Don't Dream Its Over
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Don't Dream Its Over

John Spillane has remained a stalwart of the traditional scene for close to two decades. With his excellent new album Hey Dreamer having just hit the shops, Spillane sounds off to hotpress about his long and eventful career, his enthusiasm for younger artists such as Damien Dempsey and Juliet Turner, and why the organisers of the European Capital of Culture events in his native Cork have gotten things spectacularly wrong. words Colm O’Hare photos Mick Quinn


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(17 articles in total in Hotpress.com archive)

NEWS: 11 Mar 2010
In response to Clare Co Council's plans to demolish 'Blakes Corner', this local group is fighting back, with a series of concerts and events, including an...



NEWS: 12 Nov 2008
Spillane has taken some of the classic Irish children's songs and recreated them in Irish Songs We Learned At School .



NEWS: 27 Aug 2008
The gig follows the release of his fifth studio album ‘My Dark Rosaleen and the Island of Dreams’.



REVIEW: 13 May 2008
Veteran Cork campaigner hits new folk highs



NEWS: 25 Feb 2008
Former Meteor Award winner John Spillane will play Dublin in April.



INTERVIEW: 08 Jan 2007
Renowned Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane has joined forces with poet Louis de Paor as the bilingual Gaelic Hit Factory to prove that the Irish language...



NEWS: 18 Jul 2006
Hot Press have the latest festival line up.



NEWS: 08 Mar 2006
The Corkian performer plays a hometown gig.



NEWS: 08 Dec 2005
John Spillane will headline Spleador na Nollag, a charity gig in aid of AWARE.



REVIEW: 05 Sep 2005
Spillane’s tale of unrequited love is Irish in the extreme, quite sweet and managing to just stay the right side of cloying.



INTERVIEW: 31 Aug 2005
Singer-songwriter John Spillane lives in a riverside terrace near Passage West, County Cork. He describes it as the perfect rural retreat.



REVIEW: 27 Jun 2005
Ireland’s most unappreciated performer, delivers the goods yet again. Beautiful hooks and melodies fly out of his guitar as if sent from the back of beyond...



REVIEW: 04 Apr 2005
John Spillane comes up with the goods in a stirring, Celtic epic sort of way.



REVIEW: 05 Apr 2005
Spilllane’s trademark sweetly elegant delivery ensures the album doesn’t take itself too seriously, and for all their gloominess, these tracks exhibit...



REVIEW: 02 May 2002
The two producers seem determined to load the kitchen sink onto every track. It's a pity, because Spillane's lovely gentle voice and real songwriting talent...




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