Black sheep has been released!
Super pleased to announce that my 3rd studio album ‘Blacksheep’ has been released on iTunes and Spotify!
Cracked up the video
Watch this on a mobile or tablet in fullscreen mode to get the best idea of what it’s about. The idea is that your device is part of the show. We shot this in fast and slow frames to give the idea of a person having a bad day and how it can seem that time is dragging for you while the world speeds by.
‘Cracked Up’ video mentioned in the Irish Sun!
Delighted that the new video for ‘Cracked Up’ got a mention in The Sun! You can see the video on their page or check it out on the video section of this site.
What sounds like New Wave/Punk/Americana/Folk?
Answer: The new album! It’s getting down to the final stages of the new album so will hopefully have something by the end of June to give you all a taster of!
More album work in the pipeline!
I have been getting back to the studio with some regularity, working with all the same trouble makers as before. The new albums in the works may take some time to come to fruition, but the broad plan is that the next one will be called ‘Black Sheep’ and will be mostly the punky-new-wavish stuff I write from time to time, after that there will be a guitar and singing only album, one with finger-picking and some flat picking then perhaps an Irish traditional music one.
So really there are about three or four in the works, oh yeah, right after Black Sheep there is another which is more like the first one ‘Cracked Up’ it’s of songs that weren’t completed or record ready at the time as well as some that came back from the dead via the Jody Smith files. In any case, there won’t be any shortage of new material on the way soon!
The Sun review ‘Cracked up’ **** four stars!
I am really pleased to see such a positive review in The Sun of ‘Cracked Up’, I didn’t expect to get four stars but am very happy about it!
‘Cracked Up’ gets it’s first official review
I was pleased to see my new album get a review from an actual music critic (as opposed to a music fan with an opinion) in the Sunday Business Post on the 26th of March. Johnnie Craig was the person who did it, a big ‘thank you’ to him – we’ve never met – for being so frank and pulling no punches.
The review isn’t stellar, a first outing usually isn’t the best you’ll ever make, but what it does do is point out some of the strong points with a fair dosage of the albums weak points.
I’m a sucker for that line about it sounding like ‘sun-soaked, dusty, free-wheeling Americana‘, I couldn’t think of a better set of adjectives if you gave me a month and a good bottle of bourbon to go with it.
Follow on spotify
I hate having to shill my stuff, but any follows would be appreciated! Building up a following on Spotify is how I plan to get the music I make out to the public. Appreciate any support 🙂
Artist link here: spotify:artist:5VHfZek6scFXCS0lkbrKFz
Or use the player below
Time to get verified!
You can rely on time
I wrote a lot of songs in the time I’ve had, this is one from back around 2005 which I put down in a studio in 2007 and did a video of a year later. I never released the studio work but got the files and have had them remastered so they’ll be part of the 2nd album which is due out soon!
This is the stripped down, single take (that’s my codeword for ‘mistakes included/warts and all’), the studio version has the usual accompanying instruments in there.