Dave absorbed in the moment while playing

The worst gig I ever did (Sorry Mary)

' I was able to get 2 Artist AAA laminates, one extra one for my great friend Liam, who had to go around, also as Dave Hingerty. He was enjoying that I can tell you. Free booze backstage, and hanging out with, and having breakfast and dinner in the same room as, the likes of Lou Reed and Nick Cave, and making up tall stories to people who thought he was me'.

January 23rd, 2023

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Mild depression and a pain in me hole

“This is stuff our dads wouldn’t have talked about.”

January 10th, 2023

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Jamming with Chris Martin!

Happy new year! In 2023, I aim to occasionally recall stories from the vaults including great or strange experiences I had with such luminaries as Trevor Horn, Bobby Womack, Pete Townsend, Steve Albini...and well, in this case below...Chris Martin. 'Clank'!

December 27th, 2022

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Hairy (and hair raising!) football stories

Someone on the coach noticed I had 25 spare tickets to the World Cup quarter final 1990 that the travel company asked me to tout outside the Stadio Olimpico which was surrounded by police horses and helicopters. I asked this large tough streetwise red haired Dubliner to help me sell them.

December 19th, 2022

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The weirdness of making drum notes (on a session that I had a suspicion I wouldn't be doing).

'So, I’m upholding that promise and will learn the songs even though another drummer is doing the gigs presently. Madness I know, but I actually enjoy it. Headphones, great music, drums, pen and paper. Heavenly'.

December 8th, 2022

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Narcissis and ‘The Click of Death’

‘I felt responsible to everyone involved in the making of this, not least Mark, who had to sit in a bath for an hour in a yellow mac that day and sing bubbled lyrics into the water, surrounded by 14 rubber ducks’.

December 7th, 2022

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