25 Dec 08 @ 7:19 pm
size2shoes blog: Happy Yule Dudes ;)

Hello again from Size2shoes. Our wacky and wonderful christmas world is up on us all!

We are printing up 2000 CD’s of Size2shoes debut album in January, so we will need y’all to buy them if we are to achieve the intended goal of platinum sales across many territories. On Christmas day we play tennins with our mum Noirin and our cousins in Glenstal, might go to midnight mass tonight if we dont have too much christmas cake!

We wrapped all our presents in newspaper to save money and the environment!Try it next christmas!

We are gettin good feedback from a little apearance on TG4 about a week ago which was on a show called Imeall, though we havent seen it as we thre out our telly about 2 years ago- Try it next Christmas!

We got our hairs cut yesterday - Try it next Christmas!

Here is a link to a limerick rap/comedy act called the Rubberbandits, tis a tune called ‘Up De Ra’
They are funny dudes, we wish them the best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKXYVTKKiNg

all the best, talk to ya in 2009:)
Moley & Eoiny
s2s

11 Dec 08 @ 1:18 am
Eoin’s Blog: TG4 to Belltable Sessions

So much to blog, so little time.

Just saw our norries on TG4 [that's our Irish language tellybox station, for those of you reading from abroad] recorded live before our gigs in the Ark Kids’ Theatre. And don’t worry if you missed it. You can watch it all again this Sunday at 7pm. That was the first time I saw S2S on the telly, and believe me, it’s like the first time you ever heard your own voice recorded - shocking! But how bad; onward and upward; no publicity’s bad publicity; or all publicity’s good publicity; which is all very well until Moley gets caught doing something lewd in a public toilet with a plain clothes Bean Garda.

And we’ve finally singed off on the artwork for the album! As you can see from the website, our every-ready, multi-talented, sweet-voiced ’sysop’ [that's short for 'system-operator', for those of you unaquainted with geek-speak] Robbi has already mixed in the artwork vibe already. I think it looks peachy :) And also check out http://www.maireadnimhaonaigh.com/ which Robbi just designed aswell for Altan Legend Mairéad. He’s a smooth operator.

And I just learned that it takes up to 5 weeks for an album to get put up on itunes, so it’s a good thing that we had planned not to release it for the Christmas Market - self music publishers be warned.

A couple of amazing little gigs to report on too. Last Sunday night was the last in this year’s series of The Belltable Sessions - myspace.com/thebelltablesessions - brainchild of Jules Holland of the Limerick Music Scene, Nick Carswell - electiverecords.blogspot.com/ - the little legend. His idea for the Sessions are to get four acts each night to do a 25 minute set, but it has to be totally acoustic, as in no mics, no amps, no PA. Just the real thing. It makes such a difference, to sit there and just listen to the pure, live sound. Totally magic. More intense and fine than the best sound system money can buy. And the standard was very high too. Quite nerve-racking to be playing to an audience of such cultivated peers, but I think we pulled it off. Will put a clip of it up on the website for ya.

22 Nov 08 @ 12:09 pm
Size2shoes Blog: Bloggymaloe

Hey peeps,

Had a pretty cheesy weekend down in East Cork at Ballymaloe house. Size2 were rocking out in the second half of one of the professors (our dad’s) gigs which was to officially open a great new theatre that they have opened there called The Grain Store.

Met a great guitar player called Fankie Lane, a real ninja, and we all rocked out on the tune ‘Ghost Riders in the sky’ as the last tune to a capacity 350 people! I know, you had to be there!

Size2shoes are playing in the Ark childrens theatre, again alongside the nutty professor & Mel Mercier next weekend, two matinee shows on saturday and another 2 on Sunday, if your around Dublin this weekend these are really great afternoon gigs to check out. The website is ark.ie/programme/event001.html

Dont know how much the tickets are but they wont be expensive.

We got the cover designed for the album…it looks Wacky and good, which is what we wanted, we didnt want to put our norries on the front of the album like, so we got this cool photo of these baby shoes..which are ridiculously cute!

