Dear Diary!   I am hungover and had a late one last night at the Ruby Sessions 9th Birthday bash in College Green Dublin! Twas a great and very eventful evening with fantastic performances from the likes of Lisa Hannigan, Gavin Glass (who was fucking brilliant!), Cathey Davey and more!! Got home in the small hours of the morning after a run in with a burger joint!! Not a good idea!  Anyway, it has been pointed out to be by a rather cantankerous Italian fan who will remain nameless (Gloria!) that i have not been very good at keeping the old diary together on this here website! It’s a fair point and so i thought i’d try to throw a few words together this morning.  Over the past while i have been keeping myself busy with all sorts of stuff music related! I am currently on the look-out for management, publishing ect. so i have been doing a lot of ‘behind the scenes’ work which has resulted in a new Electronic Press Kit or EPK as we say in the industry! Anyway this took a long time to come about as these things invariably do but i am very happy with the results and hat’s off to Billy (web design) for the job he did here! And since you must be a hardcore PH fan if you are reading this you can have a peak at it here www.paulhourican.net/epk/ (though it is only intended for industry folk and the like!)  I’ve also recently been accepted as an artist in resident at the amazing Tyrone Guthrie Centre which is an artist retreat in Co. Monaghan in Ireland where artists, poets, musicians, writers ect. can go to focus on their ‘art’! I am really delighted about this and will be heading up early in November for a week. This is when i intend to start thinking about a new record and see what bits and bob’s i have. You can checkout the centre here www.tyroneguthrie.ie  I have been writing away too but it’s very early days and have not been thinking about another album yet but there are new songs popping up that i am throwing into the recent live set’s to take them for a test drive. One is called ‘Lord Light My Way’ and i’m really looking forward to recording it and hope it will be on the next record.  I also had my first festival experience this summer with Castlepalooza in Tullamore Co. Offally. I really enjoyed the experience and got a mention as one of the highlights in Hotpress’s review of the festival. They also said i delivered a ‘beautifully impassioned performance’! Which of course i did! Anywho, there is plenty coming up and 3 dublin show’s in September which i am really looking forward to with a midnight performance in Dublin’s premier art gallery EBOW on Friday 19th September to celebrate Dublin culture night. That is followed by a Whelan’s gig the next night. I will be playing upstairs and the fantastic Lisa Hannigan will be downstairs so it should be interesting!! Oh yeah, wanted to mention that i played De Barras in Clonakilty on Friday with Caruso www.caruso.ie and really enjoyed it. It is a very special place indeed!Ok, that’s it! I’m signing off! Hope your happy with that Gloria!!!Until next Christmas!!Paul