by Chris McConaghy | Jan 14, 2017 | Music
One morning I awoke to find I’d transformed into a gigantic animated turtle. I lay in bed, upended on my flat, brown coloured shell – which was two-dimensional and, having presumably been drawn by some celestial cartoonist (one clearly on a budget),...
by Chris McConaghy | Nov 16, 2016 | Music
Day one. I’ve been plucking the nylon strings of my child’s acoustic guitar for several hours. And glaring at a notepad. Its bloody freezing and i’m shivering. Shivering with the starling, shaking with the gorse bush. I’ve come to Creeslough to stay for two nights....
by Chris McConaghy | Feb 2, 2016 | Music
Middletown. That’s where we’d ended up. Middletown. We were on our way to Dublin, Lisa and I, to rendezvous with the lads from PORTS. I’d been asked to support them on two gigs of their Irish tour. The first of which – Whelan’s in Dublin – was mere...
by Chris McConaghy | Aug 20, 2014 | Music
The plane bounced off the Krakow airport runway before landing again and grinded to a definite halt. I pulled my heart out of my mouth and glanced at Ben who grinned cheerfully. The pilot, it seems, had attempted to land two or three times before circling...
by Chris McConaghy | Jan 11, 2014 | Music
The old woman grins inanely at me as the cafe door sallies open of its own accord. I get up, close it and sit back down. I am in a cafe by the beach at Ballycastle, having been summoned here by Tristan Crowe to shoot a music video for my latest single, called ‘Can’t...
by Chris McConaghy | Jul 22, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
“Could ye move the armadillo a bit more to the left?” I am sitting on a chaise longue and this is a sentence I’ve never heard before. Aaron is pounding skins, chandeliers are quivering with the racket and behind me, a stray cat crawls gingerly through an open window....
by Chris McConaghy | Jul 22, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
One of the b-sides on the ‘Gargantuan’ single. Recorded and produced by Chris Cassidy in STA studio’s and performed by me, alone and by myself. Album art: Wrapped in Plastic Photography
by Chris McConaghy | Jul 22, 2013 | Music, Uncategorized
by Chris McConaghy | Apr 24, 2013 | Music
Saturday 20th April 2013. 3 o’clock. I’ve been asked to perform in my local Independent record shop along with a wealth of Derry talent to celebrate ‘Record Store Day’. I’ve only just purchased a new guitar (a lovely Epiphone Wildkat) and i’m keen to give a...
