Liverpool Acoustic Live preview – 29th October 2010

Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #34
October 2010 
Liverpool Irish Festival



1. Celine Carroll – I Believe In Love

2. Ronan Boyle – Strike Me Down

3. Gary Maginnis – Open Road

4. Dave O’Grady – The Old Church Road (live)

bonus tracks

5. Lizzie Nunnery – Company of Ghosts

6. Terry Coyne – The Wild Geese 

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This month’s Liverpool Acoustic Live takes place on Friday 29th October at the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street and is being run in as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival and features some of the best contemporary singer-songwriters the Emerald Isle has to offer.

Dubliner Celine Carroll delivers live performances of groove, dynamics, passionate lyrics and melody-driven songs around Ireland with her own band. Her music has been described from soft-jazz to damn fine acoustic soul, with shades of Burt Bacharach, Carole King & Paul McCartney.

Also playing on the night will be LIPA graduate Ronan Boyle (Warrenpoint, Co. Down), Singer-songwriter Gary Maginnis (Islandmoyle) and Dave O’Grady (Kildare).

Tickets are available online for £4 in advance from wegottickets.com – tickets are £5 on the door.

Doors open at 8.00pm with music starting at 8.30pm sharp. The night finishes at 11.15pm

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Celine Carroll

Celine Carroll is a songwriter and performer with a rare talent, a fresh perspective, a guitar, a piano and a pocketful of songs. Celine hails from Dublin, Ireland and has released her third album, ‘Such A Beautiful Light, (featured album of the week RTE Radio 1). Taking her inspiration from artists as diverse as Paul McCartney, Carole King and Burt Bacharach, her music has been described as everything from soft jazz to damn fine acoustic soul.


Jackie Hayden, Hotpress Magazine, wrote ‘A real gem. We don’t really need another singer-songwriter, but when they’re this good, you just have to rearrange the furniture and make room’.With a back catalogue of over 200 songs behind her, Celine has three albums to her credit. Her first album, Catch You As You Fall contained 10 self-penned songs and was produced by Declan Sinnott (Christy Moore/Mary Black). This album harvested a wealth of subject matter from the loss of innocence to sitting on the fence too long!! This album also provided Frances Black with a song, which became the title track of her album, Don’t Get Me Wrong’ during her brief departure from the folk scene.


Celine’s second album entitled ‘Itch’ is a collection of 10 original songs which take the listener on a complete musical journey that encompasses the highs and lows of love, loss and longing via a collection of catchy choruses and hang-your-shirt-on-them hooks. As well as writing all the tracks, Celine also produced the album.


Celine’s third and latest album, Such A Beautiful Light has been well received by radio listeners and live audiences throughout Ireland. The featured ‘album of the week’ on RTE Radio1, has resulted in extensive airplay for Celine in Ireland and parts of the UK.


Celine’s music can be bought from iTunes.





Ronan Boyle is a Singer/Songwriter from Ireland currently living and playing in Liverpool. He developed a love of music from a very young age being surrounded by a very large musical family and has had a passion for singing all his life.He writes catchy pop songs in a folk and 70’s rock style, drawing influences from The Faces, Ryan Adams, Neil Young, Ray Lamontagne and many others, and has lived all over England for the last few years collaborating with many musicians, playing countless venues and forming his unique sound and emotive singing style.


Ronan released an EP in Ireland and on iTunes in the summer of 2009 under the name of Blind Dog Moon which was received with much acclaim.In Liverpool he has formed a band of top quality musicians from all over England and Norway. The band have been playing together since late 2009 and have been writing together to create a sound unique to them pulling in many more influences from Mark Knopfler to Van Morrison and developing into a fully formed unit playing to rave reviews all over Liverpool.


The band has released 4 limited edition EP’s this year under the name Foothills, all recorded at Parr St Studios, and worked with producer Stuart Kershaw of OMD and Atomic Kitten fame. They are currently spending the summer writing and rehearsing new material in preparation for a Norwegian tour in September and building up material for their first album.


You can check out Ronan and the Band’s music at the links above where you will see videos of live performances and details of upcoming shows.You can buy the Blind Dog Moon EP from iTunes. The EP When the Devil is Blind is currently on sale and can be purchased by contacting Ronan through his myspace page.





Gary Maginnis 
Gary Maginnis is a multi instrumentalist originally from a small village in the middle of the Mourne mountains in Northern Ireland. Blending his influences such as Guy Clark, John Prine and Fred Eaglesmith with his own style of guitar and banjo picking Gary creates a unique blend of folk and country music all tied together through his Irish tinged vocals.

After playing in various bands throughout Northern Ireland Gary moved to Liverpool to start playing his songs to new audiences across the North West of England. In 2007 his song “light up the night” was listed in the top 50 “songs of our times” on Neil Young’s website. Gary is currently recording his debut album which is due to be completed in early 2011.





Dave O’Grady
Dave O’Grady, a singer/songwriter originally from Ireland, combines blues and folk and makes it his own.

After two French tours with his band Kaya and Captain Temper (where he was also the opening solo act) Dave returned to Liverpool to work on his eagerly anticipated second single. His debut single “Walkin’ Through The Desert” sold in large numbers at his various gigs around Europe, including supporting No.1 selling artist Sandi Thom.



Lizzie Nunnery
Lizzie will be reading from her work as a playwright at the Liverpool Irish Festival on Sunday 17th October in a Bluecoat gig with Joseph O’Connor (details here) and will also be performing her music as part of the Irish Sea Session at The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Friday 22nd October (details here).

Lizzie’s debut album Company of Ghosts [Fellside Records] is available to buy from iTunes, Amazon, and Fellside.



Terry Coyne 
terrycoyne.co.uk

It is hard to believe that Terry Coyne (Flute, vocals), one of Merseyside’s most respected and influential traditional musicians, has never played at St Michael’s Irish Centre. Well, on Sunday 24th October he’ll put that right in the stellar company of Dave Munnelly (Accordion), Philip Massure (Guitar) and Sam Proctor (Violin) – a veritable supergroup of internationally renowned musicians. Full details here


Terry will also be performing as part of the Irish Sea Session at The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Friday 22nd October (details here).



Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #34 – October 2010

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