New single 'Restless' out now. One of the sweetest ballads from the swing era, it was a dream to bring this to life again

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Ryan Molloy - Bass
Shugo Ishii - Guitar
Eoghan McCloskey - Drums

Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin
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New single 'Moose The Mooche (You Gotta Whistle Like Bacall)' out now. A vocal take on Charlie Parker's classic, with original lyrics

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Ryan Molloy - Bass
Shugo Ishii - Guitar
Eoghan McCloskey - Drums

Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin
#jazzsky

Next single Moose The Mooche out soon, with original lyrics

This is my fave pic of Bird, with the Buddha-like eyes that Kerouac described, "The expression that says, All is well. This was what Charlie Parker said when he played, All is well"

NY, c.1947

Photo by William Gottlieb

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For #poemsabout #green
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Ella and Dizzy, New York, 1950

Photo by Herman Leonard

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A little offering for today's
#poemsabout #thresholds
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If his prose is as dazzling as his poetry, this will certainly be a work to savour. Peeling Apples, the new novella from Alan Parry, out April 4. Can't wait to delve into this, from one of our most compelling modern voices

bit.ly/3QUbNQl

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'Someday beneath some hard
Capricious star—
Spreading its light a little
Over far,
We'll know you for the woman
That you are... '

Djuna Barnes, From Fifth Avenue Up

#poetry

'... To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear ...'

These are among my lodestar lines at the moment. Shelley, from Prometheus Unbound

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High Rise, a new anthology from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social, out now. Honoured to have a poem in this mesmeric collection

#poetry #brutalistpoetry

www.amazon.co.uk/High-Rise-Brutalist-Thematic-Slimline-Anthologies/dp/B0DX27Y5Y5