Posts Tagged ‘#Niallontour’
Skin 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 the end of the night I was handed a multi camera live recording of my set on a flash drive. Here’s ‘Skin and Bones’. Later on…
Read MoreFound in Translation
Vienna – Prague – Olomouc – Munich Sunday, November 19th, 2017 – Random Restaurant, Around the corner from Arkada Hotel, Prague Sunday night. Two weeks and day into the tour. One week and a day left to go. My body, perhaps sensing a night off, has collapsed. I think I have slight touch of food…
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 year. It is super relaxed, artsy and cool. The coffee is really great. Leafy courtyard. Minimalist art. And tomorrow I’m playing a concert in the…
Read MoreZagreb to Zalaegerzeg to Budapest
Monday November 13th, 2017 – Balatonboglar Train Station, Hungary It is cold. The wind cuts through my many layers of clothing. It’s been another couple of enjoyable and easy days on tour. I arrived in Zagreb on Friday night. Checked into my airbnb and went out for a walk and a bite to…
Read MoreThank You Italy – Croatia, Here I Come
Piove di Sacco, Train Station, Italy – Thursday, November 9th, 2017 “Some people see a mountain, I think I just need the right shoes and I can climb it like a stairs.” Let me begin with the essentials. Andrea Scarso is a legend. He speaks in poems. Nothing is a problem. We had some…
Read MoreCome on Tour with Me
JFK International Airport, Terminal 4 – Saturday, November 4th, 7:22am I’m sitting in a brightly lit cafe. Trying to pry my eyes open with a watery coffee. I am putting the coffee in my mouth but it might be more effective to pour it directly into my eyeball. A somewhat tortuous version of “They Can’t…
Read MoreRecord Release -Midnight at the Oasis – Summer in the City- Defensive Donkeys
Sunday October 9th, 2017 – East Durham, NY Travel confuses me. I think it was Margaret Atwood who said jetlag is the soul trying to catch up with the body. I’m paraphrasing. If she said it she said it in much more Margaret Atwoody way. I’m over the jetlag. But it is still baffling to…
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 Dank and Joan Baez. It’s a great room to sing in and the proprietor Daniel is fantastic host. Dream Away Lodge was almost certainly in…
Read MoreThank you – That was fun!
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Monday June 12th, 8am. Air quality warning from 10am. What precisely are you supposed to do during an air quality warning? Take a deep breath at 9.59am? It’s 8am and I am in Prospect Park to get a few of those breaths. New York would be impossible without its parks.…
Read MoreJames Connolly’s 101st Anniversary
May 12th, 2017, Brooklyn, NY Today is James Connolly’s 101st anniversary. My Song ‘May 12th, 1916 – A Song for James Connolly’, will be on my next album which will be out in September. In the meantime here’s an impromptu live performance of the song with Glen Hansard and his band including Javier Más from…
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