AN CUAN SIAR

Paul Eastham (from Celtic Rock Group 'COAST')

Greetings,

This is sort of a 'full circle' story, so bear with me..... :-)

At CdeB's 'Fly Colours' tour in Bournemouth (early November 1988 rings a bell), I became a fan of the mighty Scottish Celtic Rock group 'Runrig'.

Almost 20 years later, through the Runrig online community (Celtman's Runrig Message Board to be precise.....quick plug: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I heard about a new Celtic Rock band starting up....they are called 'Coast'.

Coast have released one single so far (called 'The Great Crowd' - available on iTunes etc) and have a debut album on the horizon (due for release early 2009).

Anyway, I digress....the lead singer of Coast is a chap called Paul Eastham. He's a pianist by trade and, when he's not singing with Coast, writes and records some of the most wonderous contemporary piano music that I've heard in a long time.

And....this is where we come 'full circle'.....a lot of his piano recordings remind me of some of CdeB's recent forays into piano based songs - especially 'When Winter Comes' and 'Snow is Falling' from 'The Road to Freedom' album.

Check out this classic example on YouTube: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
It's called "AN CUAN SIAR".

Close your eyes and I bet you can imagine that it's Chris playing this song....

By the way, Paul also co-wrote and played piano on Aimee Duffy's first album....

I'm in contact with Paul Eastham through the Coast message board (another quick plug! [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] so pop over there if you like what you hear and want to hear more.

Thanks for reading this far! Enjoy!

Cheers,
Martin

Trousers wrote:Just listening to this again on You Tube (the one with the creaky piano stool!)

It's one of those songs that just sounds better and better the more you listen to it.

IMO You need wider recognition of this track Paul - have you ever thought of wafting it under the nose of the management of the likes of Chris de Burgh or Mike Oldfield? They've both done some similar sounding piano pieces on their albums in recent times. I feel sure they would be captivated by it like I have been and if they were to record a version I'm sure it would catapult your superb music into as yet uncharted territory....

Just a thought!