
On August 7th 2007 I lost My Fiance to Suicide. I have along with some other close friends of Bridget's set up a group to help raise awareness about suicide and mental health issues. Please visit our site here and help us spread the word. We also have a myspace page here and a bebo page here. Any help is greatly appreciated.

ARKETEK
started life in the fast lane of americana/new country in a band called
Dot
Creek | Myspace page
here | more
info here |
we were
part of the explosion in Ireland more by accident than any planning on our
part, we just wanted to create beautiful music and that's where we ended up!,
we were doing kinda well actually, had releases a couple of singles, a nice
album, were playing along side the likes of
The Handsome Family
| View site |
Willard Grant
Conspiracy | view
site |
Howie Gelb
(Giant Sand) | view
site |
The
Pernice Brothers | view
site |
Unfortunaely
in time I was left with a choice to either murder our manager or leave the
band, I chose the route less likely to put me in jail and went on my merry
way! I still love the stuff we did! some of which is on the Dot Creek myspace page above!
After
a calming period and the need for something musically fresh I was fortunate
enough to play for 3 years with Dublin based electronic band Halfset. We worked
like lunatics to release our debut album Dramanalog | buy
here | but the trip from Galway to dublin
(500km round trip) for rehearsal eventually became too much and I had to leave
the lads to carry on the good work, And so in the void I created Arketek.
The track "Abatoir Noises" from the album is being used currently by Bord Gais (Irish Gas board) for their TV and Radio Advertisements.
Click here to see Bord Gais 2008 advert.
Click here to see Bord Gais 2009 advert.
They are now on their second album and were short listed for the 2009 Choice Music awards.
Halfset
| view site | with
Stephen Shannon
| view site
| &
Jeff Martin
| view site
|
We played
alongside
Mylo | view
site |
Fingathing
| view site
|
Pulse programming
| view
site |
Telofon Tel
Aviv | view
site |

"Tiny Screws For Tiny Hinges"
"Tiny Screws For Tiny Hinges" - my debut album now finished. produced by Steve of Halfset
in his Experimental Audio studio | view
here.