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John is a native of Cork, the county he lovingly describes as 'the centre of the universe' and it has been a huge influence on this singer / songwriter. Vocally, Spillane is quite unique with an almost sean nos like element and has been described as having a voice 'full of honesty, commitment and sensitivity'.
His debut solo album 'The Wells of The World' (1997) was described by Hot Press's Oliver Sweeney as, 'not only a striking and individual musical statement, but one of the albums of this or any other year.' His compositions have been described as, "highly original in concept, full of imagery and wonder".
In March 2003 John won the prestigious Meteor Ireland Music Award in the Best Folk/Traditional Act category.
2003 also saw Christy Moore, Sharon Shannon, Sean Keane, Karen Casey and others record and release some of John's songs
In 2004 as well as writing the music and song, John produced and performed on a Brown Bag Films ("Give up your Auld Sins" animation, nominated for an Academy Award in 2003) animation called "The Boy Who Had no Story" based on one of John's songs "What's the Story Rory" It won an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Awards) under 2 categories, best animation and best children's program.
Johns latest album MY DARK ROSALEEN & THE ISLAND OF DREAMS is released tomorrow April 25th by EMI Ireland.

http://www.myspace.com/johnspillane
http://www.johnspillane.ie/

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[corkery1984]

Look at him at 15 seconds , eyes up to heaven

[tkeitdwn]

mighty tune ! kinda dylanish

[EoinCondon]

@corkery1984 He's like aw jaysus would ya shut up

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[conankilcoyne]

Cant get tabs anywhere.. Not good enough yet to do it myself...any clues, thanks

[samprastherabbit]

Good man, John Spillane!

[carlaghness]

gwan spillane!!!!! your only brillant!

[DHick2009]

I know his biggest fan his name is Andrew Corkery

[corkery1984]

ari rob

[mikmc]

He's class alright , real passion and a great writer/musician/singer !

[pelicanwing]

haha i wrote every thing he said down and i had to rap it to my friends.....and i laughted half way threw cause i sounded like a cat slowly getting run over by a car

[mos323]

Legend :)