2019-07-27 Aleigh - Leeson Lounge Dublin

I've lost count of how many times I've seen Aleigh play over the last few years. Quite a few should cover it!

Anyway, last Saturday night in the Leeson Lounge in Dublin, they launched their new single "Boys Not Right".

There's not a lot to say really... As always, it was a good night of live music and the new single is a rather catchy tune, so you know, go buy a copy!

Oh yeah, that's the CD version there. I do like the trend of making CDs look like vinyl. It reminds of those childhood days spent buying singles when I could afford them!

You can check out the video on YouTube.

Anyway, I thought I'd give the new camera a go at an indoor gig, now that was a challenge! The photos are not quite what I was hoping for, but I'll get the hang of it some day, I hope...

Strangely, having worked in the area in the mid '90s to mid '00s, I'd never been to the Leeson Lounge before, or maybe I had and I just didn't remember...

Check out the photos below:

Hundred Acre Woods - Multiverse

DC Comics are fans of the Multiverse idea. Basically, they take their characters and dump them into a different world where they can behave totally different and have no impact on the 'real world' characters. So... I got to thinking, what if I did this with Pooh Bear and the other characters from Hundred Acre Woods? This is what happened... Disclaimer: I didn't draw these! I just took the original images, removed any text from them and added my own to make a somewhat coherent story! The original image... The first inkling of tension between Pooh and Piglet. I'd no idea where this was going to end up. It turns out that it traveled all around the world via Facebook and WhatsApp. Pooh is adamant he doesn't have Covid19.... It starts to get a bit dark now... Hold on a second, are we missing someone??? Piglet realises what happened... Piglet swears to avenge his friends death! Will there be more murders in Hundred Acre Wo

Bye Bye Spotify...

I ditched Spotify Premium this weekend. Why? Well, I read an interview with Daniel Ek , the CEO of Spotify, and I profoundly disagreed with what he said and his attitude towards musicians in the interview. So I said 'F*ck it', and closed my premium account. I still do have a free account as many bands choose Spotify to release their music, so I'll keep it for that reason. What now though? Well, I'd created a large library of music on my home server over the last 20 years or so. Every time I bought a CD, it got ripped to the server. Every time I bought digital music from Bandcamp , Google or 7 Digital , they too got stored on the server, and that was fine for home use, it worked well. But now I'd dumped Spotify, what could I do, how could I access my music outside the house? I'd played around with software called Plex a few years back, but had no use for it. I ended up doing nothing with Plex, but for this project, I decided to revisit it. I knew that if

2019-09-06 Naas Wild Food Festival

What's this? The Naas Wild Food Festival ?? On a music blog??? Well... Yeah, actually it is. But fear not, I wasn't there for the food, I'd only music on my mind and this was the first gig of a packed weekend! Actually, I'd already eaten before going, so I wasn't in the mood to try any of the stalls there, but I'm sure they were all delicious! They actually shut down Poplar Square in Naas for this festival tonight. The last time I remember the main street in Naas being shut was for the pig races way back, years ago, for the Punchestown Festival. I was going to say there were no pigs tonight, but I do recall seeing a stall serving Hog, so yeah... Anyway, the music. Tonight we had Sina Theil open the proceedings. I've seen Sina plenty of times over the last few years and she puts on a very good country rock show. A good mix of her own songs and some well known crowd pleasers. After Sina, we had some legends of the Irish music scene, we had Kila p

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