BALCONYTV.COM 3/08/2007
PRESENTED BY PAULINE FREEMAN
Born & rared in Dublin I was raised with music playing around me day & night. I tried Violin, Piano & guitar in my youth but never got far. I didn't pick up my first guitar until I was 19. I was at a party and a friend was bangin out tune after tune and I thought "that's what I want to be able to do", so I bought my first guitar. I got a friend to show me a few chords & it went from there. Not long after I had a stab at writing a few broken heart songs and my god they were sh*te but at least they were a start and I knew I could improve. So over the months to follow the songs imporved & I got talking to a few musicians who advised the live scene would be the next step. So I started playing in every hole I could find. After College real life kicked in and time became more scarce but I kept the gigs up and bought a 12 track studio. After listening to myself I worked on improving and controlling my vocal technique as it is half the battle when performing live. I got to grips with the studio and I realised my songs would be open to improvement with the help of other instruments I got a few musicians to join me and we experimented with violins, percussion, bass etc. None of these fusions really lasted long for various reasons (well most of the people were french/swiss and eventually left Ireland) so I went back to playing solo. I spent 2006 in Australia and I did very little in terms of guitar/gigs and I just wanted to give it a break and hoped I'd find new inspiration... which I did. So in 2007 I'm back & I spent a while in TROY HORSE & REDLAB studios recording my new tracks with some good friends to accompany. So please check you the music and pop along to a show.
STEPHEN ROONEY PLAYS DUBLINS HUB TOMORROW NIGHT AT 8PM!!!
http://www.myspace.com/stephenrooneymusic
Tune in again tomorrow!!!