Cormac Heron

St Paddy’s Day Celebrations in London 2013

Celebrate the eve of St Patrick’s Day in London with:

* John Devlin & The Revolvers – 11.00pm

* Elvi$ Ca$h & The London Funk – 9.45pm

* Hylands & Heron feat. Ed Bennett – 8.30pm

* Scrambled Yellow Hair – 7.30pm

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Elvi$ Ca$h & The London Funk
Elvi$ Ca$h was born on 29 February 1920, which was a leap year, making him only 23. He is the eldest brother of Johnny Cash but was born outside of wedlock and therefore given away by his father, Ray Cash to Ray’s sister who was coincidentally married to a fellow named Cash (no relation) who lived in Northern Ireland.

Elvi$ is responsible for his own genre of music which he has named as “The Funky Genre” or “The Funky” for short. He has been inspired the likes of James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince and The Bee Gees.

He is indeed the original Elvi$. He had inadvertently spawned many impersonators the world over, including Elvis Presley, Fat Elvis and, more embarrassingly, Elvis Costello.

Elvi$ has not performed in a while but is making his “Comeback” gig in the 12 Bar Club on Saturday 16th March at 9.30pm as part of the Irishnite event.

Hylands & Heron feat. Ed Bennett
Having taken a year off in 2012 Kev Hylands and Cormac Heron are back with a vengeance in the guise of Ed Bennett (the contemporary composer). Expect very wrong arrangements of ever wrong choices of songs.

John Devlin & The Revolvers
These 12 Bar favourites have an all new set. Expect lush harmonies with a backbeat that’d rival The Beach Boys and The Beatles.

Scrambled Yellow Hair 
Built from the bones of Eggtimer myspace.com/eggtimer1 and The Moon Garage Freakbeat 1960s RnB and The Blues Detonators Tom waits meets Howlin Wolf plus a splash of The Doors.

On Bass Dom Garforth The Moon , Eggtimer , On Drums Lex, Guitar Neiloy Mookerjee , Explorers Collective, Public Enterprise , Eggtimer and Mookerjee . Vocals Joe Moon Secret Handshakes, Klaw , Crystal 50, Mother Mercury, Sedge Penn , The Moon , The Blues Detonators, Eggtimer.

Scrambled Yellow Hair has all the finest elements of our group histories. Popular with folk who like their music to have depth political punch and humour.

Expect epic space rock heartbroken blues and Inner city observations plus Irish family catholic emasculation in a funky monkey style.
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Admission: £6

https://www.facebook.com/events/322192111235860/?fref=ts

http://www.12barclub.com/gig_listings.html

• Date: Fri 24 March
• Venue: Oliver’s Jazz Bar, Greenwich London
• Address: Spread Eagle Yard 9 Nevada Street, Greenwich, London SE10 9JL
• Time: 21:30 – 11:30 (3 x 30 min sets)
• Doors open: Doors open at 17:00)
• Entry: £5

An evening of the music of Tom Waits and his co-composing wife Kathleen Brennan spanning the second half of his career ranging from 1980 onwards. A selection of songs shall be all stripped down and played on guitar and piano with vocals from Cormac Heron and Lin Heron.

Today I got a lovely surprise visit from my great friend from Uni, Ed Bennett.

Ed is a composer and gave me a copy of his new CD Dzama Stories featuring sax player Paul Dunmall. Going to have to wait until son and Lin are out before I play it. I insisted Ed sign it. He wrote: “TO CORMAC TURN IT UP TO 11! ED X”

Anyway Ed met my son and son was suitably entertained. He seemed to stare at Ed. I am sure he was sucking the genius out of him.

- “Are you talking to me?”

Son is currently being breastfed on the Thames Clipper. This is his first time on a boat. Also this is the day that he got his first tube ride. The Jubilee Line on a Saturday. And it didn’t even break down!

Out returning gifts that are already too small for growing son. he demanded feeding just at the right time. Comfortable rocking chairs in nursery area of John Lewis.

We are out celebrating the 6th week of our son. They say that at 6 weeks infants sleep through the night so we are looking forward to a good night’s kip tonight.

I bought ItIsWhatever.com back in the day because some arse had squatted on cormacheron.com and I didn’t want to pay through the nose to get it back. So I waited. Eventually cormacheron.com became available and so I claimed it back. Since then I have been using cormacheron.com as a place for information of where to find me and ItIsWhatever.com as my blog. Well until now that is.

I have imported itiswhatever into cormacheron.com/blog and from now I will be blogging in cormacheron.com/blog.

I will still be blogging about work / social media things in brightbeehive.com/blog but this site will be more about what it is that interests me on a personal level.

Our little Irish Dinosaur has been suffering from Tongue Tie and today he got the snip. He’s feeding much better and we hope he will sleep much better too. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you all.