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Nothing More, Nothing Less, Only Love…

2010-05-05T13:31:00.003+01:00

I was supposed to perform a duet of ‘All The Time In The World’ tonight with Gerry Ryan @ The National Concert Hall, I am still shocked that I only spoke to him last week and now he is gone …

It struck me going over the lyrics of the song that it’s not the amount of ’Time’ we have in this life, but what we do with that time that is important… ‘We Have All The Time In The World, just for Love, Nothing More, Nothing Less, Only Love’…

Over the past few days I have been listening to tributes paid to Gerry by people from all walks of life… People that obviously will miss him and really did Love him.

You reap what you sow I guess, and Gerry clearly spent much of his life sowing seeds of Love.

God Bless You G. Ryan, May you Rest In Peace

INSPIRATIONS CONCERT @ THE OLYMPIA, DUBLIN

2010-03-05T09:40:00.003Z

TONIGHT! Performing Paul Newman's favourite song

'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'

with The Josephs in The Olympia, Dublin. Concert in aid of Barretstown.

Watch it on MUZU TV http://www.muzu.tv/inspirationslive

Viewers can enjoy the show as well as backstage interviews and donate to Barretstown directly.

Show Me The Way To The Next Whiskey Bar!

2010-03-04T20:20:00.000Z

Oh Show Me The Way To The Next Whiskey Bar! Oh Don't Ask Why! Please Don't Ask Why!... We have given out way more than our quota Ladies & Gentlemen... Enjoy The Party!

JAMESON 360 GLOBAL PARTY COMPETITION... STRICTLY OVER 18

2010-03-04T15:02:00.001Z

Doh! We should have said this at the start of the Competition but you must be over 18 years of age to attend this party... It is a Whiskey Party Xx

JAMESON 360 GLOBAL PARTY COMPETITION... STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU

2010-03-04T13:55:00.007Z

WOW! Thank you so much for such a great response to our competition... THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED... THE ANSWER: THOMAS WALSH. (So many of you guessed Neil Hannon only to get it right the second time) Star of the band PUGWASH and THE DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD. If you have won a pair of tickets you should have received an email...

If you sent an email before 2pm I will reply...

BiG LoVe, Jerry The Fish Xx

COMPETITION: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU…

2010-03-04T10:09:00.002Z

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU…
Who is the charming “Duckworth Lewis Method Man”

Hiding behind Jerry Fish in the photo above?

Answers and your full name by email to: info@jerry-fish.com

PRIZE: A pair of tickets to THE JAMESON 360 GLOBAL PARTY

which is happening in DUBLIN on Saturday March 13th.

The Hole In The Boat

2009-09-02T08:56:00.003+01:00

Just got our hands on this...
TV performance with Imelda May at The Rock of Cashel. Saint Patrick's Day Festival.

Next Stop... Secret Show @ The Salty Dog Saloon @ The Electric Picnic
Friday 4th Sept @ 1am

Enjoy Xx

The Mudbug Choo Choo Club

2009-08-20T13:48:00.009+01:00

Rewind to the 23rd of July... Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Choo Choo Club
played 4 Shows on the Dart (Dublin Area Rapid Transit... A rail line running along Dublin's Coastline) from Connolly to Howth, from Howth to Connolly, from Connolly to Bray and from Bray to Connolly. to Celebrate 25 years of The Dart.

'This was without a doubt one of our more unusual Shows'

'Strangely enough it felt like we were playing on a boat...'

Here's a photo of 'Q' and Jerry after they somehow got separated from the rest of the band. for all you fellow groovy passengers.

Choo! Choo!

Hello Gorgeous, Here’s The Mudbug Club News…

2009-08-13T21:30:00.002+01:00

Hello Gorgeous,
Here’s The Mudbug Club News…

Let’s Get Happy and Pass It On!

Download The New Single ‘Dig, A Dog & Bone Story’
featuring the Fabulous Imelda May.
FREE on www.irishtimes.com this Friday 14th of August.

