Paul Brennan: home
Hi and thanks for dropping by. My name is Paul Brennan for over 25 years I have been a professional singer/ acoustic guitarist specializing in weddings. I also play regularly at hotels, parties and corporate functions in Cairns, Port Douglas, Mission Beach, Townsville, and all places in between. For 4.5 years I was the resident wedding singer on Dunk Island resort which was a four star resort off the coast of Mission Beach. I also was the resident singer/acoustic guitarist entertainer there performing for the most part 6 nights per week in the main bar for the guests and staff. I guess under that sort of intense work load you become much better at what you do.
Being a professional solo singer acoustic guitarist in Port Douglas, Cairns, Mission Beach and Townsville is the perfect job for me I have been told it shows. I actually love doing it and what a great part of the world to do it in too. Many times I have played acoustically and sang totally unplugged at a wedding ceremony as the bride walked slowly down the aisle. I find that quite a beautiful moving experience.
So what would you expect to see at one of my gigs
I think first off you would notice the overall quality of the sound this by no means an accident. I only use professional industry standard equipment. Mackie Speakers combined with JBL monitor speakers all plugged into a Mackie 12 channel mixing desk. Many top line touring artists today would happily plug into this system and feel very confident about using it too. To me my overall sound is an absolute priority. If I have the right equipment my job is half done.
OVERVIEW
I play acoustic guitar and sing which is sometimes accompanied by a harmonica and a stomp box this combination of instruments creates quite a big sound and breaks up the monotony of the "same sound" just one guitar and one voice all night long can get a bit much. A stomp box is a box placed on the floor which I tap my foot on to create a drum beat effect. I do not use sequencers or drum machine I make sure everything that is happening on stage is live and real
The music is a blend of slower ballads ideal for early in the night to up tempo hard driving songs as the evening progresses. I usually read the crowd as to what I should be playing and when and where.
THE SONGS
If you would like to peruse my repertoire you will see I have quite a large range of songs purposely designed so there is something for all age groups. I only ever learn songs (to play regularly) that I actually like and quite often they mean something to me
I play a Maton 3/4 size steel string guitar, these guitars are also accepted professional industry standard it has a built in factory AP5 pick up system which sounds awesome on its own, but I have added sound hole pickup to it, called a Sunrise pick up, which plugs into a LR. Baggs para Di box which allows me full control over the volume and tones of the pick up.
Put simply I have two separate professional industry standard pick ups in the one guitar with separate control on each which I then blend together to form one hell of a sound.
So if you are looking for a competitively priced solo vocalist/guitarist from Port Douglas to Cairns and beyond to play at your wedding, hotel corporate function or party please keep me in mind.
A few years ago I was working in with the Australian Songwriters Association as their coordinator in Nth Queensland. Nine guys from the ASA were traveling around Australia in a big old coaster bus recording original artists, for a national TV show called Wax Lyrical Songwriters. When they arrived in Cairns they stayed at my place wherever they could find a space for a week. It was a big party. To show their appreciation they made a video for me of a song I had penned called Shine On - it was actually written from the perspective of the loved ones they had left behind to go on this journey. Thanks guys.