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Con O'Neill's Big Cigar

About Me

We want fame, but fame costs, and right here is where we start paying!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/28/2006
Band Members: Con O'Neill: Vocals, Harmonica, Piano
Joe Green: Guitar
Influences: Stan Laurel, Sonny Boy Williamson (II), Buster Keyton, Hubert Sumlin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Professor Longhair, Eric Morcambe, Big Walter Horton
Record Label: sticky label

My Blog

Sadie Jemmett is the Real Deal.

I first met Sadie Jemmett on a bench in Plaça Reial in Barcelona in early 1992, and this week we did our first gig together, risking 16 years of lost-and-found friendship.I have long since mislaid the...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:17:00 GMT

New trousers, new venues and new friends.

"These are my Rock and Roll jeans, which is ironic because they are so tight that nothing can roll in them; there's barely enough room for anything to rock!"My life is getting slightly cooler at the m...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Zorba’s Theme/Spoonful

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Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:49:00 GMT

Played at Birdland, NYC

Monday 18 August."I arrived in New York 5 hours ago, and tonight I'm playing at Birdland. All I can say is that my career is going a lot better over here than it is in London."Surreal. Improbable. Won...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:52:00 GMT

Sitting in with Zoe Lewis Elastic Band at Duck Creek Tavern, Wellfleet, Cape Cod.

Provincetown Massachusetts is an Orwellian nightmare's Orwellian nightmare: I mean, imagine how Big Brother would feel if all his pictures had been replaced with posters of comic singer-songwriter Zoe...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:17:00 GMT