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Emma O’Reilly

About Me

Hi, I'm Emma O'Reilly and you appear to have found my page.
As you can tell, I'm a singer, I write my own music and I've been gigging fairly regularly for the past few years. I play piano, guitar and cello (with varying degrees of success). I also perform regularly with Reuben Teskey. I recorded an E.P. in August 2007 which sold out, but can be obtained, through the miracle of modern technology, if you message me. Finishing up a degree in Music in Trinity, which means I can officially analyse things, talk about the history of western music with some measure of authority and sightread. Awesome.
Plans are in the works to record new material soon. Soon being vague enough to keep all of us happy.
I'm available to gig and I'm based in Dublin. So feel free to message me about that if you like what you hear. And even if you don't (I like gigs).
In another exciting piece of news, my new website is currently under construction, thanks to the lovely gentleman at Semper design. I'll keep you all posted! If you want to check out the "Under Construction" page, go ahead! Knock yourself out at emmaoreilly.ie.
Keep it kuna.
Emma

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/05/2006
Band Website: emmaoreilly.ie
Band Members: Emma O'Reilly
With more than a little help from:
Paddy Dexter
Sean O'Gormon
Reuben Teskey

And sometimes:
Giovanna Baveria
Lorcan Cosgrave
Tadhg Cooke
Sarah Byrne
Aisling Dexter
Influences: Lately I've been listening to Laura Marling, Rufus Wainwright singing Judy Garland, Tadhg Cooke, Say Anything and Timbaland.
Sounds Like:

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Part two: Format meets culture: "A Digital Dilemma".

Hey guys,This is the second part of the essay (see last post if you don't know what's going on!). I might also mention that this was written in January 2009, so all details were correct (to the best o...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:55:00 GMT

Part one: Format meets culture: A "digital dilemma".

Hey there folks!I just thought I'd post up an essay that I did for one of my courses this year - one about the history of Recording, in relation to MP3s. Feel free to comment with anything you disagre...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:01:00 GMT

San Diego...

San Diego?!" Ron Burgundy: Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina. Veronica Corningstone: No, there's no way that's c...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:40:00 GMT

Eating my words...

...they need salt.I have been travelling for about twenty four hours now. And I am very tired.As you might have guessed, recording has come to a halt. My own fault - well, I could blame my english fin...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:42:00 GMT

Recording - about time, eh?

Howdy y'all!I was recording today in Reuben's house on a very lovely piano. I'd forgotten how much work recording is. I mean, it seems like a fairly simple thing to do, record something you're used t...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:12:00 GMT

Oh dear, not much...

EMMA U LAZEE WER IS DA MUSIKĀ It's buried under a pile of secondary reading that I have to do in order to pass my exams!U NEVR DO NETINGĀ I know, it's annoying. But I have no music shaped space. I'll be...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 19:37:00 GMT

Gigs, gigs, gigs!

Hey all,I have three gigs coming up! This wednesday, 12.30pm in the Exam Hall in Trinity College, Trinity Music Society are hosting their annual Piano Marathon which runs from 9am to 9pm. It's going t...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:05:00 GMT

The Rescue - April 25th, 2009

My friend Marianne puts it best:"Invisible Children are a group, founded and run by young people from California, who have been working since 2003 to try and liberate the children of Northern Uganda f...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:30:00 GMT

Wha?

EMMAAAA, YOU'VE BEEN MUSICALLY DORMANT FOR AAAAAGES WTF?!I haven't really though, I promise! I was conducting a choir this term (some of you might have noticed that there was a date for that up on the...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:34:00 GMT

Lyrics: Little Boy Blue

Hey everyone!Here's a song I have performed a grand total of once, at the Aoife Conference last Novemeber. It's continuing in the fairytale vein I started with "The Prince" and continued with "The Spi...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:56:00 GMT