Liam Byrne

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2010-03-27T10:10:00.001Z

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2010-03-25T23:24:00.002Z

Well i dont know how many readers i have but sure ...
Well i dont know how many readers i have but sure i'll drive on like she's stolen...It's a tough ol time all 'round and i know that all my fellow muso's are feeling the squeeze at the moment just like everyone else and how sick it makes us all to turn on the news and see what we the tax payer will have to shovel out to keep a bank that doesn't deserve to open it's doors afloat....Anyhoo..i am not well versed enough in all that stuff to blog about it but i do know that there are so many people under pressure at the moment and one can only hope that stability will come for everyone soon.. Iy has been a quiet Jan And Feb but i had a few very very nice gigs ..Tralee I.T. & D.I.T. Bolton St spring to mind as well as playing a post wedding bash for Dennis & Sharon in Mitchelstown and a right 4 hour gig it was...the length i'll play for some cocktail sausages and 4 chicken wings!!March is nearly over and there was a great dry spell but the rain is back now and the dog got his arse kicked for tearing a toilet roll around the garden and the bull is getting used to the electric fensce but by Christ i am excited about my new song County Bondi...It's like Liam Reilly Wrote a song for Christy Moore to perform with The Seeger Sessions Band...but better....better X by 10 i tells ya!!! Gavin Ralston played guitar(electric & acoustic), mandolin, Hammond organ, piano, banjo, some tiny guitar with a funny name, and his brother played bass and his pal played drums and then i was invited to join in!!!! if you listen closely you can almost hear me sing!! It's good and i cant wait to put it out..just waiting on the bull whistle!!As i say, i dont know how many readers i have but it's nice to update my site as it reminds me that i am doing ok amidst all this turmoil and i have gin by my side and my wife and kids are asleep and the bull is with his cows tonight so there !!!! PLEASE SIGN THE GUEST BOOK THO!!! IT'S FREE.

2010-03-25T22:55:00.002Z

Well i dont know how many readers i have but sure i'll drive on like she's stolen...It's a tough ol time all 'round and i know that all my fellow muso's are feeling the squeeze at the moment just like everyone else and how sick it makes us all to turn on the news and see what we the tax payer will have to shovel out to keep a bank that doesn't deserve to open it's doors afloat....Anyhoo..i am not well versed enough in all that stuff to blog about it but i do know that there are so many people under pressure at the moment and one can only hope that stability will come for everyone soon.. Iy has been a quiet Jan And Feb but i had a few very very nice gigs ..Tralee I.T. & D.I.T. Bolton St spring to mind as well as playing a post wedding bash for Dennis & Sharon in Mitchelstown and a right 4 hour gig it was...the length i'll play for some cocktail sausages and 4 chicken wings!!
March is nearly over and there was a great dry spell but the rain is back now and the dog got his arse kicked for tearing a toilet roll around the garden and the bull is getting used to the electric fensce but by Christ i am excited about my new song County Bondi...It's like Liam Reilly Wrote a song for Christy Moore to perform with The Seeger Sessions Band...but better....better X by 10 i tells ya!!! Gavin Ralston played guitar(electric & acoustic), mandolin, Hammond organ, piano, banjo, some tiny guitar with a funny name, and his brother played bass and his pal played drums and then i was invited to join in!!!! if you listen closely you can almost hear me sing!! It's good and i cant wait to put it out..just waiting on the bull whistle!!
As i say, i dont know how many readers i have but it's nice to update my site as it reminds me that i am doing ok amidst all this turmoil and i have gin by my side and my wife and kids are asleep and the bull is with his cows tonight so there !!!! PLEASE SIGN THE GUEST BOOK THO!!! IT'S FREE.

2010-02-22T18:16:00.000Z

Castlebar

2010-02-20T17:46:00.001Z

COME ON ARMAGH!!!!

2010-02-10T22:59:00.000Z

A rovin a rovin a rovin i'll go..

2010-02-10T20:30:00.002Z

Long Overdue but here's me first blog of 2010 and i hope it finds you all keeping well. It's been all very quiet over January but the phone is ringing again and the book is filling up so i hope to meet some of ye up and down the road as i go. Had the pleasure of sharing stage with Paddy Casey in Ashbourne in January and if you are in that part of the world i encourage you yo pop into thr Ashbourne House Hotel any thursday for a great singer/songwriter night. Recording of a new single was due to begin today Feb 10th, but for different reasons i have postponed it for a week or so. The single will be called ''County Bondi'' and will strike a chord with anyone who had friends or family living in Australia or in any part of the world for that matter!. Other title's for what i hope will make up a new original album are, ''Tea in The field'', ''Political World'', ''Margerette'', ''Meeting On The Hill'', ''Without the Shadow Of A Doubt''. The plan is at the moment to record these on my ZOOM Handy Recorder and post them to my website or Facebook page, get some public reaction and decide from there. Gavin Ralston in Silverwood Studios may have other ideas though!
Right thats her for now.. See you soon.

