Dear (sugar-sprinkled, cinnamon, Christmassy) Cookies,
It's been a while since my last mail, so I'll gather together the past few month's happenings in brief for you in a moment, but before that I must tell you about something happening tomorrow in Dublin's fair city...
Tomorrow, Friday 21st December, from 2-5pm, in Marks & Spencer's, Grafton Street, Dublin 2
2FM will be broadcasting Rick O'Shea's radio show featuring performances from ...
Duke Special, Cathy Davey, PJ Gallagher, Neil Delamere, and of course David Geraghty (featuring Clare Finglass & myself). Dave, Clare & myself will be playing at around 4pm (approximately - as always!). Do join us on Grafton Street if you're around, or tune in online -
www.rte.ie/2fm.
I'll leave everything else for the round-up. Thanks a million for all the support, emails, purchases, etc, over the past year. We're itching to get this new album on the road.
Nollaig shona agus Athbhliain Nua daoibh!
(Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all!)
Tadhg
...and so without further ado, here's the round up :
FREE TUNES
To make your festive season complete, there are two FREE tunes that you must get your mittens on :
1. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - featuring three incredibly talented musicians : Cora Venus Lunny on violin, Dave Redmond on double-bass & Colm Quearney on electric guitar. This was recorded before a live audience. Listen carefully for the penny dropping. Literally.
http://www.tadhgcooke.com/ccount/cli...
2. Thank God It's Christmas - This is a cover of a Queen tune that was performed on Monday by David Geraghty, Clare Finglass and myself in Spin FM. The Breakfast Xpress show has been podcasted on iTunes, so just do a wee search for it, and you'll hear the interview and the tune. Enjoy!
LIVE ON THE ORBITAL - NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
You can now listen to some new songs (taken from the Live on the Orbital recordings) on our myspace page. You can buy the whole album (in high quality mp3 format) from our online store now. We're still waiting for the Live on the Orbital film to be completed. Leaves on the line, sheep on the tracks, whatever. You decide. Anyway, in the meantime, the recordings from the show are now for sale in our online shop. Hurrah! The online shop can be found at
www.tadhgcooke.com/shop
So as you can see, we've launched the new Ivy Court Records shop, which now sells CDs AND mp3s. Which reminds me that CDBaby, based in Portland, Oregon, also sells mp3s now in addition to the CD sales that have made its name. You can them here :
www.cdbaby.com/all/tadhgcooke
DEMAND A SHOW!
For those of you who'd like us to play in your area, there's a nice program called Eventful that we've placed on our myspace page. You click on the "demand it!" button, and enter the city/town or hamlet where you'd like us to play. It's an interesting way to keep track of these things. Hopefully it will help us plan our US tour when the new album comes out.
www.eventful.com/tadhgcooke
STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK - TEMPLE STREET HOSPITAL
Dublin's FM104 have released a CD to help raise funds for Temple Street Children's Hospital (Dublin). The album is called : STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK - BEST OF UNCOVERED UNPLUGGED. It's an album of covers performed by artists including Duke Special, The Thrills, Director, Republic of Loose, Alabama 3, Natasha Bedingfield and a whole load of others. Dave Geraghty & myself performed a version of Steve Winwood's "Valerie" for the record. The album is available from : CDWorld.ie.
LINKS TO TIMEWASTING SITES THAT EVERYONE KNOWS AND LOVES
Add TC music to your Facebook page using iLike.
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Tadhg+Cooke/
Join our Facebook Group : Cookie Monsters.
Bebo :
www.bebo.com/cooketadhg.
Myspace :
www.myspace.com/tadhgcooke.
Tadhg Cooke :
www.tadhgcooke.com
Tiger Cooke :
www.tigercooke.com
DAVID GERAGHTY STUFF
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Ain't seen youlive in a while. Have the album wax & seal though which I enjoy listening to.
24 weeks agoHave a listen to Susan Scully's tune on my page and join her band page. It the first one in my bands
Keep up the good work
Hello Tadhg, saw you playing last Friday in Munich supporting Bell X1.
28 weeks agoI really enjoyed the gig! Hope to hear more of your songs soon.
Tanja
Hiya Tadhg! Im very well thanks, and yourself? I see you're off on your travels at the moment, all the very best with it! Hope it goes well. M
29 weeks agoGood thanks Tadhg, hope all is well with you. Good luck tonight!
29 weeks agocaught me on line man. doing my final college projects of the year. seen the pale last week in the bar i work in. got them down for the second time in 6 months delighted. going to see them in the next forthnight in cork. ill be PALE from being indoors listening to them
the new everything will be seriously investigated.
30 weeks agotry and get a gig here man best venue in ireland http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/ u may be interested in the artist in residence part too..
keep on living
K
good to see new gigs man! any cork dates playing? how about supporting the pale in cork sometime
30 weeks agoHiya Tadhg,
43 weeks agoGreat to see you back in Kavanaghs with Eleanor last week.
Still had that song "i got a love who's breaking me in" in my head since the last time.
Didnt have enough on me to get an album, are they on sale in the shops?
oh dear. I hope you aren't really bleeding. I hear putting pressure on it makes it stop. *Squeezes Tadhg...in a health and safety manner*
48 weeks agoum...
happy christmas!
which shop window?!
48 weeks agohowiya good sir
49 weeks agoliking the new one "out of reach" on your myspace!
Fantastic night dude! thank a million for making the long trip down. Locals still talking about it others raging they missed it. John and Mary want you and steve back at your convenience to play for a charity night fundraising for Cancer. Would be a massive session with loads more musicians. Let me know if your interested. Plenty of room at the Inn if you need to stay. Will see if Lorcan want to pop over with the Violin.
54 weeks agoThanks again. I bet the young Coolaboola's will be only too pleased!
All is good with me. Struggling with the ol' 6th year but sure, not long to go now. Coolaboola has been sort of on hold for a while but we have some nice plans, all going well. Will be good to get it back going again 
54 weeks agoVideo sounds luffly - looking forward to seeing that
Great, thanks.
55 weeks agoOh, Happy Halloween
im tryin to introduce it when im on watch...tryin to crack crack the scene out here for ya..TGC has managed it with the lads on the ship so now its your turn!!!non stop playin of it!ah sure you know me...doin my hardest to get a few drinks into me when i can..but being banned from shore leave doesnt help the situation!
55 weeks agohey buddy,hows things?hows all the giggin and stuff goin?what you been at lately?im here in singapore at the min...is a good laugh.but im wrecked...let me know how your gettin on!
60 weeks agoGreat everything.
69 weeks agoSo glad to be part of your fans! I discovered you last year in this small club in Harcourt street, and loved your music and your voice! Now I'm back to France (working in a venue) and I'd love to see you live again. Have you got a kind of tour planned somewhere? I could help you to book some dates in France if you are interested???
71 weeks agoAnyway, can't wait to buy your live album!
c u
Isa
well fella, enjoyed the gig thurs night in the cruiscín, well played
73 weeks agoHey,
74 weeks agoAll makes sense now. God dam hindsight...!
Hope to see you all soon. Say hi to all for me
xx
Hey Belle
74 weeks agoWe met your sister (whose name I can't recall) and Dad just beside Father Matthew Street - you know the wee foot bridge. We were on the way to An Cruiscín Lán for our soundcheck. I had no idea who they were. Dave filled me in afterwards. Then it made more sense. We couldn't chat though 'cause we were already late (or thought we were - turns out we could have chatted, but sure that's hindsight for you). Best of luck with your reintegration! Howdy to Donogh!
Slán
T