Hey... check out Richie & me doing one of his great songs!!
Should YouTube be paying royalties to music creators?
Google are not happy paying creators of music for their content that is viewed on YouTube... They are making money from advertisers as a result of the viewing figures for the content... so why shouldn't they pass some of that money back to the musicians who write the stuff!
...and maybe they should be paying something for the content on Myspace too... after all most people on Myspace music are starting out and could do with some 'pin money' to help them along.
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Who i'd like to meet:
Anyone who can give me a decent stage to perform on!
Like this one at the Rotterdam Bar....
You can buy a copy of the track 'Let Go' by clicking this link... this counts towards the Irish charts!!
If you live in ROI you can purchase the track by texting....
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The following video was taken during the Indie Summer Festival in Carrick on Shannon last summer... it was organised by Johnny from downloadmusic.ie - An excellent job too!!
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Just before the Rotterdam sunday gig we were in the beer garden chillin with Roy Lindsay III (New Orleans harmonica player) When all of a sudden this happened...
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Sea Nomad live at The Strand Bar, Strandhill county Sligo - Saturday 3rd March 2007
Thanks Doug!
American Girl - Ludwig & Julie Mack rehearsal (Tom Petty cover)
This was the day of the Rotterdam gig - we decided to go over a couple of songs... i just switched on the vid on my phone and caught a nice moment with two very lovely friends.
There's only me here..
But I do have a dream band.
Until then i am ably assisted by some fine friends when they are free to do so. Contributors so far have been Ali Mackenzie on bass (The Bush Turkeys, Reeferadio, Jim Armstrong band, Jim Gilchrist.) Ruby Colley on violin (Cava).
I hope to benifit from the input of a number of other wonderfully talented musicians as I move from the EP recordings to commence work on my debut solo album.
Jenny performing fire poi at the Ludwig/Sara Petite gig - Rotterdam Bar 3rd feb 07
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I sound like Ludwig O'Neill from Belfast in Ireland!
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I HAVE A NEW SONG IN THE AIIRADIO CHARTS!!
It's called HOLD ME TONIGHT
I NEED YOU ALL TO VOTE AGAIN AND KEEP IT GOING TO GET THE NUMBER ONE SLOT FOR ME!!
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Go to www.aiiradio.net and check out their chatroom, even submit a song of your own... you'll be looked after by all the superb presenters and friends in the aiiradio community.
Thank you all for your votes for SEA NOMAD - i couldn't have done it without all of you! :)
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LUDWIG O'NEILL - THE BEDROOM SESSIONS
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New gigs...!!
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The following are a selection of video performances from The Purple Room Acoustic Sessions, Drogheda, Ireland
Hold me tonight - Live at The Purple Room
Let go - Live at The Purple Room
How do you feel? - Live at The Purple Room
Sea Nomad - Live at The Purple Room
Rosey Black & me - Live at The Purple Room
A massive thank you to Gerry and Aidan for these great videos!
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Ludwig O'Neill - Who is he?
Sometimes, forbidden fruits are the sweetest of them all...
At the tender age of 6, Davy O'Neill wasn't allowed to play with his older brother’s guitar, so he stole moments with it when he could, adding the craft of guitar to his growing passion for the harmonica. He was a natural, always playing by ear - the art came to him with little effort. In earlier times, they'd have said this was a child ‘kissed by the muses’. But Belfast of the early 1970's was a bleak place of constant death and mayhem, and not a place any self-respecting muse would find herself if she could help it.
Daily violence and uncertainty dominated most people's lives back in that bad time. However, the young Davy O'Neill found that he could escape into the music that seemed to be all around him. He buried himself in the soundtrack of the era: Radio Caroline drifting on the waves, the little red transistor radio beneath his sleepy pillow, ebbing and flowing, crackling out Led Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush, Meatloaf, America, Pink Floyd and beyond… this was the only place where he could block out the fear and misery that surrounded him on Belfast’s dark unwelcoming streets. Sometimes it is the desert of the soul that creates the most powerful artist.
So, why the name Ludwig? One evening Davy had the choice of running with his mates in the streets of North Belfast, or working on a song he was writing - he chose the music. Kids being kids taunted him with 'Look!… there goes ‘effin’ Ludwig the composer'.. Adopting that name became a title of honour for the 15-year-old musician - the ultimate two fingers to his tormentors.
