Brendy dips his bucket one more time

Subject: Brendy dips his bucket one more time
From: Brendy
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 10:18 AM

.... this time in Norwegian waters. (well, we've been doing that for quite a while now, haven't we...?)

This time I bring a few of the lads together; we've been plying our wares in the hottest after-ski spots this past winter, and now we're heading for the festivals..., hopefully on next year's menu here and there.

18 hours in the studio, produced 2 songs and 2 tunes.
I mixed them down, and bundled them up.

Gone are the days of tapes, CDs and all such mundane media, however.

I have with me, in that case, a blue clicky thing which I'll leave with you, to click and un-click as you feel. It will direct you to a page on the band's website where you can click away to your heart's content....

Here you go... Blue-Clicky Thing

You can pick the dead frogs and bits of flotsam out for yourselves.. ;-)

B.

Subject: RE: Brendy dips his bucket one more time
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 10:31 AM

Welcome back, Brendy. Haven't seen you here in a while and you have been missed. Have to admit, I would prefer to hear you singing some of the more traditional stuff. You have the voice for it. Meantime, enjoy! Chicken Ranches in Donegal? What will the city fathers think?
SINS

Subject: RE: Brendy dips his bucket one more time
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 12:36 PM

Nice to see you back, Brendy. Good luck with the ware-plying.

Subject: RE: Brendy dips his bucket one more time
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 01:10 PM

Having heard Brendy play ( Portaferry ) this has to be worth looking at !!

Subject: RE: Brendy dips his bucket one more time
From: alanabit
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:51 AM

I will listen to the other songs later. I enjoyed The first track "Hills of Donegal" and I have always liked early John Martyn, so it was good to hear "I Don't Want To Know About Evil" again. I   hope the record sells well and gets lots of airplay. I would be happy if I heard it on the radio.

Subject: RE: Brendy dips his bucket one more time
From: Brendy
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 11:04 AM

Oh I know, SINS...., the city fathers and I have had a long running dispute going, and Donegal chicken ranches are only part of it... I'm afraid 3 Báidín Fheilimidh's and 1 Silent O'Moyle ain't gonna cut it anymore...

80% of our stuff is instrumental, and Pete Gallagher's song is about the only recognisably 'commercial' song in our set.
We do a few of the old trad classics; the Christy Moore version of 'As I roved Out', The Well Below The Valley, Casadh an tSúgain, for instance, but we're trying to marry a few different influences, here (a first, at least in Scandinavia).
I am of the firm opinion that I couldn't sing in a fit, anyway, and in this band I just really want to be the accompanist.... where I started out life....

We are still heavily in experimental stage, and the demo was more for our benefit in a way, than it is for prospective festival organisers.
Myself and Stein (the box player) have been regularly playing together for over 10 years, and he has won a few 'All Norwegian' titles in his own folk music. This band is his opportunity also to have a sound canvas to weave the ancient melodies through.

We played Vikingland (Scandinavia biggest After-ski venue) a few times over the winter, and tried the set lists out.
Where in Ireland, we have been used to bands like Horslips, Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, etc., who have paved the way (and taken the abuse of the city fathers) in interpreting our music, in Norway, the folk boom has really to take off yet.
Judging by the reaction and feedback of the 18-30 age group, just down from the slopes, they got off on the material fairly well; even the 'trancy' 'The Well Below The Valley'.

I've been messing around with the studio masters at home here, since, and I must have come up with 4 or 5 different mixes for those songs and tunes.
We're playing at a wee Irish festival in the middle of Norway at the end of this month, and I know that what we'll do will knock the audience back a bit. This is the homeland of the Landskappleik, and the Norwegian 'Comhaltas', and we're going to go in like a cross between the Afro-Celts and Ole Bull....
(... crash helmets and hurley sticks at the ready, lads...)

But we'll sing about chicken ranches too.

After all, when in Rome....

Thanks, folks for having a wee listen ;-)

B.

Subject: RE: Brendy dips his bucket one more time
From: Brendy
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 11:19 AM

Thanks alanabit, glad you like it so far...

I'll be sending a few CD's to the radio stations, both here in Norway (and the rest of Scandinavia), and in Ireland, but we're not selling this. If people get to hear it, that'll be fine by me

Share and enjoy!

B.