I am Mike Flaherty – aka The Boy With The Greyhound Tattoo – a performer, songwriter, composer and fanzine creator. This space is the central hub for all my creative output.
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Biography
I take a vocal microphone, some musical instruments and some cassette tapes and crank out an eclectic mix of my own songs and instrumental pieces. I sing and play electric guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele, bass guitar, synthesizers and piano. I also shake a few rattling things in the name of percussion, mess around with tape loops and vigorously hit a foot stomp with my creepers. My style mixes 80’s/90’s indie with a sprinkle of electropop, a generous dash of classical orchestration and a dusting of 20th Century Minimalism.
I am also crazy about cassette tapes and as well as releasing them and buying them I write a free fanzine about cassette culture called Save Ferric.
I’m involved in some other musical projects too including Fake Plastic Tigers, SAPS & Beige Fraggle. In previous musical lives I played bass with the flippin’ fabulous Twin Hazey, wrote a lot of reviews (including ten years at UKE Magazine) and sang a few backing vocals for Suggs. Academically, I fluffed my way through my undergrad music degree in the 90’s and proudly smashed my song-writing Master’s degree in 2022.