Tour
Philadelphia
Philadelphia I played the first gig of tour with Mick Flannery at the Philadelphia Folk Song Society on Saturday night . Formerly a cobbler’s shop, it was a lovely room…
Read MoreMidtown – Astoria – Upper East Side – Cobble Hill – LES – Sunset Park
New York Performances this week: Monday, April 29th, MIDTOWN: New York Beer Company, Monday Night Session, 8pm Tuesday, April 30th: ASTORIA: BCF Song Club at Shillelagh Tavern with E.W. Harris…
Read MoreSkin and Bones – Live from Capitol Theatre – Chords and Lyrics
January 4th, 2018 Last month I posted live video of ‘Corridors’ (‘All We Have Become’) from my set opening for Glen Hansard at the Capitol Theatre in July. At…
Read MoreBahnhof Beckett is Back in Brooklyn
Train from Dusseldorf to Frankfurt, Sunday November 26th 6.21am Two young men are drunkenly walking themselves to a standstill in the wrong direction on an escalator at Dusseldorf’s main train…
Read MoreIn the Kitchen at Parties
Hotel Am Brillantengrund, Vienna – Thursday November 16th, 2017 I’m sitting in the cafe at Hotel Am Brillantengrund in Vienna. I like this place. Myself and Clare stayed here last…
Read MoreAll Of This For Beauty
Andrea’s Kitchen, Piove di Sacco, Italy – November 7th, 2017 They tell me it didn’t rain in the North of Italy for sixty days. Until I arrived. It has been…
Read MoreLondon – Milan – Verona
Sunday November 5th, 2017 – Terminal 5, London Heathrow The other side of my pre caffeine conversation with four separate British Airways employees regarding my protestations at their new rule…
Read MoreEvery Day’s a School Day
In the van somewhere in Monaghan, September 18th, 2017 ‘Artificial Lake’ has been included on RTE Radio 1’s recommended playlist. Blue and White religion book skies. Scruffy fields. Sheep with…
Read MoreDream Away Lodge, Becket, MA – Tonight
Tonight I return to Dream Away Lodge in Becket. I love it there. Hidden away in the woods in Western Massachusetts it was a former haunt of Bob Dylan, Rick…
Read MoreEavesdropping with Peter Pan – Adventures in Public Transport
February 25th, 2017 Cambridge, MA I read somewhere once that eavesdropping is good for writing. Hearing that gave me great freedom and shameless confidence. In eavesdropping. It is unseasonably warm.…
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