Dear Paul,
After enjoying your music for at least 35 years it’s time to say thank you. Crazy Dreams is so strongly connected to a long train journey back to my beloved and still makes me so happy.
Travelling through Ireland your music was played at The Rose of Tralee, and I knew all the songs.
Hope you can one day make it to Netherlands to perform. Good health and happiness to you and all fans of your music. Jan.

Wondering if there will be any UK dates in 2023 or 2024? Really would love to see a PB gig and have not been able to make it work in the past - if not maybe I’ll have to make it over to Ireland 🙂

Just discovered a dusty old 45 of ‘Crazy Dreams’ from ‘Hard Station’. Why have I not heard your music before??? Great song, and so I will search for your old vinyl and hopefully hear some more great music from an artist that certainly deserves much broader recognition.

Sincere thanks for an excellent evening back on the 14th in Ennis and what a surprise to meet you afterwards. Thanks for the photo and signing Vicar St. Great album, can’t wait for Vol 2.
The last time my wife & I saw you play was back in the early nineties in Dublin. We were living in London and I surprised her with PB concert tickets and flight tickets as well. We were just married and what a weekend it was.
You concert was a very special night for us.
To see you in Ennis all these years later, the memories came flooding back. Thank you. Can’t wait to see you again soon.
Keep doing what you do, it means so much to so many people.

What a concert last night in Ratoath. I am a fan since the Johnston’s days and finally got to shake your hand last night, what a thrill for me. You voice is still amazing and to be able to stand alone on stage and hold us enthralled is just incredible. Thank you for the music.

We went to see Paul Brady play in Athlone at the weekend. I have only seen him on stage with others before. Once with the Johnstons for a reunion, about 2014 I think and then with Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny and Kevin Burke. All were brilliant concerts.

But what I saw this last weekend I am still absolutely stunned by the concert. It was another level again. We were very lucky to get front row seats. Paul Brady came on stage like a storm. He sang and played beautifully. He had humour and emotion and energy unlike any other perfomer I have seen. He sang his own gorgeous songs and created a huge massive sound with just one instrument. I did not want the concert to end.

I have seen Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and even Freddie Mercury with Queen in his white jump suited heyday. I have seen John Martyn, Richard Thompson and the original Pixies line-up of the early 90s. But Brady wiped the floor with all of them.

I queued up to get a CD signed at the end. A man tapped me on the shoulder to tell me he had come from Holland for the concert. He said he had heard one Paul Brady song on the radio in Holland recently and had to buy the album. Then he had to come to the concert. He said that he had never heard all those songs that 'the people were singing to', he didn't know there were so many more songs written or sung by Paul Brady. He said now he has tp buy them all! Lucky man, he still has the pleasure of hearing so many Paul Brady songs like The Island and Lakes of Ponchartrain for the first time!

Thank you Paul Brady. We are so happy went went to see you. :))

Dear Paul,

Ever since I discovered your album Andy Irvine and Paul Brady over a decade ago, my life hasn't been the same. As a young ginger man from The Netherlands, I've picked up the guitar since and practiced nearly every day to get tunes like Arthur McBride, Mary and the Soldier, I Am A Youth That’s Inclined To Ramble, The Lakes of Pontchartrain down. I’ve played in rock, ska and funk bands since, but Irish music and especially your tunes are still my all time favourite songs to play. I return to them regularly to find them just as fresh as when I first found them when I was in my early twenties.

The incredible guitar play, that amazing, powerful voice of yours, and all the other instruments you play - such an inspiration. When I went to UCD for a semester, I was hoping to catch you live, but unfortunately all shows were sold out (and rightfully so). My heart jumps a beat when I see your name appear on any scheduled show and I do hope to catch you on the stage one day.

Thank you for your beautiful music, for helping me on my way to find my own voice. Hopefully we’ll meet one day and I’d be able to express my heartfelt gratitude in person. For bringing so much beauty in this world, for inspiring young and old alike, then and still. I wish you all the best!

Michiel

Hi Paul. Fair play to you, I really enjoyed the book and looking back on the songs and related utube clips.. Wishing you well for the future and thank you for bringing so much colour to the World.

Regards
Joe

Loved the book, amazingly candid. I "found" you at Hard Station just after arriving in London in the 80's. How could I miss the connection? Added bonus I worked my way through your back catalogue while reading the book. Saw you at the NCH just before we all got locked up.. Keep up the great work and thanks for the music

Thinking about you ,my brother Mark, and Boston....
you are still the best rhythm guitarist.
I became an ER doc and only still play for myself. All the best.
Thank you for the music.