QUOTES

“The Galway Girl [from Mundy’s live album Live & Confusion] is the one thing I’m sure to be
remembered for. I owe a lot of that to Mundy… the biggest hit was his version. People probably won’t
even remember who the  fuck I was, but they’re going to be singing that song in Ireland for a long time.
I really do believe that. And that’s the only kind of immortality anybody can hope for.”
—Steve Earle
“From the first time I saw Mundy 15 years ago, I knew he was very special, soaring melodies that can
spirit you away, vivid lyrics that are sometimes dreamlike, sometimes matter of fact, story painting with
stunning imagery and amazing gigs that has us eatin’ the songs straight from his palm, he’ s a gift”
—Damien Dempsey
“Mundy comes from a very long historical line of great Irish performers, singers and song writers, it’s a
list of awesome musical royalty he sits amongst and he rightly and gently wears his crown equally with
them all.”
—Richard Hawley

BIOGRAPHY

Mundy released his 5th studio album Shuffle (on 29th April 2011). Recorded over a year at various bunkers, this is Mundy’s
love song to his favourite American songwriters. Mundy’s first record of covers perfectly compliments a catalogue that already
includes a live album& DVD where he had a massive hit with Steve Earle’s Galway Girl which is part of the journey which
started with Jellylegs and Mundy’s hit To You I Bestow from the Romeo & Juliet soundtrack. Along the way he’s notched up
other huge hits in Ireland like Mexico & July, a number 1 album in Raining Down Arrows and shows in the UK & Ireland
with Oasis, White Stripes, Manic Street Preachers etc.
However it’s in the roots world where Mundy is currently residing, having toured with the great Jimmy Webb in the UK,
opened for Lucinda Williams and earned the respect of Steve Earle “It’s the one thing I’m sure to be remembered for
and I owe a lot of that to Mundy”, in 2011 he played in the Grand Canal Theatre with Emmylou Harris, opened up the
ceremonies for Barrack Obama’s visit to Ireland and finished the year playing huge shows in Ireland as special guest to the
wonderful Imelda May.

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CATALOGUE

Shuffle

Label : Camcor Recording
Catalogue No : CCR 21
Release Date : 29th April 2011
“This record was a pleasure to make and I wanna thank all of
the great writers of these songs for inspiring me, leading me
and guiding me in my career through darkness and light.”
The serendipitous mundy jukebox-mr enright’s technicolour
almanac-a spiritual journey through the heart’s mysterious
uplands/ the singing school. New and much improved and
enlarged edition-a collection of psalm and hymn tunes,and
glorious accounts of egg-sucking dogs,of odes and anthems
and men put crazy by their love of haphazard women.
—Pat McCabe.

1. Rock of Ages Gillian Welch / David Rawlings
2. It’s A Wonderful Lie Paul Westerberg
3. Painbirds Mark Linkous
4. Drunken Angel Lucinda Williams
5. Reconsider Me (w/Gemma Hayes) Warren Zevon
6. Buckets of Rain Bob Dylan
7. Juanita Gram Parsons/Chris Hillman
8. Looks Like I’m Up Shit Creek Again Tom Waits
9. Angel from Montgomery John Prine
10. Ohio Neil Young
11. Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog Cowboy Jack H. Clement
12. Kathy’s Song Paul Simon
13. Peach Pickin Time in Georgia Jimmy Rodgers
and Clayton McMichen
14. Lost on the River Hank Williams

Strawberry Blood

Format : CD & Deluxe download
Irish release Date: 17th April 2009
Label: Camcor Recording
Strawberry Blood, Mundy’s fourth studio album was
possibly his most accomplished to date. Recorded in Grouse
Lodge, Co. Westmeath and the Cauldron, Dublin by Joe
Chester, Strawberry Blood features an intriguing cast of
contributors including Shane McGowan (Love is Casino),
Gemma Hayes (Fever) and Interference man Fergus
O’Farrell (Pepper in My Dreams). The result was a beautiful
and uplfiting album that’s a true tonic for the times. “With
what’s going on with the country and the world, it’s very
easy to be negative and it’s very easy to write negative songs,”
Mundy muses. “It’s more challenging to be positive. This
album is thought provoking and reflective but fun and
upbeat. It’s about taking on a challenge…and God loves a
trier.” Strawberry Blood is Mundy’s first album since Jellylegs
to get a worldwide release due to the genius of iTunes, where
a deluxe edition of the album comes with a 24 minute
film ‘Splurges’ which documents the journey he has made
recording the album and trying out the material  leading up
to it’s release.

