“It’s been one of the most rewarding things of my professional life that in the last two years I’ve discovered time and time again that people are interested in hearing me outside of Great Big Sea. I couldn’t tell you how grateful I am for that, and how lucky I feel.” Alan Doyle to John Law of the Niagara Falls Review, published 23 January, 2016.
It is hard to believe that it has been nearly two years since Great Big Sea took its hiatus and a year since the release of the So Let’s Go album. As Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies get ready to the hit road in the United States, Alan did these two interviews, one with The Brock Press and the other with the Niagara Falls Review to advertise the St. Catherine’s concert and the beginning of the tour to America.
“Great Big Sea splits, births Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies.” by Matt Lucawieki published in The Brock Press on 19 January 2016 and “The wave continues for Alan Doyle.” by John Law published in Niagara Falls Review on 23 January, 2016 are two interesting articles for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, as I have stated before my statistics from this blog show me there is a constant interest in the Great Big Sea break up or hiatus from journalists and fans alike. At the beginning of 2014, I wrote two posts about the band’s hiatus and four posts about Sean McCann leaving. Those posts have remarkably collected 2700 hits between them and are visited nearly every week for those wanting information. Great Big Sea’s hiatus is still discussed by journalists and in particular by fans on the Great Big Sea Online Kitchen Party on Facebook.
Despite the length of time there has been a lot of discussion by the fans and in particular by Sean McCann and most of it not positive. Bob Hallett has been particularly honest with fans, explaining where they are and not leaving the fans with any false hope of a reunion in the future. I am sure many fans really appreciated that honesty. So I guess with the interest still there from fans and the media alike, Alan still feels obliged to talk about the hiatus. He has done so respectfully and positively, even giving a little plug to Sean McCann’s latest album and tour in the article “Great Big Sea splits, births Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies.”.
The second interesting point about this article is the evolution from the Alan Doyle Band to Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies being more than Alan Doyle and a band to Alan Doyle and a band with its own identity and more of a partnership. The article states “With Great Big Sea over, Doyle’s attention has been focused on the future of his career with The Beautiful Gypsies since the former side-project has become his primary endeavor.
Doyle is in the process of creating another album with the Gypsies, this time putting more of the focus on the other members of the band. As opposed to the past albums he released with the group that were released under the name “Alan Doyle,” the next album will likely have the band’s name included as well. However, while the past two albums had distinctly different sounds to them, with Boy On A Bridge having more of a traditional Folk sound and So Let’s Go featuring more Pop elements, the upcoming album’s sound is still undetermined as of yet.”
I guess one can compare this situation to when Alan began working with Russell Crowe, firstly as fairly anonymous songwriting partner and band member with a celebrity actor lead singer to that of a fully-fledged musical and creative partnership with the Crowe and Doyle songbook. The members of the Beautiful Gypsies have definitely grown in popularity both as individuals and musicians with the fans and this creative partnership is a natural evolution. I am sure all the fans will be watching this relationship and creative partnership develop into the new album with a huge amount of interest as they have in the past.
I have shared the rest of this article on my Google + page for those interested.
I have also circulated “The wave continues for Alan Doyle” by John Law published in Niagara Falls Review on 23 January, 2016. This article was circulated by fans on social media.
It is hard to believe that it has been nearly two years since Great Big Sea took its hiatus and a year since the release of the So Let’s Go album. As Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies get ready to the hit road in the United States, Alan did these two interviews, one with The Brock Press and the other with the Niagara Falls Review to advertise the St. Catherine’s concert and the beginning of the tour to America.
“Great Big Sea splits, births Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies.” by Matt Lucawieki published in The Brock Press on 19 January 2016 and “The wave continues for Alan Doyle.” by John Law published in Niagara Falls Review on 23 January, 2016 are two interesting articles for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, as I have stated before my statistics from this blog show me there is a constant interest in the Great Big Sea break up or hiatus from journalists and fans alike. At the beginning of 2014, I wrote two posts about the band’s hiatus and four posts about Sean McCann leaving. Those posts have remarkably collected 2700 hits between them and are visited nearly every week for those wanting information. Great Big Sea’s hiatus is still discussed by journalists and in particular by fans on the Great Big Sea Online Kitchen Party on Facebook.
Despite the length of time there has been a lot of discussion by the fans and in particular by Sean McCann and most of it not positive. Bob Hallett has been particularly honest with fans, explaining where they are and not leaving the fans with any false hope of a reunion in the future. I am sure many fans really appreciated that honesty. So I guess with the interest still there from fans and the media alike, Alan still feels obliged to talk about the hiatus. He has done so respectfully and positively, even giving a little plug to Sean McCann’s latest album and tour in the article “Great Big Sea splits, births Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies.”.
The second interesting point about this article is the evolution from the Alan Doyle Band to Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies being more than Alan Doyle and a band to Alan Doyle and a band with its own identity and more of a partnership. The article states “With Great Big Sea over, Doyle’s attention has been focused on the future of his career with The Beautiful Gypsies since the former side-project has become his primary endeavor.
Doyle is in the process of creating another album with the Gypsies, this time putting more of the focus on the other members of the band. As opposed to the past albums he released with the group that were released under the name “Alan Doyle,” the next album will likely have the band’s name included as well. However, while the past two albums had distinctly different sounds to them, with Boy On A Bridge having more of a traditional Folk sound and So Let’s Go featuring more Pop elements, the upcoming album’s sound is still undetermined as of yet.”
I guess one can compare this situation to when Alan began working with Russell Crowe, firstly as fairly anonymous songwriting partner and band member with a celebrity actor lead singer to that of a fully-fledged musical and creative partnership with the Crowe and Doyle songbook. The members of the Beautiful Gypsies have definitely grown in popularity both as individuals and musicians with the fans and this creative partnership is a natural evolution. I am sure all the fans will be watching this relationship and creative partnership develop into the new album with a huge amount of interest as they have in the past.
I have shared the rest of this article on my Google + page for those interested.
I have also circulated “The wave continues for Alan Doyle” by John Law published in Niagara Falls Review on 23 January, 2016. This article was circulated by fans on social media.
