I'm Donal Norton, a musician/songwriter based in Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. Friends in the music biz probably know me better as MO! Currently I'm putting together a collection of songs that I've written over the past 20 years, for my 'debut' album hopefully due out nearer the end of the summer 2007 (which in reality could really be any time judging by the weather here in Ireland!) The whole concept was to just do justice to some of my old songs that were gathering dust in the attic. Myself and me pal from years back, drummer Dave Brocklebank, spent a few weeks in his shed, hammering out the songs that are turning out to make the album. The production approach was a bit different. The main principal was to enjoy what we were playing and to get a live feel for the songs the vocals, the piano and the drums were all recorded live simultaneously, (with complete disregard to sound spillage and other such recording horrors. in fact truth being known we probably broke more recording rules than we even aware of but the result is, i hope, a really fresh and live feel to all the songs on the album). So what's the next Step then? Well I'm busy putting the finishing touches to the album and then hope to farm the album out to have it properly mastered. In the meantime plans are afoot to do some live gigs and see if these songs really do kick it live. check out our new myspace page http://www.myspace.com/barebonescollective