A Mad, Mad World

It’s a wild and crazy adventure bringing music into the world so one might as well talk about it. This band of intrepid performers has accumulated a respectable enough amount of time pushing notes around to be able to say something on the subject. And besides it is a pleasure to share the lives and times of the musically inclined. 

We’ll try and keep it on topic but there’s no promise.

Answers to the FAQ if we had one:

• The Mad Maggies formed in 2004 to record one CD, Crazed and Enthused. We started gigging and one thing led to another CD, Magdalena’s Revenge in 2007 and our third CD, Skull & Magpies in 2009. The gigging continues and we are planning two CDs for 2010. We just finished laying down tracks for the first one which will include 9 vintage radio classics. We are shooting for an April 1st release date. Next up we continue our adventures on the high seas.

• Director, Paul Haggis found our tune, “Sleepy Maggie” on the internet somewhere and the rest is television history.

• Mags accordion weighs about 16 lbs.

• GDub really is of Icelandic ancestry.

• Adrian really does speak Chinese.

• Actually we are quite the polyglots and between us can speak French, Spanish, Hebrew, Welsh, German, a smattering of Czech and Gaelic and the aforementioned Chinese. GDub and Mad Mags are learning Irish Gaelic.