2009-11-23T22:33:00.002Z

Jet Lag well & truely passed. Did my final date in australia on Sunday 15th Nov and left for Eire the next day, touching down 26 hours later in Dublin. Ahhh the rain was grand..for about 10 minutes!! John next door picked me up and brought me to my door in his disco taxi, where Sinead had a class Lasagne in the oven and Rebecca & Matthew were glad to see Daddy home too. A few days off and some QT with the cows and had some cousins home from down under..we had a wee dinner party on Friday last, the 21st, and after a few glasses of vino collapso i wondered thru my original song book and it occured to me that i have a few grand songs behind my pencil and so have reconfirmed my commitment to myself to record a new and completly original album early in the new year.
Eamon O Connor from Rolling toad design continues to tweak the new website so be sure and leave messages.
Live dates for the remainder of 2009 are on the gig page,
All the best for now... Liam

2009-11-15T21:25:00.002Z

Its over, It's over, IT'S OOOOOOVER... Bags packed and fair play to Sinead...not one pair of jocks too many!! Fran & Ozzie picked us up and off we went to Penrith Gaels for a 3 oclock concert. The clock on the wall went mad and i played for 3 hours instead of two. Camereon Maher played the first set and warmed up the crowd without even breaking a string or sweat and he helped me close the tour with ''Dirty Ol Town'' '' Viva La Quinte'' and ''Derry''. Rita D called to say well done on the previous night and she'll be home for Crimbo!!! YAYYYY!!
It's been a great 2 weeks and i have some new tunes wrote 3 of which are keepers i think, ''Co. Bondi'', ''Political World'' and ''The Sydney Waltz''... A song called ''Gorgeous Pam' is one for afterhours and ''When the kids are in Bed'' is a wirk in progress.
So many to thank, Paul(perth) Adam(Canberra) Richard(Brisbane) James (Melbourne) Dean & Ozzie(Sydney) & Mark (Penrith) for providing Sound, to all the venue managers who looked after us so well all thru, to Fran from Troubadore Music, our man on the ground here and poorly paid taxi service. Collie for the Harp and Judith for picks when i lost mine. Paul was our groupie and followed the tour all over..i hope your ok mate. to Pro-Copy Austra;ia who printed my CD's in record time and had them ready for our first gig..Big Up as they say in another genre...
Special thanks and fair play to Alan Prunty, my tour manager for keeping the show going..there's alot to organise to do 6 shows in Oz...flights (international & internal), Accomadation, venues, sound, transport, merchandise, support acts, lock in's and the like...
Thanks to all that came to all the shows and listened, drank, danced, laughed, cried, walked out and came back..
and finally thanks To Sinead, Rebecca & Matthew.... See ye on the other side.
Thanks for reading, tell your friends and leave a message on the guestbook....
Adare next up!!!! I'll bet it rains.

2009-11-14T21:58:00.002Z

Sunday morning & i would love to sleep but the A/C is on the blink and it's in the mid 20's i'd say...A great great night in The Gaelic Theatre and about 400 turned up demanding Ballads. Cameron & Colly warmed up the crowd with 2 great sets and i took over about 10 30.. and off we went..The crack was 91 for the next 2 and a half hours with Joxer getting an outing twice, my new song ''County Bondi'' also got a double shot and it went down as i had hoped..flags waving, tears falling, irish boys calling their mam's from their mobiles, girls hugging each other trying not to spill their double double vodka..you can picture the scene.
All the gigs have been so different and i have been thankfull for the ability to adapt as per concert.. and concerts is what they were. Canberra was a completly silent listening crowd wanting to hear and to listen, Perth and Melbourne was rowdy and fun but with both audiences willing to sit & listen when it was required and For the Gealic Theatre well i just sang because that crowd was in festival mode and that was ok with me. When Dean turned up the house lights during some songs you could just see the energy as well as feel it!!
So 5 down and 1 to go and i need some rest before we head to Penrith Geals Irish Club just outside Sydney. A bit of an emotional hangover from last night which i need to snap out off.. France just won 1-0 but it's only half time. Sinead is keeping the home fires burning which is a much harder job than mine.. William has kept the cows fed fair play... I hope someone reads this!!!

2009-11-14T09:29:00.001Z

And so the big one... Sydney 2 hours before gig time.. and i'm nervous... there's never a que at home!!

First Test Blog

2009-11-12T00:55:00.002Z

Liam,

this is your first blog post, here you can enter as much text as you like, hope you like

Eamonn