In return for your FREE DOWNLOAD we simply ask that you ‘Pass It On’ by donating to the children’s charity The Bubblegum Club www.bubblegumclub.ie or by performing a random act of kindness that will make you Happy.

Pass On your Happy Secrets @ www.jerry-fish.com

BiG LoVe to all of you GEORGEOUS PEOPLE who attended The Mudbug Club Shows over the Summer. We are in Belfast, at Dukebox on the 29th of August, Cios Farraige in Co. Clare on Sept 12th, Cork at The Pavillion on Sept 25th and Tralee
on Sept 26th… see www.jerry-fish.com for all the tour dates.

We are delighted to announce that we are bringing The Circus back to Town at The Academy in Dublin on October 10th.

MCD have made this offer to The Mudbug Club.

The first 50 people to buy tickets to the Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club Show on the 10th October in The Academy will get a free Oxegen T -shirt worth Euro 25.

On the night of the show those lucky Mudbug Club fans who hand in tickets numbered 1 to 50 will be get their free shirt at the Merchandise stands

Go to:

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/Jerry-Fish-The-Mudbug-Club-tickets/artist/932031

To be in the first 50…

Don’t forget to remember…
Pass On your Happy Secrets @ www.jerry-fish.com

BiG LoVe, Jerry The Fish Xx

Get Yourself Happy

2009-07-31T13:17:00.006+01:00

The New Single ‘Dig A Dog & Bone Story featuring the Fabulous Imelda May.

From August 14th ‘Dig, A Dog & Bone Story’ will be available
FREE from The Irish Times website and www.jerry-fish.com

In return for your FREE DOWNLOAD we simply ask that you 'Pass It On'
by performing a random act of kindness that will make you Happy…
or by donating to the children’s charity The Bubblegum Club.

Let’s Get Happy and Pass It On!

Follow The Link & Tell Us Your Happy Secret...

'Dig' A Dog & Bone Story' New Radio Single

2009-07-21T20:29:00.005+01:00

Here's a preview of the Artwork for 'Dig' A Dog & Bone Story'
The New Radio Single featuring The Fabulous Imelda May

Art by Amanda Laurel Atkins
Design by Dang

LoVe, Jerry Xx

‘Use A Smile As Your Umbrella’

2009-06-07T12:32:00.004+01:00

Hello Everybody,

Well looks like I’m back in the Swampadelic Limelight of Show Business once again.

How Wonderful and often Strange A World it is… At times, An Ego Minefield, A Money-Go-Round, but then in the blink of an eye one is transported to a place of GORGEOUS ONENESS. Surrounded by Circus performers and the most beautiful audience known to man, (that would be you!) pure Magic!

Those of you who have been to see The Mudbug Club since the release of ‘The Beautiful Untrue’ will know exactly what I’m talking about. Thank you for being there… @ Cork for the first Show in too long @ Drogheda with Carol Keogh and her band @ Wexford with Candice Gordon @ Tower Records with the cool boy @ The Academy with the Fire Breathing Clown, Candy Floss Girls and the wonderful Bone Idle Circus, Hillas & Flora. @ Limerick with Carol Keogh @ The Happy Valley in Thomastown with Gavin Glass, The Ladies that danced on the tables and the children that proved to us that ‘Life Is Sweet’ to yesterday’s busking in HMV on Grafton St. Seeing you Smiling in the Dublin rain was unforgettable. Thank You Xx

I am putting the finishing touches to the next single ‘Dig, A Dog & Bone Story’
‘Everybody’ ‘Get Yourself Happy’ ‘Get Yourself Happy’ and ‘Pass It On’
Roll on The Summer!… As well as The Junction Festival in Clonmel on July 4th… We have been confirmed for Oxegen on Saturday the 11th of July. The Mudbug Club will happen @ Midnight after The Pet Shop Boys on the Green Spheres Stage.
The Galway Arts Festival on the 18th of July and Cork XSW Festival in Skibereen on the 1st of August.
I hope to see you in your glad rags at one of these shows!

