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X-WR-CALNAME:Vicar Street - Gigs - Lisa Hannigan in Dublin\, Ireland a
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SUMMARY:Vicar Street - Gigs - Lisa Hannigan
DESCRIPTION:From Event details at indublin.ie!: Sea Song is the second
	 single to be taken from Lisa Hannigan’s debut platinum selling albu
	m\, Sea Sew. Lisa is currently supporting Jason Mraz on his North Amer
	ican tour but returns to Ireland in December to play a very special sh
	ow in Vicar Street Dublin on Saturday 13th December. Tickets are €25
	 and are on sale from Monday October 20th @ 9am through Ticketmaster a
	nd other usual outlets nationwide. Booking Line: 0818 719 390. Lisa Ha
	nnigan started her singing career at the age of 6 as the fairy on top 
	of the Christmas tree in the school play. Although she still remembers
	 three quarters of the words she is no longer convincing as a fairy. O
	n the long car journeys down to west cork for summer holidays she sang
	 the backing vocals to her mothers’ front seat Joni Mitchell and Nin
	a Simone and to this day knows all of the words to Paul Simon's "Grace
	land" and the Queen back catalogue.The first record that Lisa ever bou
	ght was Michael Jackson's "Bad". Although in those days it was called 
	a tape. She sang and danced along until the tape wore out\, not only i
	mproving her singing but also affirming her lifelong dedication to the
	 art of uncoordinated dancing\, believing strongly in the scientific c
	orrelation between the amount of fun had to the stupidity of the dance
	 moves.Lisa then spent many years singing in choirs and musical chorus
	es in school\, all the while taping songs off the radio. After hearing
	 a recording of Maria Callas singing the "Bell Song" from Delibe's "La
	kme" (a cd at this point)\, she became fixated with the idea of learni
	ng how to sing like her. After a few years of study and development sh
	e realised that her chances of playing a consumptive operatic heroine 
	were severely hampered by both her naturally quiet voice and her insat
	iable love of cake. The former could be helped by a microphone\; the l
	atter could not be helped at all.A chance meeting with singer songwrit
	er Damien Rice led to a long period of collaboration and development. 
	Lisa spent the next few years touring the world\, meeting wonderful mu
	sicians and friends\, writing songs\, forgetting then remembering how 
	to ride a bike\, contributing backing vocals on many friends records\,
	 including the Frames and Mic Christopher\, singing with the legendary
	 Herbie Hancock and gradually finding her voice\, needing the micropho
	ne less and less.When this collaboration came to an end after seven ye
	ars\, Lisa was left with a notebook of songs and the desire and confid
	ence to put them onto a record. Gathering a talented band of friends t
	ogether\, including Tom Osander on drums\, Shane Fitzsimons on double 
	bass and Donagh Molloy on trumpet\, they got to work.After a few month
	s demoing and working through the arrangements\, Lisa and her band\, r
	ehearsed and full of coffee and cake\, went to the Cauldron studios in
	 Dublin and spent fourteen days putting them on tape. Starting early i
	n the morning\, the band spent their days down in the basement studio\
	, playing glockenspiels and harmoniums\, violins and organs\, trumpets
	 and guitars\, and sang until they were hoarse\, emerging in the small
	 hours to stagger home to sleep. Friends contributions punctuated the 
	long days\, including Gavin Glass on piano\, Lucy Wilkins on violin an
	d Vyvienne Long on cello. Together with engineer Jason Boshoff\, Lisa 
	and the band marked off their contributions on a blackboard\, until th
	ey were left with a record both warm and creaky\, sparse and full.Jaso
	n Boshoff then took the record home with him to london where he\, Lisa
	 and Tomo mixed it in the Strongroom in the east end. Lisa's mother Fr
	ances began knitting in preparation for the cover artwork. After spend
	ing a happy month stitching the lyrics onto rough cotton\, and picking
	 out the many references to the sea in the lyrics\, Lisa decided to ca
	ll the album "Sea Sew".\nFrom Event details at Ireland.ie!:  Vicar Str
	eet is one of Dublin newest venues\, situated in Thomas Street\, oppos
	ite the church. 
LOCATION:Vicar Street @ Dublin, Ireland
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