Sonny Condell @ The Mint
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The Music Mint began in mid 1984, a small 8-track studio for
bands to record demos. It continued to run it as a demo studio
until 1989, when I teamed up with Ronan Johnston and we
started writing sig. tunes for RTE, Irelands national broadcaster. |
Philip King late one night
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Ronan and I worked together until 1993, clocking up countless opening titles pieces, a few documenraties, an album with Zig and Zag (puppet presenters on RTE, MTV, C4) and the opening for the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest (incorporating Davy Spillane on uillean pipes) |
Our musical directions changed and I went off to pursue TV commercials
and work as a studio producer.
I had been playing with the legendary Galloping Hogans(we were legendary in South Dublin!) and when the band broke up in early 1994, I started working with Paul Brady and in July of that year we began co-producing his album, Spirits Colliding (released Spring1995). The last eight years have been mixture of many things:Writing advertising jingles,writing and producing TV documentary soundtracks and general music ("Legends of the Isles" for TLC, Voyage series ll & lll for Emdee Productions/RTE......and more!).......Creating a soundscape for a museum! ( I'll tell you about that another time.) |
L to R - Leslie Dowdall,Moi, Bonnie Raitt,Paul Brady,Ciaran Tourish, Brian Kennedy and Ian Maidman. |
L to R - Moi, Bonnie Raitt and Paul Brady. |
...Recording with songwriters including Gemma Hayes, Hank Wedel, Becky
Roberts...sound engineering for Kila (Lemonade and Buns 2000), mixing
an album for The Barleyshakes (Gach Ean)... ...Live playing (Guitar,bass and mandolin): Touring with The Barleyshakes, Moya Brennan and the occasional guest appearance with Paul Brady (mandolin) including 5 nights of his MONTH at Vicar St, Dublin in 2001 and the live recording for his TV Show/Album/DVD, "Paul Brady Songbook" August 2002.... Mini tour with Meav and David Agnew in Tokyo, Dec 2003. Since 2001, I have also co-produced 2 albums (The Valley Project, 2001-2002 and Luna Park, 2002 - 2003 with Kila due for release May 2003), written ad. jingles for The Irish Gas Board and The Sunday Tribune (Nat. Newspaper), written a few songs and played in bars with some friends of mine, just to keep up the chops! The beat goes on... |