Fri 17th July Love music hate racism gig at Lucorum, Barnsley 9.15pm
Thurs 13th August The Pulse bar, Barnsley (8pmish)
Mon Bank Holiday 31st August open air markets Rotherham (Rotherham Hospice benefit concert)
Headlining THe Speigel tent, Sun Oct 11th 7pm! (Free entry!)
Mulcahey gig at the Plug Sheffield Mon 25th May (bank hol) 7.30pm
Supporting Asian Dub Foundation! Supports love music hate racism!
Come on! It's only a few quid
Saturday 21st Feb 3.30pm, Oakwood beer fest, Oakwood school, Moorgate, Rotherham.
Tickets from Oakwood school and assorted outlets in Rotherham, including arts centre box office, Tourist information office.
New gigs: Number 10, Wellgate Rotherham Fri 23rd Jan Love music hate racism.
Rudi's Blues bar Mon 16th Feb 09 9pm.
Wed 18th Feb 09 The Troubadour, Earls Court, London.
April 25th Thurcroft Golf Club - artists party! Radio play of Karen
Mulcahey's EP 'The Morning After' on RotherFM 96.2FM, 7.30pm Steve Orchard show,
Sunday 7.30pm - ask for more!Gigs coming up;Oakwood Beer festival tbc and other venues, still booking for a new year tour!
http://www.karenmulcahey.com buy Karen's debut album and get updates on gigs/ pre -order/purchase the limited edition second album and EP. Check out www.myspace.com/karenmulcahey .It's all happening!
New gigs:Rudi's Blues bar Mon 16th Feb 09 9pm. Wed 18th Feb 09 The Troubadour, Earls Court, London.
Radio play of Karen Mulcahey's EP 'The Morning After' on RotherFM 96.2FM, 7.30pm Steve Orchard show, Sunday 16th Nov.
Gigs coming up; the Oakwood Beer festival and other venues and still booking for a new year tour! http://www.karenmulcahey.com to buy Karen's debut album and get an update on gigs/ pre -order/purchase the limited edition second album. Check out www.myspace.com/karenmulcahey .It's all happening!
Words and music by karen mulcahey.
Music performed by 'Mulcahey'.
Guitar (Mark Khaladj Oates)
Bass (Gary Solomon)
Drums (Sameer Butt)
Recorded and produced by Mark Oates
1. Tonight
2. The absence of friends
3. The devil’s charms
4. Happy birthday
Sunday, October 12, 2008
New review! New life!
Current mood: chipper
Category: Music
Raw, bitter-sweet power
(Rotherham Advertiser, Fri 10th Oct. Phil Turner.)
Johnny Cash never played Rotherham but a little bit of his spirit lives on in the shape of Karen Mulcahey.
The legendary Cash broke down barriers to get hardened nmates rocking insde Fulsom Prison 40 Years ago.
Singer/Songwriter Mulcahey, somewhat appropriately slugging brandy from a vacuum flask to keep a cold at bay, was a ray of sunshine on a cold and wet Saturday night inside the Speigel tent at Rotherham Open Arts festival.
After a lively version of Cash's Fulsom Prison Blues, her own 'The Devil's Charms' , a tribute to Cash who died 5 years ago, captured the honesty which was the great man's trademark.
Big-hearted Mulcahey, once described as an angel who just downed a bottle of whisky, has a raw, bitter -sweet power, not unlike Janis Joplin.
Her band - lead guitar Mark Khaladj Oates, bass Gary Solomon and drummer sameer butt- are a tight line up that gives her the scope she needs, from rasping folk- rock to sweet acoustic sounds.
From blues to folk to country, her vocals and self-penned songs are subtle, poignant, intelligent and , like Cash, totally genuine.
The likes of 'The Absence of Friends' , 'There aint no water here' and 'Continuous Orbit' grab you by the vitals and don't let go.
She is angry, passionate and political and 'Choked', about the Iraq war, still resonates frm the voices of the two million marches who inspired it.
Mulcahey demolishes all the female singer stereotypes and fully deserved the standing ovation.
Like Cash, she walks the line.
Sat 7th June 2.20pm - 3pm 'Pride' festival, Cemetary Park, Montague Road, Sheffield.(Free)
Sat 4th October: The Spiegel tent, All saints Square Rotherham. Between 4pm - 7pm (Free)
New EP / 3rd album on the way! Back to the raw!
September 28th 2007
New Album out now! Karen Mulcahey has a limited edition of her 2nd album 'It's lost in the taking' for sale (see buy the music and has a new gig and ideas for 3 major new gigs coming up but you have to help!
New band! karen has a fresh new band (apart from drummer Dave 'the note' Timmons!) including guitarist Mark Oates and bass player Gary Solomon. They plan to set up 3 major gigs after wath rocks to get seen and heard, but we need you to email us saying where in the country and what venues we should do these major gigs! Tell us now! (See contact us).
Karen began the national tour to promote her debut album in April and is still touring hard and living by her wits until at least September, so check out the tour dates and buy the album that folk are raving about!
The "Love Music, Hate Racism" event was the first gig for Karen following the release of her album just hours before. After decades of singing, years of career focus, months of preparation, weeks of recording, and days of promotion, Karen's very first album has been realised and released. You can order Find Your Way through this very website by clicking here.
Karen's long-awaited debut album, Find Your Way, has just been completed. Having spent many of the winter months working on it and spending 2.5 weeks recording in the studio with the talented and enigmatic Luke Pepper, she has finally finished the CD, which will feature favourites such as Choked, Get it Right Next Time, and of course Wish #120,000. This writer has had the privilege of hearing the CD already and I promise that this will blow you away! Find Your Way is expected to be on shelves in one month's time, but keep checking back for more information on where and how you can get hold of a copy.
