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Maeve Kelly

Irish singer-songwriter

About Me

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Welcome to my space on MySpace...

I'm an Dublin born singer-songwriter and self-confessed late-developer, now living in Freiburg, Germany.

After years of hiding behind bands, wishing I was Janis Joplin and trying very hard not to be so damned nice, I've finally made peace with my voice and my undeniably suburban Irish musical roots... Relative Calm is the result. It's my first solo album and I hope someone out there likes it!

Happy listening...

xM

PS: If you'd like to get a copy of the album, it's now available via most online music stores:

iTunes
Napster
Rhapsody
eMusic
Virgin Digital

And if you're in Germany, you can download or order a hard copy of Relative Calm from CoArt

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/4/2006
Band Website: maevekelly.de
Band Members: This is essentially a solo project, but I had lots of help on the new album:

Guitars and sounds
Jens "Big Doc" Lucht, musical partner, surrogate brother, coach and general pain-in-the-ass

Piano & backings
Jan Ullmann, now concentrating on his own band: check out their great sounds at www.wilson-music.de

Bass
Ingo Rau, producer and good mate - but somebody give that man a decent meal...!

Percussion
Mourat Coskun, award winner and all-round good egg

Violin
Catherine Bottomly, close girlfriend and orchestral sex goddess

Viola
Daniela Dieterich, a young lady with balls

Cello
Anne-Katrin Beller, a realy sweetie and a thorough professional

Low whistle and Irish bouzouki
Gerry Murray, an old mate from university with his own successful musical career: www.gerrymurray.com

Extra backings
Sascha Bendicks, find out more about this gorgeous man on www.die-halbe-wahrheit.de
Influences: Carol King, Kate Bush, Simon & Garfunkel, Coldplay, Mary Black, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, Travis, Luka Bloom, Snow Patrol, Suzanne Vega, Tori Amos, Heart, The Eagles...
Sounds Like: “Think Tori Amos with more soul and you’re probably getting the picture. It’s haunting, deep and very passionate...”
Eric Campbell, NewMusicIreland, 2006

“The vocal sometimes calls to mind Kate Bush.”
Thomas Steiner, Badische Zeitung, 2006
Record Label: TruColor Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

K.D. LANG

Wow. I haven't been that moved by a concert since seeing Coldplay live in their Parachute days. I loved K.D.'s "Constant Craving" hit back in the early nineties and have bought a couple of her albums ...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:28:00 PST

FAMILY AND OLD FRIENDS

Heading back to Dublin tomorrow for 10 days. I love living where I live, but every time I go back to Ireland, I'm reminded how important family is, and what "shared history" with old friends really me...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Mon, 12 May 2008 05:14:00 PST

NEW BEGINNINGS

The past 18 months have been - frankly - pretty awful. For the first time in my life, I began having panic attacks (wouldn't wish those on anyone). And just when I thought things couldn't get any wors...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:57:00 PST

FOR A CHANGE

The challenge of change. That's pretty much what life's all about, isn't it? I mean, sometimes the problem is that change is forced upon us. Other times, we have to change something in order to solve ...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:58:00 PST

BEING RIPPED OFF (CHARMINGLY)

I'm in Dublin at the moment with H and the kids. As always, I'm constantly shocked at how expensive everything is here. Particularly when you consider that you're paying top notch prices for - often -...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:46:00 PST

I'M BACK!!!

If you've been visiting my page recently, you've probably noticed that I haven't been around much&In June, I went canoeing with my family in France for a week. Canoeing is great fun (we've done it bef...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:25:00 PST

SO MUCH TO DO, SO LITTLE TIME...

I've been reeeeeeeeeeally busy these past few days. Have hardly had a minute to check my MySpace page and am WAY behind with my messages. Can't help thinking of what most of my teachers used to write ...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Wed, 30 May 2007 04:58:00 PST

MOTHER'S DAY & MADELEINE

I'm sure you've heard the news about the little girl who went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal. The little girl who should have celebrated her fourth birthday yesterday with her...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:10:00 PST

WHAT IS A MYSPACE "FRIEND" ANYWAY?

I read recently that virtual social networks like MySpace simply encourage more superfical contact between a greater number of people. That has to be true, right?Look at the amount of friends register...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Wed, 09 May 2007 03:05:00 PST

MURPHY'S LAW (ALTERNATIVE)

A message from a MySpace friend the other day reminded me about the mad budgie (Wellensittich) I had when I lived in England. Her name was Murphy, and she was a law unto herself. I spotted her in a pe...
Posted by Maeve Kelly on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:30:00 PST