Remember if it’s raining ‘Use A Smile As Your Umbrella’

LoVe, Jerry The Fish Xx

I would like to express my sadness at the news of David Carradine’s demise.
I was lucky enough to spend a day recording David in Los Angeles last year, he was a cool guy with a big heart.
RIP David Carradine. JF

Album of the week...

2009-05-14T20:05:00.009+01:00

'The Beautiful Untrue'
The Album of the week on Today FM...

Thankyou for being so Hip!

2009-05-08T13:27:00.001+01:00

Hey Mudbugs.
I hope you are all having a Wonderful Day!

I am one Happy Beach Bum turned Swamp Crooner today Ladies & Gentlemen. Gratzie, Gratzie Xx

‘The Beautiful Untrue’ entered the Irish Album Charts at lucky number 7.

Reviews of the album have been just amazing… Still this is no time to bathe in Swampadelic Limelight, Oh No, No, No.

It’s Time to take this Circus on the road.

The First Show is tonight in Cork, Yours Truly & The Mudbug Club are really looking forward to playing the new songs live!
It’s going to be so much fun!

Here’s a re-cap of the dates this Merry Month of May.

Friday 8th May… Cyprus Avenue ~ Cork
Saturday 16th May… McHughs ~ Drogheda
Friday 22nd May… Riverbank House ~ Wexford
Saturday 23rd May… The Academy ~ Dublin
Saturday 30th May… Dolans Warehouse ~ Limerick
Sunday 31st May… The Happy Valley Festival ~ Thomastown ~ Kilkenny

Be There or Be Square!

May you continue to live a Happy Life, just don’t forget to pass it on and…

Thankyou for being so Hip!

LoVe, Jerry The Fish Xx

Lucky Number Seven

2009-05-05T14:54:00.004+01:00

This was our chart position on Friday in itunes Alternative chart. Numero Uno.

The Beautiful Untrue entered the Irish charts at number 7. Thank you, Mudbugs!

See you at the circus.

LoVe, Jerry the Fish x

'Back To Before'

2009-04-29T13:06:00.004+01:00

Our good friend Conor McGuinness put this together for 'The Mudbug Club'
Mudbug LoVe to you Mr. McGoo Xxx

Go Fish - The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 18, 2009

2009-04-22T11:42:00.001+01:00

From the highs and lows of An Emotional Fish to his reinvention as the debonair ringmaster of the Mudbug Club, Jerry Fish has stayed true to his optimistic self, writes KEVIN COURTNEY .

EVERY VILLAGE NEEDS its shaman, a resident soothsayer who doles out homespun wisdom and administers healing potions to his troubled tribespeople. The village of Ringsend might look to one Jerry Fish to fulfil such a role. If you need advice on juggling money, life and relationships, you could do worse than turn to the self-styled ringmaster of his own mad musical circus. If your brow is furrowed with financial worries following the Budget, a bit of Fish philosophy could be just what the witch-doctor ordered.

“The native Americans have a lovely philosophy about unhappiness. They say, if you’re unhappy, you’re either thinking about the future or the past. Because there is no unhappiness in the now.”

We’re in the now – and in the Oarsman in Ringsend, a small, convivial pub just across the road from Ringsend Church and down the street from where Jerry’s mum lives. He recalls a story his uncle told him about the pub.

“The guy that painted the church in the 1950s and 60s had paint left over and he painted the bar here. So the guys felt they could have a pint here instead of going to Mass, ’cos it was the same paint on the walls.”

His family have lived in Ringsend for generations – Jerry’s great-great-grandmothers on both sides were next-door neighbours – but the young Fish grew up in south London in the 1970s, amid IRA bombing campaigns and an all-pervading racism.

“You know, I don’t find it difficult to relate to what Arab people may be going through around the world. And I think the Irish, we’re maybe lucky because we’ve seen so many sides of every coin, you know? We’ve been the good, the bad and the ugly.”

