Draperstown, Review

Here's the extra cool review from the good people at Alternative Ulster from the weekend's musical goodness in The Cellar Bar, Draperstown

http://iheartau.com/2012/02/dead-wing-weekender-pocket-billiards-in-case-of-fire-and-more/

 Captain Kennedy vocalist Ciaran Lavery delivers a first-rate acoustic performance in the Front Bar. With an instantly ineffable quality that can’t be readily reduced to comparison, tracks such as ‘Til’ You’re Leaving’ – written about a lovely girl from Draperstown – and a beautifully-worked cover of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ sees harmonic shifts and delicately distinctive vocals expose unmistakable originality. Lavery is, by some distance, the most accomplished acoustic performer over both days.

Draperstown

Here's a short illustrative piece from the wonderful peeps at AU Magazine on next weekend's weekend in The Cellar Bar, Draperstown 17th Feb

http://iheartau.com/2012/02/in-case-of-fire-pocket-billiards-and-more/

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2012

It's been a quiet few weeks of 2k12..but things are about to pick up double quick time i tells ye!!  After a great end of 2011 with an Irish Tour alongside Aaron Shanley, this years gigs kick off with an appearance at the Lagan Sessions on February 5th.

In the last week I was added to the impressive roster at Public Sector Records..which you can see in full at the site www.public-sector-records.com.  It's class to be sitting alongside other great artists like Malojian and Pat Dam Smyth

It's going to be great to get back on to the stage again after almost two months away, and with some other plans in place for the next few months, including some more live shows around the country and elsewhere, here's hoping this year to be a busy one..

All plans will be unveiled in the next few weeks

:)

Aaron Shanley VS Ciaran Lavery - Tour Day 5 (Junkies)

Our short trip between Dundalk and Dublin was beautiful and pretty to say the least.  We drove to Howth to park the car – the most gorgeous place we’ve probably ever seen.  After hanging around and looking at the boats for a while we took the train into Dublin to get on with it.

We left our shit inside and went out onto the street for a smoke where we watched three junkies doing their thing…two dudes and one girl with chlamydia lips and stitches in their faces.  They approached us and tried to sell us crack…we said we were quite alright and then the girl stole my cigarette out of my mouth.  We lived to tell the tale.

Anyway.  Rua Unplugged upstairs in Anseo was awesome.  A lovely little room.  Niall McGarty and Leanne Harte (with Bob) were amazing.  Such stunning tunes.

We played 100% unplugged which was a real trip & Ciaran busted out his beautiful sweet cover of ‘We Found Love’ (which for the record is the best version ever).  Such a fun night!

A&C x

Aaron Shanley VS Ciaran Lavery - Tour Day 4 (Man & Dog)

Monday morning took us on the curious journey to Dundalk..mostly curious due to my strange knack for getting lost on any road/journey.  After surviving the trip we planned on sourcing out somewhere to rest our travelling bones for the afternoon - many Bukowski discussions later we found ourselves in the Spirit Store ready and primed for the gig.

We were lucky to have RunawayGo for company on stage on the night and the little setting was perfect for their two-part haunting harmonies.  Big thanks to the lads/gal for the scarily good set and banter!

Once again, the whole night was style, and another big thanks to the local bartender for his patience to let us play long into the night...and the local pizzeria for providing us with a first class night-cap that kept us in good stead for our early journey to Dublin the next morn..

A & C

29th November - Rua Unplugged, Dublin

1st December - The Woodville, Lurgan

2nd December - Listening Post, Coleraine

Aaron Shanley VS Ciaran Lavery - Tour Day 3 (love & DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

After simultaneously dreaming about Hell, we woke up, had several cups of coffee and drove to Belfast.  We parked up & everything was cool until we were attacked by ninjas on the short walk to the venue (we won).
Ciaran rearranged the upstairs room of Love & Death with a helping hand from Ben (thanx dude!) & it ended up looking rad like this:

Cedric Has A Name kicked off the night with a sweet set & some seriously cool stories, including my personal favourite about throwing a rock at his friend's head as a kid.

And then that time again - The Hour Of Epic Sadness (Battle Style) busting out tunes old and new.

Big major thanks to Jason, Danny, Jamie, Sir Aaron Rossi, Lyndon, Ben & that memorable white wine.  Oh, & the scary folks at the scary bar where we picked up some beers on the way home. 

A & C x

28th November - Spirit Store, Dundalk

29th November - Rua Unplugged, Dublin

1st December - The Woodville, Lurgan

2nd December - Listening Post, Coleraine

Aaron Shanley VS Ciaran Lavery - Tour Day 2 (Bridget)

Our second night on the road took us to Saintfield, and more namely Saints cafe on Saturday 26th November.  The venue was perfect and small and full of more than pleasant folk to share our songs with. Fountains Fall opened the show for us in a great way (thanks lads) and after stuffing our faces with some otherworldly foods we played a rousing two hour set, belly's full.  We even got to premiere our rendition of Blue Christmas (that we worked out an hour previous in Maghera)...tiz the season I suppose! The higlight of our night was getting to listen to the razor-sharp poetry of Andrew Gibson - funny as hell and educational, the perfect mix. All in all it was a style evening, with some more new friends (Andrew, get that script to the big screen!!!)..we must thank Saints for their bad ass service, hopefully we will be back again sometime soon..until then...

A & C

27th November - Love & Death Inc, Belfast

28th November - Spirit Store, Dundalk

29th November - Rua Unplugged, Dublin

1st December - The Woodville, Lurgan

2nd December - Listening Post, Coleraine