ARTIST: The High Kings
TITLE: The High Kings
LABEL: EMI
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 184kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-02-26
RIP DATE: 2008-02-19
Track List
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1. Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore 3:39
2. Will Ye Go Lassie, Go? 4:04
3. Galway to Graceland 2:53
4. The Black Velvet Band 4:33
5. The Rocky Road to Dublin 3:16
6. Marie's Wedding 3:46
7. Fields of Glory 4:03
8. Ar Eireann Ni Neosainn Ce Hi 3:46
9. The Little Beggarman 2:54
10. The Beggarman Jig 1:43
11. The Auld Triangle 3:06
12. The Parting Glass 4:13
13. The Wild Rover (Live) 4:07
Release Notes:
I moved from Dublin to Montreal in June 2006, armed with a batch of new songs
that I was just itching to try out. I'd been mainly doing the rounds
acoustically up till then, though, with these new tunes I wanted a full band.
The city of Montreal has such a great buzz in summertime, and I was looking
forward to the prospect of hooking up with some local heads to play with, but,
in the meantime, there was a more important event already underway in Germany,
the FIFA WORLD CUP. So, within a week of my arrival, I got my priorities right,
and headed downtown to Hurleys Irish Bar on Crescent st. to watch a couple of
games on the telly. There I was, pint in hand, happy as a pig in shite, when in
walked Shayne (a local lad). We got talking, the topic soon turned to music, and
hey presto! the bandwagon started to roll. We arranged a rehearsal (after the
world cup of course) and in no time had half a dozen songs ready, well, ready
enough to try out a drummer. I'll always have a little chuckle to myself when I
remember our first audition for sticks. The guy was very talented, but his main
bag was prog-rock. At the end of our jam, he said that he liked the songs, but
ultimately, they were too short... What can I say... I started thinking maybe I
was in for a long haul trying to find a drummer, but a few weeks later, as luck
would have it, next up was Nigel, who hails from Sussex, England, and he was on
the nose from the off. Rehersals started proper, late November, and backing
tracks were recorded in the basement of Nigels house at the beginning of March
'07. So began THE HIGH KINGS... JOE O'CONNOR