Fish reckons we were getting very ugly at the height of the boom, and that the onset of the R-word might force us to re-evaluate what’s really important in our lives. If we’re looking for guidance, we might find a few pointers in the new album from Jerry Fish the Mudbug Club, their first studio outing since 2002’s hugely successful Be Yourself. Yes, the master is back in the ring, with a new menagerie of tunes, and though they might not save your credit rating, these songs will put a smile on your face as you set your teeth against the coming financial storm.

“I’ve got a song on the album called The Hole in the Boat ,” says Fish. “Now everyone will think that I wrote it because of all that’s going on now, but it was actually written a year and a half ago while I was recording in a dungeon in Temple Bar. And I’d be down there working on songs – I was on my own a lot – and when I came up for air I’d hit Temple Bar and this glut of gluttony, just a den of debauchery and iniquity. And then I’d go back down into this dungeon to write songs, and I felt like I was in the bilge of a ship, pumping out water while everybody masqueraded on deck. So I came up with The Hole in the Boat, thinking that we were really becoming very materialistic and that it doesn’t really suit Irish people.”

There was a time when Jerry Fish found himself up the swampy creek without a paddle, and ended up rowing in a completely different direction. Nearly 20 years ago, when he was just plain Ger Whelan, and singing with An Emotional Fish, he was riding the rock’n’roll tiger.

The band were hot property, enjoying a homegrown hit with Celebrate , and bagging a massive deal with Atlantic Records; the late Ahmet Ertegun, the legendary head of Atlantic, came to Dublin to sign the deal personally.

But the band never made good on the deal – though they were a big success at home, they didn’t make much of an impact outside the cosy Irish music scene. Some of their unkinder critics dubbed them A Promotional Fish, and by the time their second album, Junk Puppets , came out, the celebration had moved elsewhere. The Fish struggled on, releasing their third album on their own label, but they soon floundered.

Still, says Fish, from every negative comes a positive – and his stint as a would-be golden god paved the way for his rebirth as the decadent, devilish, debonair dilettante of Irish swamp-rock. He has great memories, though, of touring the world with An Emotional Fish, playing such iconic venues as the El Mocambo in Toronto and CBGBs in New York. One fond memory is meeting Debbie Harry backstage at Brixton Academy when his band were supporting Blondie.

“I went up to the dressing-room to grab a beer and run back to catch Blondie doing their encore, and there’s Debbie Harry in the corridor in a red dress, stuck to her with sweat, pinned to the wall ’cos she thought I was some crazed fan – and part of me was going, ‘Oh my God, boyhood fantasy’. So I don’t regret a moment of that experience, it was fantastic.”

After the band fell apart, Fish retreated from the rock scene and went back to an old hobby – tinkering around with motorbikes. He also went travelling to “find himself” and ended up finding the love of his life. The couple live in bucolic bliss near Kilkenny on the foothills of Mount Leinster with their four kids. Shedding his rock-star skin and stepping into a new pair of snakeskin shoes wasn’t too difficult a transition, he recalls.

“You remember me from when I was in An Emotional Fish – offstage I was quite a reserved person, but as soon as I got up onstage it would be like Iggy Pop. Some other character just takes over, there’s this entertainer within that just wants to get out.”

Watching Fish do his lounge-lizard thing onstage, you might think he has been possessed by the smoky ghosts of Tom Waits, Willy DeVille, Professor Longhair and Dr John, the Night Tripper. With his rolling troupe of troubadors backing him up, Jerry Fish weaves a strange, heady brew of barrio blues, juke-joint jazz, psychedelia, Tropicalia and whatever you’re having yourself. It’s a persona that fitted him like a well-tailored suit, and eager crowds flocked to Fish’s travelling musical medicine show. The single True Friends was snapped up by Vodafone, and the album became a slow-burner, eventually selling up to 30,000 copies. The band played three consecutive nights at Glastonbury (“We were like the court jesters – it was fantastic”) and turned a triumphant gig at the Spiegeltent into a live album. But though he’s comfortable in his Jerry Fish persona, he’s not about to let this mad Svengali within completely take over.

