ricochet bowing goes ’wrong so wrong’ as my RTÉ dtt recording fails.

eleanor mcevoy an RTÉ tv 19/10/2007

3 songs, hand picked for your enjoyment. enjoy. Lisa Hake, Gotan Project & Carmen Consoli

Bought the big issues magazine off a guy at Birmingham city railway station. He caught my accent and told me he was born in Belfast Co. Armagh, I said Belfast County Antrim, he said no I said yes… (yes I even have the time & ego to argue with a Big Issues vendor) Anyway I give him £2 and he gives me the magazine. I’m on the plane reading the magazine when I discover its called Whats On (in Birmingham) and is free with the Mail and/or costs 80p when sold. Maybe the Big Issues is gone. or I was done. Anyway the folks/rock/roots previews had a review for Devon Sproule who played Coventry Aug 30th. nice! she plays Whelans Dublin on Sept 18th 7.30pm

Woody Guthrie 40th Anniversary

Memorial Celebration Concert (charity benefit)

Sunday 7th October 2007
The Empire Music Hall: Botanic Avenue, Belfast
Doors: 2.30pm, Showtime: 3pm - 9pm

Tickets are £15.00 and are available across the counter from Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.ie , and on their 24 hour booking line on 0870 243 4455. (Sales may be subject to credit card charges and the commissions of Ticketmaster agents). Each purchased ticket will be automatically entered in a free prize raffle with a significant prize on offer.

On Sunday, October 7th The Empire Music Hall will host a star studded tribute to Woody Guthrie in aid of the N. Ireland Huntington’s Disease Association.

A six hour festival of music celebrating the life and music of one of America’s greatest folk idols who died in Oct 1967 of Huntington’s Disease.

Woody Guthrie’s music influenced whole generations of singers and songwriters and that influence is still alive and strong today… songs like ‘This Land is Your Land’, ‘It Takes a Worried Man’, ‘Do Re Mi’, ‘Hobo’s Lullaby’, ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’, ‘So Long its Been Good to Know You’ and ‘Vigilante Man’ have been recorded by hundreds of major recording artistes worldwide

Each of the featured artists will perform a Woody Guthrie song in addition to their own material.

Artistes confirmed to appear include: Bap Kennedy, Juliet Turner, Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey, Brian Houston, Broken String Bluegrass Band, The Delawares, Chad Dughi (USA), Ronnie Greer Blues Band and Maeve Dunphy

ALL PROCEEDS OF THIS EVENT WILL BE DONATED TO: HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE ASSOCIATION (N.I.)

For further information contact:
Errol Walsh
E: errol at laganboatcompany stop com
T: +44 (0) 7718 910 423

2 KT Tunstall posts in 2 days, many try and fail to cover this song, this comes close but I rather the undertones version.

its got wheels - new KT Tunstall album Drastic Fantastic out Sept 10th (hold on - video below)

so the story begins.

I find a music video my a cool Jewish folk band from London called Yesterdays Mistakes by Oi Va Voi on MTV Italy 13east

I buy the second album by Oi Va Voi. I buy KT Tunstall album ‘Acoustic Extravaganza’, I learn that they played together.

I hear Cora Venus Lunny on RTE radio 1 play a song I really like but I don’t ID.

I set up Eleanor McEvoy in Myspace and Sophie Solomon befriends Eleanor

I befriend Sophie

Learn that Sophie Solomon played with Oi Va Voi and find she wrote the song I heard on radio 1. The song was ‘A Light That Never Dies’ (spoken by Ralph Fiennes)

I buy Sophie’s Album ‘Poison Sweet Madeira’ - (Eleanor has a song called Sophie but thats not in this story)

KT Tunstall sings Lazarus on ‘Poison Sweet Madeira’

Much later, like last week I learn from wikipedia that more than just play occasionally with Oi Va Voi, Sophie Solomon was a founding member.

I get a CD from the library Rough Trade Counter Culture 05 - matthew herbert - ‘celebrrity’ it sticks in my head. I blog matthew herbert ‘the audience’ here last night. Matthew Herbert remixed Oi Va Voi’s refugee single.

While searching for a Oi Va Voi remix of yesterdays mistake (which i have yet to find but was once on their Myspace) I find Solomon & Socalled’s HipHopKhasene and buy the 2003 album.

this happens all the time, but its rare I can remember the moves to solve the cube, like I can to this music’s DNA. Musicians BE PROMISCUOUS, share you talents around, experiment and giv’uz an interview for my podcast before you are famous.