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Darren Byrne

About Me

Two albums have managed to be released that I've recorded with songs I've written. 'Entertaining Hans Sachs' and 'Gone John' And another I recorded with Hans de Lind van Wijngaarden, 'We are the Travelling Sardines' - 'Sung From A Can' is as yet unreleased. Unfortunately we are both too caught up and too broke to release itI'M AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST. LONG MAY THEY SURVIVE so IF YOU LIKE THE SONGS YOU HEAR HEAR .... my email is above and below for contactin' me . [email protected] if ever in doubt, turn right.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/27/2006
Band Website: EMAIL [email protected], www.darren-byrne.com
Band Members: ...the names of a few bands I've been in. but not all... The Szcaldy Experiment with Mark Gilligan on Clarinet, Sax, Flutes, Bodhran & wind modulator. The Travelling Sardines with Hans de Lind van Wijngaarden on fiddle & vocals. The Gone Johns with Bernie Klerks on Bass and Juri Rabtsau on Drums. The Back Yard Bards with Hans, Norbert de Jong on Djembe and Robert Klangeman on Didgeridoo and Berimbau. On Hans Sachs besides Hans, Norbert etc... Bobby Brady from Dundee plays fiddle, Guy Roberts Harmonica, washboard, gazoo. Mark Gilligan whistle. I play the pots and pans and paper tearing and all the other strange stuff you hear. On Gone John, Steve Kavanagh plays guitar on Psychoanalyzing and Great Gael, Dave 'Buzz' Hennessy plays guitar on Feel Good, Ulla Lindqvist backing vocals, Tom Somr Sax, Whistle and Clarinette. Paddy Ryan, Spoons.
Influences: Traveling. Languages. Folklore recordings. Ethnic/World music. The Good Soldier Svejk. Jaques Brel. The Bodhran. The Pogues and Shane McGowan. Old Buskers. Fado. Seanachai. Flamenco. Dieing men. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Caetano Veloso. Bob Marley. Dead Can Dance. The Dirty Three. Mark Twain. Lefcadio Hearn. Peku Lehti. Beirut. Gogol Bordello. The Kings Of Leon. Old Irish poetry. Sean O'Faolain. Planxty, J.S Bach. Early British Commonwealth Stamps. Hans Christian Andersen. Travellers. Bruce Chatwin. Beautiful & Inteligent Females. Afridi Black Hash. Amon Tobin. Working Songs and Sea Songs. Ned Kelly. Deus. The smell of Fanny. Tom Waits. Antiques and ancient things. Flan O'Brien. Good food, good wine, good company. Lyon. Rotterdam. Hamburg, Vienna. The Wexford Landscape and the IRISH LAND. Mammy
Sounds Like: Soul. Folk. Punk, Rap. Rock. 'Outside the box' - Hotpress. 'A musical documentary'- New Folk Sounds... Always evolving I hope. You name it?
Record Label: Blagart

My Blog

Camino 1

Anyone who knows me and knows I'm doing this Camino, this is for Youse to see where I am and what I'm doing. The rest of ye? I just don't know? What yez even doing here traipsing around on the intern...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 21:05:00 GMT

Check.... www.myspace.com/sillygoon ...ta da...

 http://www.myspace.com/sillygoon 
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Blogging a blog

I'm not into most of the blogs I've read. Maybe it's just me. Methinks 'tis a bit much and OTT. So I can't say if I'll ever need one. But if you go on to the Wexfordsongclub space you can read what I ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:25:00 GMT

start me up

Hi any interested parties, I'm just gettin' started on this site and doing loadsa other stuff so if your really interested be patient and I'll eventualy get much stuff up here.. who knows sure what I'...
Posted by on Sat, 06 May 2006 20:26:00 GMT