“At the end of the day, it is just a kind of a cabaret, and if you can bring the audience into the now, whether you’re playing rock or roots or anything, your whole thing is to bring them in and make them feel that it’s all happening right here, right now. That’s the great thing about live performance, isn’t it. It’s all happening now – we’re all in this moment together.”

For the second studio album, he has expanded his Mudbug crew – it features, among many others, two of his old Emotional Fish bandmates, Enda Wyatt and Dave Frew, guitarists Conor Brady and Colm Quearney, Hammond whiz Justin Carroll and two additional vocalists – ex-Tychonaut singer Carol Keogh and Dublin rockabilly star Imelda May.

“I’ve called this album The Beautiful Untrue because of something Oscar Wilde said, that the proper aim of art is the telling of beautiful, untrue things, and I just kind of thought, in a way my job is an escapism of sorts, and I’m learning what I do as an artist – this is the sixth album I’ve made and it’s probably one of the most difficult records I’ve ever made. It’s the first digital record I’ve made, so I have to understand that whole thing. But that’s how I survived as an artist.

“I’ve learned a lot of production techniques from making the second Emotional Fish album with Clive Langer and Alan Moulder. I learned how to produce a record. So now I produce my own records. There were a few years way back when I was sitting there waiting for the phone to ring. And it didn’t ring. So I thought, right, this is actually my job. So I gave myself all these jobs: I am the manager, the record company executive, the artist. My AR department is my wife and we’ve just expanded that, because my eldest daughter has just started to say, ‘Daddy, I like that bit, could you put it back in.’ ”

Fish is relishing becoming the ringmaster once again, and performing that tricky balancing act of controlling his own destiny.

“I’ve never really held down a nine to five and I’ve always survived off my wits, so I suppose I consider myself lucky. It’s really how you see things. It’s how you perceive things. And to me counting your blessings is always more appropriate. There’s another song on the record called Where the Sun Don’t Shine – and I think artists, again, tend to spend a lot of their time in there, d’you know, where the sun don’t shine, and you can get very gloomy and life can seem very bleak.

“The reason I’m positive and I have a positive outlook is that I really think there’s a dark side to me, so I have to keep this light shining. I suppose, to quote Oscar Wilde again, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. And I like that, because you know, you’re walking down the road, there’s people skipping out of Holles Street every day – and a friend of mine, Stevo Berube, his wife just had a baby, and I was telling him about the cartoon bluebirds that follow you around as soon as the baby is born.

“At the same time that’s happening to a man, there’s a funeral parlour where weeping. And that’s the tapestry of life, and we can’t escape that. You might be standing under a cloud, but somewhere else somebody is sunbathing and having the happiest day of their lives.”

The Beautiful Untrue is out on April 24th on Mudbug Club Records. Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club play the Academy, in Dublin on Saturday, May 23rd

HOT PRESS

2009-04-11T12:19:00.000+01:00

Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club ~ The Beautiful Untrue (The Mudbug Club)

