Almost Famous

Chapter 1

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Today is 8th December 2015, my 25th birthday, sitting here in the foggy dew bar in the temple bar area of Dublin city centre, I take my guitar from its case and start to tune it, doing a quick sound check to make sure everything's ok before I start my 2 hour set for the 400/500 people who will surely arrive in this evening with it being the first official night of the run up to Christmas.

I run through my song sheet, with the day that's in it I have to play some John Lennon tracks, as it's the first day of the Christmas season I had planned to start with happy Christmas war is over, and also doing imagine, along with a couple of his tracks from the Beatles such as strawberry fields forever and happiness is a warm gun, songs that could sound good with just one man and his guitar.

Even as I was setting up I could hear the odd person commenting "is that him, that guy from the newspaper, god he's come down a lot in the last 12 months".

I tried ignoring all the comments but deep down I knew they were getting to me, this was after all my first solo gig since everything happened, that was nearly12 months ago now, it was time to move on even if I had to take a few steps backwards, in truth no matter how good I was no record company would surely take another chance on me, not after everything that happened.

Anyway, to tell my story properly I better go right back to the very beginning and explain who I am and how I became almost famous.