Anyone who can give me a decent stage to perform on!
Like this one at the Rotterdam Bar....
You can buy a copy of the track 'Let Go' by clicking this link... this counts towards the Irish charts!!
If you live in ROI you can purchase the track by texting....
music 725 to 57501
The following video was taken during the Indie Summer Festival in Carrick on Shannon last summer... it was organised by Johnny from downloadmusic.ie - An excellent job too!!
Here's a place where you'll hear great music featured every Monday night!
...and here's another place where some of the finest music in the world lives....
Thought it was time i got one of those visitor maps again...
Just before the Rotterdam sunday gig we were in the beer garden chillin with Roy Lindsay III (New Orleans harmonica player) When all of a sudden this happened...
www.myspace.com/savetherotterdam
Sea Nomad live at The Strand Bar, Strandhill county Sligo - Saturday 3rd March 2007
Thanks Doug!
American Girl - Ludwig & Julie Mack rehearsal (Tom Petty cover)
This was the day of the Rotterdam gig - we decided to go over a couple of songs... i just switched on the vid on my phone and caught a nice moment with two very lovely friends.
There's only me here..
But I do have a dream band.
Until then i am ably assisted by some fine friends when they are free to do so. Contributors so far have been Ali Mackenzie on bass (The Bush Turkeys, Reeferadio, Jim Armstrong band, Jim Gilchrist.) Ruby Colley on violin (Cava).
I hope to benifit from the input of a number of other wonderfully talented musicians as I move from the EP recordings to commence work on my debut solo album.
Jenny performing fire poi at the Ludwig/Sara Petite gig - Rotterdam Bar 3rd feb 07
Influences
You can buy my music on Broadjam!!
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Here's how we do it in Ireland!
Sounds Like
I sound like Ludwig O'Neill from Belfast in Ireland!
Sometimes, forbidden fruits are the sweetest of them all...
At the tender age of 6, Davy O'Neill wasn't allowed to play with his older brother’s guitar, so he stole moments with it when he could, adding the craft of guitar to his growing passion for the harmonica. He was a natural, always playing by ear - the art came to him with little effort. In earlier times, they'd have said this was a child ‘kissed by the muses’. But Belfast of the early 1970's was a bleak place of constant death and mayhem, and not a place any self-respecting muse would find herself if she could help it.
Daily violence and uncertainty dominated most people's lives back in that bad time. However, the young Davy O'Neill found that he could escape into the music that seemed to be all around him. He buried himself in the soundtrack of the era: Radio Caroline drifting on the waves, the little red transistor radio beneath his sleepy pillow, ebbing and flowing, crackling out Led Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush, Meatloaf, America, Pink Floyd and beyond… this was the only place where he could block out the fear and misery that surrounded him on Belfast’s dark unwelcoming streets. Sometimes it is the desert of the soul that creates the most powerful artist.
So, why the name Ludwig? One evening Davy had the choice of running with his mates in the streets of North Belfast, or working on a song he was writing - he chose the music. Kids being kids taunted him with 'Look!… there goes ‘effin’ Ludwig the composer'.. Adopting that name became a title of honour for the 15-year-old musician - the ultimate two fingers to his tormentors.
Ludwig has played the local music scene for the last 15 years in various bands, with some measure of success, the most notable of these outfits being The Bush Turkeys in the early to mid nineties. However, in recent years, a creative ‘sea change’ had begun to occur. A desire to create a deeper, darker form of music, with all the pain and passion of the true Celtic heart had emerged in the more mature artist. In some ways these new 'dark still water' sounds wouldn't have found a niche in the bands that Ludwig was currently working with; ReefeRadio, a rock/blues outfit and Apartment, a jazz/soul band. Something had to give.
All musicians should evolve as life changes and creates new nuances in their own lives - the evolution of Ludwig was already well under way.
He found that the only course of action was to give in to this new creative impetus and exciting new musical direction - accepting that challenge was always going to be the easy bit. In the last two years the songs have grown and become crafted into a very heady mix of raw emotion and tempered rage against the tribulations and trials that humanity shares, universally. Real songs about real issues that touch us all.
