Category: Diary
-
Journey back to the Wax & Seal Studio Diaries – II
Welcome to the second part of our Wax & Seal Studio Diaries retrospective! (If you’re starting here, you might want to go back and read the first part.) By this time in the recording, I was struggling badly with my voice. I was lucky enough to never have any real issues with my voice in…
-
Wax & Seal Studio Diaries I
Somehow, this month, my debut album, Wax & Seal, has turned twelve years old. It’s on the cusp of secondary (high) school. It’s slamming doors. It has an attitude, hormones, and doesn’t take any advice from its long suffering parents. I’ve been digging through the archives here at The Cooke Report and I’ve found some…
-
Gerry Anderson – Keep At It, Kid
I grew up far from any flavour of BBC. I was reared in two-channel land. Our television aerial was blown down during Hurricane Charlie in 1987. Exposure to the BBC, UTV, Channel 4 or their radio equivalents went the way of the aerial. For us it was RTE 1 and 2 – Glenroe, The Angelus and adverts for…
-
Van Morrison – The Bang Sessions
I have just received the strangest, actually genuine, email ever. I’ve been asked to “help spread the word” about a pledge campaign for a limited edition release of Van Morrison’s Bang! sessions, because like many Irish musicians, I’ve mentioned Van on my website probably more than once. Now, here are a few reasons why I…
-
Nollaig 2013
“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…
-
New Popshifter Interview
I recently did a little phone interview with Paul Casey from a pop-culture blog called Popshifter. It was published a few days ago, so here’s the link : http://popshifter.com/2013-09-25/an-interview-with-tiger-cooke/ I really enjoyed it. It’s been a while since I’ve done a full interview, so I apologise for my meandering, scattergun descriptions, overuse of pronouns, and…
-
I Like Your Manifesto, Put It To The Testo!
“I like your manifesto, put it to the testo” – The Sultans of Ping F.C. For a long time, this blog was merely a repository for gig notices, occasional newsletters and photos from foreign lands. I want more. From now on it will be my diary. Fairly unfiltered and concerned with everything and anything that…
-
25 Things
I found this hidden on my facebook page, and decided to dust off the cobwebs and repost it here. This was written in January 2009, back in the days when you didn’t have to pay The Facebook Corporation when you wanted to share thoughts online with your friends. It was the result of the only…
-
Tadhg to Tiger over on Friendface
Greetings dear readers… This is just a short note to notify of a slight change to our internet presence. Facebook, despite appeals from all quarters, refuses to allow page names to be changed. This means that our Tadhg Cooke page cannot become “Tiger Cooke”. Slightly annoying, and not very consistent – in an age when…
-
Goodbye 2011
Dear 2011, It’s been emotional. I said goodbye to some dear friends and close family. You bade farewell to some vicious dictators. What does it all mean? Does it need to mean anything? Well, some meaning would probably help, and would certainly aid our bid to get “2011 – The Movie” picked up by Hollywood,…