This past fall we played a wonderful concert at Royal Festival Hall in London for Meltdown festival curated by David Byrne.
I played pedal steel and guitar with Sinkane earlier in the week and we were performing as the Atomic Bomb Band featuring; David Byrne, Amadou and Miriam, Hot Chip, Moses Sumney,The Mahotella Queens and Charles Lloyd. We also had a guest choir of over 100 members to help us sing the last 2 songs, it was something special to be in that room. Sinkane had jsut finished an extremely long run in Europe and we were excited to finish up in London with this special event. Here is the full concert in HD!
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The Atomic Bomb Band for David Byrne’s Meltdown Festival
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The Atomic Bomb Band At Bonnaroo
Earlier this summer, The Atomic Bomb Band (Sinkane, Money Mark, Pat Mahoney, Antibalas horns) played Bonnaroo festival! Here is a great video of our set. Our special guests were; Saxophone legend Charles Lloyd, Jamie Lidell, Mike Floss, and Luke Jenner. It was a great show, and we went to the amazing Blackbird Studios to record for a few days. I got to try a 56 Fender Stratocaster guitar through a Dumble amplifier, which is one of the most expensive combinations ever!
Atomic Bomb Band w David Byrne
Here are two great videos (one with roller skaters!) of me playing guitar with David Byrne, as he guests stars with The Atomic Bomb Band! The first one is from out first U.S. shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last spring, and the second one was when the band travelled to Acupulco, Mexico, to play the incredible Tropicó Festival. Sinkane also played the festival and we travelled all the way from Dublin 48 hours via Newark and Mexico City to get there. Enjoy!
A mention from David Byrne!
I have been EXTREMELY fortunate to have played guitar on a run of shows last week with David Byrne, among many other incredible musicians. He writes about his experience performing the music of William Onyeabor, and I get a mention and photo bomb from none other than David Byrne!!!
Read about his experience here!
