News
Successes!!- Paul played the Erlenbach Strassen Musik Festival last Sunday, August 22, and won the overall first prize among the competing music acts from all over Germany. The competition was judged for originality, technique/skill, and some other thing that Paul has no clue about but believes it could be "height" (Paul is 6 feet 4 inches - Ed.)
- Big hi's and congratulations to all the other acts that took part and huge thanks to Robbi and the organisers and sponsors and Kultuhrpur in Erlenbach.
- Paul also played at The Sound Of The Forest Festival near Marbach on Friday, August 20 and had a ball. "It was a very cool festival and the audiences were generous and wild and very attractive," says Paul.
Netherlands Shows
- Paul is set to play at least one show in Holland over the winter. Details are yet to be confirmed
Songs Released Into The WWWilds: Paul is able now to write a brand new song, record it, mix it, and make it available for sale as an MP3 on the WWW all on the same day.
- Paul has begun selling his own home recordings of his songs on his page at www.reverbnation.com/paulfogarty This means he is able to write, record, mix, upload and sell his own songs to any place on earth (with internet connectivity) from his own modest studio any time he likes.
- Paul has added five new songs to his available mp3 catalogue at Reverbnation (see above) The songs are: I've Already Said Goodbye, Good Idea At The Time, So Afraid To Fly, and two lap-slide songs - Momma's House and Teardrop In My Heart
September Gigs
- Paul has gig's coming up in September in Nuernburg, Munich, and Wuerzburg.
Festival News
- Sound Of The Forest Festival have invited Paul to play a 40 minute set at the festival on Friday, August 20th instead of the formerly scheduled 30 minute set on Sat, Aug 21.
- Paul had a wonderful time at the Festival der Strassenkunstler in Haslach in July - Haslach turned out to be close to Frieburg, not Karlsruhe. Paul got lost, with the help of his car Sat-Nav system, but still arrived in beautiful downtown Haslach with plenty of time to park illegally, order the wrong food, drive in a forbidden zone, and misunderstand almost everything everyone said to him. "It was a wonderful day, full of uncertainty , sausage, and foreign languages," Paul said.
Paul reports he sold a bucket-load of CDs, made some new friends and fans, then drove home with the contact details of a street juggler in his back pocket.
Regioactive
Just a quick mention that one of Germany's top music/musician websites selects songs every week from among it's almost 15,000 bands/musicians as "top picks".
Already this year nine of Paul's songs have been selected top picks and just this week he notched up his 10th and 11th top pick songs as well. So thanks to everyone at Regioactive!
Tour-Updates
Paul has been invited to play at a bunch of festivals for the summer of 2010. First up is the amazing Eurofestival on Sunday, June 11th. Paul will play two sets beginning at 17.00
Then on July 25 Paul has been invited to play at the Festival der Strassenkunstler in Haslach near Karlsruhe. July 29 sees Paul perform at the long-running Henkersfest in Wilhelmplatz in downtown Stuttgart following on the heels of his great show at Cafe Stella back in May.
Paul also won a Germany-wide competition for a spot at the huge Sounds Of The Forest Festival in August. Paul was selected from almost 1000 other bands and performers from around Germany who applied through huge music website Regioactive.de to play at the festival. His show is on the afternoon of Friday, August 20 at 4.00pm
Then Paul plays the same weekend August 22nd, at the Street Music Festival in Erlenbach
Paul is stoked to be invited back to the incredible Stramu street festival in Wuerzburg on September 11 and 12.
Not Quite Tour Dates
Paul has turned down the chance to play some gigs in Belgium, Prague and Luxembourg in July due to factors beyond his control, but hopes to get across there as soon as it's feasible.
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Paul is proud to point you toward this music video from Australia's deep heart...
Yaaltjiringu
www.youtube.com/watch
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... and not to forget our great friends at The Australian Wine Shop in Fellbach,
near Stuttgart:
www.wine-from-oz.de/
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Paul Fogarty has been invited to play support for legendary R&B/Soul/Hip Hop outfit ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT on their European Tour in April 2010.
11. April in Stuttgart - Zapata and
12. April in Munich at the Backstage Club.
Press
Inside Track - The CD Buyers' Guide:
(BREATHE) "A beautiful collection of folk-pop... worth playing every day..."
Beat Magazine, Melbourne:
"Fogarty is a legend in and around Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast."
Konstanz Südkurier:
(Live concert)"Fogarty doesn't need to hide his own material behind the big stars. Songs like the exciting "Jesus Knows", the beautiful "Stagefright" (title song of his second CD) or the bitter-melancholic "Small Town Ways" were highlights in the concert."
Tourdates
10. September 2010, 21:15The Irish Castle Pub
Nürnberg
11. September 2010, Midday
Stramu Steet festival
Wuerzburg
12 September 2010, Midday
Stramu Street Festival
Wuerzburg
20. September 2010, 20:30
STOA
München
22 Oktober 2010 20:30
Die Luke
Maxstrasse 1
71636 Ludwigsburg
12. November 2010, 21:15
The Irish Castle Pub
Nürnberg
13 November 2010, 21:00
Cafe Exlibris
73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd
4. December 2010 21:00
Scruffies Irish Pub
Karlsruhe
12. December 2010 14:00
House Concert
Friesland
Netherlands
16. December 2010 20:30
Acoustic Candlelight Sessions
@ "VERTIGO WipperfuerthUntere Str. 4
51688 Wipperfürth
9. January 2011 20:30
O-Ton
Werftstrasse 25.
68159 Mannheim
20. January 2011 20.30
Acoustic Songwriter Showcase
(Details to be announced)
20. May 2011
Nacht der Stimmen (Night of the Voices)
Pforzheim, Germany
