BRENDAN Keeley plays Dolan’s Warehouse on Saturday August 29. Keely has had seven top ten hits in Ireland, and has had major success in Germany and mainland Europe. He is also conductor and musical director of the Tullamore Gospel Choir the largest gospel choir in the country which is renowned for it’s charity work. Brendan Keeley lends himself to the prime group of Irish artists that give Ireland a place of pride and prominence in the music world.
Keeley’s latest album At Last is a class culmination of many years of song writing experience. All of the best hits, which have previously stormed the Irish charts, can be found on this album. They are accompanied by stunning new songs, which fans will hear for the first time on this tour. Always seeking new heights, Brendan will hit the International stage with his latest offering this autumn. There has already been evidence of Keeley’s music appealing to audiences from further afield. A South African band covered Keeley’s hit song Wishing and it entered the charts in South Africa. His track record indicates that international audiences will be seduced by the power and appeal of his music. Brendan has just been signed to Spectra Records to release his albums throughout the US and Canada. In truth, success has followed success for Brendan Keeley since his first release I’ll always be lonely in 1995. So where did the roots of this success take place? Like many of our presently internationally acclaimed Irish artists, Christy Moore, or Paul Brady, Brendan Keeley’s music career started in the Irish Bar Circuit. It was the beginning of a dream coming true. With some experience and an unyeilding love for music, Keeley decided to take the jump across the Irish Sea and introduce himself to the London Scene. The band was called Shanty Dam and the venues were many of London’s prime live music spots. Shanty Dam revelled in a huge following, during their years in London, packing in thousands of enamoured fans every weekend. The seeds were sown for what was to become Brendan Keeley’s unparallelled songwriting career. Brendan returned to Ireland with the intention of launching his music career. Despite it being impossible to find a record company that was willing to give this promising but yet unestablished artist a break, Keeley forged ahead. Undeterred and forever focused on his dream, Keeley released I’ll always be lonely under his own label. The hit song stayed in the Irish charts for a staggering six months. It’s this kind of “heart” that is the essence of Keeley’s music. The sheer amount of life in each song ensured that one hit song would follow another. In 1995, Brendan released his first album following his second hit Take the chains away. In its first week, this fantastic album named after the first hit single went platinum. A phenomenal start which was only a sign of things to come for Brendan Keeley. His second album Miss you Tonight was released in 1997. This album also enjoyed platinum success. It included more hit songs such as Does he really love you, which rocketed to number four in the Irish charts to be followed by another smash hit Hands to Heaven. Brendan Keeley has given the Limerick Post 10 copies of the new album At Last to giveaway to fans. To be in with a chance of winning email Brendan Keeley Competition to ents@limerickpost.ie
