Vincent Lynch

Vincent Lynch interview 27th Feb 2011

This week Shane talked to singer songwriter Vincent Lynch from Cork. Vincent arrived for the interview accompanied by Pascale Lutz his bass guitar player and guitarist Hugh Dillon who also works quite a lot with another Cork Legend Mick Flannery. Also in the party was Aisling O Leary from Topline Management who are the management company for Vincent.
Oh, don’t let anyone tell you that there are no earthquakes in Cork! The rebel city’s Vincent Lynch packs a seismic punch with enough magnitude to knock any rock fan off their feet! With fierce guitars and full throttle rhythm, Vincent Lynch is a definite force of nature.

Claire Regan

Claire Regan from Local Group the Birds interview 21st Feb 2011

This week Shane had the pleasure of chatting with local singer songwriter Claire Regan. Currently you can hear The Birds on local CD the Marine Sessions with a recording called Wildflower from The Birds. as Claire herself says this was a great song by All about Eve so we rearranged the guitar added vocals and bass and hey presto our version of this song. I asked Claire to take us back to where it all started

Warren Tivy

Claycastle on top of the Mountain 14th Feb 2011

This week I spoke with Warren Tivy who during the year undertook a charity climb to one of the world’s best known mountains Kilimanjaro in Africa which is 12,000 meters above sea level. Warren musican, producer, sound engineer and owner of Claycastle Studios in Youghal decided to do some work for charity and he was doing work for different  bands and acts who were all raising funds for the Charity Africa Direct so it did this seemed like a good idea at the time.

Mike Hanrahan

Mike Hanrahan interview 7th Feb 2011

Mike Hanrahan would be best known for his work with Irish band Stockton’s Wing, He also spent 10 wonderful years working alongside Legend Ronnie Drew, spent some time as Chairman of IMRO and decided in later years to change career to that of Chef, nothing too strange in that except its a brave man who would decide at the age of 48 to change direction from a very successful career as a songwriter singer guitar player musican.