Audio artist living and working in Limerick.. and loving it.

Nenagh based Martin Ryan (The Freshman) Musical director/Vocalist/Lead guitarist/Drummer/songwriter with "Fresh Pedro Collective", Audio Lover, Radio Head and Educator. 

 twitter @MARTINRYAN7

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Most of what I post here are demos and ideas and not the finished songs , Hope you enjoy. Bat Kinane comes from Ballyknockan, Co. Wicklow Ireland.  In the past 9 years he released eight albums, five with critical acclaimed band Glyder, a solo album, a project album with "Maggie Simpson" and an album with The Whole Hog Band. His music has been played on BBC, RTE and their equivalent stations in Sweden, Germany and Norway as well as rock shows all over the world. A track was played on the legendary “Nights with Alice Cooper" show which was syndicated all over the world. While in Glyder
he toured all over Europe and opened for international acts like Metallica, Slash, Thin Lizzy and many more. Glyder were a well-respected band in the rock scene in UK and Europe and the albums
were released internationally on SPV(Steamhammer) for Europe and USA and JVC Victor for Asia. In 2010 he released a solo album, “A lifetime to Kill" described as "folk prog" by Hot Press magazine. It featured Johnny Cash's bass player Dave Rorick as well as top Irish musicians
Rob Strong and Pat McManus. It got favourable press and some airplay in Ireland on RTE and regional shows. This year he released a country
and Bluegrass album with The Whole Hog Band album called "Ordinary Days". He recorded and produced the album in his own home studio. It
features some of Ireland's finest bluegrass musicians. It received the award of best debut album at the Leinster Entertainment Awards in
April.

Bat has been finalist in many song writing competitions and this year won the Sean McCarthy Ballad writing competition in Listowel, Co.
Kerry

Acoustra are a four-piece group based in Limerick.

With a collective musical experience gained from many years playing covers at home and traveling throughout Europe, Acoustra have started to break new ground with their unique original compositions. These compositions could be loosely categorised as Rock with a Folk/Trad fusion.

Acoustra’s up-tempo recession track “The Way It Used To be” and a dance
beat driven tune, aptly named “Techno Trad”, became fixtures of the RTÉ
Radio one playlist for 4 weeks in the summer of 2011. Acoustra also played
live on Pat Kenny's radio show and several other stations nationwide.

Presently working on a new EP, Acoustra have a repertoire of modern upbeat
songs, bringing a fresh new sound to the Irish music scene.

The band have recently begun a collaboration with an old acquaintance,
Kieran O’Loughlin who recorded and mixed the new EP. Originally from Co
Clare, now living in Sweden, Kieran is himself a well known name on the
European traditional music scene, and is an occasional fifth member of the
band; a power house of a producer musician and singer. He will join them on
stage for any large original performances.

Acoustra are a dedicated hard working band.

In a world of busy family duties and sell-out gigs, Acoustra always ensure they
find time to get together to write, rehearse and come up with new ideas. They work excellently together as a unit. A strength and testament of the band is that all members have been close friends for a long long time before they ever put their heads together as musicians.

Acoustra are Pat Wright (accordion/guitar/vocals), Liam McCarthy (acoustic guitar/bass guitar/banjo/mandolin/whistles/vocals),  Brian Bermingham (drums/percussion/vocals) and Dylan Shine (bass guitar/acoustic guitar/piano/vocals). Not content with the instruments they play, all members can mix it up and play various others such as the mandolin, keyboards and whistles (often doing so while playing live, much to the enjoyment of the audience).

The band have performed worldwide and will continue in 2012 to fill up their touring schedules around Ireland, The Uk and Europe.  They will also continue with their charity work with The Irish Society of Azerbaijan in Ireland.

With excellent songs and wonderful instrumental tunes, Acoustra will no doubt WOW audiences around the world!


Galvatron, intergalactic badboy, purveyor of amen breaks and pure ruffnek Junglist from the West Yorkshire Massive.... (UK) 

Although I mainly play and produce Jungle now a days, I do also stream multi-genre DJ set's over on Twitch every Mon, Wed & Fri at 10am GMT with the occasional pop up and production stream every now and then - https://twitch.tv.galvatron54

For all my merch and some of my digital releases, please hit up my online store and bandcamp at - https://galvatron54.co.uk & https://galvatron.bandcamp.com

Please forward any booking enquiries or promo track's to - galvatron54@gmail.com

Thanks for taking the time to check out my page and I hope you enjoy my music! 
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