Welcome

hey everybody....first off i'd like to thank Kevin Yahl and all at Digital One for the new website.....its just the basics....soon we will have, new demo's ...video's of the recording of " Hey La Hey" and all sorts of goodies.....so keep checking back.....its gonna get very exciting around here for the coming months......
God bless you all and thank you for continued support....

much love
xoxox
m

Next Stop....Nashville

Next Stop.....Nashville

Hey everybody, just wanted to tell you that i will be heading to Nashville on monday to start rehearsals for the new album and first official day of recording is the 17th. So excited to be working with Lex Price on this album. We will be at House oF David studio's and then back to Lex's house for any further stuff. So very very excited. Thanks for your continued support and can't wait to share this piece of work with you .

xo
m

God is in one room, The Devil is in the other

greetings,

i always get so far behind in writing these things i never know where to start. Europe was great and sad. Shows in Italy were amazing, made some great new friends, had a relationship end, new ones begin...traveled 29 hours in my last 72 hours there. Got sick, was drunk alot, woke up not knowing what country i was in, had a birthday, fell down and hurt my knee( due to bday drunkeness) did some Buddhist chanting, swam in the Mediterranean , went to Fellini's hometown and did a show and a radio show,..said on stage at a show in london " fuck the brits" but i blame that on the absinthe..,had a great time at " holy joe's" in london..., came home and lost a thousand dollars in memphis, had some wonderful shows with the great susan enan, and in the last two days i've been sober.
written a few new tunes, rediscovered a few older ones.....presently in the middle of a" crisis of faith", which there seems to be no end to as of now.
not doing too much traveling as of now, which is kind of nice, so i can regroup. Thanks to those who came to the shows over the last couple months.....almost all were memorable for me.....cept that london one.....oh....and new jersey too( sorry about that)
sorry to Cindy's parents.....i think someone slipped me a mickey......
thanks to everybody for sticking by,....hoping to start recording in october/november.....and am soooo psyched to get started....
will keep you updated with details as to the with whom, where and when and why.....
say a prayer tonight, for the broken
xo
m

Who Breaks A Butterfly

Greetings from madhouse central,
the whimsicality of life never ceases to amaze me......blown around like leaves in autumn....i've heard it said that gratitude is the key to life.....i recently said to a friend, that if there was a jeanie.....and granted me one wish.....i wouldn't wish for fame or fortune i'd wish that in my pea brain of a heart that i would learn to be grateful for the life i've lead to this point....instead of the bitterness i carry around like a cross....maybe gratitude is the key to life.....maybe a lack of gratitude makes you feel like there is something missing....like there is an unfillable( i know, its not a word) hole....
today is the 5th in a series of songs i've put up on monday morning madness....."The Great American Novel, Room 411, The Rain Always Makes Me, God And The Devil, and Who Breaks A Butterfly" quite happy with the little run that was...hope you enjoyed it too.

Waiting on dates for the Italian Tour....i think its going to run from Aug 21- Sept 3rd.....but thats as much as i know now....
starting to think about the next record.....after this last batch i'm certain that the album is there....cutting the songs down to 12 will be the hard part, but i am VERY excited about going in to record again.....need to raise capital and then whom im going to work with.....

anyway that's all i can think of at present.....sorry about the delay in posting....hope everyone is enjoying their summer...God bless and hope to see you all soon
xo
m

may day

Hello Everybody,
Been a while and i'm sorry i was remiss in not writing sooner....much has happened since i last checked in.....had an amazing tour of ireland, england, scotland, wales, and italy.....with Eileen Rose and the Holy Wreck......
i'd like to thank all of you that i met on the tour.....too many to name....but Steve Foster, Marty McCool, David Emmerson, My new Italian family, Alex and Rob, Tabita, and Ennrica, Fluvio, Lorenzo.....Hannah Kowszun.......but more on her later......had mixed emotions about coming back home.....this IS my home....but was really just an amazing time to be over there,,,,,the life of the troubador....different town's every night.....different main streets filled with mystery....stories....legends.....breathed a new life into me....and i'd like to thank Eileen Rose for making it possible.....got some pics on myspace from the tour and will get them on to the website soon too.....and got a couple throw away camera's that i need to get developed.....so more to come...
There were many people in Italy that had " 620 W. Surf" albums.....which i had never even seen before.....and i just cant' get over the hairdo i had......wow......i am hoping to make a return there in late august or september....am looking very forward to that....