Hope your weekend was good!
Moley & Eoin
S2S

06 Nov 08 @ 12:08 am
Eoin’s Blog: The Chieftains

Went into see the Chieftains play at the UL Concert Hall on Sunday night.  Last time I saw them I was in the front-row of the Waterfront hall in wee Belfast last year. Paddy Maloney - of the Chieftains - had called me up a couple of weeks before, asking me if I knew of any bodhran players who could sing.  I wracked my brain as fast as I could, a couple came to mind, I told Paddy I’d make a few calls and get right back to him.  There was one bodhran player on the last Beoga album that I had a suspicion might have sang on some of the tracks, so I called my bro to see if he was home to check out on the album sleeve.  “Hey mo, will you run down to the Kitchen and check if the bodhran player on the Beoga CD sings on any of the tracks.  Paddy Malony - of the Chieftains - they’ve played with the Stones you know - and Sting too - is looking for a singing bodhran player” - “Sure thing”- I hear him skipping down the four steps into the Kitchen, lightly swinging open the door, then, he stops.  There’s a pause. - “Wait a minute”, he says.  “I can sing and play bodhran”.  There’s a beat.  Then I realise,  “I call you back in five minutes”, and I hang up the phone.

Fast-forward to the Waterfront Hall, October 2007.  Moleman smiling out from behind his little frame-drum, the very drum whose skin was cut from the carcus of one of goats we used to have in the front-field, Ba and Ma - we were never sure who was who - right there, up on the stage, beside the boys themselves, The Chietains.  Their opening set finishes to the rapturous applause of a sold-out house of 2,000 bums on seats.  Then my little bro steps up to mic for a little solo song.  You could hear the sound of an angel dancing on the head of pin.  Eventually to the finale, where MC Mole accompanies the lads on the mic doing beat-box.  Is this the first time that such stalwarts of Irish Traditional Music have been fused with elements from the hip-hop movement?  You’d have to address that question to Ireland’s foremost and founding member of Irish Hip-hop Musicological Studies.

eos

30 Oct 08 @ 6:19 pm
Eoin’s blog: Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

It’s been awhile. I hope you haven’t thought me rude, it’s just that… I mean, it’s not you, it’s me.

So much has happened that last two weeks. What a blur. We had an amazing showcase at the Cobalt Cafe last Friday week. We met up with Julie Feeney the night before and went over this little Scots Gallic song. She also played us her new album. She recorded all the tracks with the Irish Chamber Orchestra in the rehearsal studios of the thier new building here at University of Limerick by the Shannon banks, but she recorded all the vocals herself and mixed it too. It sounds really really good. I think it’s going to do really well for her. Critics will gush, but more importantly, people will like it. And the gigs will be amazing.

But enough about her; this blog is supposed to be about me; how size2shoes, from humble beginnings, set out, two brothers against the world, to achieve their childhood dream of going multi-platinum in many territories.

We flew out to Ukraine after Dublin to do a couple of gigs with our mum Noirin at a sacred music festival in Kiev. Great town, and we landed on our feet with the people we met over there. It was wonderful, and also always such a privilege to perform with herself. I also got some lyrics for a new song that I finished last night out of the experience. If you don’t know what does check out www.theosony.com also web-mastered by the brilliant Robbiiii who looks after our site.

Then headed out to London town to see a brilliant play by a really good friend of mine. The theatre that commissioned it only has one stipulation - it had to completely in the dark. It was such a freaky experience to be sitting in a room full of people all listening in the dark to real actors! If you ever have the chance to see anything like…

So, just back on Monday, and now we’re off again with Noirin to Waterford tomorrow to do a workshop and a gig on Friday night in the Cathedral there. I think that’s Halloween night? Spooky shit.

Was up till four last working on a new song on the bauld computer. It’s called “(there’s gonna be a) Showdown”; cheesey I know, but you really have to hear it; t’would rock the balls off ya.

The first-draft of the artwork for the album should be with us by the end of this week. It’s all happening.

And you have to check out the review that Barry Egan gave our showcase! It’s unbelievable. He loved it!

Stay good.

eos