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Welcome to the Man of Straw's very own world. It features a unique blend of poetry, story telling, skiffle sounds, humming, clapping, whistling and some guitar to enlighten your day. Find posted the latest offerings for the world to enjoy, recorded courtesy of 'Thom's Basement'. More songs will be posted as soon as the opportunity arises, in the meantime come along to a live event and experience them first hand.
The Man Of Straw has been a writer of poetry most of his adult life and has taken to performing it for the past three years. 2008 finally urged him onto greater things. Taking up the guitar and combining it with a unique use of language, he has in a short space of time progressed to playing regular live events with some of the finest upcoming acts across the country. Completing the year performing at Edinburgh's The Ark alongside Miyagi, William Douglas and The Wheel, Heal The Last Stand and Andy Hickie with recognition in the Guardian.
2009 will see the Man Of Straw embark upon an Irish Tour for three weeks in April with the immense Loose Kites and Mr Hickie, an appearance at the extra special Absurd event in May, a couple of small stage appearances at the Wickerman in Scotland in July, August ushers in the beginning of a Busking Round the World tour, look out on a street corner near you soon. September promises Irish Tour part two where we will be hooking up with some great friends made previously. The winter months will be spent in dedication to recording with Man of Straw's new project The Glendale Family. A collection of great friends, musicians and singers who will co-ordinate to produce what we hope will be a beautiful sound and at present we are writing and recording new materiel which will be available on download and CD soon. The year ends with a mini-tour up to Chester, Edinburgh and Glasgow and will feature the exciting Meatmen, Miyagi, Dermot Byrne, Shane Keely, Andy Hickie and The Loose Kites. In between there will be numerous parties, open mic nights, rogue gigs, mini tours, festival appearances and such-like.
Thank you kindly for looking in, don't be a stranger, take it easy...
On that note the Man Of Straw leaves you with some words of wisdom from Alexandre Dumas writer of The Count of Monte Cristo
"A grateful world to the dealer of happiness"'.
"Nature subdued must yield in the combat, dream must give way to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream. By comparing the pains of actual being with the joys of assumed existence, you desire to live no longer but dream forever. When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter-to exchange paradise for earth-heaven for hell!".
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