Category: Fingertips of the Silversmith
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Sold out of Fingertips of the Silversmith
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,…
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Kidnapped
“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…
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Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part III
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…
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Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part II
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…
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Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part I
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…
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Urban Fog, London … and other stories
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…
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Your True North – Video
After a few long and exhausting months for me (catching up on the latest batch of 19 year old footballer’s enthralling autobiographies), it gave me great pleasure to find this in my inbox at the weekend. My good friend Roricam shot, edited and polished this music video over the past little while. The video’s for…
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Melle’s Mixtape – Music & Interview
The lovely Melle of Melle’s Mixtape (a great music show on Delta Radio from north western Germany) interviewed me for her show and broadcast it yesterday evening. Here’s a little recording of the show, including tracks from the new album “Fingertips of the Silversmith“. Huge thanks to Jenni & Purgen for their help in putting…
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Out Of Reach on The View
We’ve had some nice reviews come in from the Sunday Business Post and some nice words from RTE Radio 1 and Newstalk, as well as the various interviews cropping up around the place. More to come. In other news we performed on The View a few weeks back on RTE television here in Ireland. It’s…
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Out Of Reach – HotPress Review
TIGER COOKE – OUT OF REACH “Bearing absolutely no similarities to the Gabrielle super smash of the same name. ‘Out Of Reach’ is a charming alloy of soul and folk that’s certain to go down a treat with fans of Van Morrison’s jazz man days. File under yum.” HotPress – Wed, 20th Oct 2010