Six years is way beyond an eternity in Rock ‘n’ Roll, and yes, it has been that long since the release of Be Yourself. Just as well that Jerry Fish sups from a well that is sunk way beneath the topsoil of pop. Once he left the constraints of the four piece rock format, he found a whole universe of music suddenly become a tangible and touchable prospect: New Orleans Jazz, Brazilian funk, Noir soundtracks, all manner of odd mondo scenes and black mambo jive. An Emotional Fish used to cover Tom’s ‘Raindogs’, The Mudbug Club might reject it as too obvious.
On that note, the opening ‘The Hole In The Boat’ is a swampy seafood-fed shuffle with Ribot-like guitar and zombie cardship vocal from Mr. Fish. Jim Jarmusch would pawn his brothel creepers for the rights. Even more exotic is the single ‘Back To Before’, a delicate waltz around the ballroom of lost romance that’s stitched with singing saws, pedal steel and tinkertoy piano, while Fish’s latest dancing partner Carol Keogh contributes a truly remarkable turn somewhere between Patsy Cline and Mary Margaret O’Hara. One expects Lewis Carroll to pop his head through the curtains inquiring after a certain miss Liddell. Another duet, ‘Hell Or Heaven Sent’ featuring Imelda May, takes the form of a sweltering motel chronicle halfway between Howie Gelb and Barry Gifford, while ‘Rogue Melody’ is a slow C&W sway with Mariachi brass and a welcome reprise from Ms Keogh. Elsewhere on tunes like ‘It Takes Balls To Be A Butterfly’ (nice title), Mr. Fish swaggers in a Willy Deville way that suggests he really needs a Hollywood agent. The jury’s still out on whether his force of personality and the immaculate cut of the band compensate for the odd wanting song (time will tell how ‘Baby You Are In Or You’re Out’ wears with repeated plays.) but such misgivings are rare. The closing ‘Where The Sun Don’t Shine’ and instrumental closing tune deserve to accompany the end credits of some arthouse masterpiece. The Beautiful Untrue is one of those records that raises the cool in the room
without breaking a sweat.

Peter Murphy / Hot Press

Key Track: The Hole In The Boat

Summer Of Love

2009-04-06T20:23:00.004+01:00

Hello Mudbugs,
Starting to get busy down on The Mudbug Farm, I swallowed my first saw... I mean, I saw my first swallow.
Here comes the Summer, Soon the fish will be jumping!

‘Back To Before’ has entered the top 40 download charts at #24… Lovely Jubbly!

Here’s the first review for ’Back To Before’:

Featuring vocals from Carol Keogh, this is the download–only first single to be taken from The Mudbug Club’s forthcoming album ‘The Beautiful Untrue’. Whatever about the rest of it, they're certainly doing it old style on this track. Replete with strings, horns and tinkling ivories, it’s a slick, polished and eclectic duet reminiscent of romantic musicals set in Parisien dance halls. You’ll almost definitely hear it in an advertisement before next Christmas.
- Olaf Tyaransen / Hot Press

We also got to play ‘Back To Before’ live on The Ray Darcy Show on Today FM.

Have a listen: (mp3 download)

Last but not least I’m finally putting the Circus back on the Road.

Check out the Tour Dates page on the website, www.jerry-fish.com/tour.html

Swampadelic LoVe, Jerry The Fish Xx

It Takes Balls To Be A Butterfly!

2009-03-23T14:58:00.007Z

Hello Mudbugs,
‘Back to Before’ the first single taken from the album:
‘The Beautiful Untrue’ is now available to download from itunes.

You can hear ‘Back To Before’ at www.myspace.com/themudbugclub

A copy of the single ‘Back To Before’ should now be in the hands of every
DeeJay in every radio station in Ireland.

Everybody is telling us how beautiful this song is… let’s hear it!

ON THE RADIO!

Here is a list of TEXT numbers where you can request DJ’s to play ‘Back To
Before’ by ‘Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club’

RTE 2FM - 51552
RTE Radio 1 - 51551
Today FM - 53102
Phantom - 0833111052
Dublin's 98 FM - 53981
Cork's 96FM - 0857379696
FM104 - 53104
Spin 103.8 - 085 711 1038
Beat FM - 085 102 9103
Red FM - 086 827 3336
Limerick 95FM - 085 171 9595
iRadio (West & Northwest) - 0851021045
iRadio (Midlands & Northeast) - 0851052107

May the blessing of the angels be upon you all!

Looking forward to getting the circus back on the road.
Swampadelic LoVe, Jerry The Fish Xx

New Album Details

2009-02-24T18:40:00.003Z

Hey Mudbugs,

Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club
‘The Beautiful Untrue’

The New studio album from ‘Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club’ entitled:
‘The Beautiful Untrue’ is scheduled to be released in Ireland on April the 24th.
And will also be available to download shortly thereafter all over the planet earth.

