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Jamie Mc Donald

Nobody teaches life anything.....G. G. Marquez

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Born in 1980. I always loved music and it has kept me sane through the insanities and banalities of life as a struggling fighting starving artist. I have travelled throughout Europe and try still to keep my ears open for new music or simply stuff that is new to me. I write daily and sing constantly. Its been a long journey with enough twists to keep Machiavelli guessing but I am still on it and loving it...

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Member Since: 8/18/2005
Band Members: Whoever I meet along the way...life!!
Influences: Everyone I ever played with...its a long list. Also 60s pop, Dylan, Springsteen, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Van Morrison, Ali Farka Toure, Jackson Pollock, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Siegfried Sassoon, falling down, fighting, getting back up again...
Sounds Like: Favourite quote... 'Sounds like Eddie Vedder meets Ben Harper down a dark alley with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a need for reconciliation...'Oh and here's a singing hippo!!
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Record Label: None yet
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Weighing scales, cats and music...

This is a fricking crazy island. Not only is it strange dealing with sunshine and swimming in a warm sea aweek before Christmas but there's more. All over the island as you walk about there are pay we...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:37:00 PST

Ow!!! Probably not for the squeamish

    Ok so here I am sitting in the cafe with my left hand side completely fecked up and my ear now a bit smaller than it had been. Bloody strange and tiresome 2 days. I had a run in wit...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:38:00 PST

And so on...

Just an update. Airshow here in Galway today and am goin out to play after it. Should be good to eat some barbecue food and have a beer or two along with music. I been really busy writing and have st...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:20:00 PST

Aaaagh!! And some other stuff!!

Yeah festival has been blown out of the water for what ever reasons. I am quite upset to say the least, I was really looking forward to seeing all those acts playing in one place. Ah well. It was good...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:56:00 PST

And on it goes...And Happy Birthday Ribbit!!

Been travelling and busking and playing a lot since I been stuck here. Yesterday I busked with JP puppets on Grafton St, ate some cheese from the market, busked a set in Temple Bar by myself, went to ...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:44:00 PST

A small review...The Saturday Sessions, Carlow

This is taken from the review of a gig I did on April 14th in my hometown Carlow... their words, not mine The first act up was a local acoustic Guitarist by the name of Jamie McDonald, and he is not y...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:37:00 PST

The Continuing Island Saga

Still here in Dublin, Ireland waiting to get back to my life...yeah I know that is never the way it happens. 'life is what happens when you are busy making other plans' ...John Lennon said that...'I w...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:05:00 PST

Marooned on a traffic island....

So the majority of the Carneys have departed and I am back in Dublin. I lived here for such a short time but damn there are such strong memories and feelings here. Everywhere I go I meet a person or p...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:16:00 PST

Birthdays, friends, Ireland, monkeys and John Martyn...

So the Carney Brothers went on their first collective voyage to the Mudderland. We flew out from Billund which meant we had far to much time to wait. Bobby and Martin decided to play with wheelchairs ...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:01:00 PST

Plague and The Hitchhikers Guide

On Thursday night last after a gig in Naxos, I took a turn for what can only be called the worst. One minute fine, drinking, playing, buzzing away as you do while part of the music machine that is The...
Posted by Jamie Mc Donald on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:16:00 PST