January 22nd 2010: A large happy new year to all who pass this way. Two bits of news: Paul spent last week in West Cork recording with Interference.....their second studio album...from all reports a great start. Jessie Kennedy is launching her album officially on March 20th in Skibberreen, Co. Cork.

Also for anyone looking for copies of 'earthquakes' , Road records in Dublin is up and running again and they have two!

November 20th 2009: A quick reminder that Paul is starting his German/Austrian tour next week....new songs, new clothes and a chance for his German fans to hear the 'earthquakes' songs live!

October 5th 2009: Jessie Kennedy's first album has arrived! It's called 'Field of the wicked' and will soon be available at CDbaby and directly from Jessie's website. Paul produced and played on the album and we wish it all the luck and bon voyage it deserves!

August 27th 2009: Announcing the winter tour of Germany (see concerts). Paul Tiernan and John Lester (the pessimist and the optomist combo) bring to German and Austrian audiences their musical dynamism.

July 21st 2009: Here's something we thought we should share with you. It's Mark Cagney's (presenter of Irish breakfast tv show) blog and says some rather wonderful things about Paul.

Mark Cagney blog....tv3 One of the country's best and most underrated singer/songwriters dropped in for a chat this morning. Paul Tiernan, who some of you may remember from his time with the bands 'Interference' and 'Flex and the Fastweather' (don't ask, I haven't got a clue) has spent the last eight and bit years living abroad, mostly in France.

If his quality of work, in particular the development of his song writing, is anything to go by, it's a move some of his peers and contemporaries should seriously consider (Yes, I mean you Damien Rice). As Paul said himself this morning, he needed to get out of Ireland's small musical pond (puddle actually) and grow up as an artist.

With his last two records, 2004's 'Belle' and the current release 'Earthquakes start with little cracks' he is putting together a body of work that ranks with the best. I don't want to pigeon hole or label his music, but he grew up on Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Dylan, so without prejudice it's safe to say, he writes confessional songs for grown ups, they are also invariably melodic and tuneful.

Angst is all well and good, but a great tune helps the medicine go down and Tiernan has never been short of good tunes. However he has added a depth, maturity and wisdom to his armoury, plus a little Gallic flavour, which lifts him into different (higher) league altogether, check out 'Those Regrets' and 'Panic Blues' on 'Earthquakes start with little cracks' and ask yourself, how many of his peers are writing songs this good. In fact go one step further, and go out and buy it, because if these songs don't already strike a chord with you, they will, someday.

July 20th 2009: The Swiss tour went really well, Jessie Kennedy's new CD is finished and will be released at the end of the summer. Paul had been asked to play at a festival in Narbonne, France this August, details will be posted as soon as we have them.

June 3rd 2009: Paul Tiernan, Interference and Jessie Kennedy are off on a 4 date tour of Switzerland this month, a truly exciting prospect! See concerts for more details.

April 7th 2009: Photos page has been updated!

March 24th 2009 : Paul's Irish tour went exceedingly well....we'll be putting several reviews of 'earthquakes' into the reviews page soon as well as some more photos. There will be a follow up tour in Ireland in the Autumn/Winter. Thanks to all who came along!

January 16th 2009: A large happy new year to all who pass this way! 'Earthquakes start with little cracks' now has an Irish release date: March 2nd.

'Earthquakes' received a 'cracking ' review in 'Rock n'Folk' (we will be posting a translation soon), one of France's most popular music magazines. They even went so far as to say that 'Breakfast in bed' (the album's opening track) was the best song of 2008!

December 9th 2008: Paul has had an unprecedented amount of downloads for 'how to say goodbye' on itunes. The movie 'Nick and Norah's infinite playllist' in which the song is featured, will be released in Ireland early in 2009.

Paul will be touring Ireland in March to play songs from 'earthquakes start with little cracks'. Most of the concerts will feature members of Interference.

November 14th 2008:The new CD is now available from CDbaby and from itunes

Paul is at present producing Jessica Kennedy's new album....more news about that in the new year!

October 10th 2008: 'Earthquakes start with little cracks' is now available from this site! Paul's brand new CD will also soon be available from CD baby and from Road records (we'll tell you once they have copies).

