"Sheehy uses his beautiful, bruised blues croon to fine effect on a clutch of brooding and atmospheric songs, which sometimes suggest Billy Fury singing Shane MacGowan's lyrics over Nick Cave's gentler moments. " Time Out
I will never forget those pictures that hung from the walls of the various places I lived as a child. A Sacred Heart of Jesus; you know the ones with a red light bulb on a little ledge just beneath the picture of Our Lord baring His burning heart for all to see and the other was a huge framed photo of Elvis circa 1974 resplendent in a white rhinestone encrusted jumpsuit slashed to the midriff, guitar slung about his hips, jet-black hair, bronze skin, a little overweight but not yet the bloated grotesque he would soon become. In our home Jesus was God; but Elvis wasn’t far behind.
At five years old I was beginning to show a little artistic flair so my teacher got me to depict the Sorrowful Mysteries of The Rosary to be displayed in the church during Easter week. I took to the task with relish; I particularly enjoyed drawing The Scourging At The Pillar and The Crucifixion; the blood, the whip, the nails, the crown of thorns and the foreboding black sky over Golgotha; the suffering of Jesus really inspired me. I was working from my imagination and what I’d seen in the epic TV series Jesus Of Nazareth starring Robert Powell.
As a teenager I began singing in the church choir encouraged and inspired by the parish priest Father Pat Brown who had one of the greatest tenor voices I have ever heard. I met Mother Teresa and sang for her when she visited our church; she gave me a Missionaries of Charity medal (she was handing them out like lollipops) that I wore around my neck for a year or so. The first time I went down on a girl, the medal kept getting in the way. Maybe it was God’s way of letting me know I shouldn’t have been eating pussy outside of Holy wedlock.
I quickly realized I had failed miserably in my quest to be Christ-like so I thought I’d have a crack at being Elvis for a while; naturally this didn’t work out too well either. I formed the band Dream City Film Club, we signed to Beggars Banquet in 1996 and made some records. Sometime during 1999 the group imploded in a hail of fists and forked tongues. My hair began falling out so I continued making records as a bald solo artiste mainly because I had no idea how to do anything else. After three artistically over reaching but commercially under achieving albums I was dropped by Beggars Banquet and spent the next five years contemplating my navel. In 2007 I decided to start making music again.
The BellRays headline a night of maximum rock'n'soul on Thursday next
week at The Borderline with Los Chicos and King Salami & The
Cumberland 3 playing live and Corn Rocket Club DJs on the wheels of
steel.
Click on flyer for tickets.....
Other forthcoming NTSOBC action:
July
Thrs 9 BellRays + Los Chicos + King Salami & The Cumberland 3 @ Borderline, London, W1
Thrs 16 Micheal Sheehy & The Hired Mourners + Gemma Ray @ The Lexington, London, N1
Thrs 23 O’Death @ The 100 Club, London, W1
September
Friday 11 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6
Saturday 12 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6
Tues 15 Bob Log III @ The Luminaire, Kilburn, London, NW6
The Kittiwakes - CD Launch - Clerkenwell 22nd June
Leigh-on-Sea 3-piece, The Kittiwakes, celebrate the release of their Midwich Records debut, ‘Lofoten Calling’, a collection of original folk songs written about the people, landscape, folklore and history of the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle and influenced by the traditional music of Norway and the British Isles.
'The Kittiwakes craft timeless and magical acoustically dappled folk treats - gentle and alluring ostensibly Gaelic in sound texture and gorgeously flighty braided as they are by corteges of mandolins, accordions and violins.' [LOSING TODAY]
'The Kittiwakes (rissa tridactyla): delicious, intriguing and evocative music, beautifully played and sung by this talented trio. Recommended to twitchers and lovers of folk music alike' [LEIGH FOLK FESTIVAL]
C'est l'été, ou presque et donc voilà un nouvel ABUS :
ABUS DANGEREUX #110
JUIN 2009
En Couverture : POWERSOLO
Au sommaire:
44 pages avec interviews, colonnes, news, chroniques, etc...:
POWERSOLO, SCARY MANSION, ELYSIAN FIELDS, MANFIELD TYA, THE ELEKTROCUTION, AUSSITOT MORT, FIRECRACKERS, MARDI GRAS BB, THE HOLY CURSE, LES JOLIS, CAFENEON, P...
Ainsi que le sampler inédit 12 titres avec :
Powersolo, Aussitôt Mort, Les Jolies, Firecrackers, Scary Mansion, Mansfield TYA, Elysian Fields, Black City Babies, Aeroflot, Polar Strong, Holy Curse, Supersuckers, The Bishops, Mardi Gras BB, Cafeneon, Tromatized Youth, The Elektrocution, Ich Bin, Huck.
Fuck,i just remember i was s'posed te be using the services of Postman Fukn Pat and his fukn Dead Cat!!Here,i'll send them over this week....Hope yer Well.oRGy
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