Love Hurts EP

This song turned up among the archives recently and brought back some very happy memories - though I could hardly believe it was from so long ago! (2009).

Back then Bap was going through a bit of a “Wilburys phase” and I think you can hear that in the recording.

This version of Moonlight Kiss has quite a different feel from the album track (Lonely Street) which was later featured on the soundtrack of the movie Serendipity. Whenever we played internationally it was often as The Bap Kennedy Trio, so I’m sure this acoustic recording will be very familiar to people who came to see Bap play live.

When Bap took ill he began a deeply moving personal blog which reached all around the world. In this interview, recorded a week before he was admitted to Marie Curie, he talks to Ralph McLean about some of the things he was writing about. This was the first and only time that Bap ever spoke publicly about his Asperger Syndrome, calling it “the engine of my creativity”

…. And yes, Bap really did sing Hank Williams on the operating table (“Hank never lets you down!”)

Bap was, as Van Morrison said “loved by musicians and fans in equal measure” and I have been overwhelmed by the tributes and messages of support that have poured in even to this day. I hope my own tribute, recorded so soon after Bap lost his courageous cancer battle, will help people know the man he really was.

Bap and his music are intrinsically linked, but I don’t need to say anything about his music - Bap’s music will always speak for itself.

This song was really special to Bap and me. He wrote it during the earliest days of our relationship, and I could think of no better song than this for my tribute to him. I know Bap would have loved it. Thinking about this gave me the strength I needed to perform it at the time.