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(148 votes - 3.30 / 5)
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Q1. Where are you from?
Ferbane, Co. Offaly
Q2. Musical influences?
Sheryl Crow, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey to name but a few.
Q3. What’s your song writing process?
Since I’ve joined Chayka, our writing process is a team effort of the lads jamming out songs, mostly Ric writing random lines down as the musics being played, with myself and the others adding what we think might go well also. It’s a nice big team effort, not afraid of open criticism : )
Q4. Most bizarre gig experience?
A few years ago I was playing an acoustic gig in a big pub in town, the only people there were a few who were pretty drunk after watching some football match all day. A big fight broke out on the dance floor with chairs flying everywhere.. we didnt know whether to stop or just keep playing – we kept playing: ) So since then I carry chicken mesh for all gigs, u never know when a Blues Brothers incident is gonna happen again – Il be prepared tho.
Q5. If you could share the stage with anyone, who would it be and why?
Sheryl Crow, Susan Tadeschi or Joe Cocker in his hayday – what a voice!
In their own words
Chayka are a 6-piece out fit hailing mostly from Kildare. They have been creating music together since the late nineties in some guise or another. Their current moniker, Chayka, was adopted in early 2007. Since then they carried on to record a limited run E.P. “Looking for an Enemy” and were subsequently offered a Recording Contract in November 2008 from a well respected Danish Label.
More recently, frontman Stevie Byrne departed but was seamlessly replaced the dulcet tones of Emilene Kavanagh. The current line-up Emilene Kavanagh, Alison Reynolds, Ken Richmond, Sean De Burca, Jonny Kelly & Riccardo Panza have kept themselves busy gigging while producing their long awaited long player set for release in late 2011. It promises to be a soulful encounter infused with the natural varying influences that this 6 piece provides.
Fantastic!!
Sounds epic!
Beautiful sound, really chilled and soulful!
thanks for the kind comments
love it really chilled but soulful,hope you guys get in..