Danny O' Hanlon - ProfilesArchive

About Me

The 'Wayward Wine' EP is the first collection of music I've recorded that I feel is worthy of inflicting on the world. Having picked up the guitar at age 12, I eagerly 4-tracked my way through my teens and early 20's, recording dozens of albums worth of truly appalling songs. These included Oasis-by-numbers atrocities (complete with sun-shee-ine type lyrics), nasal-voiced Dylan rip-offs and alt.country embarrassments. While I wouldn't be so bold to say that the songs presented here are masterpieces in any way, I'm proud of them and I hope they might worm their way into the regular rotations of some of y'all out there in cyberspace. Much like the uninvited guest at a house-party - the one who nobody knows and everybody is suspicious of, but it transpires that he's a decent old sort who has brought a bottle of JD with him to share and even hangs around the next day to help clean up. Not that I've ever done that, but you get my meaning. I hope y'all like the tunes. I'm not playing around that much at the minute, but should this state of affairs change you will hear about it here first. I'll be adding and subtracting songs from the playlist with seemingly no rhyme or reason, so if you like what you hear there'll probably be some more along shortly. Be excellent to each other.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/05/2007
Influences: My own musical tastes can be pretty narrow. I've never been the kind of person that says I listen to jazz to sound smart and because I'm fairly sure I have a CD-R of 'Kind of Blue' lying around somewhere. Nothing against Miles, you dig, but give me three or four chords and lyrics that are a) about liking girls who don't like you or b) complete gibberish, and I'm happy out. If I were to name-drop influences I would probably make special mention of Oasis, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Beck, Elliott Smith, Eels, the White Stripes, Tom Waits and Frank Black. But I'm not going to do that...
Sounds Like: a mule wrestling an octopus in space.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

'SHIT ON MY MIND' VIDEO

i've posted a little home-made video for the track 'shit on my mind'. i can't figure out how to put in on my profile page so if you go to the video section it'll be there, oddly enough. the song itsel...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:47:00 GMT

EXILE ON SPANISH PARADE

i've just posted up a bunch of tracks that i did as part of a MAMMOTH (by my standards) burst of recording a few days ago. they're all covers and they represent the best of the 23 tracks i did that da...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:55:00 GMT

A TRIO OF NEW RECORDINGS

i just threw up some recordings i've been tinkering with for the past few months. the tunes are called 'brave ya', 'blues in g' and 'in the drought'. piano on 'in the drought' comes to you courtesy of...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 08:27:00 GMT

DESERT ISLAND DISCS

i wasn't able to focus on doing anything productive today, so i threw together my own Desert Island Discs. anyone who reads this should try and write their own. i for one would like to read it. apolog...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:25:00 GMT

NEW-OLD TRACKS! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CONTAIN YOURSELF!

i've just posted some new versions of some old songs i recorded just before christmas. this marks my first even remotely productive act of the new year, and just maybe it'll spur me on to bust out som...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:02:00 GMT

NEW TRACKS!

i’ve just posted some new tracks that were recorded the other day in the depths of a mythical place known to us mortals as Taiquinn. the kind of place where people throw ducks at baloons and not...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:49:00 GMT

china girl

i don't know if anyone out there agrees with me, but iggy pop's version of china girl is FAR superior to bowie's version. the dame is way too wrapped up in his own cool to get stuck into the song the ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:57:00 GMT