Sometimes the nicest things that happen to musicians are actually quite random. Like the fact that an Australian radio station has “adopted” one of my songs and has now been playing it on a daily basis (and sometimes more) for three months. Banks Radio Australia has played Listen To the Rain more than 100 times … Read More

Last May, during the first lockdown, the weather was glorious. Each day I’d sit in the garden, enjoying a coffee in the sunshine and listening to the music of the birds as they enjoyed the freedom denied to us. A song emerged, I put it on one of my daily Facebook performances. That led to … Read More

Walk Away is one of my favourite tracks on the new album and it has been a very popular live song since I started performing it in 2018. I’m releasing it as a single on September 28 and I’ve just launched a video to promote it.  You can see the video here. I’m really pleased with the … Read More

Ageing With Attitude is my fifth album and (as you’d expect me to say) my best to date.  In February I reassembled my core crew and got to work in Black Mountain Studios in the Cooley Peninsula where we laid the foundations with drum, bass, guitar and piano tracks (and some unreal harmonies from Thomas … Read More

When COVID-19 shut everything down, including the recording of my album Ageing With Attitude,  only one track was fully complete. Fortunately, Go With You was a song that I had earmarked as a possible single, so I decided that I might as well release it in the hope of picking up some airplay during the lockdown.  That turned out to … Read More

I played my last gig on Tuesday 10 March.  By the following weekend, all music venues were closing.  I also had to abandon work in the studio on my album Ageing With Attitude which was 75% complete. Everything else I was involved in, including the football matches I attend and the social football I play … Read More

Two years ago this week I rocked up to Darkey Kelly’s to try out the Tuesday Singer-Songwriter Night for the first time, on the recommendation of Liam Oragh who told me it would suit my music perfectly. That was one of the best bits of advice I’ve ever received. I soon became part of the furniture … Read More

I really think that Ageing with Attitude is a great title for a column. It runs weekly in the lifestyle supplement of the Examiner, written by Margaret Jennings, and this was what she ran on 28 December. BY day he was working with ministers and dealing with government policy and legislation, but behind closed doors … Read More

The release of Temptation Once Again has led to some nice publicity, some of which homes in on the contrast between my present and former lives. Here’s the Irish Times take on it. It’s spot on, apart from the fact that I never personally emigrated – An Irish Life came mostly from my own experiences, … Read More

In the decades between the Tommy Keyes of the 1970s and the Tommy Keyes of today, I had a long career in a very different field. I kept the details under wraps when I returned to music but now, after three years away from that life, I’m no longer as reticent about revealing the secret. … Read More