The Message Tapes

Photos: Martin-og Bradley

Invaderband made their first ever appearance, unannounced on Friday night upstairs in Sandinos at the Our Krypton Son album launch party. I played a couple of songs alone on the acoustic and then we did 4 band songs. It was easily my most enjoyable live experience to date, and I’ll be forever grateful to Chris, Rio and Gavin for allowing this pipe-dream to turn into reality. I’m pretty self-critical, but I really think we sounded great.

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There are some basic iPhone videos coming my way, so I’ll get those posted up when I get them. Finally, I need to dispel some rumours regarding me apparently going “double-denim” that night. Relax, I would never do this – and as can be clearly seen in the photos, I am wearing some nice charcoal trousers.

The eponymous debut album from Our Krypton Son is released on 16th November by Smalltown America records. This is a great record.

There is an album launch party in Sandinos in Derry, and I’ll be playing a solo set at it along with Little Bear, Conor Mason & Amo. Entry is free if you buy the album from here.

A piece on the ‘Ghosts From The Basement’ day has appeared on the Spiral Earth website here.

The ‘Ghosts From The Basement’ day was great. I played ‘See How The Time Is Flying’ (Wizz Jones cover) , ‘Lillian, I Love You’ and a solo ‘An Aperture To Myself’. Gareth and Steven backed me as planned, and they were both brilliant. It was amazing to see Dave Evans play live, and The Owl Service too (Steven called me up to sing during their set on ‘Willie O’Winsbury’). Other highlights for me were the Nancy Wallace/Jason Steel set in the evening, and of course headlining Wizz Jones, who also played ‘See How The Time Is Flying’ which gave the day a nice full circle feel. The whole thing was filmed and recorded through the desk, so I look forward to seeing/hearing that.