Born on the wild northwest coast of Ireland, in his travels Alan Boyle has played on stages in Dublin, Rome and at the Festa della Musica in Florence.

He arrived in Brisbane clutching a damp guitar and a five-track EP, Shallow Heart recorded at Pulse Studios in Dublin shortly before digging a tunnel to the other side of the world. In 2007, in addition to playing on the Queen Street Mall stage as an emerging artist he picked up a Maton guitar as a winner of the Acoustic In The Park concert series held in the Brisbane’s Southbank Parklands, and was a finalist in a singer-songwriter showcase hosted by QPAC in the same year.