Some select interviews, articles and reviews. Most recent up top.
2015:
Interview with Red Velvet Media on Blogtalk Radio. Listen here.
2013:
September
– Mark did 2 songs for a Today FM Session on the Mix-Up – Take Me Home here at 14:17 & Bob Dylan’s Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues here at 39:20
March
– Greg Canty writes about Mark’s March Coughlan’s gig in Cork
2012:
December
– Interview with Dee Curran at Drive 105 in Derry
July
– Interview with Hot Press’ Craig Fitzpatrick
– Workman’s Club gig review in June in The Independent
June
– Interview with Goldenplec
– Chat with Ireland AM on TV3 and “Get Here”
– A chat with Tom Dunne on newstalk radio in Dublin (to the right)
May
– Appearance on Ocean Drive on Ocean FM in Sligo. Listen here
– Hot Press Acoustic Session & Interview. Click here to watch the videos.
– Hot Press review of “songs about love, songs about leaving”
– A short film Mark provided music for won the Fastnet Short Film Fest. Congrats to Ruan Magan on his film Angel!
– Interview at Totally Irish on 98fm. Listen here.
April
– Mark talks to Philip King on his South Wind Blows radio show on RTE: Radio 1. Click here to launch the RTE player and listen.
– An interview in the Prostějov newspaper ahead of his dates around the Czech Republic in April (PDF).
– Thanks to Zach at the fantastic music blog We Listen For You for this really nice review of songs about love, songs about leaving on WLFY’s updated “Best of 2011”. – I’ve been on a huge folk kick these last few years and I’m not sure how Mark Geary’s newest album Songs About Love, Songs About Leaving went unheard. This is a spectacular folk record that marks what I’ve known for along time, Geary is one of the best singer/songwriters we have going right now. If you have a soft spot for the softer folk, this is a required listen record. With appearances by Glen Hansard and songs that shake the emotional core, this should have been a record in the same breath as a Bon Iver or the other lauded folk records of 2011.
February – Mark visited Rob O’Connor at Irish Beats on The Beat in Waterford. You can listen to the interview and songs here at Rob’s Podcast.
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2011 – Radio interview on Culture Cafe (RTE 2XM)
2010
– Q + A with Mike Fitzpatrick at MikefitzNYC
– the wonderful folks at The Ruckus had a week of posts dedicated to Mark. Includes photos, video, reviews and an interview.
– interview at the Irish Examiner
2009
– interview with The Last Broadcast
2008
– video interview with Hot Press
– Mark Geary – Interview on MUZU.TV
– Hybridmagazine.com review of Opium
2006
– interview with Room Thirteen
2005
– All Music Guide review of Ghosts
– Billboard Magazine review of Ghosts – “Irishman Mark Geary, offers an outstanding sophomore release in “Ghosts.” His obscurity should end here: With sparse but superlative meditations like “Beautiful,” “You’re the Only Girl,” the pretty lullaby “Mid-nite Sun” and the nearly nine-minute “Hold Tight,” Geary’s songwriting and delivery recall such top contemporary practitioners as Ron Sexsmith. “Ghosts” also evokes Van Morrison, particularly his early-1970s era. Perhaps most satisfying about the album is that such a project can be released in 2005 at all-apart from occasional drum programming, these are fully organic, natural-sounding recordings; vocoder, synthesizers and other sound manipulators need not apply. “Ghosts” is a collection of superb songs delivered with a quiet intensity that will endear itself to listeners.”
2004 – Claus.com review of Ghosts
2003 – Interview with Sortedmagazine.com
2002 – great archived piece at ImagineNews.com – Mark Geary: Singer/Songwriter and Now the Screen