CPI Archive 2009: Following their taste of the big time supporting The Stunning on New Years Eve, Andrew Hamilton chats to Ciaran Hannah from Ennis band The CMC.
THE reputation of a covers band one can be a hard one to shake. If you’re good, you have an audience - a loyal list of supporters willing to follow you from pub to pub. Your crowd. But hand in hand with this support comes their expectations. It’s an un- spoken contract, you entertain them and they come to your shows. So what happens then when you decide to play original music? Unless you watch your crowd, and treat them very carefully, you risk betraying this trust - defaulting on this unspoken contract. This, as Ennis band The CMC have found out, can be hard work. “We started out playing covers and worked at expanding our set list every day really. We built up a huge set list but it is only really recently that we started writing a lot of our own stuff. I guess we have gotten known around Ennis and Limerick as a good covers band but we feel that it’s time to establish ourselves more as an original band,” said Ciaran.
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