Johnny Fean, Steve Travers, & Blendi Krasniqi at "The Mall Theatre" Tuam, Co Galway
The Point Depot, Dublin for the
Philip Lynott Tribute Night
August 2005
Johnny Fean on stage with: Neil Murray, Bob Knight, Danielle Pfiffner, Charmaine Barrett and Jason Swindle. It's the end of "Trouble with a capital T" and the start of "Dearg Doom".
TV3 Ireland AM, interview with Johnny, Steve, & Blendi
Johnny and Steve have been playing together for more than ten years. Johnny is also known as guitarist/vocalist with 'Horslips', while Irish bass guitarist Steve, is perhaps best known for his time with 'The Miami Showband'. This year the pair are joined by Blendi Krasniqi on drums and percussion. Catch the trio gigging together for a Rock and Blues experience with Trad & Celtic Rock sets and some classic material from their earlier careers.
Johnny's Celtic Rock history is a matter of record. It's less well known that his early musical leaning was towards the Blues. Less well known again, is that Stephen Traver's career led him to find his own role for the Celtic bass guitar. By working the lower mid-bass tones and using bodhrán rhythms for his bass playing, Stephen feels his style marries naturally into traditional and new Celtic music. People will surely recognise rock and blues numbers from the live set, but the band doesn't use the diverse instruments (keyboards or fiddles etc) of previous Celtic Rock outfits. Instead there's a lot of bass-lead counterpoint and Johnny's guitar coverage really needs to be heard to be believed.
To Johnny, wishing you a rockin' and ramblin' birthday and a fun and successful coming year, indeed, starting already next week with a series of fabulous gigs.
Johnny, I tried to send you an email a couple of weeks back with a link to a picture of a piece of artwork I had commissioned, but the address had not worked so I thought I'd show you here.
hi johnny well i hope this is johnny fean well if so im messaging to say i cant wait to see you in december in the odessy cant wait im 15 and for all my life my dad has spent showing me all your records i actually met you a couple of years ago in the waterfront hall sure message me back if you can here is some proof
Johnny, Your vocals and handy work are number 1 on the celticradio.net playlist...I think Skully's fans have made it the most requested track of all time! (PS..you did know about the bulletin race when you were the first to befriend www.myspace.com/theryano39riain22 didn't you? MadNats won the fan race! what a small world!! I'm just off to sneak into the dressing room to see if I can get hold of 'the real' Brittany Spears pants...they should come in handy for cleaning those frett boards) Lots of love Mairtin
That Mairtin beat me to it, I'll deal with him later. Johnny, Johnny, you've been causing trouble again, now what did I tell you the last time hey ? tut tut tut.
What an A W E S O M E, I bet you were very chuffed doing it, you look very happy. See you ... xxxx
An excellent show that raw sessions...slightly gutted that we cant watch it live tonight due to geography..but the new Trouble mix sounds great on therawsessions.ie xx
Our first single, Drunk Tonight EP, and our first DVD Drunk Rock Videos DVD is now available for pre-order from the store section of our website. Click the above images for info.
Hi, Thanks for the add and the friendship-stopped by your site-sounds great! Stop by and listen to some of our songs when you have a chance, let us know what you think-have a great weekend!
Hello Johnny, Hope you are well! Great memory of jamming with you in Ennis in '07. We will be back in Ireland in 2010. Hope we can play together again. Enjoy our new video "Whiskey Tonight" and stop by our site for a FREE download of the new song. Your friends, The Indulgers Cheers!
