MUSIC: Post Partying Blues (2001) (Patreon)

This is the final album from the early years, and you can tell I have been doing a lot of gigging as a singer-songwriter - the album is predominantly acoustic guitar-based, and the rockier element from previous albums is no longer present.

The album is probably the best-recorded album I did back then. It's still using the Yamaha Eight Track with some computer-based programming, but it's a much stripped-down affair with a lot less kitchen sink than the previous recordings.

I like this album, but, in hindsight, I was trying to fit in with what was happening around me musically and keep in line with the various musicians I was hanging out with - none of whom were into the heavier stuff I was. But that said, I guess it accurately reflects where I was at the time.

This album got "Demo of the Week" in Ireland's famous music magazine "Hotpress", and while I do have a copy of that issue, I seem to have put it "somewhere safe", and thus it has become missing. Ah, well, it may turn up at some stage.

It was during the recording of this album that the original band I was in - Wendimiller - reformed, and that pretty much took up all my music energy for the next few years. There are some recordings of the Wendimiller era, including a semi-live EP that also received "Demo of the Week" in Hotpress, along with an entire album recorded in an actual recording studio called "Audio Head Cleaner".

The song "Rock N' Roll In Rio" was from a jam during a Wendimiller soundcheck from years previous, and for some reason, I felt that it should be on the album even though it's massively out of tone with the rest of the songs.

I didn't record any more solo stuff until 2013, when I released the "Four Fifty-Eight" EP. One more album will be released before the new album comes out in the summer. This will be a remastered collection of all my singles from the last couple of years with some bonus additions. It will have the songs of one "side" and the instrumentals on the other, and as such is called "With & Without". That'll be out within the next fortnight or so.

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