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Simon Renardson: Songs In The Key Of Life

Simon Renardson: Songs In The Key Of Life

September 22, 2014 at 9:39 am Comments are Disabled

Simon Renardson is a well known gigging bass player in town. Here he picks the music which has soundtracked his life… Burt Ives – Ugly Bug Ball The earliest song I can remember, this was on a Disney cassette that was on constant play any time we went anywhere in […]

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Junior Abdulsalam: Songs In The Key Of Life

Junior Abdulsalam: Songs In The Key Of Life

August 29, 2014 at 8:22 am Comments are Disabled

JUNIOR Abdulsalam is the bass player for local band Sumdaze who recently put out a new single called ‘All Smiles Around the City” Here are some of the songs that shaped his musical upbringing.  Oasis – Some Might Say I was about nine or 10 at the time. Long before […]

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David Henry: Songs In The Key Of Life

David Henry: Songs In The Key Of Life

August 15, 2014 at 9:25 am Comments are Disabled

  DAVID Henry is the drummer for local band Enemy Armada who are currently working on a new studio album. These are some of the tracks that charted Dave’s life… 20th Century Boy – T-Rex You’ve only got to play the opening five seconds to this track to hear why […]

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Denis O’Sullivan: Songs In The Key Of Life

Denis O’Sullivan: Songs In The Key Of Life

August 8, 2014 at 9:21 am Comments are Disabled

One of the Tralee’s most unique voices, Denis O’Sullivan, has chanted down the pubs of Tralee for a few years now, either flying solo or fronting his band Sumdaze, who have just released a new single. Here is a selection of the songs that shaped his musical outlook. Richie Valens […]

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Damian Greer: Songs In The Key Of Life

Damian Greer: Songs In The Key Of Life

August 1, 2014 at 9:51 am Comments are Disabled

Damian Greer is the drummer in Midnite Cafe who next play in The Blasket on August 9. Here he takes us through the music that soundtracked his life… Where it all began… Glen Campbell – ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ I must have been ten or eleven when I was introduced to music […]

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Michal Wagner: Songs In The Key Of Life

Michal Wagner: Songs In The Key Of Life

July 7, 2014 at 9:35 am Comments are Disabled

Click on above ad for more Michal “Wiggles” Wagner is the lead singer of Chapter 2, an acoustic cover band who has been carving out a living for themselves in Tralee pubs for the last two years. Michal and his bandmates all hail from the town of Edenderry, Co. Offaly. […]

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Ross Brassil: Songs In The Key Of Life

Ross Brassil: Songs In The Key Of Life

June 26, 2014 at 9:33 am Comments are Disabled

Click on above ad for more Having played in numerous bands that have rocked the pubs and clubs of Tralee down the years, Ross Brassil is a well known musician in town. Here is a selection of the songs that have shaped him… Pearl Jam – Alive I was fortunate enough […]

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Jay Fitz: Songs In The Key Of Life

Jay Fitz: Songs In The Key Of Life

June 19, 2014 at 9:32 am 1 comment

Click on above ad for more Jay Fitz is an electronic music DJ in Tralee, and plays with the Eclectoballs collective in town and further afield, here’s the music  that shaped his musical upbringing…  Prodigy – Everybody in the Place Since the age of 12 I have been into electronic music […]

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Niall O’Brien: Songs In The Key Of Life

Niall O’Brien: Songs In The Key Of Life

June 10, 2014 at 10:20 am 1 comment

Tralee singer/songwriter Niall O’Brien picks the music which has shaped his musical path… David Gray – White Ladder For me growing up there was never a real montage of music within my family tree but I do remember very vividly the first artist that tattooed a memory in both mind and […]

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Mental Effector: Songs In The Key Of Life

Mental Effector: Songs In The Key Of Life

June 4, 2014 at 10:06 am Comments are Disabled

Mental Effector, AKA Mikey Maguire, is an electronic music producer originally from Ardfert, but now based in Limerick. Here, he tells of the music which has soundtracked his life… Santo & Johnny – Sleepwalk My first music memory is of listening to my parent’s vinyl record of the soundtrack to the […]

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Jason O’Sullivan: Songs In The Key Of Life

Jason O’Sullivan: Songs In The Key Of Life

May 29, 2014 at 9:16 am Comments are Disabled

  From bootlegged tapes out of a suitcase during the festival to being on stage with U2. Well known face on the Tralee music scene, Jason O’Sullivan, tells us his Songs In The Key Of Life…. “I think I will skip most of the eighties considering all that was in my cassette […]

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Like A Fire: Songs In The Key Of Life

Like A Fire: Songs In The Key Of Life

May 15, 2014 at 10:51 am 1 comment

Tralee singer/songwriter, Gary Keane, aka ‘Like A Fire’, picks the soundtrack that shaped his musical outlook… Glenn Miller Band – In The Mood If I had to think of one of my earliest songs in memory,  it would have to be Glenn Miller’s ‘In The Mood’ when I was around nine. […]

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Songs In The Key Of Life: John Buggy

Songs In The Key Of Life: John Buggy

May 9, 2014 at 8:08 am Comments are Disabled

Well-known Tralee Singer/Songwriter, John Buggy, selects the soundtrack to his life… Elton John – Rocket Man No surprises here for anyone that knows me. Sometime back in 1973, I can remember lunchtime in the school canteen…the radio was playing and I heard this song. I was captivated and wanted to […]

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Music: Songs In The Key Of Life – Jah Bass

April 30, 2014 at 7:30 am Comments are Disabled

JAH BASS is a Tralee composer, arranger, bassist and guitarist with Irish Dub Reggae/Jazz group Avatar. Here he picks the music which has shaped his life. “When I was ten or eleven around 1971/72, I remember hearing James Moody playing ‘Phil Up’ from his 1956 album ‘Moody’s Mood For Love’. I […]

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Ian O’Doherty: Songs In The Key Of Life

Ian O’Doherty: Songs In The Key Of Life

April 21, 2014 at 6:17 pm 2 comments

Tralee singer/songwriter, Ian O’Doherty picks the songs and albums that have soundtracked his life 1995 – Who Remembers “Curtained” Hair? Anybody?? The first cassette (google it) I ever bought was ‘Mysterious Girl’ by Peter Andre. The worst possible first purchase ever for a boy who would eventually become a musician. Like, […]

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