Home | About | Contact | Lyrics | Tabs | Forum
12-16-2008, 07:48 AM | #31 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: A Kerryman in Cork
Posts: 5,202
|
being interviewed at the moment, a lot of talk about the Petite 9-90 typewriter.
now playing a version of a white Christmas with Donagh.
__________________
I've been waiting my whole life waiting for you |
12-16-2008, 01:34 PM | #32 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Dublin
Posts: 5,809
|
i remember those. i think my sister got one for xmas years and years ago. no coincidence that she turned out to be a journalist. they dont make em like they used to!
__________________
"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic |
12-16-2008, 02:17 PM | #33 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: A Kerryman in Cork
Posts: 5,202
|
What....sisters. journalists or, typewriters?
__________________
I've been waiting my whole life waiting for you |
12-18-2008, 09:59 PM | #34 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: A Kerryman in Cork
Posts: 5,202
|
Lisa appeared last night singing Christmas Past with Mick Flannery for Alison Curtis' Christmas Special show (Today FM) broadcast live from Whelans (?).
__________________
I've been waiting my whole life waiting for you |
12-18-2008, 10:07 PM | #35 |
Eskimo Enigma
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Peoples Republic of Cork
Posts: 7,900
|
She seems like like to keep her media appearances as a surprise?!
__________________
|
12-18-2008, 11:32 PM | #37 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Argentina
Posts: 1,795
|
thanks for the links
__________________
|
12-19-2008, 06:24 AM | #38 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Montpellier France
Posts: 341
|
first videos from her set in seattle are uploaded. more to come i hope this weekd end
lille splishy splashy sea song ocean and a rock |
12-23-2008, 10:27 AM | #39 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 547
|
Even Better Than The Disco Thing
Here you can listen to a 30sec clip of Lisa's version of Diana Ross' Upside Down' from 'Even Better Than The Disco Thing', if you haven't heard the song yet...
__________________
15/3/07: Berlin, Germany 04/7/07: Paris, France 12/10/07:Cardiff, UK Lisa on Oct 3rd 2008!! |
12-29-2008, 11:10 AM | #40 |
Resident Irishman
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: some forest in Ireland
Posts: 757
|
When is it on?
|
12-29-2008, 11:32 AM | #41 |
Eskimo Enigma
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Peoples Republic of Cork
Posts: 7,900
|
If you scan down from that quote you'll see the info. Was on Nov 20 in the US.
__________________
|
12-30-2008, 11:35 PM | #42 |
Resident Irishman
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: some forest in Ireland
Posts: 757
|
I will have to keep an eye out for it. i love it when they play british and especially irish artists on shows like that.
|
01-02-2009, 09:34 PM | #43 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: A Kerryman in Cork
Posts: 5,202
|
with some massive overlooking of copyrights, everyone's favourite (except #Ian#) One Day International have created a list/ mixtape/ Winter Compilation of songs for the festive season (ok I'm a bit late with this one). They suggest and offer Lisa's Teeth and have their own live cover of Joni Mitchell's River (with bells and such)
Quote:
__________________
I've been waiting my whole life waiting for you |
|
01-08-2009, 04:38 PM | #44 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 547
|
There's an artical about Lisa in HotPress Annual 09...She is featured as New artist of the year
__________________
15/3/07: Berlin, Germany 04/7/07: Paris, France 12/10/07:Cardiff, UK Lisa on Oct 3rd 2008!! |
01-09-2009, 12:07 PM | #45 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 547
|
Lovely Una posted a new blog on Lisa's myspace...
Quote:
__________________
15/3/07: Berlin, Germany 04/7/07: Paris, France 12/10/07:Cardiff, UK Lisa on Oct 3rd 2008!! |
|
01-13-2009, 02:09 AM | #46 |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 59
|
Not sure if I was to make a new thread, but this should be here..
Anyone seen the Brothers and Sisters episode last night with Lisa's Pistachio playing in the background? I thought they put it really well with the scene.. When things were getting better between the characters, comes the nice and fresh tune of the piano intro to the song... really nice. |
01-13-2009, 03:02 AM | #47 |
Dandy little dreamer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,244
|
Yep, and they used a fair bit of the song too
|
01-13-2009, 06:56 AM | #48 |
Insane Eskimo
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 6,151
|
cannot find it online is it on youtube???
