MARK GEARY: ghosts

Mark Geary

ghosts

© 2004 Signature Sounds (701237129020)

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For several years, Mark Geary has been blowing away audiences from the East Village to his native Dublin. "In Dublin Magazine" calls the album Ghosts an "indulgence of addictive alt-country rock revellers...an absolute delight."

tracks

1 Beautiful
2 Ghosts
3 You're the Only Girl
4 Morphine
5 Fanfare
6 Mid-nite Sun
7 Whisper (Set Your Guns to Stun)
8 A Prayer for St. Rita
9 I Fell
10 Up & Up
11 Hold Tight

notes

Singer/songwriter Mark Geary went to NYC in 1993 with a one-way ticket from Dublin, $100 in his pocket, and a green card. He soon became recognized as one of the East Villages favourite performers, starting out playing with Jeff Buckley at the legendary Sin E cafe which his brother had opened. He soon came to open for the likes of Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, Joe Strummer, Tindersticks and regular New York visitors The Frames. By a strange slight of hand, Mark would later be introduced to Irish audiences by playing dates here with The Frames Glen Hansard and Idaho-born Josh Ritter.
During his time in New York Geary released his debut album but things only started moving when a couple of years later a strange twist of fate saw him hooking up with movie producer Gill Holland. Gill thought Mark was a huge international star when a friend played him Geary's songs, it turned out that Mark was actually the bartender in The Scratcher, Gills local. Gill only found out when Mark walked out on stage.
Mark also hooked up with former Tom Tom Club member Mark Roule who'd opened a recording studio in Barbados. Holland began managing Mark, forming his own Sona-blast label to release the forthcoming album whist visiting Ireland in the hope of gaining a release. Mark in the meantime was busy in Barbados with Roule putting the finishing touches to an album which encompassed his whole songwriting life. It took in the beauty of 'Songs My Mother Taught Me', the taut almost rock of 'Gingerman' (you can feel the demons in there) and 'Suzanne', Marks most succinct three minute pop song to date.
So the album got finished and became 33 1/3 Grand Street. Independent Records in Ireland saw him supporting Josh Ritter and were blown away. Sona-Blast and Independent hooked up and hey presto! Mark became Independents 37th release and first to hit the Irish top Forty albums chart. Along the way, Mark began gaining daytime radio play all over Ireland as well as notching up his first TV appearances on The Late Late Show, The View and No Disco. Since then Mark has returned to the US., playing the South By South West Festival in Texas (on the Eighteenth floor of a hotel no less) followed by a couple of shows in Barbados before his first headlining tour of Ireland in May. Vulnerable yet forceful, on recent live shows he's been spitting out 'America' whilst watching in awe as audiences sing along to 'Suzanne' and catchy as hell new pop song 'The Only Girl In Town.' As usual he songs are accompanied by his trademark nervous humour and a genuine humility.
"When you talk to Mark Geary for half an hour you see the real thing: real hurt, real on-the-edge fragility, real drive and a real intensity that has to share a border with a dark shade of obsession. Unlike the adolescent temperaments of some of his many Dublin singer songwriter peers, Geary's overbearing intensity is not an act, it is a carefully glossed over reality." - Matthew McGee, Sunday Tribune.

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  • Great Cd
    author: RobertSabieJr.

    I heard the cd playing in a store and decided to pick it up. A solid pick up for me. Hold Tight is now one of my favorite songs and I have a lot of songs to choose from!

  • Refreshingly pure, a pleasure to hear
    author: Liz

    Blend of acoustic guitar melodies and vocals is impeccable. I can put on this cd as a background for any thing, whether it's cleaning the house or entertaining friends. A very good buy.

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