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The Bliss Returns – live at Charlie Byrne’s
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 [...]
A little piano track, mastering and some gigs.
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 [...]
I’m a sucker for songs with choirs.
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 [...]
Game Of Thrones theme tune
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.
Inspiration: Sinéad O’Connor
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 [...]