Ludwig’s music is the very heartbeat, the life soundtrack of Belfast, a Belfast changing now too… growing into something fine and new and full of hope. You wont find tales of murder and gunplay in Ludwig’s work, nor will you find anger and aggression – instead you will find a passion for truth and understanding similar to that found in the works of Joyce or Hewitt. Ludwig merges his poetry and ‘warmly intoxicating’ music in a way that pulls at the very souls of his audience on so many different levels.
Just as you turn a corner of North Belfast you find the surprising- the mild mannered clerk with the heart of a poet, the bank worker who creates sculpture, the housewife who creates graceful works of Celtic art, so too, Ludwig’s music is about the unseen, the overlooked - the love, the heartbreak, the pain, and ultimately the redemption of the soul through being true to itself.
This is the new Celtic heartbeat, the music of a city of saltwater and salty tears; of golden hills and grey estates. Relish the most sinister love song in years with the magnificent 'Let Go'… its dark passionate bass line, like a punch-drunk heartbeat; or the delicacy of ‘Sea Nomad’ - surely one of the most summery songs ever written. Then beware your own self-appraisal lurking behind his intimate, impassioned plea as he asks …’How do you feel??’
Already Ludwig’s back catalogue of songs is growing daily and as his writing form becomes more and more prolific, subsequent recordings are more than guaranteed.
A five track EP release is due in summer 2007. Recorded at Bigspace Studio, Newry with producer Declan Legge, Both the EP and the subsequent full 14 track album will feature Ludwig’s most recent work and will be released on Folkwit Records (UK) http://www.myspace.com/folkwit
BR Maguire
Ludwig's Sunday Acoustic Sessions Sessions - solo acoustic set plus the finest guests from Ireland and beyond - Now at White's Tavern, Belfast - Every sunday... FREE ADMISSION!! WITH THE SAME CALIBRE OF GUESTS!!
Here's how we did it at The Rotteram!
Some more pics of the weirdness that is my musical life!
Here are a few videos of the Sunday session at The Rotterdam Bar... Why don't you all take some more and let me have access on Youtube and i'll post them here too!!
I hope you don't have too many nightmares
This is what the Sunday Acoustic Sessions are all about... from L-R: Robin James Hurt, Ludwig, Linda Coogan, Lewis Smith & Jay Anderson (in the dark)... not forgetting Ruth and Richie & Co. on BV's (in the audience) :)
Songs available to buy on Broadjam...
Official online release of Let Go EP
Tracks available
Let Go
How do you feel?
I Believe
Sea Nomad
Rosey Black & Me
Hi Ludwig, thanks for your friend request, had a listen to your material, really enjoyed it, great stuff you have there!! Love 'Let Go'!! Lots of Luck to you in the future, keep in touch, Rebecca
Here's that quote from Malcolm MacClaren I said to you about on the phone( will fire the mag round to you eventually when I get it off J !LOL)
"Music's been taken over. There's little or no magic.Its all commodified. A cellphone company organising an ' underground gig' is supposed to be counter cultural? People in offices manufacture cool- its all corporatised. You couldnt do that back then, it was about individuals.....What I would say is this; the authentic always shines through. Karaoke rebels- which most are now - always end up looking like fools. If yu;re looking for something real,put your money away.The authentic music experience is very rarely for sale.
We're looking forward to seeing you at the festival. Thanks for being a part of it. We'd ask you to bring the weather with you but maybe it would be best left in Belfast:)
The Irish outlaw Reilly Ramones is not rambling along rainy green Irish valleys. This time he troubles the spotless under the hot Mexican sun and drowns Mariachi trumpets in Guinness. Come and listen to the fine crossover of traditional irish tunes, Rock'n Roll and Hip Hop on the new album "Kind Of Green". www.myspace.com/insearchofarose or www.insearchofarose.de
Ludwig me dear hope you well would love to play at your new venue if that be cool by you have a new set up too long story but all is well Cheers Cara x
