CPI Archive 2009: After touring with Van Morrison in 2006, it’s taken more than two years for Swiss musician Baum to pluck up the courage to finally tour Ireland. As he prepares to visit his musical motherland, he speaks to Andrew Hamilton.
As an English-speaking musician in Switzerland, Baum has often found himself on the outside looking in. With a list of boyhood music idols plucked from the British, American and Irish charts, the rocker turned singer/songwriter has often found himself ploughing a lonely furrow in his native land. And while he has gained a measure of success in his homeland, he always felt there was more to see. As the juiciest record deals and choice gigs went to his colleagues who sing in Swiss-German, Baum began to cast his eyes westward more and more. And now, after years of preparation, the Swiss musical invasion of Ireland is ready to begin. “It first came up a few years ago when I was touring with Van Morrison. So many people in the crew and around the tour were saying that I should come to Ireland or Scotland or England. But I was thinking no, maybe my music is good enough for Germany but not for Ireland or the UK,” he said.
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