Spring dates continue - and new songs: Check out 'The Road to Fivemiletown'

   

THE Spring dates continue, with Anthony's next solo performance being as part of an In the Round show with Brendan Murphy and Brian Houston at the Burnavon Theatre in Cookstown on Thursday May 24th - call the Burnavon Theatre Box Office on (028) 8676 9949 for details and tickets.  

Check out the SHOWS page for details of the remainder of the spring dates. Plans are also afoot for some In the Round gigs in June with Bap Kennedy and Ben Glover. And there are a clutch of gigs from now to the summer with the Ronnie Greer Blues Band, too, everywhere from Armagh to Portrush.

Anthony is working on some new material, and despite starting the year with plans for a quiet 2012, the new songs are burning a hole in his pocket and he's already maiing plans to be back in the studio this autum. recent reactions have been strong to new songs like 'The Road to Fivemiletown' - see the video above, filmed at No Alibis Bookstore in Belfast by Paul McParland of Mojo Films.

'I have some strong song ideas coming through,' he says. 'Strangely this time it's all lyrics and no tunes yet, but some things are starting to come together and I'm hoping to get some home demos done in the next few months, to sharpen the songs up for recording, maybe later in the year.'

And how does the material sound? 'Strange and stripped,' he says. 'Lyrically darker than ever and musically cut back to the bone, with elements of blues poking through. I'm longing to get the time to sit tight with this music in a room for a few days and beat the songs into shape.

'Either that... or they beat ME into shape.'

 

We'll let you know when the bell rings.