“Brendan Monaghan is
one
of
Ireland‘s great unsung songsmiths who writes straight from the heart. He has such a strong body of material that you sometimes forget how wonderfully varied his work is, and how he can hit the spot emotionally in so many different ways.
He is also a performer of electrifying energy and enthusiasm, a troubadour undiminished by the rigors of is art, sparkling like a diamond every time he throws a guitar strap round his neck“.
The next album “no more words“ also released on Roxon Records was also recorded at the “Igloo“ by Michael Keeney.
Monaghan by now going through a marriage break-up found a release via his music. This period of the writers career and life was highly charged with emotion, hurt and the „not knowing what tomorrow will bring“ feeling. This is very evident on several of the tracks for example
“suffer for you“, “I‘m not the one“ and “faith, love and hope“ plus the two songs which were also released as a single and video, “Caledonian girl“ and “the road to Ballintra“, this song was dedicated to his late mother.
Monaghan continued to perform both at home and abroad and he shared the same bill as many major Irish and international artists.
In 2008 Brendan Monaghan signed to the well respected and long running international independent record label Swiss based Brambus Records. He also returned to working with Gary Aiken at Novatech studios just outside Belfast whom he had previously worked with very early in his musical career. Novatech are one of the top recording studios in Ireland. The next batch of songs when recorded and put together with the title “look no further“ was released it was late 2008. The album featured some of Monaghan‘s well known live songs “Katie shines“,
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