i actually thought i had all week off.....only to check my www.myspace.com/michaelmcdermott and realized i have 3 shows....two in indianapolis and one in memphis.....so its back to work....have many song idea's....but havent' really had the time to get them finished....which is very frustrating for me.....

was supposed to do a tin angel show last week and play in jersey.....but when i got to the plane.....it had been delayed from 1pm to 3 pm......then 4:30 pm....which would have just barely allowed me to make the gig......we boarded the plane went out to the tarmack and then sat, and sat....then the pilot came on the intercom and said " we have an ignition problem....engine 2 is not firing, so we are going back to the gate to fix it....." then we sat at the gate.....and after another 45 minutes....he said " the plane has been designated out of operation...we need to find a new plane" so that sealed my fate.....i am so sorry to those of you who bought tickets....and i hope to have a rescheduling date soon......as well as those in new jersey.....

am doing 4 national anthems this summer at wrigley.....only 3 have been scheduled.....as of now.....

take care of each other....and may God bless us all
xo
m

oh seven, random thoughts

well happy new year everybody......interesting year it was....personally, professionally, spiritiually.....lost a great friend, Niva Bringas.....made some new friends......the record is hanging in there......loved the davenports shows.....excited about the uk stuff....had great time in cheltenham, broke my hand....though i think technically it was new years eve of 06......the cubs made the playoff's....had a birthday gig in london......heading up to minneapolis tomorrow morning to bid farewell to 07.....which i liken to a really good pizza place that kinda had an off night ( or year as it were) and only served you an ok pizza.....you don't complain necessarily cuz you like the joint and the people there.....but you really hope next time its a fair bit better....terrible analogy i know....but i'm kinda hungry right now.....so i think i'll leave it at that.....and head out to my favorie pizza place....and look for mystical signs about how 08' is going to fare.....if its a good pizza.....i'm hopeful.....if its not so good......well.....you know.....

happy new year.....God bless y'all

xo
m

a day of days

hello everyone......just got back from England and what a whirlwind trip....would like to extend my deepest thanks to david emmerson....for all the help....and to my new friends...steve and pip.....what great gents to have come across.....had the best time....what a thrill ......seemed to go over quite well.....sold out of all the cd's by the third day, and they were asking for more as we left.
came home and did the wgn news......
there is going to be a full page article in this sunday's chicago sun-times....we had a review in Entertainment Weekly that gave it a B.....although it almost seemed to slag it. So i was suprised by the good grade,.....would take a B any day of the week and twice on sundays if i we're still in high school....

this is from Performing Songwriter Magazine

Michael McDermott
Noise From Words
[One Little Indian]

Michael McDermott¹s eighth studio album and first on the One Little Indian
label is a stripped-down effort, possibly the roots-rock artist¹s best yet.
Noise From Words is like a clinic, as McDermott wears his emotions on a pair
of songwriting sleeves in a way that brings each powerful track to life. He
tells stories like John Prine, but marries a smoky, barroom voice with pop
sensibility in a way that more closely resembles Marc Cohn. From the start,
you feel McDermott¹s pain as he sings, ³Like a poet writes / A singer sings
/ And you and I make a mess of things.² ³Still Ain¹t Over You Yet² is
tailor-made to sing around a campfire, but for pure songwriting prowess,
nothing matches the agonizing beauty of ³My Father¹s Son² and the uplifting
piano ballad, ³I Shall Be Healed.² ‹Mike Farley

so yeah...heading to new york tomorrow for my last " living room " show....then home for a day and then off to memphis on friday....then next week....the big shows at Davenports......i'm tired but been so long since i've been so excited about things....without you all ...none of this would be happening....i thank each and everyone of you....from the bottom of my feeble heart.....God bless y'all....see you soon i hope....oh yeah....the record is in stores today....so go buy one will ye? pretty please?
xox
m