C'mere and I Tell Ya

Sep 20, 2024 8:16 PM

Author:Johnny McMahon,Johnny O'Brien,Johnny McMahon,Johnny O'Brien

Brought to you by Penguin.

The 2 Johnnies' massive success has taken them as far afield as Sydney, Compton and Abu Dhabi. But for them nothing compares to living in Ireland. And in C'Mere and I Tell Ya they dig into the tastes, habits and rites of passage that have made them who they are.

Whether it's ...

- dressing for the debs ('I'd say my cravat was the talk of Templemore for weeks')

- succeeding in a band ('I did backing vocals for six months and it turned out I was singing the wrong lyrics')

- doing a Strictly fundraiser for your GAA club ('Remember you're not Julia Roberts and the local butcher isn't Richard Gere, so keep it in the pants')

- recognizing the no-go moves at a stag ('Nobody wants to see a sixteen-stone man in a pink thong. Nobody')

... Johnny B (O'Brien) and Johnny Smacks (McMahon) capture it perfectly. And they have down-to-earth advice for every conceivable situation - and a few inconceivable ones.

C'Mere and I Tell Ya is a one-stop celebration of Irishness, chicken goujons and being sound.

Reviews

Fluent and readable... [Levitin] rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think... We are, he says, hard-wired for music.

—— Observer

Consistently interesting... Music, Levitin argues, is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development

—— Literary Review

Endlessly stimulating

—— Oliver Sacks

Music seems to have an almost willful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know... Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox

—— Sting

You'll never hear music in the same way again

—— Classic FM magazine

Ullmann navigates the dangerous and fissile territory... with great power. I am in awe

—— Edmund de Waal

Effortlessly lucid, full of grace and restraint

—— Sunday Times

A powerful and unsettling hybrid of memoir, fiction and meditation ... The work of a lifetime

—— Guardian

Beautiful. A book to treasure which I'll keep on returning to.

—— Sue Stuart-Smith, author of THE WELL GARDENED MIND

This is nature writing at its most romantic

—— Geographic

This captivating miscellany, richly illustrated with paintings, photographs, maps and line drawings, is a scintillating celebration of the nightingale by a Mercury Prize-nominated folk musician, environmental activist and conservationist.

—— Caroline Sanderson , Bookseller, Editor's Choice

A marvellous miscellany of the nightingale, the sweet-singing bird which is now, alas, on of the "endlings" - the last of a species facing extinction

—— Independent

Lee's book is not just a lyrically crafted biography, but a moving rebellion against political inaction and lost connections. It is a bell to toll you out into a forest of re-enchantment.

—— New Statesman

A really beautiful book . . . Lovely.

—— Mark Radcliffe

A vivid and often moving account of a bird that has inspired everyone from the ancients to John Keats and Oliver Messiaen

—— Herald

Heaven to hold in the hand, mind and heart.

—— Dr Amy-Jane Beer

Lyrical, sweet and loving, this account of one bird's link to human culture and history through the evocative presence of its voice was impossible to put down.

—— Bernie Krause, founder of Wild Sanctuary

Lee delves into the intricacies of the song, habitat and migration of this mysterious, enchanting creature in a tale that's as lyrical as the bird itself

—— Radio Times

A composer who can write as eloquently as he sings. A rare bird, indeed!

—— Leah Borromeo

With our new-found love of wildlife, this book promises to lift the spirits of not just bird enthusiasts, but nature lovers, too.

—— People's Friend

The exuberance of folk-singer Sam Lee's The Nightingale is irresistible

—— Bird Watching

A master storyteller

—— Guardian praise for Sam Lee's Singing with Nightingales

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