Glen Hansard Killed

[Colonel Lee Fields]

the horror.... the horror.......




saw kitt at sfsh fest as part of this really good country event they had at cyprus avenue, him and a load of lady singers

he was, by far, the weakest link, voice was totally shot

Was The Big Romance the name of his reasonably successful EP?

You know what I want to know is an alright song.

He's gigging about a long time. Cant imagine hes making much of a living off of it . He'd be of a similar vintage to Hansard.

 

[El Guapo]

He's gigging about a long time. Cant imagine hes making much of a living off of it . He'd be of a similar vintage to Hansard.

Songwriter David Kitt quits Dublin due to high rents

Musician David Kitt has said he is leaving Ireland because of spiraling rent costs and he has also accused Fine Gael of failing his native Dublin and repeating the mistakes of the Celtic Tiger era.

www.rte.ie

 

[Colonel Lee Fields]

Songwriter David Kitt quits Dublin due to high rents

Musician David Kitt has said he is leaving Ireland because of spiraling rent costs and he has also accused Fine Gael of failing his native Dublin and repeating the mistakes of the Celtic Tiger era.

www.rte.ie

Fair play to him for having a go but time to get a real job Dave.

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

There were a rake of other lads around the same era as Kittser, Hansard, Casey, etc. who are now playing back rooms or mostly forgotten to the mists of time.

Every week there seemed to be some other fucker in baggy jeans with the hems all busted to shit because the denim went lower than their Converse All Stars and dragged on the pavement (tune).

Some barely brushed the guitar as they sang, others hammered it but all of them - ALL OF THEM - played a Takamine with a distressed look or hole carefully placed somewhere on it.

Fionn Regan, Iain Archer, Graham Hopkins (AKA Halite - used to be Therapy?/The Frames' drummer), Declan O'Rourke, Ollie Cole etc.

In Cork we had Ronan Leonard, David Nelligan, Andy Wilson and Dylan Fitzgerald.

Thinking on it - there were two or three that came out of that scene with excellent albums - really a cut above;

• Josh Ritter (honorary Irishman) - "Hello Starling"
• Joe Chester - "A Murder Of Crows"
• Ian Whitty (honorary Corkman) - "The Lucky Caller No. 9"

 

[Colonel Lee Fields]

There were a rake of other lads around the same era as Kittser, Hansard, Casey, etc. who are now playing back rooms or mostly forgotten to the mists of time.

Every week there seemed to be some other fucker in baggy jeans with the hems all busted to shit because the denim went lower than their Converse All Stars and dragged on the pavement (tune).

Some barely brushed the guitar as they sang, others hammered it but all of them - ALL OF THEM - played a Takamine with a distressed look or hole carefully placed somewhere on it.

Fionn Regan, Iain Archer, Graham Hopkins (AKA Halite - used to be Therapy?/The Frames' drummer), Declan O'Rourke, Ollie Cole etc.

In Cork we had Ronan Leonard, David Nelligan, Andy Wilson and Dylan Fitzgerald.

Thinking on it - there were two or three that came out of that scene with excellent albums - really a cut above;

• Josh Ritter (honorary Irishman) - "Hello Starling"
• Joe Chester - "A Murder Of Crows"
• Ian Whitty (honorary Corkman) - "The Lucky Caller No. 9"

Id just say they were all shite tbh.

Glen was fortunate his buddy moved into making movies or he would have been an equally anonymous footnote.

 

[El Guapo]

There were a rake of other lads around the same era as Kittser, Hansard, Casey, etc. who are now playing back rooms or mostly forgotten to the mists of time.

Every week there seemed to be some other fucker in baggy jeans with the hems all busted to shit because the denim went lower than their Converse All Stars and dragged on the pavement (tune).

Some barely brushed the guitar as they sang, others hammered it but all of them - ALL OF THEM - played a Takamine with a distressed look or hole carefully placed somewhere on it.

Fionn Regan, Iain Archer, Graham Hopkins (AKA Halite - used to be Therapy?/The Frames' drummer), Declan O'Rourke, Ollie Cole etc.

In Cork we had Ronan Leonard, David Nelligan, Andy Wilson and Dylan Fitzgerald.

Thinking on it - there were two or three that came out of that scene with excellent albums - really a cut above;

• Josh Ritter (honorary Irishman) - "Hello Starling"
• Joe Chester - "A Murder Of Crows"
• Ian Whitty (honorary Corkman) - "The Lucky Caller No. 9"

Ian Whitty is still flaking away.

Recording an EP this summer

You'd admire their stickwithedness

They're sound men

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

Ian Whitty is still flaking away.

Recording an EP this summer

You'd admire their stickwithedness

They're sound men

I know Ian a bit - or rather knew him - I haven't seen him in years. A thoroughly nice fella and an incredible talent.

He should have taken off in a massive way after that "Lucky Caller..." record.

 

[Bunk]

There were a rake of other lads around the same era as Kittser, Hansard, Casey, etc. who are now playing back rooms or mostly forgotten to the mists of time.

Every week there seemed to be some other fucker in baggy jeans with the hems all busted to shit because the denim went lower than their Converse All Stars and dragged on the pavement (tune).

Some barely brushed the guitar as they sang, others hammered it but all of them - ALL OF THEM - played a Takamine with a distressed look or hole carefully placed somewhere on it.

Fionn Regan, Iain Archer, Graham Hopkins (AKA Halite - used to be Therapy?/The Frames' drummer), Declan O'Rourke, Ollie Cole etc.

In Cork we had Ronan Leonard, David Nelligan, Andy Wilson and Dylan Fitzgerald.

Thinking on it - there were two or three that came out of that scene with excellent albums - really a cut above;

• Josh Ritter (honorary Irishman) - "Hello Starling"
• Joe Chester - "A Murder Of Crows"
• Ian Whitty (honorary Corkman) - "The Lucky Caller No. 9"

You'd still see Andy Wilson around the place busking, usually by the Paul Street entrance to the Cornmarket Centre. Moved in a similar circle to him in the 00s, now I move to the other side of the street when I see him. Insufferable gowl.

Nelligan I knew a bit, too. Nice fella, a bit intense, but no badness in him. Haven't heard that name in donkeys years.

 

[Warm Leatherette]

You'd still see Andy Wilson around the place busking, usually by the Paul Street entrance to the Cornmarket Centre. Moved in a similar circle to him in the 00s, now I move to the other side of the street when I see him. Insufferable gowl.

Nelligan I knew a bit, too. Nice fella, a bit intense, but no badness in him. Haven't heard that name in donkeys years.

Is AW the guy with the colour coded bells which he taps with his feet?

 

[Blue Jasmin]

Declan O'Rourke has written 2 historical novels based on the famine, with a 3rd in the works.