songwriter
Inspiration: Joni Mitchell
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 [...]
four live songs from limerick
Here’s a four song video from that little set I did in Limerick recently at a songwriters session down there. Set list in the video: The Bliss Returns [Starts at 0:08min]Water Phoenix [Starts at 3:40min]Is This What They Call Romance? [Starts at 9:45min] The Best Of Me [Starts at 13:38min] The Guinness was good there, [...]
My First True Love (demo)
This song was written at the same time as Helen (don’t make a sound) back in 2007 sometime. Both songs were inspired by novels I’d read or recently read at the time. I’ve noted previously that I tend to work on songs in batches of two or three at the same time. Sometimes an idea [...]
Caoineadh (demo)
I’m not a fluent Irish speaker. I didn’t learn Irish very well in school either. Any Irish I do have came from the fact that I was friends with Irish speakers, and joined a youth theatre group at An Taibhdhearc, the National Irish Language Theatre of Ireland, based here in Galway. Thus I will apologise [...]
Helen (don’t make a sound) demo
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 [...]