Mick Brady: News

New album of humorous songs to be released in August 2010.   This album contains seven new songs by Mick and three co-writes; two with Jeff Mondak and one with Richie Maguire.   Paul Lynch is on keyboards and Ken Damkier and Gerry Crowe make guest appearances on lead guitar.  Richie Maguire sings lead vocal and plays guitar on his co-write.

One of my songs, "You Gotta Know When To Run", has reached the final of The Glinsk Song Contest.  The final is on 4th July.

 

The members and staff of the International Songwriters Association have chosen "Happy That He's Made It This Far" as one of its "Classic Songwriting CDs" representing "the finest songwriting of the moment".  

 

 

The album will appear on the ISA website on a rotation basis, beginning on Saturday afternoon May 1st.  To check out the ISA website click here.

 

 

Tomm Dowling on KCLRFM loves the new album and is featuring it on his show.  Tomm's show runs Monday to Thursday from 7pm to 9pm.  To tune in to KCLR click here. 

On April 8th he gave the album a fantastic review and played three tracks.  Tomm continues to play a track or two every night on his show.

 

 

 

This is Mick's second album of original songs. The ten songs on this album were written over a period of three weeks on a journey through the deserts of Arizona and California out to the beaches of the Pacific coast ....'on the road between the desert and the deep blue sea'.

 

Richie Maguire and Mick have written and recorded a song about the infamous handball incident. You can view this on YouTube by clicking on the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4W5A9UXWK4



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Mick has become a member of the Songramp Online Songwriting Community and has posted demos of a number of new songs on the site.


You can hear these, read the lyrics and read the comments of fellow songwriters by clicking on the link below:


http://www.songramp.com/homepage.php?userid=27822


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Mick was interviewed by Fiona Tyrell and photographed by Frank Miller for a feature published in The Irish Times today.




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Mick was interviewed by Tomm Dowling on the "Afternoon Live" show on KCLR96FM today. KCLR covers counties Kilkenny and Carlow. Tomm questioned Mick about the background to "Ancient Feelings" and "In The Name Of The Faith" and played both tracks.



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The title track "The Man Who Invented Swimming" has been playlisted by South East Radio in Wexford. Ger Williams of Clare FM is playing tracks regularly on his daily shows as is Packie Bradley of Highland Radio, Tom Gilmore on Galway Bay FM and Noel Grogan on Midwest Radio.



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The message below was received from the Japanese Radio Station "Gone Fishing For Blue Skies"

Hello Mick,

We've gone fishing for Mick Brady at our program, Gone Fishing for Blue Skies. Your song "Ancient Feelings" is in the program which will be uploaded this upcoming Sunday, for the week of January 6th to 12th.

Gone Fishing for Blue Skies is available at:
http://www.gonefishingforblueskies.com/ Click "Music" on the page top, and you'll be there.

It is an honor to have you on the show.

The music streaming is available 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, so family, friends, and fans can visit and tune in any time. It's a one-hour show.



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Mick took part in a One-Hour-Special on the Artists First Internet Radio station which is located in Ohio. This went out on December 29th and consisted of an interview and tracks from "The Man Who Invented Swimming". The interview has been archived by Artistfirst and is available on their website.

http://66.49.193.35/Music_Special_12-29-07_Mick_Brady.mp3




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Mick was interviewed by Elaine Gillespie on Inishowen Community Radio on Wednesday 12th December. He talked about his connection with Inishowen and the background to the songs on "The Man Who Invented Swimming". The tracks played were "Burning Up Rubber" and "I Hope they're Together Tonight"



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Mick was interviewed on Blackrock College Radio on Tuesday November 20th. Topics covered included growing up in Ringsend, teaching experience, musical influences and plans for the future. Mick chose tracks by Guy Clark and Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez. He also played the Sion Hill Choir's brilliant version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" as well as two tracks of his own - "We Should Have Known Better" and "Burning Up Rubber"



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The official launch of the CD took place on Saturday Nov 17th. Great attendance. Great night. Highlight was video of "Burning Up Rubber"

 

 

 

We made a video of "Burning Up Rubber" for the launch party. Click on the link below to view the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0llqQcNIA




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The International Songwriters Association, which represents members in 66 countries, chose The Man Who Invented Swimming as its New Album Pick for the week beginning Oct 21st.



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