Eoghan O'Sullivan - guitar and vocals
Gavin Ralston - guitars, mandolin, hammond organ
Aonghus Ralston - bass, guitars
Tom Domican - drums, percussion
Maeve Sweeney - vocals, good vibes
Engineered, mixed & mastered by Gavin Ralston at Silverwood Studios, Newtownmountkennedy, Ireland.
Influences
Elbow, Ben Folds, Andrew Bird, Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith, Neil Finn, The Shins, Gomez, Badly Drawn Boy, Rufus Wainwright, Hipster, The Beatles, Arctic Monkeys, Tété, Christy Moore, Ed Harcourt, Duke Special, Laura Veirs, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Rice, Josh Ritter, Aimee Mann, The Flaming Lips, The Arcade Fire, James Taylor, R.E.M., Turin Brakes, Nick Drake, Ray LaMontagne, Luke Temple, the Fratellis, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Iron & Wine, Liam Frost, Maximo Park,....and just about anything with a good tune, lyrics that fit, and an acoustic guitar to the fore...
Download all of these tracks and hear lots more, including demos new and old, and various covers, from www.irishsongwriter.com (for free!).
Here's a video of me singing I'll Be Around, at the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild open mic night in Café Sappho, on Tuesday 29 September. Thanks to Max for shooting and uploading this.
My story...
I was born in Sligo in February 1977. Twelve years later I learned to play the guitar and soon discovered that entertaining people with a bunch of popular songs could cover up all kinds of personality defects. About twelve years after that, perhaps a bit bored of singing Creedance Clearwater Revival songs for drunken Scandinavians, I wrote my first song above an Irish pub in Oslo. Eventually returning to the stability of a sensible day job, I wrote more songs and even began to add one or two of them to my set lists when I played from time to time in bars around Geneva and further afield.
Fast forward to August 2008 when I took a small selection of my songs into a recording studio back home in Ireland. With the help of Gavin and Aonghus Ralston, Tom Domican and Maeve Sweeney I've finally got a few professional sounding demos.
If you like the songs, please let me know. If you're a producer, publisher or professional recording artist that would like to buy one of them from me, then please get in touch - I think you'll find I'm quite open to the idea!
June 2009: I've moved to Amsterdam... hopefully more musical adventures await.
(In case you're wondering, my name is pronounced "owen".)
25 th Acoustic talent Night at TWSTD Tuesday 27th Oct Weteringschans 157 21 30
With
Gentry Bronson (USA) The punk pianist with a lot of panache
INFO in Dutch_: Een jaar geleden bracht Gentry Bronson zijn Engelstalige versie van de Boudewijn de Groot klassieker Avond uit. Naar aanleiding daarvan bezocht De Groot een optreden van de Amerikaan, complimenteerde Bronson met diens vertolking en nodigde hem uit voor verdere samenwerking. Per email stuurde De Groot enkele vertaalde nummers aan Bronson. Tijdens de komende tournee zal hij zijn bewerkingen hiervan voor het eerst presenteren aan het Nederlandse publiek.
Gentry Bronson is zelf ook een begenadigd songschrijver. Hij werd al eens omschreven als 'Tori Amos met ballen' en vergeleken met Tom Waits, Billy Joel, Michael Stipe en Nick Cave. Op zijn nieuwe EP staan vier nieuwe eigen nummers. Voor deze tracks werkte Bronson samen met diverse muzikanten en engineers uit San Francisco en Los Angeles, waaronder Ken Lee, die onder andere verantwoordelijk was voor de remastering van Nirvana's Nevermind.
De laatste paar jaar heeft Bronson zich echter steeds meer ontwikkeld tot een unieke vakman, componist en een opwindende showman. Met zijn vele live optredens heeft hij enorm aan publiek gewonnen, onder meer onder liefhebbers van rock, pop, americana, folk, jazz, blues en ambient. Tijdens zijn optredens waarbij hij zichzelf op piano begeleidt weet hij bij mensen zowel een gevoelige snaar te raken als hen te vermaken met duivels en bevreemdend bluescabaret dat van zweet is doordrenkt.
Kristina Hanses (Sweden) Playing alternative pop with her band
DJ Rachel (Hungary)
Special Guest - Lori J Ward (Canada) Renowned DJ and producer will tonight be singing a few tunes as well
Mick and I are playing a gig of covers and Originals at Molly Malones
Oude Zijds Kolk, near Zeedijk on Friday 16th October at 21 30 ATTENTION
ALL SONGWRITERS- we want to start a weekly open stage with food, drinks
and expenses PLease come and support this venue
Hey, Thanks for listening, you've got some good songs yourself I play at Jet Lounge tomorrow at 22:00, goes on till about 1 am If you've got the time drop by, it's at Westermarkt 25
hey Eoghan Finally a wee breather so I could stop by . Nice tunes man, the next 2 twstd editions are looking pretty mad. Sept, Oct still places free if you want to do a set ken
"soon discovered that entertaining people with a bunch of popular songs could cover up all kinds of personality defects.'damn wish i had i written that line. ace. funny Oslo.. you did yer first song there I did me first solo gig in the oslo in galway- get the anagram!! biertje at some point k
Yes it was really nice to meet you too! No problem for the ride glad I could help! I hope I can get out to ireland one day too and if I do maybe you can give me some advice on where to go! Hope to hear from you soon! :]
you guessed right Eoghan - never touch the other kind. Thanks for your friendship. Don't forget National Happy to Be Day is coming up. Get out and parade on 17th March.
Seriously though any help with spreadin g the song is very welcome.
It was reeeaaal nice seeing you on Monday evening at Tiki's!!! And even better hearing you sing your beautiful songs!!! I just loved it!!! Look forward to the next one!!! :-)))
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