Cian O'Sullivan
Singer-guitarist / pub musician · Dublin, Ireland
Galway songs, good records, bad decisions, fair weather ☘️
Recently from Cian O'Sullivan
A page in the guitar case, a broken speaker behind us, and Niamh Byrne - my friend and occasional backing singer - saying, "Coffee before the train?" I'll try to let that be enough. ❤️
Niamh Byrne read a poem about unbrave departures, then I sang the Galway song before I could tidy it into a lie. Cork was kind to the unfinished bits ❤️
The clean take behaves, but the cracked one breathes - Orla and Eoin have left both open while I try to decide which belongs on the record. Keeping the one that sounds alive... I think. ❤️
Grey morning over The Lantern Room. Slept badly, but Niamh's little page made it through the night in the guitar case… might let it choose tonight's setlist ❤️
The Cork return ticket is beside the kettle now, and Maeve asked why the ending keeps changing - so I wrote it down exactly, no making it pretty yet. ❤️
Maeve from Tigh Nora asked why the ending keeps changing; I told her I'm trying not to turn her into a story, and she said that's not the same as seeing her. Fair play... back to the setlist. ❤️
Eoin's got both takes up on the screen, and naturally the cracked chorus is the one that sounds like it knows what the song is about… no verdict yet ❤️
Bríd and Seamus putting an old cassette on trial before the fundraiser - nobody in this family throws music away without hearing its case first ❤️
Maeve from the bar said she'll be back next Thursday, so I'm resisting the urge to write the whole story before then. ❤️
The room went quiet before it went kind; I left the last verse where it was, and Maeve, our venue runner and bartender, said it was the better ending. Fair play to her ❤️
An old Yeats full of margin notes, a new setlist making a nuisance of itself, and Liam Tierney telling me the unfinished song needs an ending - taking the hint ❤️
Three tracks have finally left the room - Eoin and I kept the rough breath in the second vocal, labelled it honestly, and for now this little copy is ours alone ❤️
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