Category: Music

  • Sold out of Fingertips of the Silversmith

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    So I’m happy/sad to say that we’ve run out of (undamaged copies of) “Fingertips of the Silversmith”. Thankfully, the album is still available as a download from Bandcamp (https://tigercooke.bandcamp.com/album/fingertips-of-the-silversmith) and the usual online stores. I’ll have download cards (via Bandcamp) ready to sell at shows until I decide whether to get more CDs pressed up,…

  • Albums versus Podcasts

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    I find it extremely difficult to switch off at night.  While on tour with Storyman, or The Guggenheim Grotto as they were then known, Kevin & Mick dubbed me “tippy tappy”, such was my penchant for being interrogated by the glow of my teeny netbook, clacking loudly on the keyboard, while everyone else was trying to…

  • Join Me In The Pines

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    Over the past few months I’ve been playing with, and opening for, Join Me In The Pines at shows around Ireland.  It’s been a blast.  For your listening and viewing pleasure, I’ve lined up a few of our latest videos and recordings : Joy Is A Lion – 2FM Live Recording Should Not Roam Golden Guilt Joy Is A…

  • Nollaig 2013

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    “The Christmas” as we tend to call it in Ireland (like old folks speaking about a new technology… the facebook, the twitter, the email) is upon us.  It’s time for evaluation and introspection, celebration and mourning, festivities and preparation.  2013 is almost at an end.  But I won’t delve too deeply into that.  I’d just…

  • Kidnapped

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    “Your True North” was partially inspired by the thrilling Robert Louis Stevenson story Kidnapped, which I loved as a little nipper. All the images of Georgian life and cities, and their modern equivalents, were flicking through my slide projector. Any visitor to Dublin will know its extensive Georgian and Victorian architecture – well, that was…

  • Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part III

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    Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. OLOMOUC In the morning we wake, and drive to Wien. Bratislava and Wien are surprisingly close together, so we’ve decided to drop our rental car back to Vienna before hopping on the train to Olomouc, to the…

  • Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part II

    Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part II

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    Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. BRNO Our driving seems to be perpetually punctuating by traffic jams in Praha/Prague. Just before we arrive we get done by the motorway patrol people – I don’t think they’re police, but I’m not sure. (I didn’t…

  • Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part I

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      Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. WIEN We had a welcoming party at Wien Flughafen (Vienna Airport to you and me) and were whisked immediately into the city, swallowed whole by history and architecture. Dave Redmond (double-bass player extraordinaire) and myself were…

  • PaddyWhacked Records

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    I’ve grown tired of the weekly post of tweets that I’ve had automated for a while, so I’ve stopped it.  It stopped working properly a while ago anyway.  I have a few bits and pieces to write about our Eastern European travels.  I’ll be posting them over the next week, but first I want to…

  • Urban Fog, London … and other stories

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    We’ve had a busy few months here at Tiger Corp. We’ve completed a tour of Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia, topped it off with some shows in London, and also somehow managed to fit in a week in Paris and moving house. (I had a hard time finding wifi on the road, so my tour…