NTB on screen and in the flesh

Thanks to Niall Toner for news of the current 2007 Niall Toner Band schedule, on which the first date is tomorrow (Wednesday 14 March): a 9.30 p.m. show at Mick Murphy's, Ballymore Eustace. All dates now available are shown on the BIB calendar.

The recent photo above shows the NTB with Mr Campbell Bodels of Bunclody, Co. Wexford, on his seventieth birthday. Niall says:

He's one of our biggest fans, and we had made him a promise to perform for his 70th. In the event, he was seriously ill, so we played in his house for the occasion. The photo shows him in his pyjamas! He's a retired truck driver with a very colourful past, and I wrote 'Bodels Blues', on the Mood swing CD, as a tribute to him. He's very fond of instrumental country/bluegrass, and once spent a couple of hours sitting in a rented car outside Doc Watson's house in Deep Gap, NC, without ever disturbing the incumbent.


'Didn't anyone bring a mandolin?' - Niall Toner on guitar and Roland White (ex Country Boys/Kentucky Colonels, Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Country Gazette, Nashville Bluegrass Band, etc.) on bass, in the Nashville home of Barry & Holly Tashian

More recently - the NTB backstage with Kenny Rogers, for whom they played support at the Point Depot, Dublin, and the King's Hall, Belfast, in October 2006. On the left, Kelvin Busher (string bass), standing in for Dick Gladney on these two shows. Photo by Faiz Farrelly.