__________________
I made you laugh, I made you cry, I made you open up your eyes, didn't I? |
01-13-2009, 09:40 AM | #49 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 547
|
Here's and artical from NYDailyNews.com...
Quote:
__________________
15/3/07: Berlin, Germany 04/7/07: Paris, France 12/10/07:Cardiff, UK Lisa on Oct 3rd 2008!! Last edited by RonjaGirl; 01-13-2009 at 09:43 AM. |
|
01-17-2009, 12:24 AM | #50 | |
Resident Irishman
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: some forest in Ireland
Posts: 757
|
Quote:
|
|
01-19-2009, 03:59 AM | #51 |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 59
|
just a short review about sea sew from the SF Chronicle.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...PK8N154CJ6.DTL It's the question that follows Damien Rice everywhere he goes: "Where's Lisa?" On the soul-searching Irish singer's breakthrough 2003 album, "O," and its follow-up, "9," released two years ago, Lisa Hannigan's fragile voice served as the sweet, even-tempered foil to his bitterly tortured wailing. The official reason for the duo's split was that their creative relationship had run its course, but you suspect there was always something deeper at work. Together, each songwriter sounded positively unearthly, their voices and temperaments swirling together in search of emotional catharsis. On the songs he recorded without her, Rice sounds a little more pedestrian. In turn, on her first solo album, Hannigan has lost the drama and despair that made her voice sound like a ray of sunshine cutting through it. In fact, songs such as "Keep It All" and "Lille" are unashamedly pretty, adorned with swooning strings, twinkling glockenspiels and gently plucked acoustic guitars. There are tender choruses and clever lyrics, but the floating tunes are unlikely to connect with the people who came to her looking for the same spellbinding melodies she spun out with Rice. Although, Hannigan does occasionally come close, particularly on the hushed "Splishy Splashy," a song so gorgeous that it should provide her former employer plenty of angst for his next project. |
01-19-2009, 05:22 PM | #52 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 547
|
From lisahannigan.ie
Quote:
__________________
15/3/07: Berlin, Germany 04/7/07: Paris, France 12/10/07:Cardiff, UK Lisa on Oct 3rd 2008!! |
|
01-19-2009, 11:42 PM | #53 |
Dandy little dreamer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,244
|
^ Sigh. I don't think even Lisa could make me tune into that horrible, horrible show.
|
01-20-2009, 12:53 AM | #54 |
The girl from Venezuela
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Madrid
Posts: 2,118
|
^haha me neither! but good for her, she's getting some mainstreem teen play. :P
__________________
"This place is a Gynocracy!" repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern... |
01-21-2009, 08:08 AM | #55 |
Insane Eskimo
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 6,151
|
well at least she gets some tv exposure... weird that Nic Harcout has something to do with 90210
__________________
I made you laugh, I made you cry, I made you open up your eyes, didn't I? |
01-31-2009, 09:30 PM | #56 |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 42
|
new lisa "sea sew" review, Jan 29, 200
from Newstatesman
BACK TO OUR ROOTS David Cheale Lisa Hannigan is one of the innovative artists taking folk music into the 21st century At some tantalisingly unspecified point later this year, Lisa Hannigan's first solo album, Sea Sew, will finally get a UK release - it came out months ago in Ireland, her home turf. Hannigan, a singer and songwriter best known for her vocals on Damien Rice's two albums 0 and 9, is a bright new voice in popular music. Sea Sew is full of memorable melodies and richly textured arrangements, while her singing ranges from pure girlish sweet*ness to something altogether darker. Her performances alongside Rice, both on record and live, won her a considerable fan base: her husky timbre became more than backing vocals, often taking the lead on Rice's controlled explosions of emotion. They were a team from the early days of Rice's career, bumping into each other in a bar in Dublin, where Hannigan, who at school had ambitions to become an opera singer, was studying art history at Trinity College. She told Rice she was a singer, so he went to hear her in a classical music competition and hired her for his band. They lasted seven years together, and then one night a couple of years ago they were about to go on stage in Munich when Rice told her abruptly that he would no longer be needing her services. A businesslike announcement was issued saying that their "professional relationship has run its creative course" - and that was that. Since then, Hannigan has been working on her solo career, and Sea Sew is the result. It's lighter, breezier, more whimsical than her material with Rice, though it does have its melancholy moments. It's an album that has been categorised within the the broad spectrum of music that now goes under the heading of "folk". The instrumentation is almost entirely acoustic - double