Irish Folk

I quite fancied myself as an Irishman a while ago. I was born in the Bahamas. Same direction. Same ocean.

Warming up for St Patrick's Day

I spent several summers touring Scotland and Ireland playing bass guitar and piano with the folk band “Archaos” in the mid 90s. Our singer (the young Denise Hagan) was (still is) amazing, but I was a fish out of water. Purists took an instant dislike to my instrument. Whilst performing at the Ballyshannon folk festival, one punter took exception to my inappropriately funky bass playing and smashed up my amp with a hammer in the middle of our set.

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In 2005 I wrote and produced five songs for Tricia Corrigan’s debut album “A Different Kind Of Beautiful” and subsequently played piano, guitar and bass on her brother’s instrumental album “The Shadowed Gateway”. Although essentially based on Irish folk tunes, this album is in a different universe from most pigeon holes I’m aware of. A “fiery animus”, indeed.