After coming back from the Med my feet hardly touched the ground and I was off again……to Ireland to start recording my first album. To be honest I was a bit apprehensive about the whole thing but what was awaiting me was to by far exceed my expectations!!
I was in the idyllic setting of Killaloe in a big house right on a lake, the perfect setting to create some magic. I must have taken the weather with me as I had 2 weeks of glorious sunshine! The house was right on the marina, not the floating palaces of Monaco but fortunately it just so happened that the producer I was working with had a speedboat! YEAHHHH….Every day I thought “we can’t be in the studio on a day like this hmmmmm…..lets get in that boat!!!
Most important of all the magic that was created with my music!!!! Each time before a vocal take there would be ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ to clear the pipes and some Port to coat the voice box! However on more than one occasion I would start tweeting like a canary but if I left it too long……. So I had to do some of the vocal takes straight away before the walls started moving ; ) bottle the magic quick!
When the first part of the recording was finished I headed to Dublin to play a few gigs but also to visit my local haunt, the W.B. Yeats museum. It’s difficult not to be inspired when here as the creative juices always seem to flow.
I went home but once again my feet didn’t touch the ground and with less than 24 hours I was off to Spain. It was arranged for me to do a television interview before my gig. Thankfully it wasn’t live because half way through I started to get the giggles!! I have seen this type of thing on out-takes but stopping the hysteria is harder than it looks….the more you think about not laughing…….the more you laugh!
So I’m back and my feet have touched the ground (just!) and now im off again for the second part of my recording and to Northern Ireland to play to my biggest audience yet….1000 peeps…here goes…again!
