1. The new album A ROCK TO CLING TO, the reviews, the reaction, the campaign, the tour!
Well lads my new album A ROCK TO CLING TO was released on EMI Records on September 16th 2011, when we rocked the Late Late Show with the single THE BEST …
Hey lads,
I’ll be playing in de Barra’s in Clonakilty this thursday night
September 1st 2011 and will be performing a WORLD PREMIERE of a new
song called: - CLONAKILTY LULLABY.
The words are going to go something like this;
Clonakilty Lullaby.
We’ll go rambling out the causeway on a lovely summer’s day,
Lullaby, lullaby, don’t you cry.
We’ll be wandering in the moonlight down by Inchadoney Bay,
Lullaby, lullaby, don’t you cry.
Clonakilty lullaby, lullaby,
Hush little baby don’t you cry.
The moon shines down so handsome, she is proud but she …
Patrick Galvin, a brilliant writer and a great hero of mine, died last week, aged 84 years. I had the great honour of singing at his wake in Connolly Hall Cork, at his cremation on Rocky Island in Cork Harbour, and at the big celebration in the Cat Club afterwards.
Paddy is my favourite Irish poet.
He was born in Margaret Street, Cork in the old tenements which he describes brilliantly in his magical book ‘Song For A Poor Boy’.
At the age …