Casey keeps the home fires burning at Cork Summer Show

Paddy Casey is torn. The chart-topping singer-songwriter has written his next album and is ready to go to the studio. However, his former record label, Sony, plans to release a Casey ‘Best Of’. Should he put out the new record and potentially be in competition with himself? It’s a tough one.

“I’m not against Sony doing it,” he says. “It can only help the cause. That said, it wouldn’t be good for me to put out a new record at the same time. I’m going to have to wait until the new year.”

Casey parted from Sony several years ago, having given the label one of its biggest ever Irish hits with his 2003 album Living. He was unhappy over the promotion of the follow-up LP Addicted To Company. Today that is water under the bridge. Casey has no regrets, harbours no bitterness towards Sony. “I’ve finished but they are still mates,” he says. “They are nice people.”