Last night was the second last show of our tour, at Bar Fantastico in Barcelona. It was great to play for a familiar crowd. More videos of my own stuff to come, but here is a video of ‘Huggles’ by Anna Morley, played by myself, Anna, and Gerard Daurella (Gerald Corn).
Tonight is our last show, in Figueres! Then it is relax time. Sweet, sweet relax time.
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Tag: video
Happy Birthday song in Irish
A few days ago, the 27th of July, it was my mother’s birthday, so I sang this song for her during my set in Costello Cafe, Madrid. This is one of my favourite songs in Irish, by Altan, ‘An Chailín Deas Óg´’.
Anna Morley single release, ‘Heightened Senses’
Here is the very new video for the single ‘Heightened Senses’ by Anna Morley, which is on her album ‘Red Balance’ that will be released in just a few days.
I’ll be doing an opening set at the album launch this Friday at Inusual Project, Paloma 5, Barcelona, and then I’ll also be playing ukulele and guitar with Anna Morley Collective. And then the tour begins!
Video of last night’s performance with Anna Morley Collective
Last night was the show with Anna Morley Collective at ‘Discos Paradiso’ in Barcelona, and it went really well! The place was packed to the brim, and we managed to get some good videos of the performance, and SO, we decided to mesh a bunch of the good videos together…and here it is!
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An update and a new video of ‘White Fluffy Clouds’
Hello!
I’ve been putting off updating because it’s been so very long since I wrote anything, and I was intimidated to return, because I figured I had to write a huge long update. But then I decided that that wasn’t so, and I could simply just post a new video, and all would be forgiven. And so it is.
This video is of a short acoustic set that I played for a ‘Research Club’ brunch, on April 30th in Portland. Thanks to Ním Wunnan for filming! Alas, there is a tiny part in the bridge that got cut out, but hey, that’ll happen.
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Mina Mazzini and Lucio Battisti
Mina Mazzini is my favourite Italian singer, and possibly my favourite female singer ever. She’s amazing. This is a duet which she did with Lucio Battisti. I watch it every now and again and am always blown away by it. Mina mina mina mina.
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New video! Moving on time…
I wrote this song on my ukulele a while ago, and I reckon it’s still one of my favourites. ’tis called ‘Moving on time’, aaaanndd here it is!
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Hey again Burlington Airport, how’ve you been?
So, I find myself at Burlington Airport again. This time I have arrived from Seattle, via JFK, and haven’t slept in what feels like days, but is actually only one night. I feel relatively human. I will take the greyhound back up to Montreal in about 15 minutes. That means crossing the damn border again, which means getting off the bus and answering stupid questions about what my travel plans are, in a way that’s supposed to be relaxed and chatty, but is really a mine-field of the customs officers, as they lay their tricky and seemingly safe questions, to catch careless possible illegal immigrants, of which there haven’t been any, not yet. Nope, everyone has safely been able to get back on the bus each of the three times I’ve crossed the Canadian-American border. It’s still a pain in the ass though. Especially since you’re asked to take EVERYTHING off the bus, and also, one of the times, people damn well took other people’s seats! Like, okay, you don’t leave anything on your seat, so it’s easy to get confused, but this one time there was a full on game of musical chairs.
But that’s all beside the point.
What is the point?
I don’t know, I’m just tired and want to whinge. Perhaps.
Soon I will do a proper update, cos I have been having a rollercoaster of a time travelling. Music has been played, wine has been drunk in large quantities, new places have been visited, hearts have been broken and remended, money has been spent and re-earned, hot-tubs have been enjoyed in limited quantities, and new friends have been made. And I think I’ve discovered my new home. But it’s not where I thought it would be. But that will be in the next update. I just wanted to write SOMETHING to breathe fresh life into my blog, and so that people could witness and verify my existence which is ALLLL that matters.
Ta-ra for now, I leave you with a video done a couple of months ago while I was in the pyrenees, shot by my dad, the pro, Terry Carruthers.
Souls like the wheels
Currently listening to Souls like the Wheels, by ze Avett Brothers. I like them. The end.
Tales from the Pyrenees – videos
This week I’ve been to the Pyrenees with my dad, researching walks for his walking tour business, and we had SO much fun. I love my daaaaad. Anyhoo, I took numerous photos, well, not THAT many, which I will soon post here, but we aaaaalso did some videos of my songs on his computer, which was so very much fun. Those songs shall henceforth be presented as ‘these’ songs:
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“The Man with the Broken Arm”
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“Itch in my Feet”
music and musings 