Alan’s Christmas Sunday Jam December 23rd. 2012 http://musicianstogether.com/video/4GH62NHGU641/8217Copperhead-Road8217-Pat-Murphy-Christmas-Sunday-Jam
Cover versions get a lot of bad press. They provoke the backward-thinking, reactionary and greedy publishers – and artists doing covers often get criticised for lack of originality or artistic integrity. As much as I love hearing new original music, I can also be inspired by good covers. For this reason, I felt motivated to [...]
There is loads of (fairly useless) advice out there on how to become a musical megastar overnight. But the simple fact is, most musicians need a way to pay the bills while they work towards being able to support themselves with their true passion in life. By the time you’ve factored in the cost of [...]
One of the greatest accomplishments a musician makes is the completion of an album. The time, resources, and effort put in to make the recording perfect are usually on a large scale. One of the best ways to launch an album is to do an album launch party. Here, you get to showcase the team [...]
I must admit, I got a huge shock tonight, when I saw two 18 year old entrepreneurs, Ryan Ashmore and Liam Webb, walk away from the Dragon’s Den (‘Shark Tank in the US’) with £50,000 ($75,000). It wasn’t their age, but that their business was a brand new start-up record label, which had recently signed [...]
As a songwriter, having your songs presented to potentially interested parties in the best possible light is absolutely vital. In this article, Roy Cooper shares his first experience of having songs produced by a demo studio in Nashville. Roy is based in London, UK and has over 30 years of songwriting experience. Nashville [...]
Not just the X-Factor, but American Idol, America/Britain’s got Talent – and the rest of their ilk. Are they destroying real, grassroots music? I think so and in this article I’m going to explain why. I feel I should start off with a confession. I watched the first few series of the X-Factor religiously (except [...]
Andrew Aversa (a.k.a. zircon) is an award-winning, covert-ops audio specialist. His Zircon Music headquarters are located on the outskirts of Philadelphia, PA. Andrew’s top-secret blend of cutting-edge electronic-organic sound design, sonorous composition, and ultra-polished production values have yielded dozens of credits in the realm of video games (Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, Super Street Fighter [...]
Each month Ciarán Brennan’s show, “The Music Ladder” features a small selection of Musicians Together members. The show is designed to pick out artists or bands in the early stages of their musical journey and showcase their talent and potential. In this, accompanying article, Ciarán gives us a bit more information about the featured artists [...]
A Foreword by the Editor (His Disinterestedness, Duke Whatever) It’s that time of the month again folks (sigh), where we fill a bit of space in the magazine with a load of mindless drivel passing off as humour – that’s humor for you Americans – or lolz (sic) for the under 12′s. Please, whatever you [...]
MT Saturdays (1) Darkey Kelly’s
MT Saturdays (1) Darkey Kelly’s May 18th. 2013. Our first Saturday afternoon MT session in Darkey Kelly’s. Music and song by Ciaran Brennan, Brian Aherne, Sean O’Neill and Tony Floyd Kenna. Book reading by Robert Craven. Poetry reading by Daniel Wade. An easy going relaxed vibe contributed to this very successful mixed media presentation. . [...]
UNDER A WESTERN SKY – The Communal Well, reviewed by Robert Craven
UNDER A WESTERN SKY The Communal Well. Reviewed by Robert Craven The Communal Well – Jules Berube (Drums), Guy Cunis (lead and rhythm guitars), Roger Hoeberichts (lead vocals and guitar), Mark Heim (Trumpet, coronet and vocals), Sylvian Herrera (Bass), Greg Kinsey (backing vocals and harmonica) and Casey O’Brien, percussion; hail from Paris. Under a western [...]
CONTEMPLATING THE MUSE – No. 2 – Linda Ibbotson with guest Ryan Cole
CONTEMPLATING THE MUSE – No. 2 – Linda Ibbotson With guest Ryan Cole. . “The idea is to write it so the people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart” Maya Angelou A warm welcome and thank you for joining me. I invite you to pull up a [...]
BANNED FOR LIFE (Paperback) by D. R. Haney, reviewed by Robert Craven
BANNED FOR LIFE (Paperback) by D. R. Haney – reviewed by Robert Craven Just as bebop was the soundtrack to Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg and Neil Cassady, so the sounds of CBGB’s, The Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, The Clash, The Sex Pistols and New York Dolls fuel D.R. Haney’s odyssey `Banned for Life’. [...]
ROBERT CRAVEN – Writer and music reviewer, in his own words.
Robert Craven is an author and music reviewer for Musicians Together Magazine. Robert lives in the seaside town of Rush in County Dublin, Ireland. . I have two novels; ‘Get Lenin’ and the sequel ‘Zinnman’, published by Taylor Street Publishing and which are currently available for Kindle download and paperback on Amazon.com and Amazon UK. [...]
SONGWRITING REFINED – Justin (Oswlek)
Songwriting Refined Justin (Oswlek) Hello everyone, welcome to my initial foray into the writing-about-songwriting realm. This will either be the first of several installments on a series of different subjects, or an experiment gone horribly wrong. Time will tell. I should admit that I have no great qualification for this role. I’m neither an acclaimed [...]
