hey everybody....first off i'd like to thank Kevin Yahl and all at Digital One for the new website.....its just the basics....soon we will have, new demo's ...video's of the recording of " Hey La Hey" and all sorts of goodies.....so keep checking back.....its gonna get very exciting around here for the coming months......
God bless you all and thank you for continued support....

much love
xoxox
m

Next Stop.....Nashville

Hey everybody, just wanted to tell you that i will be heading to Nashville on monday to start rehearsals for the new album and first official day of recording is the 17th. So excited to be working with Lex Price on this album. We will be at House oF David studio's and then back to Lex's house for any further stuff. So very very excited. Thanks for your continued support and can't wait to share this piece of work with you .

xo
m

greetings,

i always get so far behind in writing these things i never know where to start. Europe was great and sad. Shows in Italy were amazing, made some great new friends, had a relationship end, new ones begin...traveled 29 hours in my last 72 hours there. Got sick, was drunk alot, woke up not knowing what country i was in, had a birthday, fell down and hurt my knee( due to bday drunkeness) did some Buddhist chanting, swam in the Mediterranean , went to Fellini's hometown and did a show and a radio…Read more

Greetings from madhouse central,
the whimsicality of life never ceases to amaze me......blown around like leaves in autumn....i've heard it said that gratitude is the key to life.....i recently said to a friend, that if there was a jeanie.....and granted me one wish.....i wouldn't wish for fame or fortune i'd wish that in my pea brain of a heart that i would learn to be grateful for the life i've lead to this point....instead of the bitterness i carry around like a cross....maybe gratitude is the key to…Read more

Hello Everybody,
Been a while and i'm sorry i was remiss in not writing sooner....much has happened since i last checked in.....had an amazing tour of ireland, england, scotland, wales, and italy.....with Eileen Rose and the Holy Wreck......
i'd like to thank all of you that i met on the tour.....too many to name....but Steve Foster, Marty McCool, David Emmerson, My new Italian family, Alex and Rob, Tabita, and Ennrica, Fluvio, Lorenzo.....Hannah Kowszun.......but more on her later......had mixed emotions…Read more

well happy new year everybody......interesting year it was....personally, professionally, spiritiually.....lost a great friend, Niva Bringas.....made some new friends......the record is hanging in there......loved the davenports shows.....excited about the uk stuff....had great time in cheltenham, broke my hand....though i think technically it was new years eve of 06......the cubs made the playoff's....had a birthday gig in london......heading up to minneapolis tomorrow morning to bid farewell to…Read more

hello everyone......just got back from England and what a whirlwind trip....would like to extend my deepest thanks to david emmerson....for all the help....and to my new friends...steve and pip.....what great gents to have come across.....had the best time....what a thrill ......seemed to go over quite well.....sold out of all the cd's by the third day, and they were asking for more as we left.
came home and did the wgn news......
there is going to be a full page article in this sunday's chicago…Read more

Hey y'all....i'd like to thank everybody for their, phone calls, prayers, text messages, teddy bears, flowers, cd's, dvd's, strip o gram's ( kidding) whilst i was recovering from surgery. Still moving pretty slow....walking with a walking stick....can't laugh, sneeze or cough yet....and i'm fairly certain they left a pair of scissors in my belly( jk) ...nah...it just feels that way.....
Just got word we will be heading to England for the Greenbelt Festival in August....with most likely a few shows in or…Read more

Hey Everybody.....Michael here.....in a new cyberland....hope you dig it.....there isn't alot of landscape to look at just yet....but we will be getting there. As you may or may not know....i have signed with One Little Indian and will be releasing the record now in August. It is available only digitally on the One Little Indian- US website. They call that a soft release.... I couldn't be happier to be with this label. I just met with their San Fransisco office and they were all lovely people. We are…Read more

