Tag: tiger cooke
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Wax & Seal Studio Diaries I
Somehow, this month, my debut album, Wax & Seal, has turned twelve years old. It’s on the cusp of secondary (high) school. It’s slamming doors. It has an attitude, hormones, and doesn’t take any advice from its long suffering parents. I’ve been digging through the archives here at The Cooke Report and I’ve found some…
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Sold out of Fingertips of the Silversmith
So I’m happy/sad to say that we’ve run out of (undamaged copies of) “Fingertips of the Silversmith”. Thankfully, the album is still available as a download from Bandcamp (https://tigercooke.bandcamp.com/album/fingertips-of-the-silversmith) and the usual online stores. I’ll have download cards (via Bandcamp) ready to sell at shows until I decide whether to get more CDs pressed up,…
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25 Things
I found this hidden on my facebook page, and decided to dust off the cobwebs and repost it here. This was written in January 2009, back in the days when you didn’t have to pay The Facebook Corporation when you wanted to share thoughts online with your friends. It was the result of the only…
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Tadhg to Tiger over on Friendface
Greetings dear readers… This is just a short note to notify of a slight change to our internet presence. Facebook, despite appeals from all quarters, refuses to allow page names to be changed. This means that our Tadhg Cooke page cannot become “Tiger Cooke”. Slightly annoying, and not very consistent – in an age when…
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Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part III
Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. OLOMOUC In the morning we wake, and drive to Wien. Bratislava and Wien are surprisingly close together, so we’ve decided to drop our rental car back to Vienna before hopping on the train to Olomouc, to the…
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Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part II
Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. BRNO Our driving seems to be perpetually punctuating by traffic jams in Praha/Prague. Just before we arrive we get done by the motorway patrol people – I don’t think they’re police, but I’m not sure. (I didn’t…
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Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part I
Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. WIEN We had a welcoming party at Wien Flughafen (Vienna Airport to you and me) and were whisked immediately into the city, swallowed whole by history and architecture. Dave Redmond (double-bass player extraordinaire) and myself were…
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Out Of Reach on The View
We’ve had some nice reviews come in from the Sunday Business Post and some nice words from RTE Radio 1 and Newstalk, as well as the various interviews cropping up around the place. More to come. In other news we performed on The View a few weeks back on RTE television here in Ireland. It’s…
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Chelsea Hotel… Number Three
Last month, we spent a night at The Chelsea Hotel in New York, had some beers and played some music. And of course, we recorded some tunes. Here’s a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel #2”. Hope you enjoy it! Kevin wrote a nice blog about it here : Guggenheim Grotto