Paul will be touring Ireland in Feb/March of 2009 to promote the new CD. Further tour news will be posted as it comes in.

The response to Paul's song 'how to say goodbye' has been tremendous from all the people who have seen 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist'....thanks for all your comments!

September 4th 2008:A song of Pauls 'how to say goodbye' will be in an American film by the name of 'Nick and Norah's infinite playlist'. The film is to be released in the USA on October 3rd and will be released worldwide in 2009.

August 12th 2008 : Paul's new CD at the mastering and final artwork stage.....should be ready by mid-September! Paul and Marja have been asked to play during 'Irish days at Turnov' in the Czech republic (see concerts) early November.

May 29th 2008: Paul just back from New York, having played two concerts with Interference there. Both were opening for Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova and both were a huge success. Paul will be playing with Dog tail soup in Schull on Monday, June 16th.

March 9th 2008: A large bunch of congratulations to Glen Hansard and Marketa for their Oscar win! Dog Tails soup (featuring members of Interference/Black/Camilla and Paul Tiernan) are playing a concert in Schull on March 24th with a10 piece band, not be missed!

January 16th 2008 : The time has come around again for Paul Tiernan fans to get involved in the release of his forthcoming CD (planned release....Autumn 2008) . To help launch the rocket ship we ask everyone and anyone to pay 20 euros in advance for a copy of the CD. For that you'll get your copy before the album goes on general release and you'll also get a credit on the CD itself! We did it for 'god knows' and 'belle' and it worked a treat.....let's start the ball rolling. All you have to do is to go to new cd and leave your e-mail address and we'll contact you with payment details.

December 21st: Happy everythingness to all out there and a big thank you from all of us for your support during 2007! A new album is in the oven, to be ready by summer 2008.....Paul has just played on 'Other Voices' with Interference and a live recording of 'What do you do' should be shown on RTE along with all the other wonderful Interference songs in Jan/Feb.

November 21st 2007: Paul 2008.will be playing with his tiny orchestra at the Cobblestones, Smithfield, Dublin on Saturday, December the 1st.....one not to be missed!

November 13th 2007: 'god knows i love a happy ending' is now available in mp3 format at CDbaby

As we are now practically sold out of actual Cds this will be the only way to buy the much loved 'god knows' for the forseable future

November 7th 2007: Paul will be supporting Josh Rouse and Lucinda Williams in Paris this month (not on the same night!). (see concerts for details)

October 14th 2007: Paul and Marja Tuhkanen start their German/Swiss tour next week (see concerts page for details).

August 2nd 2007: Paul will be playing with the outrageously wonderful Interference at the Festival of world cultures in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland on Sunday, August 26th.

For details see http://www.festivalofworldcultures.com

June 21st 2007: For lovers of the mp3, 'belle' is now available at http://payplay.fm/paultiernan at, even if we say it ourselves....a pretty good price. These tracks can be played on any mp3 player.

June 6th 2007: Mid-July sees Paul and 'Dog Tails soup' touring Poland, Slovakia and the Czech republic.

'Dog Tails soup' is made of Black, Camilla and a sprinkling of Interference (Fergus O'Farrell, Paul Tiernan, Bertrand Galen and Maurice Roycroft).

The concerts will be a mixture of Black/Interference/Paul Tiernan songs with a few surprises thrown in (to the soup.....).

April 6th 2007: Paul and a cast of thousands (Black, Fergus O'Farrell, Maurice Roycroft, Camilla and the West Cork choir) are playing two charity concerts in West Cork on the 27th (Skibbereen town hall) and 28th of April (Schull Community College).

March 15th 2007: You can now see Paul live at the Rochefort en accords festival 2006 : mr smile

March 2nd 2007: The concert in Paris was a great success, a small but perfectly formed audience and a night of magical musical moments!

Paul has started work on his 5th album, release date hopefully autumn 2007.

paul now has a myspace site www.myspace.com/paultiernan

''belle' is now available from cdbaby the worlds largest distributor of independent cds......also all tracks on 'belle' are available for digital download at itunes.

Click on link below to hear samples of all the tracks on 'belle' or to purchase CD.

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