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/cds-have-finally-arrived/ http://www.misterebby.com/2012/01/cds-have-finally-arrived/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:35:45 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1625 If you have already sent me your address, then thank you very much – I have your address on file. I know mailouts don’t have the best chance with some spam filters, so I figured I’d best remind people through the website too. But, the CDs have finally arrived back from the manufacturer, and this [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2012/01/cds-have-finally-arrived/feed/ 0 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/2011/12/music-from-2011-that-i-really-liked/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/12/music-from-2011-that-i-really-liked/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:12:40 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1574 (in no particular order except the first one:)  PJ Harvey – Let England Shake Drawing on English folk traditions, and folk traditions from around the world, to tell stories of the horrors of war inspired by actual accounts from WWI amongst other sources. The stark contrast of the descriptions in the lyrics with the jaunty [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/12/music-from-2011-that-i-really-liked/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/12/post-launch-gigs-roundup/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/12/post-launch-gigs-roundup/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:33:26 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1539 Firstly, thanks so much to everyone who turned out on the wet, windy night in Galway last Wednesday, and everyone who showed up in Dublin on Thursday for the gig in the gorgeous, intimate venue upstairs in Twisted Pepper. It brought a smile to my face to see so many familiar and unfamiliar faces coming [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/12/post-launch-gigs-roundup/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/today-my-album-went-live-on-itunes/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/today-my-album-went-live-on-itunes/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:25:10 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1515 I’m not gonna lie – that brought a big smile to my face. It’s about €1 more expensive than it is to buy it direct from Bandcamp, but iPhone users can download it direct to their phones through the iTunes store, if that’s something that you wanna do, whereas with Bandcamp, you do really need [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/today-my-album-went-live-on-itunes/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/rte-radio-1-arena/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/rte-radio-1-arena/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:48:51 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1482 Tune into RTE Radio 1 tomorrow from 7:30pm GMT, as I’ll be playing a song live in studio as part of the Arena arts & culture programme. You can stream it online from the website or you should be able to listen back to the show later as well if you miss it live. I’m [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/rte-radio-1-arena/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/the-bliss-returns-live-at-charlie-byrnes/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/the-bliss-returns-live-at-charlie-byrnes/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:25:52 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1474 This is a video that was shot before I even found the studio that I ended up recording the album in. The morning of this shoot the camera assist, Yvonne Ryan, mentioned Charthouse Studios to me, and gave me the contact info of Ian McNulty, who ended up engineering and mixing the record. The band [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/the-bliss-returns-live-at-charlie-byrnes/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/post-jazz-festival-review/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/post-jazz-festival-review/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:57:34 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1451 I had an absolute blast of a time at the Cork Jazz Festival. Definitely a weekend to spend in Cork – there was so much music everywhere. From buskers on the street, to free gigs in venues around town, to the ticketed gigs each day too. I spent the day times wandering the streets enjoying [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/11/post-jazz-festival-review/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/10/mastering-gigging-and-a-free-download/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/10/mastering-gigging-and-a-free-download/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:34:23 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1445 Mastering is an interesting art. I was able to attend the mastering session for my record at Wav Mastering in Limerick, and experienced the recordings gaining more definition and going from being a bunch of tracks that I’d recorded to being an album that made sense to listen to. I find it hard to explain [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/10/mastering-gigging-and-a-free-download/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/10/a-little-piano-track/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/10/a-little-piano-track/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:08:24 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1435 fund:it, the crowdfunding service I used to raise cash for my album recording has been going now for over 6 months, and they’ve released a video about what was achieved over their first 6 months. They asked me if I had any music that they might be able to use for the video, and as [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/10/a-little-piano-track/feed/ 0