28th of July Blog update
This post comes to you a bit later than usual. I’ve spent the past weekend at the Keltska Noc festival with Sliotar in the Czech Republic. Even though there is Wifi here, it was not very good during the festival…
July 28, 2014
Daddy’s Girl
This week’s song is a bit tricky to explain… So let me try to explain the inspiration behind it, maybe that makes more sense. All along I promised myself not to preach to you guys, except about the music business…
Why I won’t sing Galway Girl
I have been a “foreigner” in a city that has adopted me for nearly 20 years now. I came here as a young man barely out of his teenage years. I had been bitten by the Irish Traditional music bug….
Brain Reset
Posted at July 21, 2014 by
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It is the night before I’m about to head on the road with Sliotar once again. This summers tour will be nice two and a half week tour and all the shows are great ones 🙂 So I am looking…
Tell My Darling
Posted at July 17, 2014 by
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This week I am in Bondeno in Italy as you read this 🙂 We are about to start this summers tour with Sliotar, and the first show is on 19th of July in Bundan Celtic Festival, a wonderful festival in…
The Purpose of a Singer-Songwriter
I’m sitting on the stage in the Porterhouse. It’s only 45 mins to Sliotar‘s Saturday night set. I’ve set up my equipment and I am strumming my guitar, just for myself. The house sound system is on and playing whatever…
13th of July Blog update
Posted at July 12, 2014 by
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Things have been bit hectic in the past few weeks. I’ve been playing six days a week for the past few months, releasing a song a week, writing several blog posts a week and so forth. So getting around to…
Saturday Morning Coffee
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Saturday morning peaks it’s light through the shades. My eyelids are struggling to find the strength to open up. The seagulls are making a racket feasting on the Friday night’s leftovers on the streets of the city outside. Music is…
Do we “Judge” too fast?
And another summer week flies by faster than F16 😀 As you might know I took few days off last weekend, and I must say I was in need of it. So this week I was hoping to be working…
How to tour abroad with your band part 2
Posted at July 8, 2014 by
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In 2005 I was sitting on a porch of a rough wooden cabin with my band mates Des and Ray from Sliotar. We were on the festival grounds of Keltska Noc festival in the Czech republic, where we were going…
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