Category: Diary
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Pre-Chrimbolic Shows in Derry, Belfast & Dublin
Greetings! We seem to be having some issues with our mailing list settings – some of you recently received mails that are months late. Everything should be correct now, but we’re still battling the spam filters of the world. It seems that as soon as you start to put images into emails the spam filters…
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Deutschland 2011 – Dülmen/Münsterland Festival/Bielefeld
German Tour rolling along nicely. Many contacts made. Many songs brewed. Bye-bye Münster! Hamburg next…
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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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East is East-ish
I’ve taken a long break from blogging, but I’m back. Reasons for neglecting the blog are varied… from studio fatigue to just general fatigue, from moving house to moving frames of mind. Long story short, I’m going to be a little more active on the blogging front. I may stray from the point now and…
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Liebe MAXI Leserinnen…
A short message for our German friends… Liebe MAXI Leserinnen, schön, dass Sie vorbeischauen! Ich hoffe, dass Ihnen mein Song “Out of Reach” auf der CD “The Sound Of Winter – Cosy Acoustic Pop #1?, die der aktuellen Ausgabe von MAXI beigefügt ist, gefallen hat. Das Album “Fingertips of the Silversmith” ist unter “Shop” erhältlich…
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Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh!
Happy New Year to you all! Resolutions I’ve reached my fill. My heart can’t take it any more. I used to pride myself on staying well-informed of our national and international affairs and history. But no longer. My new year’s resolution is simple. I’m not reading any more newspapers, nor books, nor cataloguing man’s unquenchable…
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Maxi Magazine – Deutschland
Greetings Everyone! The latest issue of MAXI is out this Thursday. Maxi, a popular magazine in Germany, will have a cover CD featuring eight artists, including Tiger Cooke and Mumford & Sons. If you live in Deutschland, or find yourself passing through, keep an eye out for it… That’s all for now!