A song from 2003 by a band that featured Susan Rowland on lead vocals, Eddie Lee, Delilah Cuddihy, Liam Bradley, Mario Ngoma and Ciaran (Q) Egan, and Padraig Meehan

Walk Up To My Door Demo - No Liberace

Recorded in 1985, produced by Bill Whelan. Mastered by Daire Winston. Originally released on Tara Records on the Hyperspace! mini-album. The song was recently featured in the sets of a number of Cork based house DJ's.

Away With Words__Those Nervous Animals

The title track from the TNA album of 1985. Produced by Bill Whelan.

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This was recorded as a duet between Susan and Barry during the Mission Sessions in Slishwood. It’s a song from the 1990’s, first demoed in 2003. This version has a few arrangement tweaks and a new groove. This mix (demo, unmastered) is by Tom Jamieson. We may do more with this in the future.

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For What the Thunder Said Installation, Tread Softly Festival Sligo 2024

What the Thunder Said

Dorable Prong

This is a song of loss and healing, set in the beautiful seaside village of Strandhill, county Sligo, Ireland. Slide guitar by Gerry Grennan, Strandhill.

The Thunderstorm

My father loved the Grehan Sisters. He loved their singing and thought they were beautiful. He carried me on the bar of his black Raleigh bicycle to the Fleadh in Boyle in the 1960's.
Among many fine music sessions, I heard the Grehans singing the Lakes of Coolfin, and later they chatted to my dad and me. I asked were they sure the boy in the song didn't get rescued. I forget what Francis Grehan said, but my father told me it was a true story about a drowning tragedy and that one had to be careful in lakes like Cavetown, or Corbalagh. He couldn't swim.

I changed the words a bit in places

LAKES OF COOLFIN
Early one morning Willie Leonard arose
And ran to his comrade's bed chambers and roared
"Arise dearest comrades, let nobody know,
It's a fine summer's morning and a bathing we will go!"

To the Lake of Coolfin the comrades soon came
And who should they meet there but the keeper of the game.
"Turn back, Willie Leonard, do not venture in,
There are deep and false waters in the Lake of Coolfin”.

Willie jumped in and he swam the lake ‘round 
'till he came to an island of soft marshy ground
Crying, "Comrades dearest comrades, do not venture in,
For there's false and deep waters in the Lakes of Coolfin"

Later that evening Willie's mother stood there
She was wringing her fingers and tearing out her hair
Saying "woe to the hour young Willie he jumped in 
To the false and deep waters of the Lakes of Coolfin"

Well I saw a fair maid and she stood fast by the shore
And her face it was darkened and her heart it was sore
Singing "woe to the hour young Willie he plunged in
To those deep and dark waters at the Lakes of Coolfin"

Four-and-twenty young men, they were all dressed in white.
Four-and-twenty young maids, all were all dressed in green.
Saying woe to the hour young Willie plunged in
To the false and deep waters of the Lakes of Coolfin


Lakes Of Coolfin

When I was 14 we moved to a 'new' house, which Dad had done up; it was a curious place, an old American-style farmhouse near Croghan which we called 'Dowds'. Big trees loomed over it. Different weeds grew there than at our old thatched house, Finnerans, on the hill. I used to imagine myself a detective, solving cases down the garden, a garden with a smell of cypress, and ground elder and bourtrees and ashes. This song is The Warm Glass. Recorded/Mixed by James Blennerhassett

Bass, cello, James Blennerhasset. Vocals: Yvonne Cunningham.

The Warm Glass (With Yvonne Cunningham and James Blennerhassett)

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I am a songwriter and founder member of the Sligo band Those Nervous Animals. These days I run the Knock Records label. I have been privileged to work with some very fine singers and players across the years.  I love to collaborate and try out fresh ideas.  Bedlam Suitcase was a recent project with Tara Baoth Mooney and Tom Jamieson.  Most recently Tom and I joined with Susan Rowland on the Mrs Shop project, and are currently assembling an album of original songs.

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