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pocket promise

LIMITED EDITION: 'Waving at Strangers' ep out now!

About Me

Irish Quartet playing their chaotic yet melodic version of events... Together 7 years and now living happily out of a bags and in numerous countries/ settlements...
pocket promise have just spent the summer/autumn of 2007 recording and mixing with producer David Odlum, in Black Box Studios in France and in various locations back in Ireland. They are thrilled to finally show some of the fruits of those sessions to you. Some of the tracks will be on rotation on this page in the coming weeks.
pocket promise are proud to announce the arrival of their debut ep entitled 'WAVING AT STRANGERS'. The five track ep is available through all the major download websites and by mail via our myspace site - please click on the link on the other side of the page to make purchase. pocket promise are very excited. come on over and share in the excitement.
In the meantime please check out our new performance on Balcony TV and let us know what you think!
Courtesy of balconytv.com - thanks for having us!
more general pencilled possible certainities to come...
For contact/ more information/ bookings/ etc: [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/7/2005
Band Website: under renovation
Band Members:

Dominic Coyle - guitar, bass, synth, backing vocals

Cormac Fee - vocals, piano, guitar

Joe Laverty - drums, percussion

Ciarán McKenna - bass, guitar, piano, backing vocals
Influences: Frank Zappa, Cable, The Frames, Postal Service, elbow, Radiohead, Kings of Leon, dEUS, Pearl Jam, Pavement, Broken Social Scene, Gomez, Jeff Buckley, Redneck Manifesto, Soulwax, Sparklehorse, Sonic Youth, Aqualung, Noir Desire, Slint, At the Drive-in, Stephen Malkmus&the Jicks, Death Cab for Cutie, The Beatles, Prince, Sufjan Stevens, Ben Folds, Mogwai, Rufus Wainwright, Django Reinhardt, Duke Special, Dave Brubeck, Les Rythmes Digitales, Led Zepplin, Jose Gonzalez, Scott Matthews, The Mystery Jets, The Mars Volta, John Martyn, Thomas Truax, Pilotlight, Ideamotion, ....etc etc
Sounds Like: LIMITED EDITION digipak: 'Waving at Strangers' ep now available.

Why not buy it and tell us what we sound like...

TRACK LISTING:

1. Facing Down

2. Inside Out

3. Something Unreal

4. Solid of Soul

5. Safety in Numbers

DOWNLOAD FROM "i-Tunes" NOW:
Record Label: stop:go music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

pocket promise on i-tunes / radio news / I.M.R.O. Limelight gig etc etc

Greetings Virtual Friends Lots of news in the Camp of Promises....   MYSPACE: Firstly we have hit over 30,000 plays on our myspace profile. Thanks to everyone who comes and listens to our tunes, ...
Posted by pocket promise on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:30:00 PST

waving at strangers press reviews:

Some recent Reviews of 'waving at strangers' e.p.:   >>>>^^^^>>>>^^^^>>>>^^^^>>>>^^^^>>>>^^^^>>>>^^^^>>>>^^^^..: planet sound - Channel 4 Teletext:"A delerious whirl of strings and lo-fi keyboa...
Posted by pocket promise on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:42:00 PST

now you can own us..

..and so finally we have received the packaged copies of our debut ep - 'Waving at Strangers'.. and we are hoping that some of you will want to order one (or two, or seven). It is available through ou...
Posted by pocket promise on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:47:00 PST

RADIO / UK GIGS

Okay - we seem to be getting 'played' and 'playlisted' on some radio stations here and there. Please go along to their websites and either listen in or give them a request for more : ) First up:...
Posted by pocket promise on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:17:00 PST

!!! News, Music, Videos, Tours and more !!!

Hello to everyone that receives and reads this brief newsletter.. NEW MUSIC: First thing is first - we have uploaded three of our new recordings to www.myspace.com/pocketpromise these tracks are: *fac...
Posted by pocket promise on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:53:00 PST

**MORE NEW MUSIC - DEJA VU**

Good afternoon people of myspace! It is again with much pleasure, that we reveal another of our recent recordings via the web. It is now the time for the newly recorded version of "deja vu" to make a...
Posted by pocket promise on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:09:00 PST

2008s new years resolutions.

good morning everyone. So 2008 has started and we thought it was as good a time as any to start ourselves. So the changes are evident - we've dickied up our myspace page (wow i hear you gasp!). We've ...
Posted by pocket promise on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:34:00 PST

Black Box Recording sessions so far......

I suppose you could call it a pictorial blog? - The recording sessions at black box (france), stewartstown and harlockstown so far....
Posted by pocket promise on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:51:00 PST

Balcony TV Appearance - talkovertalking

Hello everyone - just to let you know that our recent appearance on balcony TV performing 'talkovertalking' has been posted on youtube and can be viewed below. The track will be appearing in full on o...
Posted by pocket promise on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:19:00 PST

Summer time and the living is easy...

Hello one and all. We hope we find you in good health; well and smiling!We're currently in the very wonderful Black Box studios in the very beautiful France working hard on recording a bundle of tunef...
Posted by pocket promise on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:32:00 PST