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CARRICK WATER MUSIC FESTIVAL |
| The Blood Red Mountain Band have just been confirmed for this year's festival. Last year featured Kila and lots of other great acts...more details coming soon..! |
METRO GIG PREVIEWThurs March 13th 2008 |
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“The band’s bluegrass vibes sit as comfortably alongside The Waltons as Jack White and Arcade Fire, so expect a good old-but-new do-si-do without having to don any gingham or sit atop prickly bales of hay. Accordians, mandolins, xylophones, melodicas, harmonicas, moonshine, a barn dance without the barn and a good cause to boot - what more could you ask for?" |
EVENING HERALD TOP 10Fri Jan 12th 2008 |
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BRMB @ Whelans was voted in their 'Top 10 Things to Do This Weekend |
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| Cork is more than just a type of springy wood July 07
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We made it back in one piece, kinda. I can't talk with the sore throat. Thats what I get for roaring me head off at two in the morn murdering Waterboys’ classics and generally talking much too loudly.We went to a beautiful big house on Ringarogy island in West Cork near Baltimore. We were on the highest part of the island and our view every day was the Baltimore beacon, Sherkin Island and Cape Clear. It was a stunner, I've never seen anything like it. The islands roads are exactly the width of one car (grass grows up the middle of the track) and if you meet a car coming the opposite way, one of ye has to reverse back to a point where you can squish in a bit (sometimes thats nearly a mile back in spaggetti like loops and turns)
It was a big difference to recording in a studio type environment. We recorded live. The drums were in The kitchen, the guitar in the hall, the double bass was in the utility room (christened the lingerie room(I missed that one)) The fiddle and the vocals in the bedrooms. And us all plugged into headphones to communicate. It was a deadly experience.
We recorded Lost My Way, Wish I learned to Swim, The Ballad of Joe and Dorothy and Nice One Rosalita. And on the way drank about fifty bottles of wine both red and white (Faustino V 2000, charmingly grown up)
Many many thanks are in order: Pat O'Mahoney, the lovely woman who owns the house. She gave us scones, brown bread, shortcake she'd baked herself, fresh eggs from her hens and lettuce from her garden (it was like the famous five) and drove us and a heap of guitars and amps into Skib when we were leaving.
Tony for driving me and Karl down in a rented estate car that was literally one inch of the road, it was so loaded down with gear. It was a weird and wonderful journey.
Ann Casey of Casey's hotel in Baltimore for serving a fine pint and for getting us a taxi home when it seemed all was lost and a five mile walk in the pitch black dark was on the cards.
The cheerful taximen of cork (people living in cork probably think I'm crazy) but they were good crack.
The landscape of West Cork for ripping another song out of me (coming soon)
Martina & Tracey for all the driving. And the rest of the band for putting up with my croaky voice and mood swings.
Most of the thanks for Karl Odlum who is the best captain a ship could have. He steered us right. I hope he'll work with us again in the future (we weren't that out of tune Karl, were we? - Well there's always autotune!! :)
I'll remember more when the fatigue leaves me.
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