Ludwig has played the local music scene for the last 15 years in various bands, with some measure of success, the most notable of these outfits being The Bush Turkeys in the early to mid nineties. However, in recent years, a creative ‘sea change’ had begun to occur. A desire to create a deeper, darker form of music, with all the pain and passion of the true Celtic heart had emerged in the more mature artist. In some ways these new 'dark still water' sounds wouldn't have found a niche in the bands that Ludwig was currently working with; ReefeRadio, a rock/blues outfit and Apartment, a jazz/soul band. Something had to give.
All musicians should evolve as life changes and creates new nuances in their own lives - the evolution of Ludwig was already well under way.
He found that the only course of action was to give in to this new creative impetus and exciting new musical direction - accepting that challenge was always going to be the easy bit. In the last two years the songs have grown and become crafted into a very heady mix of raw emotion and tempered rage against the tribulations and trials that humanity shares, universally. Real songs about real issues that touch us all.
Ludwig’s music is the very heartbeat, the life soundtrack of Belfast, a Belfast changing now too… growing into something fine and new and full of hope. You wont find tales of murder and gunplay in Ludwig’s work, nor will you find anger and aggression – instead you will find a passion for truth and understanding similar to that found in the works of Joyce or Hewitt. Ludwig merges his poetry and ‘warmly intoxicating’ music in a way that pulls at the very souls of his audience on so many different levels.
Just as you turn a corner of North Belfast you find the surprising- the mild mannered clerk with the heart of a poet, the bank worker who creates sculpture, the housewife who creates graceful works of Celtic art, so too, Ludwig’s music is about the unseen, the overlooked - the love, the heartbreak, the pain, and ultimately the redemption of the soul through being true to itself.
This is the new Celtic heartbeat, the music of a city of saltwater and salty tears; of golden hills and grey estates. Relish the most sinister love song in years with the magnificent 'Let Go'… its dark passionate bass line, like a punch-drunk heartbeat; or the delicacy of ‘Sea Nomad’ - surely one of the most summery songs ever written. Then beware your own self-appraisal lurking behind his intimate, impassioned plea as he asks …’How do you feel??’
Already Ludwig’s back catalogue of songs is growing daily and as his writing form becomes more and more prolific, subsequent recordings are more than guaranteed.
A five track EP release is due in early 2009. Recorded at Bigspace Studio, Newry with producer Declan Legge, Both the EP and the subsequent full 14 track album will feature Ludwig’s most recent work and will be released on Folkwit Records (UK) http://www.myspace.com/folkwit
BR Maguire
Ludwig's Sunday Acoustic Sessions - solo acoustic set plus the finest guests from Ireland and beyond - THESE SESSIONS ARE ON HOLD FOR NOW... BUT THEY WILL RETURN BIGGER AND BETTER IN THE NEW YEAR
We've been in The Rotterdam, The Front Page and White's Tavern... maybe we are bound to a nomadic existance... aw well... next!?
hey man!!! dude i wanted to say sorry for not making it to the reef show at th bar last week, trying my best not to spend money, europe fundage is tight right now. hpe it went well for you guys. long time no see, just wondering what ya been up to. need to talk to ya about the december dates for the front page...(what date was it you wanted us to play?)
drumology this week yeah? anyway man, hope your good. il give ya a ring soon as.
You are welcome :D I like your videos on Facebook.....oh and I can't facebook during the work day.....facebook has worms and work doesn't like them. :D
Hey man, what's happening? It's been a long time - but, judging by the amount of gigs you have lined up obviously you're not sitting on your backside! Hope to be in touch soon about a few projects. Keep on strummin'!
Hewy ludwig mate. Just to let you know, Rosey Black and Me has been nominated for Sundays coming show. I think it will do well but just in case it could need alittle support to get into the charts. By the way, glad you're so busy.
Hi Ludwig,dig your tunes.good stuff for sure. I saw your critique of Ashtami and it was very good.I too am new on here . Working on my next c.d. Was wondering could you give an honest critique of my music.Allways trying to improve ,and get to the next level.Thanks my friend, MARK