I cant' go into too much detail now, based on the fact that it is not official....but it looks as though this record has found a home....WooHoo! ! ! !
the record is tentatively slated for a 02/07 release....which is a bummer, on account of that its so far away still, but they just wanna make sure its set up correctly....i am thrilled. Really thrilled...This changes everything...Have a bunch of summer shows coming up...and there will still be more to come. I think i'll still lay off on doing too many new…Read more

how do?? back from new york...had a really great time....stayed at the chelsea hotel...which was a complete dump but totally loved it and felt so at home there...maybe i'd been there in a past life....kidding.....thinking of dylan thomas, thomas wolfe...bob dylan and of course where sid killed nancy.....in fact that rug in my room either had wine stains or blood stains on it....would need Dr. Henry Lee to know which it was....
the first gig at the bitter end was ok....just haven't been feelin myself up there…Read more

with the cubs opening game less than a day away, i am indeed excited and daunted of what may very well, turn out to be another, in nearly 98 years of disappointment....Matt Suhar my new manager is still hard at work in getting the new album to labels, but still no news as of yet. Jester Dances Moonbeams....i'm not sure why that phrase is never far from the forefront of my mind.....its more of an image than a meaning....maybe someday i'll understand the mystery of why that is always on my mind. The…Read more

well it certainly feels like the home stretch......recording went great...did 8 songs....well kinda 9 but gave up on one...i think we are going to use 7 of those...but really just thrilled with the stuff....mastering on tues....getting dubs made weds....and start sending stuff out on thursday....

did a show the other night at the improv olympic ( I.O.) and it was their one year anniversary....they were all great folks to work with and i wish them much success in the future....go check them out when you…Read more

well it certainly feels like the home stretch......recording went great...did 8 songs....well kinda 9 but gave up on one...i think we are going to use 7 of those...but really just thrilled with the stuff....mastering on tues....getting dubs made weds....and start sending stuff out on thursday....

did a show the other night at the improv olympic ( I.O.) and it was their one year anniversary....they were all great folks to work with and i wish them much success in the future....go check them out when you…Read more

i know it sounds nuts...but have become pretty obsessed with this tv show.....i'm always about ten years late on things....started loving janes addiction after they broke up...didn't see " braveheart" til it was on video....same with "gladiator", started watching " seinfeld" when it was off the air and now " sex and the city"....maybe its the being 30 something and single that resonates with me so much....and its probably way uncool of me to talk about this....but there are some very poignant moments on the…Read more

well its just a theory.....i just wrote a blog on the myspace thing...and now i think i have to do another one....or could i just ask you guys to go to myspace.com/michaelmcdermott and read the blog there.....it'd save me some time...and i got songs to write for crying out loud!!...i do feel like perhaps i have neglected this blog....next time i write, i'll write a good one here and blow off the myspace blog....fair enough...

go see " Munich"

go tell someone you love, that you love them

send an email telling…Read more

hey everybody...checking in from an internet cafe....shows have been unbelievable....juliet turner is great, and kind and simply wonderful....she draws huge crowds...and they all listen....have had two fantastic shows with her and had a great show with stefan hanvey ( who is also just awesome\....sold a bunch of cd's, had to call the folks to fed ex me some more....great attentive audiences....having the time of my life...as a person and as an artist....just what i needed.....my heart was gettin dangerously…Read more

so heading over tomorrow for my first official tour of ireland...quite happy about it....yet still somehow...kind of unsettled....couldn't tell you why....just am....need to stay focused,....can't drink too much....gotta be safe on the roadways,..
need to kick ass....need to wake up...need to open my eyes....need to embrace wonder...need to share....need some communion...need some surrender....
hope everybody is good.....hope y'all can make it to the dec 8th show in la....thats a big one....gonna be industry…Read more

Two days ago i was a guest speaker at a youth teen retreat in michigan....i spoke and then would play songs within the speech...i'd like to thank them for having me come and share my story with them...i'm considering whether or not to post the speech...still undecided...posting a monster set of tunes on myspace this week...may keep them there for two weeks....was also thinking of doing a poll of myspace tunes.....a vote of what songs you would like to see or hear again and available for a download....would…Read more

greetings to all, and to all...WAKE UP !
been sleeping way too long....shake the dust from the closets of your heart....bust down the doors of depression and fear. and judgement....
fear ( FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL)....
come down to the horseshoe on friday....it'll be a gas....so REAL suprises....when i told joe( my buddy and owner) what i had in store..he called the next day to say he is no longer able to sleep from worry.....so i hope its not disasterous....but if y'all come down and have some fun...it…Read more