About Paddy Goodwin And The Holy Ghosts
Paddy Goodwin and the Holy Ghosts are a rock and blues band from Drogheda, Co Louth, whose first record, a 4 track CD called Blues For Fr Iggy and released in 2006, is a spirited criticism of the Catholic church written in support of a local Catholic priest who was carpeted by the Vatican for taking the whole ecumenism business too far; he invited the local Church of Ireland rector to say mass with him.
Main man, Paddy Goodwin, is a solicitor who has also been playing music since the 1980s. In that time, he has shared the stage with many great musicians, including Otis Rush, Johnny Fean of Horslips, Shane McGowan and fellow Clones man Pat McCabe with whom he formed half of that incomparable duo The Buck Eejits. McCabe, the Booker-nominated author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast On Pluto, wrote the sleeve notes for Blues For Fr Iggy.
The Holy Ghosts are Oisin Dillon on bass and Hugh Friel on drums.
Paddy Goodwin & The Holy Ghosts released their debut album The Church of the Here and Now in 2023. Guests on the album include Horslips members Eamon Carr, Jim Lockhart and Barry Devlin. Other notable guest ghosts include Paul Brady, sometime Waterboy and sax wizard, Anto Thistlethwaite, and pedal-steel kingpin BJ Cole. The album was well received, it hit the top of the iTunes Irish album charts, was Marty Whelan’s Album of the Week on Lyric FM and earned 9/10 in a Hotpress review.
In 2024 Paddy Goodwin And The Holy Ghosts released the track Exterminate, a protest song over Israel's brutal war on Gaza.
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Paddy Goodwin And The Holy Ghosts - Exterminate
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