Mick Flannery is a 25 year old stone mason who was brought up on a farm outside Blarney, Co. Cork, Ireland. His first real connection to music was watching an unplugged Nirvana covering Bowie's 'The Man Who Sold the World'.
After a stint in a music college in Cork, he travelled to the U.S. where he "wandered around for a time." While there, he entered the U.S. Songwriting Competition in Nashville, Tennessee and (to his surprise) won two top awards for his compositions.
More recently this year he was nominated for the Choice music prize, won best male this year at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards, and he was also Hotpress' most promising act of 2009.