bass, drums, acoustic guitars, banjo, fiddle, cello, glockenspiel, harmonium - while her voice has a natural, unforced quality. And yet there's almost nothing here, apart from the lilt of her accent, to suggest that she is an Irish folk singer; though there are fiddles and a banjo, this is a million miles from the boisterous revelry of The Dubliners, let alone The Pogues. Nor do her songs fit in with the folk tradition of narrative songwriting, being more personal meditations on love and relationships, with the sea as a recurring theme. So what is it about her music that makes it folk? Chiefly its acoustic nature; the sounds you hear are natural, earthy, genuine - crucial qualities in the world of folk, which values authenticity over artifice. The guitar, the banjo, the strings and the harmonium mesh together in a way that's not folksy, but certainly folky. This hand-crafted flavour extends to the sleeve art, which was knitted and sewn by Hannigan herself. And amid the self-penned tunes, there's a version of "Courting Blues", a song written by the veteran Scottish folkie Bert Jansch, as if to say: this is where I'm coming from. As a folk singer, Hannigan is in good company, because this year folk music is a big sound. This month's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, presented by Mike Harding, a veteran of folk's Seventies boom time, will reward artists singing and playing in a dizzying spectrum of styles. At one end, trad-folk stalwart Chris Wood is nominated for his album Trespasser, on which, as well as lamenting the enclosures of common land and the ruin they caused to agricultural communities, he sings of modern-day rural blights such as 4x4s in the lanes of Gloucestershire. At the other end is Jim Moray, nominated for his Low Culture album, which sees him moving on from the electronic sound of his laptop-folk to a more African-influenced style. Also among the nominees are Eliza Carthy, daughter of old folkies Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson; Carthy, with her bleached-blonde hair and prominent piercings, cuts a distinctive figure in the folk scene, and is nominated for her Dreams of Breathing Underwater album. Meanwhile, the buff and hunky Seth Lakeman, who has helped bring folk music into the mainstream and even on to daytime television, is nominated for the best live act award. Elsewhere, the thriving Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow (which ends 1 February), celebrates music from all shades of the folk-roots spectrum; among the star attractions are Kate Rusby, a key figure in the folk revival, and Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, one of last year's big breakthrough folk acts. Based around two sisters from the north-east of England, Rachel and Becky Unthank, they play a beguiling and often creepy (lots of their songs seem to be about dead babies) mixture of traditional tunes, self-penned songs and striking cover versions. They were nominated last year for the Mercury Prize, and in many ways epitomise the contemporary approach to folk, with their sparse, spacious, eerie arrangements and heavily accented voices. Today's folk scene, then, is a vibrant, shifting thing in which tradition is respected but inno*vation is also admired. The re-emergence of folk perhaps ties in with the boom in live music: people are hungry for real musical experiences, and folk, with its emphasis on authenticity, is about as real as it gets. Such is the proliferation of folk sub-genres that folk is beginning to look like the world of high finance, with its countless derivatives: among the niche scenes are nu-folk, folktronica, neo-folk, folk noir, and freak folk - the latter a mostly North American offshoot practised by neo-hippies such as Devendra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens. In Germany, there's even a folk-metal scene. Lisa Hannigan's style is perhaps best described as "indie folk", and this was borne out by a show I saw her performing at the end of last year at St John's Church in Smith Square, London. The crowd was youngish, metropolitan, well- dressed, the music was strikingly original, and Hannigan, in a sparkly blue dress, sang to us in her wide-ranging voice. Warm, dark, rich and full of unexpected twists and turns: this was folk music for the 21st century. "Sea Sew" is available from Lisa Hannigan's website: http://www.lisahannigan.ie |
02-04-2009, 06:10 AM | #57 | |
Dandy little dreamer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,244
|
An article and snippets from an interview with the San Diego City Beat
Quote:
|
|
02-10-2009, 01:49 PM | #59 |
The girl from Venezuela
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Madrid
Posts: 2,118
|
I don't like Leno but i'll watch it just for Lisa. Awesome she's getting some tv time!!
__________________
"This place is a Gynocracy!" repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern... |
02-12-2009, 02:26 AM | #60 | |
Dandy little dreamer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,244
|
Interesting interview with the San Francisco Examiner
Quote:
|
|
Tags |
covers, lisa, magazine, radio, televison |
|
|