March 2026
Fringe promo, Turkish Rondeau, and job-searching
Hi everyone,
This month I completed a promo video for my Greater Manchester Fringe performances on July 9th and 11th, and my Edinburgh Fringe performances on August 7th to 15th inclusive. The ticket links are live for both Manchester and Edinburgh.
Output
As The Kev, I released my first ever duet, a love song titled ‘You Complete Me’:
I also finished an updated version of ‘There’s a Way for Us’, with keyboards, drums, and lead guitar.
And I finished writing a new song, ‘Wishes in a Magic Forest’, which will appear in full in April. I have already shared clips of it here and here.
On the Kevin McGeary Guitar YouTube channel, I uploaded a rendition of Mozart’s ‘Turkish Rondeau’:
Activities
Campus work is fine. It’s a real privilege to have it. The Theatre students are particularly adorable, but it kills me to think how much they are paying to be there and how tough the job market will be for them. My own job is not at all sustainable financially so I am applying for many new opportunities every week.
Things I’m good at include checklists, attention to detail, fulfilling tasks creatively, effectively and on time.
Things I’m not good at include arguments, introducing myself, cold-selling, small talk and meetings.
I am also a non-drinker, which means I rarely get ill or show up late for anything, but it may be bad for negotiating workplace politics and forming alliances with colleagues.
Early in the month I went to Dublin, where I saw a Flamenco performance at St Patrick’s Cathedral, wandered O’Connell Street, Stephen’s Green, Pheonix Park, and saw memorials of some of my favourite dead white men – James Joyce, WB Yeats, and Luke Kelly.
Media appearances included this contribution to Hannah’s Bookshelf on Radio North Manchester, and this full-length interview:
Wider World
This month saw Saint Patrick’s Day, a difficult time for the One Year No Beer challenge. From what we know of Patrick as a historical figure, he was born in Roman Britain, and lived through the departure of the Roman Empire from his land of birth. In other words, he lived through a period of collapsing assumptions. So do we.
An article in Deutsche Welle (DW) has argued that the rules-based international order “appears to be on its last legs at best”. The bombing of Iran by the United States and Israel defies both the United States Constitution and international law, according to legal scholars and bipartisan lawmakers.
Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, and has been president for a combined total of over five years, but for many people this will be the first time that the Trump presidency has appreciably made life worse. Here in Europe, energy prices look set to skyrocket, which could very well cause a worldwide recession.
A lot of decade-old predictions about Trump are coming true. Psychoanalysis speaks of “determination by the signifier”. You become what people say you are. Just so, Trump the war-wary populist has now fully given way to his liberal caricature: venal, erratic, and childish.
The actions of Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu may not be Europeans’ fault, but dealing with the consequences is our responsibility. There looks set to be a shock in food prices, and the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz could lead to drug shortages on both sides of the Atlantic. And that is not even mentioning the possibility of war tearing through European cities. Some days I am glad to be one of the few people I know to not have children.