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Choleric Chris Coville

Wein, Weib und Gesang!

About Me


I'm a singer, mainly for Irish music. I started to learn the acoustic guitar when I was 18, bought my first bodhrán in 1990 and took up the bouzouki five years later. I performed solo and also was in various bands before my current singing group Sackville Street and Trad duo Wet Your Whistle . airím and The Kilkenny Band are only a few of the groups I played with in the past. I was forced to write songs by my bandmates of the Psycho-Rockabilly band PITMEN . I got five albums as lead singer, accompanying and backing instrumentalist and co-producer and lotsa other recordings for vinyl stuff and compilations under my belt. Crazy Love Records stock most of the stuff I'm on but you can also order my shite directly if you drop me a line. Since there ain't no "Interests-box" on MySpace music profiles: As most of you might know I like "Married With Children" and "The Nanny". Apart from that "The Simpsons", "Futurama" and "Rocko's Modern Life" are great but I also think "King Of Queens", "Grounded For Life" and "The Adventures Of Pete & Pete" are quite entertaining. When I don't watch American sitcoms or cartoons, I watch "Pastewka", "Stromberg", "Dittsche" or "Ein Herz und eine Seele" or I put on arte. For radio I like WDR5 or sometimes WDR3. I don't go to the cinemas often but "Die Bettwurst", "Johnny Flash", "Up!", "Nosferatu" (both Murnau and Kinski), "Dead Men Don't wear Plaid" and "Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein" are good movies. I like good books but don't have much time to read as many as I'd like to. I guess my favourites include Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Heinz Strunk's "Fleisch ist mein Gemüse". My favourite painters include Caspar David Friedrich, Vince Ray and Carl Barks. I like Loriot, Helge Schneider, Monthy Python and "Herbert Knebels Afentheater". MySpace music profiles need an "Interests"-section! And I love beer; lots of it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/27/2005
Band Website: christian.has-no-homepage.net
Band Members:
Influences: Christy Moore and Hannes Wader
Sounds Like: My friend Gamblin' Queen says, like a blend of Nigel Lewis and Nick Cave. I wonder what my enemies say [ ; )
Record Label: PITMEN: Crazy Love Records, Other: self produced
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Jubilee

I'm celebrating my 17th stage anniversary today. Almost forgot it.
Posted by Choleric Chris Coville on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:34:00 PST

My live set-up

Voice: I use an AKG 3700 of the Tri Power series on a goose neck, planted on an Ultimate Free one hand adjustable stand. I'm sure a SM58 also does it Guitar: Takamine EN20 http://www.easyzik.net...
Posted by Choleric Chris Coville on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:33:00 PST

Fiddler wanted

The fiddler of my Irish/Scottish folk band (www.myspace.com/wetyourwhistle) left the band. If anybody of you is or knows a fiddler who'd like to play with us, please send me a message! Singing vo...
Posted by Choleric Chris Coville on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:54:00 PST

Making cider

Put 22 L of 100 apple juice into a vat, add brewing yeast and some molasses (or syrup from apples or other fruits like agaves or simply sugar water) Let ferment for two weeks at room temperature &nbs...
Posted by Choleric Chris Coville on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:39:00 PST