#liam corcoran

Steve reviews the upcoming release from Liam Corcoran, "Giving Tree and Other Songs."

An East Coast singer-songwriter endeavors to camouflage his natural pop-rock sensibilities.

One gets the impression PEI’s Liam Corcoran is in a state of flux since his last tender and immaculate full length Nevahlandwas released in 2017. The ten songs are a potpourri of indie-pop-rock. The first half of “The Giving Tree and other songs” is acoustic and minimalistic; tracks in the second half…

Liam Corcoran excels at honest, well crafted songwriting on ROM-DROM, while also exploring different sounds as he veers away from the more upbeat, pop structures of Two Hours Traffic. ROM-DROM proves to be a lovely collection of songs that leaves listeners with a feeling of contentment.

Now listening to ROM-DROM, the new mini-album from Liam Corcoran.

By John F. Burns, NY Times, July 25, 2012 LONDON--It was just the sort of story Britain's security chiefs did not want on the eve of the Olympic Games: an 11-year-old boy who managed to fly from Manchester, England, to Rome on Tuesday without a passport, a ticket or a boarding pass, simply by tagging along with families traveling with other children as they passed through airport security checks.

The boy, whom British news media identified as Liam Corcoran, passed without any documentation through five successive security controls on his way to the Rome-bound plane, according to embarrassed British officials. By the time he was discovered, he was halfway to Rome, and even then only after he told fellow passengers, concerned because he was sitting alone and seemed unhappy, that he was running away from home.

For Britain, which has had a bumpy countdown to the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday night because of other security problems, the episode seemed like something out of the BBC's popular Olympic sitcom, "Twenty Twelve," which has chronicled--fictionally--an endless series of hapless miscues on the road to the Games.

In effect, Liam appeared to have shown that aviation security, essential to protecting the Olympics against possible terrorist attacks, was defenseless against a youngster randomly foiling a system that has been refashioned from the ground up since the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

The boy was safely back in Manchester on Tuesday evening, met by his mother at the airport after completing the round-trip of 1,300 miles aboard the same aircraft he had boarded hours earlier. In Rome, he was held aboard the aircraft, operated by the budget airline Jet2.com, while he was questioned by Italian police and border officials, who cleared him for the return journey.

Airline officials said he told them that he ran away from his mother during a trip to a shopping center near the airport, then made his way to the aircraft by tucking in with other children as they passed with their parents through the successive airport controls. In all, Liam passed through a passport and boarding pass check on entry to the airport's departure area; a scanner area where all passengers and their hand luggage are individually screened; another passport and boarding pass check at the gate; a boarding pass check on entry to the aircraft; and a head count by cabin crew aboard the plane.

Concerns about a possible aerial hijacking of the kind that led to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have been high among Olympic security planners. They have placed helicopter-borne snipers and supersonic fighter jets on 24-hour alert around the Olympic Park in east London, and positioned antiaircraft missile batteries on high rooftops overlooking the park. On Tuesday, a Typhoon fighter was scrambled after what turned out to be a false alert about an airliner bound for Heathrow Airport that failed to respond to ground controllers.

The British army has stepped in at the last minute with nearly 5,000 extra soldiers, on top of 13,500 already in the security plan, to take the places of thousands of private security guards that the main Olympic security contractor, the G4S company, failed to deploy on time. Through gritted teeth, government officials and Olympic organizers have said that the games will be safe and secure, and that spectators and athletes have no cause for alarm.

Spokesmen for the airline that flew Liam to Rome said they had fired several people on the airline's security staff, and tightened checks at every stage in the boarding process.