Co Louth-based solicitor Paddy Goodwin has been given eight and a half stars for his latest album of guitar music by Hot Press magazine. 

The lawyer, who specialises in criminal and defamation law, is a long-standing musician who has also been busy practising as a solicitor in Drogheda for 30 years.

‘The Church of the Here and Now’ is the debut album from Paddy Goodwin and the Holy Ghosts.

It has garnered favourable reviews, as well as being selected as Album Of The Week on four different radio stations including Lyric Fm.

Deeply influenced by New Wave and punk music, Goodwin has played with noted Irish musicians such as The Atrix, Horslips, and the Radiators From Space (for whom he played bass) in a long and colourful career.

Gigging since the mid-1970s, Paddy often played six nights a week around his native County Monaghan.

On the new album, Paul Brady duets with Goodwin on ‘In the Blue of the Night’, which is available for listening on Spotify.

Single

That track is also the single from the new record and is being launched with a gig in McHughs of Drogheda on Saturday (February 26). The Atrix classic Treasure on the Wasteland wull be performed at the show.

Paddy sings as well as playing guitar on the single. Anthony Thistlethwaite (The Waterboys and The Saw Doctors) plays on sax, Jim Lockhart of Horslips plays keyboards and Shane Power of The Guggenheim Grotto plays drums.

Art work is by Tim Booth of Doctor Strangely Strange fame and the song was engineered and recorded by Jason Varley at the Shop Studio, Carlingford.