Big Tents! We Love ‘Em

Here’s a great shot by our friend Rory Cobbe from the Marquee in Cork…we’re really enjoying these gigs in big tents! Massively looking forward to Galway next weekend with Duke Special and Liam Finn. Tickets available here http://tinyurl.com/3kfkd5q

Velcro w / RTE Orchestra

The lovely lads @ RTE Orchestra sent us  this link to the Velcro performance on Late, Late….

World Cafe / NPR Rebroadcast July 11th

On July 11th NPR in America will Rebroadcast the  live performance we taped on top of the Guinness Storehouse for World Cafe.  Check your local listings for specifics or stream it here:  http://tinyurl.com/3v8y9dd

New Video: 4 Minute Mile

We made a video for “4 Minute Mile” that clocks in at 4 Minutes and 11 seconds.

Many thanks to Jan, Jonathan, Leo & the rest of the crew.

Bring on Cork Marquee!

Thanks to everyone who came out in the US and Canada, it was a special one, and we’ll seeyis again in The Fall!

And thanks for the welcome home in Bundoran on Saturday night!

We’re very much looking forward to The Marquee in Cork this friday. Both times we’ve been before were a joy, and we’re especially looking forward to having Cashier no 9 and James Vincent McMorrow with us

Tickets still available from ticketmaster.ie

Day off in Mount Shasta, CA yesterday…mental hot. Would’ve melted outside so ran in the hotel gym watching Spongebob…look, no legs!

So I almost got to realise my dream of pancakes in Wyoming this morning – we overshot and ended up at Dees Restaurant in Ogden, Utah

We left Denver yesterday for the plains of Wyoming, stopping in Cheyenne for dinner. Proper mammy dinner too. With vegetables and everything…

Sheet lightening against the dying of the light, behind the Rockies in the distance. Many cows. Leather waistcoats for sale in a truck stop, with sewn-in gun holster.

Crossing into Idaho now, this is one magnificent drive

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Decided against going shooting some stuff on our day off yesterday in Lincoln Nebraska…went bowling instead. Mark it zero Donny…

Today’s run – across the Mississippi!

Here in Minneapolis, got in from Chicago this morning…too hot and stuffy on the bus. Headache. Ran across the mighty Mississippi by St Anthony’s Falls…the water looked like slate as it fell,  veins of white froth. Round and back through the University campus. Love this part of town, and the most righteous Varsity Theatre. p