Live  & Confusion

Format: CD/DVD package & single CD & download
Irish release date: 26th May 2006
Double platinum Status in Ireland
Label: Camcor Recording
Live & Confusion captured the magic and energy of Mundy
in concert, recorded at a rammed Vicar Street in October
2005, a greatest hits at this point in his career, Live &
Confusion managed to distill the excitement of a Mundy
show into a visual and aural treat that is that rarest of things
for a live album, inclusive – giving listeners/viewers a feel
for what it was like to be there and providing the perfect
snapshot of one of Ireland’s finest performers at the peak
of his powers.  The first single to be taken from Live &
Confusion, July (Live), entered the Irish Charts on digital
downloads alone at No. 16, the first ever song to do so.
Steve Earle’s  ‘Galway Girl’ which was included as an encore
on the album became the biggest download in Ireland of
2007 before being released as a studio version, going to
No.1 in and becoming the biggest single in Ireland of 2008.
Live & Confusion continued to sell during Mundy’s run of
festival performances and reached sales of 30,000 bringing
him to massive audiences at Irish festivals like Electric Picnic
and Oxegen as well as Glastonbury and The Cambridge
Folk festival in the UK where Steve Earle guested with
Mundy and Sharon for Galway Girl.  At the end of the
Live & Confusion campaign Mundy started appearing with
Sharon Shannon’s big band which also featured guests Shane
McGowan and Damien Dempsey. Galway Girl became the
most downloaded song in Ireland for two years in a row
and eventually reached number 1 on the charts. The Live &
Confusion tour cumlinated in a show at Oxegen 2008 (to
10,000 people) which is now available on iTunes.

Raining Down Arrows

Format: (CD& download)
Release Date: May 14th 2004
Entered the Irish album charts at number 1 on 21st May 2004
Platinum Status in Ireland
Label: Camcor Recording
Released in Australia and New Zealand on Little Big Music 5th
July 2004.
In his own words: “I made this album in August 2003 with
an amazing couple that I met at a venue called the Hideout
in Chicago in 2001. Mark, the producer, has a small label
called India records in Austin, TX. This particular night
was a showcase for the label that I stumbled upon with a
friend of mine called Zoran and three Birriers (i.e. people
from Birr, Co. Offaly!). Three acts played, Will Sexton,
brother of Charlie Sexton who played guitar with Bob
Dylan. Kitty Gordon, Jeff Klein and Sheridan played too.
I loved the music and the fact that they all backed up each
other’s performances. I bought all their albums that night
and having been to Austin, Texas a couple of times and
fallen in love with the place I thought that it would be the
next place to record. The reasons being that I bought the
hat from 24*hotel there, Townes van Zandt, I saw Lucinda
Williams there and the fact that I could sleep on the couch
of Mark Addison and his wife Nina and make a back to
basics record.”
Raining Down Arrows went to number 1 in Ireland and
again over a period of a couple of years became a favourite
with Mundy fans, it also allowed him to return to the UK
to tour where he supported Jimmy Webb and Josh Ritter
as well as playing as series of headline shows in London at
the likes of the 100 Club, Bush Hall and The Academy and
solo shows in France and Holland. More solo shows around
the UK and his continuing popularity in Ireland helped
ensure Mundy’s career was going to survive the vagaries of
the business. Some called this his country record but in truth
‘By Her Side’, ‘Love & Confusion’ and 10,000 Miles Away
From Harm indulged Mundy’s passion for Crazy Horse and
The Replacements as much as Townes Van Zandt.  Mundy
got to do a solo tour of the UK with Jimmy Webb during
this time, Webb was the author of classics like Witchita
Lineman, Galveston, By The Time I Get To Phoenix etc.

24 Star Hotel

Format: CD & download
Release Date: April 19th 2002
Released in the UK 19th July 2004
Double Platinum in Ireland September 2004
Label: Camcor Recording
Following the promotion and touring of  Jellylegs, Mundy
started recording his second album but it was then that
problems started to arise between Mundy and his then
record company Sony as to how commercial the songs
should be. These ongoing differences failed to be resolved
and in January 2000 Mundy and Sony parted company.
It was then that Mundy took some time out to travel, all
the time wondering if he could survive without a record
company. Deciding that he could, he started his own record
label Camcor Recording and released an EP The Moon Is
A Bullethole and a single ‘Mexico / July’. Critics and public
alike enthusiastically received both releases and it was only
a matter of time before his album, ‘24 Star Hotel’ would
follow. ‘24 Star Hotel’ was a collection of 12 songs, written
between 1996 and 2000 dealing with love, life, addiction
and travel, recorded in London with legendary producer
Tommy D. 24 Star was a slow burn but as Mexico and July
picked up play at Irish radio and Healthy became a live
favourite Mundy began playling Irish festivals, suddenly
everything gelled and 24 Star went on to become one of
the biggest Independent releases of it’s time. It has sold over
45,000 copies in Ireland alone.

Jelly Legs

Format: CD & Download
Released: 1996
Label: Sony Music
Mundy was born Edmund Enright in the rural town of
Birr, County Offaly, in 1976. At age 18, Mundy moved to
Dublin and began performing on infamous busker haven
Grafton Street, and at open-mike nights at the nearby
International Bar. Less than two years later Mundy signed
with Sony subsidiary Epic Records, and released his debut
single, “To You I Bestow,” on New Year’s Day 1996. The
presence of Youth, founding bassist with post-punk pioneers
Killing Joke, is notable in the Smiths-like bounce of the
single, and he was an equally important influence upon
the album that followed, the appropriately titled Jelly Legs.
Shortly before the album was released in October 1996, “To
You I Bestow” was licensed for inclusion on the soundtrack
for Baz Luhrmann’s Shakespeare adaptation Romeo +
Juliet, alongside tracks by Radiohead and Garbage. The
soundtrack went on to sell 11 million copies; Jelly Legs sold
a respectable 50,000 worldwide.