July 2008: Spotlight on… Tony Kehoe

SIX YEARS AGO, Tony Kehoe found himself with a little time on his hands and to keep those hands occupied, he started to play the guitar. Having being writing poetry, prose, and short stories since he was a small child he immediately began to write songs. After about six weeks and learning about as many chords, he was out gigging, doing his first performance at Heebeejeebies in Liverpool and from there he hasn’t stopped since.

LIKE MANY PEOPLE, he loves to read, watch movies and listen to music and has yet to find a favourite in any of these genres as he finds it is a constant process (his tastes can change with the turning of the radio dial).

IN CINEMA HE APPRECIATES Ingmar Bergman, Bogart, Cagney, Audrey Hepburn, Sergio Leonne while on the music side of things he enjoys Motown, Zappa, Miles Davies, World Party, Delta Blues and The Kings of Convenience. In literature he considers Captain Corelli’s Mandolin to be a modern day classic whilst loving C G Jung and Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind) amongst many others. He thinks Grayston Ellis is fabulous in modern art and in theatre he admires Stephen Berkoff.

HE WRITES SONGS FROM personal experience, entwined with his love of art and entertainment which is always in a state of constant flux. TONY HAS no formal education to speak of, but has travelled the world applying his trade as a joiner and of late has managed to stay in one place long enough to produce two beautiful daughters one aged five and the other almost one year old. He was born in Liverpool and that is where he now lives.

IN ADDITION TO his MySpace page you can also hear his songs at http://www.aplaceinbetween.com/

ALL OF THE SONG featured on this show can be found on his debut album entitled It’s No Coincidence. If you’d like to buy a copy then drop Tony an email for details. kehoesongs[at]yahoo.co.uk

ALL OF TONY’S SONGS have been co-produced by the multi-talented Paul Robotham at Fynk Studio http://www.fynk.co.uk/

CONTACT Tony Kehoe MySpace myspace.com/kehoesongs Email kehoesongs[at]yahoo.co.uk BUY the CD It’s No Coincidence direct from Tony.

IF YOU GET THE CHANCE, please support your local artists by emailing them, joining their mailing lists, leaving them comments, going to their gigs, and buying their music direct from them where possible.

IF YOU’D LIKE TO SUGGEST a local acoustic musician to be featured on the show then email contact[at]liverpoolacoustic.co.uk or use the ‘contact me’ form on at liverpoolacoustic.co.uk While you’re there check out the diary section for lists of dates, and details of one-off and regular acoustic gigs and events in and around the city of Liverpool.

THE LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC SPOTLIGHT is produced and presented by Graham Holland grahamholland.co.uk on behalf of the Liverpool Acoustic website.

GRAHAM ALSO PRESENTS the It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast itsafrogslife.net/podcast a fortnightly acoustic music show featuring some of the best, podsafe acoustic music from across the whole of the UK

THE THEME MUSIC is King of the Faeries by Andrew Ellis from his cd midnight on the water itsafrogslife.net/andrewellis