Just after Salut! Live had requested a review copy of the Sharon Shannon compilation - The Galway Girl: The Best of Sharon Shannon - and suggested an interview by e-mail, a visit to her own site brought this unwelcome news:... Read more →
As a useful ps to Salut! Live's recent look at the two songs with the same title - The Boys of the Byline Brigade, on the working lives of journalists, and specifically newspaper reporters - my old friend Geoff Lakeman... Read more →
Karine Polwart This Earthly Spell (Hegri) It started as just the name, Karine Polwart, listed among others in Salut! Live's Coming Soon list of items expected to be posted in the near future. From memory, the "others" included Marie Little,... Read more →
Reporters care a great deal about their bylines. This is absurd, since the only people who take notice of them are their mothers, other reporters and people intent on suing them and their publications for some real or imagined slight.... Read more →
Cora Smyth Are We There Yet? (Claddagh) You can just imagine the conversation in the Smyth family household, say 15 years ago. The two sisters, Cora and Breda, are spending altogether too much time practising on their fiddles and whistles,... Read more →
