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Fiacre Gaffney and Mark Geary Tell This Week's Story Behind The Song
Fiacre and Mark chose Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles.
Mark Geary & The Strawhall House Band are in the middle of their Autumn Tour. They play The Black Box in Belfast on Sunday 20th October, DeBarra's in Cork on Thursday, October 24th and Cleere's in Kilkenny on Saturday, October 26th. Their single ‘Rosebud' is out now.
Mark Geary rose to prominence playing alongside the likes of Jeff Buckley, Sinead O’Connor and Katell Keineg at the famous Sin é Bar in New York’s East Village. Over the last 20 years Mark has toured all over Europe, the US and Australia, and has shared the stage with performers such as The Swell Season, Glen Hansard, The Frames, Josh Ritter, Bell X1, Coldplay, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders and Joe Strummer.
The Strawhall House Band features Fiacre Gaffney, Jack Maher, Vinny Kilcullen and Mark Penny. The band formed from the long running Monday night session at the iconic Strawberry Hall Pub on the Strawberry Beds Road in Dublin. Alongside original songs from their debut album Six Days in May, released in May 2017 on Plateau Records, the band’s repertoire includes covers by great songwriters such as Lowell George, Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and Guy Clarke.
The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
Mark and Fiacre are both hugely influenced by The Beatles – “fans” doesn’t come close! With the re-release of Abbey Road going straight to number one 50 years after originally being released, they thought it would be timely to have a look at the George Harrison-penned 'Here Comes The Sun' – a song that both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have been quoted as saying in probably one of the best songs on the album.
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By Today FMFiacre and Mark chose Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles.
Mark Geary & The Strawhall House Band are in the middle of their Autumn Tour. They play The Black Box in Belfast on Sunday 20th October, DeBarra's in Cork on Thursday, October 24th and Cleere's in Kilkenny on Saturday, October 26th. Their single ‘Rosebud' is out now.
Mark Geary rose to prominence playing alongside the likes of Jeff Buckley, Sinead O’Connor and Katell Keineg at the famous Sin é Bar in New York’s East Village. Over the last 20 years Mark has toured all over Europe, the US and Australia, and has shared the stage with performers such as The Swell Season, Glen Hansard, The Frames, Josh Ritter, Bell X1, Coldplay, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders and Joe Strummer.
The Strawhall House Band features Fiacre Gaffney, Jack Maher, Vinny Kilcullen and Mark Penny. The band formed from the long running Monday night session at the iconic Strawberry Hall Pub on the Strawberry Beds Road in Dublin. Alongside original songs from their debut album Six Days in May, released in May 2017 on Plateau Records, the band’s repertoire includes covers by great songwriters such as Lowell George, Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and Guy Clarke.
The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
Mark and Fiacre are both hugely influenced by The Beatles – “fans” doesn’t come close! With the re-release of Abbey Road going straight to number one 50 years after originally being released, they thought it would be timely to have a look at the George Harrison-penned 'Here Comes The Sun' – a song that both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have been quoted as saying in probably one of the best songs on the album.