Maria Doyle Kennedy

Greetings Earthlings,Swimmers and Others

Snow, snow , buckets , wheelbarrows, skies full of snow. Ireland is
soooooo over it ( Bah humbug to me) and I feel bad for those who've
been trying to travel through it........but doesn't it look
beautiful....a winter Wonderland
By next year we'll have our shit together in terms of snowploughs and
road-gritting and the like.......we had better, a taxi-man told me
today that it is going to come back every year for the next 10
years......and they always know everything.
We have working like LUNATICS in the studio ever since we came home
from LA. I was very homesick after 4 months there though it was a
great time. I could not wait for some rain, some old friends and a
tuna sandwich from Simon's place.
Back we returned to Pickering Forest where KK ( a slave to the studio,
he has to be surgically removed from it at week's end) had already
completed recording the music for THE STORMS ARE ON THE OCEAN album.
We've since finished all the singing and what-not and it will be
available on I-TUNES on JAN 27th so knock yereselves out!
My favourite song is the title track but they are all beauts I have to
say........old,old songs from the turn of the century . It's different
from Mutter, very old-school and simple but really beautiful.
Let me know what you think and pass the word if you're diggin it.

We went to Maureen O Hara's 90th birthday recently.....yep that
Maureen O Hara, yep she's 90. It was kind of amazing to meet
her.....she has a mad look that goes through you, like she is mining
your soul with her eyes.......hang on, I feel a song coming
on...........


We have almost finished SING too, our album of original songs,90%
there.......end of Jan I would say , a CRACKER! I could not be more
delighted with myself.

I've taken a short break from the studio to film a movie with Glenn
Close(a dote) among other luminaries.it's called Albert Nobbs and is
set in the late 1800's. Back into corsets(instant tiny waist-love
that ) and in very good company......it's a spit and a polish kind of
part for me i.e. tiny, but always good to be surrounded by quality and
I'm enjoying the opportunity of observing great actors do their
thing........

We are making our annual Swiss pilgrimage! Hurray, great gigs
coming....... Jan 6th-9th
And an acoustic show in Odessa club, Dublin Jan 27th to celebrate the
launch of THE STORMS ARE ON THE OCEAN.

KK and I would especially like to thank Annette,Anto, Billie, Erin ,Joe
Strudel and Madeleine for their constant support ........

And Thanks to you folks for all the great messages , I love your crazy
asses .

It's going to be a GREAT year.

Xmdk


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