What a fabulous track Niamh and Stephen! So cool to hear music that is meticulously thought out and recorded, with superb vocals and lyrics, but which comes across as totally fresh and new. Look forward to more!

I like your arrangement of the opposites  - this is enchanting!

Minus one and the sun rising
Trying to get a message to you
I wonder do you receive them
Am I getting through to you

I am awoken, I'm seeing all of your symbols
All the signals that you've left for me
So animal, picking up scent,
I can't even articulate what it is I see

And you say "I got you outta this
Now whaddya got for me?
I got you outta this
Now whaddya got whaddya got?"

Drowning in the sun babe, sun babe, and frost
Drowning in the sun babe,
and the sense of something lost
Drowning in the sun babe, sun babe, and frost, 
And you've stopped reading my eyes too 
You've stopped reading my eyes 

Now I've dug up the treasure 
I can take back what's mine 
Give me every music and pleasure 
I am the truest ever lie 

I am awoken, I'm seeing all of your symbols
All the signals that you've left for me
I haven't yet stepped wrong but I keep losing my keys 
Am I losing my way too? 

And you say... (chorus) 

I don't want to do any damage
Not every fire has to ravage
No fuel you burn can keep you at my pace
Just sit back and watch me blaze 

I am awoken... (chorus) 

Now just when I should be mild
I find myself all aflame 
Now I find myself to be wild
Just when I thought that I was tamed.. 

Minus One

Greg Hurley: Lyrics, Composition, Vocals, Slide guitar, Bass guitar, B3, Keys, Drum programming, mix and mastering.

Lyrics
As you walk to the window there’s people passing by
wonder if they’re feeling what your feeling deep inside
There’s something missing I feel like you should know
I had a good friend tell me,  many years ago

You got to move to know what it’s all about
It’s just a matter of time before it all works out.

just a matter of time before it comes your way
not always easy when, just another crowded day
Things start to happen It all falls into place
Now you're on your path to living your life filled with grace.

It’s just a matter of time before it all works out.
It’s just a matter of time feels like a dopamine rush

Dopamine Rush

Coïncé *

This song is all about travelling in your imagination. It's got me playing some sax too...

Ruby Shoes~anna 4.m4a

STANDING ALL ALONE - Mar 2014 / Remixed Mar 2023

The days that go by, I sometimes wonder why,
I didn't take you, and be with you.
You knew my imperfections, all on the wall for examination.
Just to be with you...

So many times I think of that day,
where hurtin's in your eyes, and I can't shake it away.
Somehow I've got to move on, 
I've got to prove to myself, that you're not the only one.

and here I stand all alone, once again.  Once again.
and here I stand all alone, once again...
Firing up the engines, to head out and try again.

I remember that side-long look you'd give me, 
and I'd do whatever I could...
just to be with you...
Endless nights, and candle light,
we're just kissing, being together, and now...

Here I stand all alone, once again.  Once again. 
Here I stand all alone, once again.  
Can you hear me?  I want you to hear me.

There will be a day, after all this misery, 
that I can climb back up, 
and not have to think of you.  
That new girl, she'll take my arm,
and we'll walk the streets; her charm,
I that think this will more than do.

But until then...

Here I stand all alone, once again.  Once again.
Here I stand all alone, once again...

Standing All Alone

After a gorgeous Easter long weekend here, my thoughts have turned to summer. Not quite there yet, but enough warmth to think of gardens, colour and...the arrival of ominous smog and haze of urban centers. I relocated from the urban sprawl of what we called "The Big Smoke" of the Toronto area.  I think, the threat of air pollution, especially in the sweltering heat of summer, always makes me mindful of the thin line and tipping point (1.5 degrees C) of global warming. The summer of 2023 left much of North America reeling from the haze of smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada's north.Wearing masks to protect, not from Covid, from PM (particulate Matter of 2.5 in Ontario! Toronto was the worst for particulate matter in the world in June 2023)
Available for free ($0.00)download - track 10 on the Wigmore Allen Gibbons album - Nothing Special (Left Behind)  - found here : https://www.terrywigmore.com/wigmore-allen-gibbons

Haze
    I love the haze of summer … ah
    1) Short path to the shore
    Secret place, we’ve been before
    A little piece of heaven no one knows
    Quiet time for you and me
    On the beach near to the sea
    A little piece of heaven no one knows
    Ooh – ah…This where the buck stops (x4)
    EVERYBODY’S DREAMING…OF MORE SUNNY DAYS
    BUT CAN’T YOU SEE WE’RE STEAMING …IN THE HAZE?
    2) How long can it last
    Relegated to the past
    Something once forgotten never found
    Just take a little care
    I want to feel it’s always there
    Something once forgotten never found
    Ooh – ah    (x12) 
    (INST)  
    (CHORUS)
    3) Warm days, running dry
    Changing times, a leaden sky
    Is there a piece of heaven no one knows?
    Radiation, in the sand       
    A lasting legend, to our land     
    Is there a piece of heaven no one knows?
    Ha…ya…ya…ze!  (x3)
    (CHORUS)
    I loved the haze of summer …

Wigmore: percussion, synths, production
Allen:       lyrics, vocals, bass, guitars
Gibbons: lyrics, lead vocals
(HRH:       additional lyrics)

Nothing Special

Summer Haze

Recorded a little acoustic into my phone lofi and had great fun blending some orchestration for my wonderful older sister , clan chief and lionhearted ,

Aisling's Theme

In The Pines(Where Did You Sleep Last Night) Performed By Uwe Lauterbach
Traditional American Folk Song Datet Back To At Least The 1870s.
Leadbelly Recordet Serveral Versions In The 1940s.
The Best Known Version Recordet Nirvana On Their MTV Unplugged Performance 1993.

In The Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)

a rough attempt at playing both the acoustic guitar and piano parts on this blues ditty (separately of course). I can't really play guitar, but this happens to be me playing lefty on a righty guitar. Literally the only thing I can play. Loosely based on the song 'Hideaway' by Freddie King, or Irving Spencer, depending on how far back you want to go.

Dedicated to a fellow blues lover.

Mark's Album (post-2020)

Blues for JC (guitar & piano)

Christmas every day

Also i dream of mushrooms...obviously

I Only Dream Of You

I Only Dream Of You (At Christmas)

I was able to repurpose an old song of mine. This group took it and ran! So please as The Cure says “play loud”

Avram 
Words: Tim Avram & Sean Drysdale
Composition: Tim Avram (original) Sean Drysdale (affectionate lover of this song and redone)

Players: 
S. Drysdale: Bass, Rhythm guitar, Vocals
J. Cashman: Drums, Vocals
M. Furlo: 12 String Guitar, Vocals
S. Hughey: Rhyrhm Guitar

Avram

niamhjmckinney@gmail.com 

We now have some of our tracks available to buy on bandcamp 
https://niamhandstephenmckinney.bandcamp.com/

Niamh McKinney is a singer-songwriter from Wicklow. Having kept notebooks of poetry since childhood, she didn't start writing songs until one day in 2015, when songs suddenly started pouring out. Unsure as to the nature of what she had composed during this first creative burst, a form of validation came a month later when she won the Allingham Songwriting Competition with one of the first songs she wrote.
      Poetically rich - both lyrically and melodically - her heart-rending songs draw on stories and life experience, captivating by way of their ethereal sense of urgency and foreboding.
     Niamh writes her songs a capella. Her musical partner and husband Stephen McKinney (who has previously played guitar and synths with prog rock fusion band Leo Drezden) then crafts evocative guitar accompaniment which interweaves seamlessly with the songs, complementing their haunting quality. The two are currently working on producing their debut album.


Minus One

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