My uncle left Ireland when I was about 8 so 1991 or thereabouts, this is back when it was alot easier to get a Green Card. I remember he used to play guitar and sing at weddings, or in bars, and that he was pretty crap. He would ring my mum every couple of weeks about how he was "Gonna be the next big thing, like Johnny cash" (I've got a tear of laughter in my eye typing this lmao 
), and how he was doing some "labouring work, but only to get me by until my music takes off." About a couple of years later he managed (somehow) to get an album pressed, and I remember him ringing up my mum saying he was gonna tour to support the album, and literally the next stop was his own mansion and Rolls Royce.
Naturally it never happened and it turned out him and the guy who was in it with him, had taken out credit cards and multiple bank loans to fund the album and studio time and I think even had to pay whatever record company they were with just to release the thing. Plus he got sued for namedropping famous musicians who he said played on the album, when obviously they didn't. He's still in the states now and last I heard was betabuxxing some woman that already had 3 kids, he's been with her for about 20 years. I asked my mum how he was doing for the first time in years the other week, I said "How's Uncle Kev doing in the States, I assume he's retired now." and she said "He'll NEVER be able to retire because of all the debt he amounted, that bloody album fiasco" lol!
Tfw you chase your dreams of a music career abroad and you end up still paying debts off from it 27 years later and stuck with being a Beta-Provider until you die
Anyway, the album's on Youtube, I had to ask my mum what it was called. It's got like 0 views on most songs and the views it does have are probably all mine due to occasionally checking it out to laugh lol. Here's one of the songs, my Uncle is the guy with the sunglasses:
View: https://youtu.be/MyqYyBEn6wA
), and how he was doing some "labouring work, but only to get me by until my music takes off." About a couple of years later he managed (somehow) to get an album pressed, and I remember him ringing up my mum saying he was gonna tour to support the album, and literally the next stop was his own mansion and Rolls Royce.Naturally it never happened and it turned out him and the guy who was in it with him, had taken out credit cards and multiple bank loans to fund the album and studio time and I think even had to pay whatever record company they were with just to release the thing. Plus he got sued for namedropping famous musicians who he said played on the album, when obviously they didn't. He's still in the states now and last I heard was betabuxxing some woman that already had 3 kids, he's been with her for about 20 years. I asked my mum how he was doing for the first time in years the other week, I said "How's Uncle Kev doing in the States, I assume he's retired now." and she said "He'll NEVER be able to retire because of all the debt he amounted, that bloody album fiasco" lol!
Tfw you chase your dreams of a music career abroad and you end up still paying debts off from it 27 years later and stuck with being a Beta-Provider until you die
Anyway, the album's on Youtube, I had to ask my mum what it was called. It's got like 0 views on most songs and the views it does have are probably all mine due to occasionally checking it out to laugh lol. Here's one of the songs, my Uncle is the guy with the sunglasses:
View: https://youtu.be/MyqYyBEn6wA
