Cahir O'Doherty (musician)

Cahir O'Doherty (born 1977) is a musician and songwriter. He is the vocalist and guitarist in the alternative rock bands Fighting with Wire and Goons. O'Doherty is also a member of the Derry/London band Jetplane Landing, in which he plays lead guitar. In 2006, O'Doherty played bass for indie band Seafood. He has also played the acoustic guitar for Frank Turner, including performances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals (2013). Cahir is currently the lead guitarist and vocalist in New Pagans.

For the last Gaelic lord of Inishowen, see Cahir O'Doherty.

Cahir O'Doherty
Born1977 (age 42–43)
OriginDerry, Northern Ireland
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter
InstrumentsGuitar, Bass Guitar, vocalist
Years active1986 – present
LabelsSmalltown America, Atlantic records
Associated actsFighting with Wire
Jetplane Landing
LaFaro
Frank Turner
New Pagans
Goons

Songwriter

O'Doherty is a songwriter for Audio Network, an independent global music company.

Youth work

O'Doherty actively encourages the development of young talent and, on numerous occasions, he has not only offered his advice to bands, he has personally helped them. O'Doherty has worked with the centre of culture and arts in Derry, the Nerve Centre and helped mentor over 30 young people in the inaugural 'Music Hothouse', which was launched by the Nerve Centre to aid the development of young, raw talent. O'Doherty also hosted many events in the Instinct Festival which is an annual youth festival, celebrating the arts.

Style

O'Doherty has a distinct approach to interviews and has on many occasions fiercely expressed his opinions, in particular, his abhorrence of the Emo scene.[1]

gollark: What is ”wumpusgame”””?
gollark: There is also no version history at all, or oversight.
gollark: When I work on potatOS, I deploy at any time and all computers update within 5 minutes or so. There's no testing so if I make a mistake which breaks it badly enough that it stops updating I have to fix it very fast. It's called "extreme programming".
gollark: "I was going to delete this user, but I forgot, and I'm actually on holiday tomorrow, so I'll do it next month."
gollark: "We'd like to delete this user, but our policy says that we can't deploy except on Fridays, and we have to run this one line of SQL to delete them through our change request process. We should be done by next year."

References
  1. "Fighting with Wire - Interview". Pennyblackmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2020.


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