Traveling Troubadour - Episode #1 - The Neil Brophy Interview
Neil Brophy started his career as a mechanical engineer, but soon ditched his "normal" life in exchange from one of travel and adventure (From hitchhiking his way through North America, to playing 10 hour gigs in the Austrian alps). Listen to Neil explain how 2 years of busking on the streets of Perth Australia taught him the life-long lesson of how to captivate an audience.
Brophy’s Law release their all time live favourite live track ”The Bachelor," a strong traditional and authentic folk punk classic sound with an alternative edge. As the John Peel centre in the UK appropriately describes Brophy’s Law, ”Where the Pogues meet the Clash." Brophy says he wrote this at the age of 18 in the shoes of Shane McGowan heavily influenced by growing up watching the Pogues performing in their glory days on the London scene. They sang about the drinking holes of London and more drinking, a great recipe for this bar room classic ”The Bachelor” a song that paints a picture of a working class guy who’s surrenders his life to the devil in the jar, avoids marriage and drinks himself insane.
Petko Slavov grew up in Bulgaria under the weight of communism and restricted access to western music. Living close to a local guitar factory inspired Petko as his brother to dream up a life of travel and music. Listen to Petko describe his work in Scandinavia and his ambition to one day make enough money to buy real instruments to support his original music in Bulgaria.
“Airbag” band consists the duo of two brothers-Petko and Nikolay Slavov, who are native to Bulgaria and are based in Sofia.
Petko Slavov (guitars,bass, vocals) and Nikolay Slavov (keyboards, vocals) are responsible for both lyrics and composition and whilst on tour use guest musicians on guitar, bass and drums.
Their first album “Overcooked Summer” includes ten tunes and it was released 2005.
Troubadour: A Musician's Guide to Touring Europe as a Cover Artist: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V5Q5YG9/...
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