Produced by Jerry Fish, Recorded by Dick Meaney (The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine) and Mixed by Phil Hayes ( The Cake Sale, Bell X1)

‘The Beautiful Untrue’ will be released on Jerry’s record label The Mudbug Club and distributed in Ireland by RMG Chart Entertainment. The album features some extraordinary guest vocal performances from two of Irelands up and coming singers Imelda May and Carol Keogh.

… and of course The Wonderful and Ever Expanding Mudbug Club Troupe. Buzz Wilde, Spicy Mudbug, Dr.Nebulus, Q, Conor (Jesus) Brady, Grum, Dave Frew, Mark Healy, Stefano Muscovi, Princess Mischa, Pat (Mr.T) Corless, Serge Stavila, Josie Doherty, Justin Carroll, Joe Ryan, The Mighty Stef and Oleg Ponomarev.

The first Single to be taken from ‘The Beautiful Untrue’ entitled ‘Back to Before’ will be released to radio in March and available on itunes as a download only single.

‘Back to Before’ is one of two duets on the album featuring singer Carol Keogh. The song has a Parisien Circus feel and sounds like it came from the soundtrack of ‘Amelie’ or ‘City of The Lost Children’.

Subscribers to the mailing list can look forward to a preview of the new record on the website www.jerry-fish.com as soon as it is mastered.

I know that it has taken forever to complete, if it’s any comfort to you all, I’ve been making lots of babies in the interim, and I’m very happy for it.

LoVe, Jerry The Fish

I've dug a hole and I just can't stop diggin'!

2008-11-12T23:17:00.004Z

All the fun of the fair, ladies and gentlemen...

That Jerry the Fish was a pretty good bottle dodger in his day. As for me, I follow Tom Waits' philosophy, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."

More nuggets on the way. I just can't stop diggin'.

BoB x

look what we found....

2008-10-22T00:34:00.004+01:00

While diggin down at the Mudbug Farm I unearthed this beauty from the past. Enjoy.

I'll keep diggin...

Bob

Happy St. Patrick's Day

2008-03-13T13:47:00.005Z

I've been spending much of my time in the studio with The Mudbug Club these days, consequently neglecting the joys and perils of the road...

What kind of circus is this? I hear you ask.

Well... the new record ('Babes & Suckers') is almost cooked and I agree it's high time we left the farm... We will be bringing the circus to a town near you soon.

In the meantime... Fireworks!!

Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club are performing a short set which will include songs from 'Babes & Suckers' at The National Lottery Skyfest, St. Patrick's Festival's spectacular pyrotechnic, lighting and musical gathering at The Rock of Cashel on March 15th. The show will be broadcast on Irish television / RTÉ1 7.20pm.

Tickets are free. However pre-registration is required: http://skyfest.eventznet.com

Love & TanX... Jerry

Jerry Fish accompanied by the RTÉ National Concert Orchestra

2007-09-19T13:35:00.003+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen: Jerry Fish accompanied by the RTÉ National Concert Orchestra will be performing Songs from The Great American Songbook at the National Concert Hall in Dublin this Thursday the 20th of September.

From the National Concert Hall Website:

Thu 20th September, 8.00pm

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Christopher Austin, Conductor

Jerry Fish, Emmanuel Lawler, National Chamber Choir and Special Guests

'The Great American Songbook' can mean so many things to so many people - a collection of the greatest American music from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. Spanning from the 1920s to the 1960s, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Christopher Austin will present the music of Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Bernstein with a sprinkling of Cole Porter and Jerome Kern performed in style by our very special guests for the evening, Jerry Fish, Mairead Buicke & Emmanuel Lawler.

Glastonbury 2007

2007-06-08T13:40:00.000+01:00

Jerry Fish & the Mudbug Club play The Acoustic Stage at The Glastonbury Festival Saturday June 23rd at 18.55.

Hey Mudbugs!!

2007-06-08T13:35:00.000+01:00

Hope you're having a wonderful day and the sun is shining wherever you are! We have just been confirmed for Glastonbury... Yeehaw!!!
I hope you like the new website...
LOVE... Jerry Fish Xx