Frankie Whelan

Frankiestylee

Ok, so it says pimp my band... but I dont have any of my bands tracks recorded yet... but I do have some solo stuff here...

http://artists.cpu.ie/bands/728/

So have a listen and let me know what ya think. Cheers.

Pet

Wow, you can actually sing, and really well!

The songs themselves are really not my thing..I await some full band tracks with anticipation however.

dabhoys

Excellent tunes frankie

Doctor J

Jay played me one of these tunes last night Frankie. Quite good. Can't remember which one it was (twas late after 6 hours of recording) but yeah, good tune, good singing, though I thought the tune would have sounded a lot better at a slower tempo, you'd have more opportunity to give a bit more depth to your delivery of the lyrics. They just sounded a little like they were just words being sung to a melody, rather than something you really meant. Good stuff though, definitely some quality there.

Jay, which song was it?

John

Good stuff. I still have that minidisc you made me a few years ago, saving it until you're famous and I can make loads of money.

Frankiestylee

Doctor J wrote:

Jay played me one of these tunes last night Frankie. Quite good. Can't remember which one it was (twas late after 6 hours of recording) but yeah, good tune, good singing, though I thought the tune would have sounded a lot better at a slower tempo, you'd have more opportunity to give a bit more depth to your delivery of the lyrics. They just sounded a little like they were just words being sung to a melody, rather than something you really meant. Good stuff though, definitely some quality there.

Jay, which song was it?

Ah yeah, if it was from the most recent recordings he did for me, then it could well have been a tad rushed. We did a whole album in a day, and I wasnt as tight as I should have been and Jay was going out that night so I didnt want to take up all his time. Fair ****s to him though, spent pretty much the whole day having to put up with me and delivered excellent results with the dodgeyness he had to work with.

LundiMardi

well jaysus Frankie, here you are on boards, i still think tambourines are better than cowbells..

This be the singer in my band ladies and gents.

Good stuff frankie, as i've said before.

feylya

LundiMardi wrote:

i still think tambourines are better than cowbells..

Blasphamer!

LundiMardi

cowbells and tambo's a dawn so it is. grrr

John

Cowbells I say. Digital cowbells.

daram

Jeez frankster, you really are going all out on the internet pimping thing? When can we expect some band stuff? I didnt realise LundiMardi was in your band. It's like a internet collaboration.

LundiMardi

i don't think he knew i was lundimardi till now.

Band stuff? err, er.....em.... sometime this year hopefully!:D

daram

he may have recognised your chin from the engl thread. or the engl itself maybe. whats the band called again, frankie told me, but I forgot?

LundiMardi

Kemosabe, pronounced Key-mo-sab-ee. I just have to make that clear!! Can't have people calling us Kemo-sabe, grr.

Frankie hasn't been formally introduced to the ENGL yet:)

daram

Ah yes, kemosabe.

Does it mean anything? I think it sounds better pronounced key-mo-sabe. But thats just me.

feylya

http://www.write101.com/kemosabe.htm

dabhoys

Thanks frankie,

I always enjoy recording with you. Its always good craic and I enjoy your tunes

Frankiestylee wrote:

Ah yeah, if it was from the most recent recordings he did for me, then it could well have been a tad rushed. We did a whole album in a day, and I wasnt as tight as I should have been and Jay was going out that night so I didnt want to take up all his time. Fair ****s to him though, spent pretty much the whole day having to put up with me and delivered excellent results with the dodgeyness he had to work with.

Frankiestylee

Who the **** is Lundimardi ?! Ger? Dan? See.. it could be Ger cause of the cowbell waffle or Dan cause of the Engl lark. Bloomin eck!
Ah yeah Dara, sure the internet pimping doesnt take alot of effort and I always like to get criticism.

LundiMardi

Frankiestylee wrote:

Who the **** is Lundimardi ?! Ger? Dan? See.. it could be Ger cause of the cowbell waffle or Dan cause of the Engl lark. Bloomin eck!
Ah yeah Dara, sure the internet pimping doesnt take alot of effort and I always like to get criticism.

oooo, mystery... i like.

Frankiestylee

Oh Dan, Dan, the guitar playing man

Frankiestylee

Aswell as the solo stuff... I'm also the frontman for Kemosabe... debut gig next Wednesday!

John

What's that? Your gig is tomorrow night?

LundiMardi

indeed

John

And only €2 in you say?

Time Magazine

And attending will greatly improve your chances of meeting awe-inspiring people?

John

Good gig guys. Sorry I couldn't stick around after, both me and the girlyfriend had early starts this morning. So when's the next gig?

LundiMardi

nothin planned as yet, we just have to tighten up and get another couple of songs in there and we're rockin and a rolling..

Within the next couple of weeks though hopefully!

