Eddi Reader is happy to be back

ACCLAIMED Scottish singer Eddi Reader makes a welcome return to Galway with a show in the Town Hall Theatre next Monday, February 23, where fans will be able to buy advance copies of her new album Love Is The Way. The record is named after a song by Declan O'Rourke who Eddi met while the Dublin singer was still playing in Paddy Casey's band. They were playing in The Village and Eddi and her band decided to hang on after the show."As is the way it is with us, especially when we're in Dublin or in Ireland in general, we ended up staying up and partying after the doors were shut," recalls Edi. "We were just sitting there at the table and swapping songs. I was amazed because I was quite drunk and I remember Declan singing Galileo and it sobered me up immediately!You don't meet it very often, a real special song, and I said 'who wrote that?'. And he said 'oh that was me'.Her response was that it was 'probably one of the most romantic songs I've heard since Bob Dylan or Robert Burns, or anything. That's like the best thing I've ever heard'. He said 'people say it's derivative' and I said 'derivative of what – Gershwin?'."While recording last summer the singer, who first hit the headlines with Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, decided to have a shot at another of O'Rourke's songs. Eddie had invited Jack Maher, Sharon Shannon’s and O'Rourke's guitarist, to join in her in the studio. "I said to him 'do you know that beautiful song...