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Gerry McGandy

About Me

Born in County Fermanagh, I was given my first guitar when I was 7.I play mandolin, bouzouki, and guitar. Now gigging and recording in England with The Ocrastra, a musicians' collective set up by Seamus Gavin to record the albums Justice & Soul. The core of the live band is myself, mandolin; Seamus, guitar vox and harmonica and his son James on fiddle. We also play with Dominic Henderson on pipes as Preceilidh, doing trad. Irish, bluegrass, country rock and whatever comes into our heads.I play in Colchester with Terry Earl as The Sniffer Dogs and am working on a new project with Wendy Keogh on vocals and guitar My son Jude and I are putting together the website mp3mart.net on which you can hear folk, country, jazz and some stuff which defies categorization.http://mp3mart.nethttp://ezfolk.com/audio/ban ds/556/

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/01/2007
Band Website: facelesspixies.com
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Influences: Andy Irvine, Neil Young, Count Basie, Johnny Cash, Leo McGandy, Hank Williams, Doctor Bob,The Stooges, Seamus Gavin, Brendan Croker, Donal Lunney, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Lao Tzu, Bill W, the moon.
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Record Label: Soul Ceol
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Farmyard Dogs -

http://www.musicxray.net/xrays/2732?preview=trueThe Farmyard Dogs - Rock My Soul Shared via AddThis
Posted by on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT

Scotties & Co

Me and Wendy have been playing a lot with The Scottie Brothers, Peter and Gordon on spoons and washboard; and Tim Wheeler on guitar; rock n roll, bluegrass, country, blues.Good fun.
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:53:00 GMT

New album, free download

We gigged at O'Neills in Colchester last Thursday. These are mp3s of the set,128k/s. Still haven't got sound recording capacity as I would like, but you'll get the gist of it.Phil plays whistle, Chloe...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:53:00 GMT

Check out this event: The Railway Tavern Cider and Perry Festival

Hosted By: Gerry McGandy When: 01 May 2008, 20:00Where: The Railway TavernBrightlingsea, Essex, CO7 0DUColchester, East|64 CO70DUUnited KingdomDescription:Gerry McGandy Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:04:00 GMT

Open Stage @ The Railway

The Faceless Pixies have just hosted  our 5th Open Mic (now Open Stage) at the Railway Tavern, Brightlingsea. Saturday night saw the Tavern full to hear The Faceless Pixies kick off with their o...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:19:00 GMT

St Pats Farewell to an Adder

  The ould saint was stumbling through the bog, When his foot went astray he fell over a log. As consciousness dawned he looked up at the sky And a horrible sight he beheld with his eye; A viper...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:21:00 GMT

The Railway Tavern

Wendy Keogh and myself are hosting an open mic night in the local tavern in Brightlingsea, The Railway. Run by Dave, who has a microbrewey on the premises, The Tavern is famous for his own and guest a...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:14:00 GMT

Long time no blog

Hi y'all. New year, new music. The Faceless Pixies (Wendy & me) are hosting a monthly open mic session @ The Railway Tavern, Brightlingsea. This is a fine old English pub where Dave, the landlord,...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:39:00 GMT

New song

I have just uploaded a take of On Raglan Road by Patrick Kavanagh. Gigging with The Prics all over London all over St Patrick's weekend Then home to concentrate on the new band.
Posted by on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:02:00 GMT

More music

The new band is called Burn. Terry Earl, guitar, vox; Wendy Keogh, guitar, whistle and vox, me mando, guizouki (a 12 string guitar strung as a bouzouki). We are in rehearsal mode at the minute. Precei...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:57:00 GMT