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Well Summer is in full swing! Weather is shit but sure we dont have time to enjoy it anyway so thats not putting me of much. June was a bit mad with Blues Festivals and Sea Sessions and Temple House and of course the Rory Gallagher fest. July start of with a nice tour around the country. We tested the Guiness along the West coast...my recommendations for best pint will be up soon!!

We a proud to announce that we are now represented by Ireland's most respected Live booking Agency
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AMA Music Agency are now now representing us.

We'll be playing a set at the Party Against The Pipe Festival on Sunday 5th June. If you go to www.partyagainstthepipe.wordpress.com you can find details of all the great activities planned for that weekend. Thanks to all the people involved in organising and for supporting the Shell to Sea Campaign we are really happy to be involved in this Festival.
MB

Ok folks, you can finally feel the veil of winter lifting and its time to play some good old rock n roll again. Weve finished recording the new album and were hoping to have some tracks available from May. If you want a preview check out www.breakingtunes.com/markblackthetrips as weve put a few new song on that site. Incidentally they were mixed by Tommy McLaughlin, who some of you may know is the guitarist in Villagers. He also was responsible for Villagers and Cathy Davey albums in 2011.

It will long remembered that the Winter of 2010/2011 was filled with record breaking freezing temperatures, snow, snow and more snow.....cancelled gigs, political bullshit and for me, well, 6 months in the recording studio! Seamus, Brendan and myself started recording this album in October and we are just about complete. Weve got 12 new songs to shove down your throats in April and altogether were very excited about it.

Greetings! Well the summer has passed and what a great time that was, crap weather but hey who can change the weather! Dunfanaghy Blues Festival this year was fantastic, what a great wee festival, well done to Donald and Sian, cant wait til 2011.

The summer is speeding along to its conclusion but just before it all winds up and Autumn and winter rear their ugly heads once more there are some gigs and events that you must hear about!

Well its all a bit flat out since the Summer has arrived. In the last month we've been at a bunch of festivals and enjoying the busy schedule on the roads of Ireland. Rory Gallagher Festival and CastleBar Blues fell on the same weekend and were some craic to say the least. Shit does happen however and we had some misfortune heading to the 3rd gig at the Rory Fest on the Sunday when the clutch went on the van and we got broke down on the side of the road for a few hours. We cussed and then cussed some more...but did it no good...the clutch was still fecked!

Just had a super gig at the Warrenpoint Blues On The Bay Festival! We played in a venue called the Square Peg and kept the place hopping for 3 hours on the Sunday night. Half way through the set we were joined by Donal McGuinness and Sean McCarron on trombone and saxophone so the playing was fast and furious for the last few hours and fair play to the lads for joining us. They were there for the weekend with Mirenda Rosenburg (the new Queen of Warrenpoint!) and still had enough energy to rock out with us after 2 hours with Mirendas Band. Always welcome boys anytime!

Hello there music lovers...and Welcome to my new look website!

Its about time I had a redesign and with the impending Summer 2010 tour and mountain of Festivals coming up in the following months I thought Id better get some stuff up here to let you know what Ill be doing in the coming months. So have a good look around and please feel free to drop me a line in the contact page if you have any thoughts, comments, feedback etc etc etc