. Brilliant control, tone, pitch, and power, all used [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/06/inspiration-kd-lang/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/03/inspiration-esbjorn-svensson-trio/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/03/inspiration-esbjorn-svensson-trio/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:38:17 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1020 When I was in university, every so often one of my friends would announce some random gig or other that we all just had to go to. Sometimes the excitement was well founded – like the first time Damien Rice came to play in NUIM was just at the university open mic, but the excitement [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/03/inspiration-esbjorn-svensson-trio/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/02/pekka-kuusisto-on-music/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/02/pekka-kuusisto-on-music/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:05:09 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=986 After hearing him interviewed on LyricFM this afternoon, I just had to investigate this guy more. I love how he talks about music and performance, and the value of music. Here’s this afternoon’s interview: [audio:http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2011/pc/pod-v-08021118min30seclyricbestpekka-pid0-1110072.mp3] And a great video interview with Britten Sinfonia violinst Lizzie Ball where he “explains his unique outlook on music, performance [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/02/pekka-kuusisto-on-music/feed/ 1 http://www.misterebby.com/2010/11/boy-george-quote-theres-music-everywhere-now/ http://www.misterebby.com/2010/11/boy-george-quote-theres-music-everywhere-now/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:47:40 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=883 There’s music everywhere now. There’s saturation now. It’s become a career opportunity. A job. People go on The X Factor and say, “I just want a better life”. I wanted to change the world. When I started making music, I felt, naïvely or not, that I had something to tell the world. I had a [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2010/11/boy-george-quote-theres-music-everywhere-now/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2010/10/helen-dont-make-a-sound-demo/ http://www.misterebby.com/2010/10/helen-dont-make-a-sound-demo/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:45:59 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=815 I wrote this way back when I was sharing a house with Anna and playing piano with her a lot in gigs and the like. At the time I was focusing more on other people’s music than on my own, but the house was a very music filled house, which was inspiring. I was working [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2010/10/helen-dont-make-a-sound-demo/feed/ 0