Beautiful Day

Snow Patrol at Live 8

Snow Patrol performed Choclate and Run at Live 8. Edith & Vernon talked to Snow Patrol on Radio 1 just before they performed.

Download snowpatrol_edithvernon.ram

Three great U2 websites

Beautiful Day appeared on the album: All That You Can’t Leave Behind (Island 2000). This album was voted 87th by the peoples Hot Press top 100 albums. The latest news for U2 can be found on their official website. There are some great websites on U2 including @U2 , Frequently Asked Questions about U2 and U2Exit.com.

Ash are supporting U2

Ash are supporting U2 at the following venues:  July 20th and 21st: Milan San Siro Stadium July 18th: Zurich, Letzigrund Stadium. There are two vesrions of the Ash official website, one for the UK and one for the US. There is a great Ash blog  which will keep you bang up-to-date on the latest news from the group.

Burn Baby Burn is the track covered in Beautiful Day.

Ash have cancelled their release of Evil Eye, a downloadable mini-album which was to have included 9 live tacks recorded in Vienna.

Gemma Hayes second album is nearly ready

According to the Gemma Hayes official webiste , Gemma is currently mixing her second album in L.A with none other than super mixer/producer Nigel Godrich.

Beautiful Day will cover Let A Good Thing Go (2002), which is the second single from the well acclaimed Night on My Side album.

Have you seen the Thrills Big Sur video?

On the Thrills official website you can view the Big Sur video as Real Media format or Windows Media files.

Chocolate by Snow Patrol added to iTunes

  Chocolate by Snow Patrol has been added to Apple's iTunes (Ireland).

Snow Patrol's official website

Whose in the book?

1964 Gloria, Them

1965 You Turn Me On, Bluesville

1966 Come Back to Stay, Dickie Rock

1967 Seven Drunken Nights, The Dubliners

1968 Three Jolly Little Dwarfs, Orange Machine

1969 Yes, I Need Someone, Eire Apparent

Thanks to Apple its a Beautiful Day

Like many university presses we publish trade titles such as cookery or music books so that sales from these can support the academic titles. In September 2005 we will publish Beautiful Day: 40 years of Irish Rock by Sean Campbell and Gerry Smyth. It tells the story of modern Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the island during a period of rapid, decisive change. The book starts with Gloria by Them (1964) and ends with Chocolate by Snow Patrol (2004). An idea was to include a CD with the book but there were problems licensing the music. So I looked at  Apple iTunes and found 17 of the 40 tracks, these can be viewed  in the iTunes store for Ireland in the iMix section (search for Beautiful Day). I have asked iTunes if they can try and load the rest of the music.