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/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/2011/10/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 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/2011/07/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/2011/06/studio-days-week-3-fundit-crowdfunding-project/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/06/studio-days-week-3-fundit-crowdfunding-project/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:35:05 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1101 The last two days of May were spent back up in Charthouse studios again, this time working on just three songs over the two days, as we were going to be hitting two of the more complex songs from a recording point of view. As it stands at the moment, I’ve worked on 10 songs [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/06/studio-days-week-3-fundit-crowdfunding-project/feed/ 0 http://www.misterebby.com/2011/04/four-live-songs-from-limerick/ http://www.misterebby.com/2011/04/four-live-songs-from-limerick/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:57:48 +0000 mister ebby http://www.misterebby.com/?p=1069 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 [...]]]> http://www.misterebby.com/2011/04/four-live-songs-from-limerick/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/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