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member since: 23 Aug 2008 02:56 PM
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The Real MacHoy. A collaboration project that fate has brought back together, after a break of way too many years. Introducing T.Mac a virtuoso on guitar and keyboard, who’s melodic outpouring have helped transform the evocative words of B.Hoy into their latest offering the album “The Dancers of the Sands”. A chance meeting after a gap of over 20 years, brought these two guy’s back together again, both have fond memories of those early days and of playing the club circuit around the badlands of England. T.Mac. has worked in bands for a long time, and is a well respected musician & vocalist in his own right, with a string of albums to his name. He has been influenced over the years by The Eagles,The Beatles, Dire Straits, Free, Bad Company, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Coldplay, Tom Petty and Blue Nile to mention just a few, and has developed those influences into his own very distinctive style. Drawing on experiences and observations, events in history and imagination, T.Mac paints lucid pictures with words, sometimes in full colour, and now and then in a faded sepia that reminds you of day..s gone by. It was after listening to one of those emotive songs “Lusitania” on the Steel Town album that B.Hoy was moved to writing the first song for this new album. “Lest We Forget”. The song traces the family history of the Escott’s, back to the days of the first world war. This large family of 13 lived in a two up two down pit house in Boldon Colliery. The return of Uncle Joe a “Ten Pound Pom’ was the inspiration for the “Canada to Castletown” track, his was a firsthand account of that terrible night. The other songs on the album move away from from the distant past in to the present, “Talking to the Wind” a track about the pain of loss and grief. Relationships and the mind games that go with them are the themes for “Fallen Angel”, “Lonely Road”, “Ride Down the Highway” and “Hazel Eyes”. Being overtaken by events is the thought behind “There’s a Storm A Coming”. While “Long May You Shine” is a road trip rocker!! "We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it" T.Mac & B.Hoy.
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