Where has the time gone I’m hearing everyone say. Midsummers Day has been here and gone. What happened?
Wait, don’t answer that. I think we all know. I think we’re just beginning to feel kind of normal, he says having to still wear a mask in Vienna. I think we are all learning to hug and maybe love again. Not from a distance. Not from our windows, smartphones and exclusion zones, but real touchy feely stuff. It is the strange glue we are all made of. That said, if you were one of the discriminated and judged, well I truly am sorry. I have sympathy and understanding; empathy even. Truth is… it’s been shite!
Thankfully though, some of us have been able to travel. Musicians too. I was lucky enough to come through Covid in March, just as I lost all my “St Patrick’s Week” run of shows. Money and music went straight down the swanny.
Funny thing was, I caught my cold in Luxembourg playing at the Zeltik Festival, and always one for a positive outcome, every cloud, as they say, has a silver lining. Having a green pass meant I could fulfil my Spring Tour obligations, and a run of shows that started solo in April in the Austrian Alps, only to finish up in June in dear old Dublin, with my band “The Host”. It was brilliant!
Two great live shows, the tour finished up in Dublin City at The Wellington to a packed sweaty crazy screaming house, and the other a wet and windy YouBloom Festival in the Phoenix Park Dublin.
Both of which were preceded by a day in AP Studios up in the Dublin hills with the Maestro himself, Antimo Kelly Puca, recording three songs live to video. These videos will be coming down the track soon, as will a new release from the brand new album. It’s all on the starting line…
Two great live shows, the tour finished up in Dublin City at The Wellington to a packed sweaty crazy screaming house, and the other a wet and windy YouBloom Festival in the Phoenix Park Dublin. Both of which were preceded by a day in AP Studios up in the Dublin hills with the Maestro himself, Antimo Kelly Puca, recording three songs live to video.
These videos will be coming down the track soon, as will a new release from the brand new album. It’s all on the starting line…
SÓF & THE HOST – LIVE AT AP STUDIOS DUBLIN
Here now in Vienna,
As we are about to go to press for the new album, some stats as the sun sits hard on the new days of its procession.
It’s been a little over eight weeks on the road. Well over 8,000 km’s travelled. Three seas crossed. Sixteen cities covered over eight countries, with nineteen concerts courted in-between — I have no idea how many songs were sung.
Modus Transportus Operandi for the most part was planes, trains and automobiles. Ships, ferries and bikes were also used to good measure.
However you calculate it… it’s been something to write home about. Maybe even a song.
Safe to say though… it’s been a blast and I loved every minute of it! As Covid well and truly stopped our gallop, and put us in the happenny place for a spell, here’s now hoping common sense filters through and prevails… fingers crossed.
And with the disastrous news still coming from the Ukraine, all of this tells us we need to come together more. To communicate. Hang out and share life’s loves and troubles. It makes sense!