Frankiestylee

Yeah, I really enjoyed the gig once we got through it. I was madly nervous... its crazy having those lights in your eyes and not being able to make anyone out kinda. But I started to loosen up a tad. In hindsight I should have ****ed the mic stand off the stage

Frankiestylee

Wow, I haven't updated this in ages, this thread went down the road of being a second Kemosabe thread, but Kemosabe broke up months ago and I've been writing loads of solo material. It's not recorded yet, but some rough drafts are floating around the net.

Myspace at
http://www.myspace.com/frankiewhelan

And the CPU thing needs work.
There's also a bebo page at
http://frankiewhelanmusic.bebo.com

Nice.

Frankiestylee

Playing a gig on the 9th of September in Radio City.

Headliners are M.A.R.C.s Empire. Also on the bill... The Monday Club, Shoctopus, Moesley.

Doors at 8pm.

€5 in.

John

M.A.R.C.s Empire still exist!?!

Frankiestylee

They're reforming for a special going away party for wee "I have a cute face" Darren

John

Damn, I just found out that I have to go to Belfast this weekend with Tara to help her move. Where's Unky Dar going?

Frankiestylee

He's going to live in Canada... hence his big going away gig. I'm quite pleased to be playing it. Yarrr... pity you won't be there this Saturday.

Frankiestylee

Gig...

5th October

The Hub (Eustace st. ? .. under the Mezz in Temple Bar)

€5 entry (I think)

Doors @ 8pm

Line up...

Ebo

The Fury of Tim

Frankie Whelan

Kita

Nothingcompares

Unfortuently the order on the night changed and frankie was on first so i only made 2 mins of his set.

Frankiestylee

Don't get me started on the order change... grr... I thought I was being put infront of a full band, which is fair enough and I'm used to it as a solo artist, but then it turns out it's a suspect acoustic duo (who played far too many covers)! I felt really hard done by, especially since the guy who did the re-arranging had no right to do so and did it with more then a little lying... along the lines of "well I discussed this with Mr. X and Mrs. Y and we've agreed you're on first". Only later I find out that Mr. X and Mrs. Y weren't even contacted. God damn.

I made some Danish fans though.. that was nice.

John

Free bacon and lego for Frankie!

Frankiestylee

... I think you're forgetting the pastries and Carlsberg John.... never forget the Carlsberg!

LundiMardi

ugh!!! Carlsberg is feckin awful!!!

John

Careful now:

LundiMardi

oh but it is...

Was in a pub there a while back, and this promo girl was getting people to sign up to some ****e, and if you do, you get a free pint. So we both did it and got free pints... we couldn't even finish em... uch!!!!!

Sawry:)

Frankiestylee

Lundi... take your damn Carlsberg slandering ways off my damn thread!

Frankiestylee

Gig Nov 3rd, Annesely House (sp?), doors at 9pm. €5 in. Supporting Urban Spiral.

John

Where the hell is that?

Frankiestylee

Think it's on the Northstrand road... to be honest I'm not exactly sure myself. It'll be an adventure to say the least.

Frankiestylee

Gig 5th December

The Hub

A big ol long set of fun...

Line-up ...

The Upgrades
Terrordactyl
Frankie Whelan
Last Chance for a Slow Dance

€3/5

Doors at 8

Frankiestylee

Tonight (technically)

Frankiestylee

So I'm recording an album this year and I've a load of tracks, about 30 infact, that I was tempted to use. I cut them down to 21 and threw them up on the net for people to give me their opinion.

Now, some people might criticise me for doing this as it takes away from my artistic message or whatever, but I'm still going to ultimately pick the songs and help produce them, it's just a case of there being too many directions it might go in. It could be a nice soft and subtle album, or it could go in a more country way, or maybe go for the pop indie rock approach... I really don't know. I enjoy playing all my songs, I wrote them as memories for parts of my life, I can instantly recall what each song was about and why it was written, so it's too hard for me to cut out a song because I might have attached emotions that elevate it above the actual song it is.

So anyhows, if you feel up to it ... go to www.frankiewhelan.com (it'll just link you to my cpu page) and there you'll find a blog explaining what I need done and then in the audio section you'll find 21 songs.
The songs are of varying quality and some are a bit rough. This was meant to be done months ago but I had a hard drive crash and all my work in progress recordings were lost, so some of them aren't the best representation of my vocals and others were recorded at differant times etc.

I'm always up for constructive criticism so please have a listen. The songs are all free to download so might be something to do while commuting or something.

Thanks

Frankiestylee

I have no idea how to edit the first post on the first page of this... it'd be handy for people not to have to slog through 3 pages, but anyhows, news...

Thanks to everybody who listened to my potential album tracks, I got a good response from most people and I think about 12 of the tracks were in the CPU top 10 (though they seem to only show one song per artisit).

I haven't pinned down the exact details of album recording as myself and the producer dude seem to be on a continuing diary check, so in the meanwhile I'm going to record an acoustic demo album called "Live in your Head"demo. Yup. If anyone is interested then send me a pm and I'll hook you up with the final product.

Frankiestylee

New random song on cpu.

"Road to Terneuzen" . Warning, it's more then 10minutes long

http://www.cpu.ie/frankiewhelan